The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-07-19
consul FOWLER VIEWS.
IN. RepdbllC Bureau.
i.th st. and Pennsylvania Ave.


iath st. and Pennsylvania Ave
Washington. July 1s-At long conference
between President Mckinley and Secretary
Root to-day IL was determined that General
A. r Chafree is to command all the forces
which The United States are to send to
China. General Chaffee is now a Brigadier-
As he will be in command of a. division of
troops # is the purpose OF the President
to give him rank as Major Genera! OF VOL
unteers The thority to do this has been
Questioned I'm some quarters. but the PreSi-
dent believes that he is justified BY law
One Major General is allowed to each l2Wo
men. fr-ning a division. General C7baffee' ;
force NiiI not amount quite TO a division.
but SO near II that the administration think
his elevation to Major General will not meet
with serious objection. General Chanee Is
now on his way to China
In the selection Of General Cbaffe.. Lieu
tenant General Miles. the commanding OIL
ficer Of the army. has been overruled. He
has been somewhat anxious TO assume the
Chinese command himself. but as there was
little hope of his wish being xrefified ne
has all along recommended Major Genera!
Bates for the important assignment. Cen
eral Miles argued that General Bates. who
Is now I'm charge of department In the
Philippines could reach the scene of action
In Tess time than any else. His advice
was not taken. however, which IL regarded
as another indica ton that the Commanding
General Is not Ia high favor with the Sd-
ministration.
To FIJI Up Marine Corps.
Besides seeing Secretary Root. the Pres
idsnt also received two calls from Secre-
tary Long The visits of the head of ths
Navy Department had TO do with the plans
for recruiting the marine corps 10 Its full
strength and of the dispatch or the meIi
to China. The Secretary also gave MIR. Ne
t,,fN pgh a ILL re
available or could be made 20. for Chinese
service These were the only members OF
the Cabinet with whom the President had
formal conversation to-day. but late TINS
afternoon he met all who are now in the
city unofticiaIiy at II dinner at The Country
Club at Chevy Chase. The dinner was
given by Secretary Foot and Adjutant Gen
.rsl Corbtn. Governor Allen OF Porto Rico
WAS one Of the guests. The chinese STU
alton was talked over In a general and
strictly unofficial way. lf late news war
rants It. there will be another Cabinet
meeting Tomorrow. Is IL is the Intention
Of the President to return to his Canton
home tomorrow evening OF course. the
trip will be abandoned If the developments
appear to demand H.
The War Department TO-DAY was hard
at work preparing for The sending away
of our relief forces to China. While reti-
cence is still observed az TO just what com
nands are destined for service, the exact
number under orders IL lila. This does
not Include the 1000 marines to DO enlisted
and forwarded at the earliest possible mo-
ment. The troops Of the other Powers
that will go TO make up the $1,000. which IL
Is estimated will be needed TO cope with the
emergency will be in numbers about as
follows: Japan. 200; Russia. lE.eeo: France.
5000; Great Britain. 1000; Germany. LEGO.
Not Being Dictated To.
The State Department does not take kind
- t.rs TN, do
scribing the proportion Of the American
troops involved 1t Is said there that the
United States are not being dictated to in
the slightest manner TO the soldiers they
are 10 send At the meeting OF the foreign
Admirals recently held in China IL was ex
planned II was the CONSENSUS of opinion
that 00J0 men would be needed to queli
the Chinese outbreak. and the United States
are simply proceeding In their own way to
contribute their share toward the cause.
1t looks now IL Cuba would furnish at
least q portion of the Chinese detail Gov
ernor General Wood. who arrived in Wash
ington last night. called on the President
to-day and sand that at leest one regiment
could be withdrawn from the island with
out Gripping the service there. He sug-
gested that the two battaijons Of the First
Infantry be taken. II any. The Third Bat
TALON is now In the United States, Company
A being at Fort Logan H. Roots, Arkansas.
and companies Is, = ana u al Fort LeaNen-
worth, Kansas. 1t is practically admitted
at the War Department that this regiment
will go to China
Army Large Enough.
For the present the determination not to
provide a large army for China is fixed.
General Corbin is very earnest in the opin-
ion that the ten or eleven thousand troops
assembled for Chinese service are all that
we need. and his view Of the case is that
adopted by the administration. To sustain
this theory the calculations are based on
the estimate made by the Admirals before
the strength Of the Chinese forces near