The silver lance., 1899-07-14

President has given General Otis to un-
derstand that he is to have all the
men necessary to the conduct OF opera
tions against the insurgents General
Otis has been told this in so many
words. the President having said to
him in effect that if he (Otis) did not
have enough men, 1t was his own fault.
The President also realizes that the
better the men are cared for and their
health preserved, the more capable
they will be of doing effective work,
and before the rainy season began,
General Otis was instructed to prepare
for it and in various ways was given
to understand the Presidents desire
that the soldiers should be well cared
for and well fed"
Greatly as the officials regret it, In
formation received by Secretary Hay
from Ambassador Choate leads to the
opinion that Mrs. Maybrick will have
to remain in prison for the murder of
her husband in 1889. Failing in the
present effort to secure the woman's
release. it is authoritatively stated that
the present administration will do
nothing further to obtain her freedom.
Ambassador Choate has been doing
everything in his power to cause IA
vora bic action by the British govern
ment upon the request that Mrs. May
brick be liberated. He has found the
higher officials favorable to compli-
ance with the request but the under
permanent officials seem to be of the
opinion that the ends of British JUS
tice have not yet been served. If Mrs.
Maybricl1 should be compelled to serve
out her sentence she would not be set
free until 1908. She will begin the sew
enth year of her Imprisonment in
few days, and it had been hoped by
the authorities here that her release
would then be granted. but they now
seem to have lost hope.
1t is stated that the negotiations over
the Alaskan boundary are all off. The
propositions of Canada which have
been rejected by this government are
as follows: The cessiOn Of Pyramid
harbor at the head of Lynn canal; the
cession of any other port on the Lynn
canal; the cession of a strip of terri
tory which would give access to tide
water; free right of way across Alas
ka to any United States port; the vari-
alton of Hays provisional boundary line
so as to include Kluckwan, an Indian
village at the head of navigation lead
ing into the Lynn canal; the inclusion
of the Porcupine district with a near
approach to navigable waters on the
British side of the provisional bOun-
Diary; the proposition to arbitrate the
provisional precedent to the formula
ton of a mOdus vivendi pending per-
manent settlement of the question. The
state department officials note the fact
that the news from London insinuates
that the failure of the agreement is
chargeable to the United States. As
obtained from an authoritative source,
the fact is that Great Britain, acting
e.. In do
ton which demonstrated the futility
of further negotiations. State depart
ment officials said that this govern
ment would not tolerate the idea Of
putting them back into foreign jur-
isdiction after the way they had been
treated in that jurisdiction.
The proposed organization of nine
volunteer regiments will place a num-
Der of important military commissions
at the disposal of the President. Al
though there will be three new brig
AIDES, Adjutant General Corbin says it
is not likely that more than one addi-
tional brigadier general will be needed,
the other two being provided for by
officers of that grade now in the army
whose terms of enlistment are about to
expire. General Grant, who is now in
the Philippines, is in this category and
he probably will be one of the three
new brigadier generals. Another officer
now in the Philippines is also avail
able for reappontment to the provis-
ional army. Probably the most i'm
portant point in connection with the
proposed volunteer organization is the
Presidents declared intention to ap-
point none but officers of the regular
army to the command of the nine new
regiments. Nearly fifty regular army
| officers had regimental commands dur
ing the recent war in the volunteer es-
tablishment and the nine colonies to be
assigned to the new regiments will be
selected from among that number. The
selection will be based entirely upon
the record of the officers during the
late war; and the nine officers whose
practical work in the field was most
efficient will receive the appointments.
1t is not unlikely, however, that some
of the efficient volunteer officers may
he selected for subordinate commands
in the different regiments, inaSmuch as
the decision to appoint only regular
army officers does not apply to posi-
tions below the grade of colonel.
The order for the enlistment of vol
unteers for the service in the Philip
pines was published on the 9th, and
seven' more colonels to command the
regiments were appointed. There are
yet two colOnels to be designated.
Eight majors also We're chosen The
recruiting will not begin until some
time next week, the exact date not hav-
ing been fixed yet. Recruiting stations
will be open in every state and terri
tory, and as fast as the men are en-
listed they will be sent to the regi-
ments to be assigned to companies.
State lines are obliterated and the men
first enlisting will be first to be mus
tered in. The assignment to compan-
les will be by the officer commanding,
and he will be at liberty to organize a