The age-herald., 1900-07-19
EXTRA SESSION
 MUST BE CALLED President Cannot Avoid Calling
 Congress Together, FORGED 10 TAKE THE STEP Sufficient Troops For Chinese Service Not Available. CHINA HAS WELL TRAINED ARMY United States Is Bound to Take Its Part and Contribute It's Full Quota
 of Men-President's
 Duty Plain
Sufficient Troops For Chinese
 Service Not Available.
CHINA HAS WELL TRAINED ARMY
BY ALBERT HALSTEAD

Washington, July 1S.-(Special.)-How the President can avoid calling Congress to- gether in extra session it Is impossible to see. It would appear as if he would be forced to take this step by the develop ments in China. Naturally, he has been especially anxious to have the Chinese situ- ation corrected without bringing Congress here, but far more troops will be required to pacify China than seem now to be avail able, and the only way they be se- cured is for Congress to authorize their enlistment An extra session of Congress is the logic of the situation. If the Prest- dent does not issue a proclamation as- sembling Congress in extraordinary ses- sion within a week it will greatly surprise those who have most carefully studied the situation.
 The facts are plain. The Ministers of the civilized Governments of the world have been fouly murdered in Pekin, and their families as we'll This outrage com- mitted either by lawless Chinese without the consent of the Chinese Government or with its connivance. It matters very little which. If the Chinese Government has been unable to protect the persons of the Envoys, who are held sacred even by un-
 
 too weak to be permitted to exist. If the Government connived at the massacre of the Ministers. then the Government must be overthrown.
 United states Bound to Act
 As one of the nations whose Minister was massacred, the United States is bound to take it's part and contribute its full quota of troops to restore order in China and establish a protectorate over it, or, if that be impossible, unite in it's division. The United States does not to be O party to the partitioning of China, and without question the great influence of this Government will be employed toward se- curing some other solution But the United States is only of the nations interested in settling the Chinese question, and its will cannot be absolute therefore.
 The present question, and the one that can alone be considered at present, is as how best to restore order in China The repulse of the allied forces, in which the gallant Ninth United States Infantry suf- fered so severely has proved most con- clusively the folly of trying to do any thing in China without adequate forces. When all the United States troops now un- der orders for China, both from the United States itself and from the Philippines, have reached China, there will be there only about I.000 Americans This is too small force for the United States, whose interests in China are as great as any na- tion and whose losses, both by the masse- ere and commercially, are not exceeded by any nation, to employ in the pacification of China. If all the nations were to send so small proportion of troops there would not be sufficient to meet the situation.
 A well lroined Army
 China has shown that she possesses a well-trained army, armed with modern weapons, easily the equal of and perhaps superior to the arms of the allied powers. She has imported from German over 400,- 900 modern Mauser rifles and consfdera- ble number of cannon, with the ammuni- ton needed for them, since her disastrous war with Japan. German and Russian or ficers, and some French, and perhaps sev- eral American soldiers, drilled Chlnesc regiments, which are being used, with or without the consent of the Chinese gov ernment against foreign devils Judg- ing by the reports from China, these troops have learned well how to handle their weapons, and there are some very good marksmen among them. It VIII pe no boys play to put down sucn troops' moved as they are, also by fanaucism. Eventually the civilized world must tri- umph. but the cost may be greater than any one now anticipates
 should all the troops either now in Cupa or the United States be sent to China-and
 
 them there-not more than four thousand more could be dispatched. and that would leave this country absolutely without ade- ouate protection or to put down any ois- turbance that might occur in Cuba. It will, however, take months to get volunteer troops in readiness for service abroad. In the meantime from twenty-five to thirty five thousand American troops will be re- ouired in China-and the estimate Is con- servative The only thing that can be done will be to withdraw regular troops from the Philippines. That will embarrass Gen eral Macarthur and be contrary to his ad- vice and against his protest, but the gov- ernment will be compelled to take one or another alternative.
 Must Make Some Sacrifices
 It must be derelict in its duty in China and be shamed before the world or it must make some sacrifices in the Philippines.
 It may, and will be argued, that the United States should promise independence to the Philippines and thus secure their pacifcation, but regardless of the effeotive- ness of such promise of the Filipinos' willingness to credit the United States with
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