El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-21

Regular Army People Crashing
Their Teeth Over Gen. Woods
Rapid AdvanCement-The Need
Of More Woods-Stdgnation In
the Army-Senator pettigreW s
Troubles-The Holland Sub
marine Boat-DemocratiC Mis-
takes-A New Play BY Holland
Dame-Minor Matters.
Special Correspondence OF the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-General
Wood has been made governor of Cuba
vice Brooke. His appointment is
universally popular, even with the
Cubans who have apparently forgotten
the rather drastic cleaning up his sub
ordi mates gave Santiago. Brooke is
not popular in Cuba either with the
Cubans or Americans, which latter is
of more Importance. He is slated to
return to his old command OF the de-
partment of the lakes. General Wood
is an example of the occasional good
effects of gross, black favor. Before
the late war he was al army surgeon,
and happened to be the enc detailed to
look after the presidents health. Like
all army medical men he was anxious
to get on the line and Mckinley &C
cordingly made him colonel of the
rough riders. His career since is too
we'll known to need more than re-
ference. He deserves all his success,
hut h 10 olt IL To 4
The other surgeons are envious and
the regular army people are boiling
within.
An intelligent despot getting hold Of
our army. say q man of about Roose-
velt's get up, could do an immense
amount Of good picking out and sp-
pointing few dozen more Woods.
We educated man at West Point in
everything that the brain of science
could devise in the way of strategy and
m!litarism and then sent him out
to little desolate, out of the way
place in charge of 20 or 30 men, to stay
for years, putting in all his time be-
tween poker games in looking after his
mems buttons and shoes and filling out
forms. Then when the. Spanish war
came be was suddenly made supervis-
ing deity OF possibly as many thousand
men. Naturally he slumped, and tied |
himself up in red tape. Nobody but !
an army officer would have had the |
men at Tampa short of supplies and be
unable to provide for them because of
lack of way bills for the freight stand
ing on switches. The trouble with |
Otis is all along this line. He can't
somehow seem to see that subordinates
Jan look after the question of garrison
It.is pity Wood cannot be
sent to Manila. It is illustrative of
var department. ideas that a court mar
ial is soon to be convened to look into
he question of the loss by strsying of
zone mule and a..halter strap down in
Tennessee week or two ago.
Senator Pettigrew, who will be re-
rendered, or forgotten, as the active
opponent of the annexation of Hawaii,
las tried to pass a test contraction res
Tuition and failed ignominiously. When
he question OF the Sandwich Islands
anne up, Pettigrew labored for weeks
o prove that the shortest way to Man
la and the east was not through Hon
lulu, but some other way. 1 have for
'otten just what his proposition was,
possibly it was to dig tunnel. This
ime he proposed resolution asking (
we had had any dealing with the
Observation-Disclosures" he called them I
their flag. 1t was tabled
" vote of Al to 20. The dissentients
we're all, except Hoar, Pettigrew him
elf aud Heitfeld, from
be southern states. It was '
rather odd thing that it should be 80,
ince the southern states generally are
apparently in favor of expansion. {
,hree southern democrats, Nc Emery,
f Louisiana, McLaurin, of South Care I
ma, and Lindsay, of Kentucky, voted I
nth the republicans. Hosr was the .
My republican voting. with Pettigrew /
1t seems we are to spend 1850, 600 in
xperim enting with Holland sub (