The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-11
OUR ARMY IN 1899,
THE REPORIs or COMMANDING or
FICERs or LIST YEARS VORh.

Manila How the Tagai Plot to Drstr"S
the tty aud Massacre. TIA. Foreigners
WAS p-e,ented-AD Important Report
The annual report " the Mnior-d"neralcom'
handing the Army appears a. IaSt IN complete
form, II Is in three parts, Of which ~" nrS'
two appeared somo weeks ago, AMI tho third
mart has appeared within a few days. The
.aree parts contain some l,'OD pages and are
illustrated by maps. plans AMI many photo
graphs. the latter extremely valuable "a show
ing tho surroundings o. our men In cuba,
Puerto Rico and the Philippines. The report,
though Officially that ot the MaJor-General
commanding, Is actually that OF the executive
officers OF the Army and covers very much more
ground than IT, nj" wouli indicate. when,
however. It il. remembered that during tho
period covered by the report .r army has been
busy in the United States "A. vel a. in the West
Indie, and the East Indies ind Hawaii. the
.cope Of the report viii be- apparent.
The first part contains the report ~ MAJOR.
Gen. Niles u tho Secretary OF War. and the
routine reports Of his subordinateS. the chiefs
Of the executive staff departments. and the
commanding Officers Of the various army dtyI-
sions and departments. This list now includes
Cuba and its divisions. Puerto Rico and the
Philippines.
This last nam cd report. however. appears In
the second and third parts. being too volumi-
nous to be printed as an appendix in the FIRST
part. The second part contains zen. Otls's
report and routine and special reports from
his stan officers. together with copies o. all
correspondence between Otis and Gen.
Aguinaldo.' the Presidents proclamation,
which Gen. Otis had TO edit. and the Generals
report on the breaking ont % the instruction.
In the third part appear ten. Hughes report
on the fire at Manila. Feb - and %. lS'", and
reports Of actions from Ger. Otis's commanders.
ten. Hughes. Gen. Iawton amt others. This
part contains over five hundred pages. and has
mars and plans and photographs.
Despite the si2o Of the report as n whole. the
personal report Of Gen. Miles is only Ave
pages in length. Most Of It ia taken up with
Il list Of the mustcrlnGS out ~ various vo,un-
t.er organizations. The first date is Noy. u,
lSuS: the last Is SEPT. -, lS!t. Gen. Niles
makes few recommendations: n su ;gr-'- IN
rroa,ing the pay Of officers on foreign service.
lu,t a. the pay Of the enlisted man is increased,
ant Increasing the army until its strength
sal, be elual 10 one solder to every l,OOD Of
population. Tint strength would give an army
ri about $4,000 men. instead of one OF about
~. men.
Of the reports from general officers and ON
cors commanding army Departments and
divisions. Gen. Norrit, reports only for the pa.
p,r,meut of the East. and his report il. shorter
even than ten Nlcs's. ,iou. Merriam makes
rerort for the Department 10; the Lake and thu
D.partmcnt of the Colorado, and also on the
miners RIOTS in Idaho. Cen. Shaftor rcports
for the Department.. Of California and Of thu
Columbia. and Col. Frank and Col Nckibhin.
n III, Prralnr-Grnarll report ON MAJOR.
Gen rr.' CONN
Ne have commented arrnadv on ten. Iul-
loN =. r.I ort as r,mm,uIfn. officer 10. Havana
Tho repor,. of Gnp. Wood from ~ILrv,,o ,ap
Lea from pinor do, no G.r. Sanger from Ma.
t,o2ls Grr. Wilson from Sarto y,,r, and finally
uf zion Er,okc r.inmoudlrr tho Division of
,uLa have also ornn,rai s,par,telv and hn,n
ro,i,ed A., thoy nrn,oraI VIII. IA, details in
o,rh rapor, differ tho general drift or thaso
,.,or,s indic,t.. inrr,,.m.,,. f., tho CON.
di,.o, NJ cubon affair. An mmar.a, n,urt
of work has beou dnna los orr ARM in Cuha in
IA. way of claiming and purifying tho lrrer
clties md setting nxarulcs and aiding those
who Womb follow. ana mi. work nj noore and
good will towards men will hiring IN tho future
AZ much glory 10 our civil administration as
tho rampa,rn Of Slutiago drl to our arm,
rhe report OF Gen. Davis. commanding tho
D.p,rtment Of Puerto Rico. deals brl.rv with
tho torrihle hurricane of Aur \. INgl. 4, Tho
re,ul,s OF which the present EVIL state Of the
island larpcly is an, I, l. unnecessary IN ra.
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