The San Francisco call., 1901-10-16
To INVESTIGATE
ARMY MORALITY
War Department Ap-
points a Minister to
Be Inspector.
General Chaffee Active in
Innovations in the
Philippines.

The Rev. DR.. A L. Hazlett of Colo
rado Springs, Colo, is in San Francisco
bound for the Philippines as a Commits
sioner appointed by the Secretary of War
to investigate the charges Of gross i'm
morality in our military camps in the
Far East DR.. Hazlett was selected for
the important position on recOmnlenda-
ton OF Major General Macarthur. He
will leave to-day on the army transport
Thomas.
Vague rumors have drifted to this
country from time to time that the SOL
oiery were giving way morally as well as
physically in the far away possessions,
and the religious people of the United
States have demanded an investigation
which shall not be an army investigation.
DR.. HaZlett states that ne has heard
that all kinds of evils are prevalent in
the Philippines and that the authorities
are Very lax.
Army officers are rather amused at the
ioea and think that if the newly ap-
pointed Commissioner follows about two
days IN the wake OF a paymaSter on one
or his trips through the outlying PROV
inces he will be decidedly SHOCKED. How
ever, il is not probable that DIR. Aazlett
viii go much outside Of Manila, 1lono
and A1ndanao, where he viii find condi-
uons ABOUT the same as among large
bodies Of troops in the home garrisons
Troops Sent to Permanent Stations.
The second. and third battalions of the
Eighteenth Infantry, which arrived on
q late transport, have been ordered by
General Young TO permanent stations in
the East Companies Z, F, G and H go
TO Fort D. A russell, Wyoming; Com
panies * L and NJ go to Fort Douglas,
Utah, and Company L TO Fort Duchesne,
Utah
General Chaffee, after extensive cor
respoEdence with the War Department,
general hospital at Nagasaki, Japan.
Captain Irving NJ. Rand and First Lieu
tenants 3 H butcher and Z. z. Parsons
Of the medical department, who Were
On DUTY at that station, have been or
oered TO San Francisco. The hOSp'Tal
al Nagasaki was Indispensable while the
volunteers were coming aud gong Ue-
tween the Philippines and this city, but
the travel Of enlisted men across the
Pacific is now comparatively light, and
al cases Of sickness can be attended to
on the transports by the regular n!edf
cal staff
OI1e of the four companies of engineers
now in the Philippines has been ordered
TO MlndanaO for duty. This is considered
by the army authorities TO indicate that
the engineering work in Luzon is ap-
proac ching. completion For two years
make military roads in the Philippines
over which it shall be possible to con-
duct wagon trains during the rainy sea-
son The natives were in the habit of
bridging the streams by which the isl
ands are uaverSed in every direction
with frall bamboo structures, which were
WaS0eQ away annually Wnen the 0rSI
4 pods came Corps OF engineers have
built many substantial bridges between
the more important PORTS on Luzon, and
safe travel even in August and Septem-
Der is now possible.
Stricter Measures for the Islands
Military officers have decided that
stricter measures than those that have
been in vogue in dealing with natives by
the courts-naartial are necessary, and
death instead of life imprisonment is
now generally the penalty for murder.
II was the practice for a long time to
give native criminals severe sentences
and then for the reviewing authorities
to commute them The leniency did not
seem TO have the desired effect and
crimes multiplied During the last two
months, however, a score or more of
Filipino murderers have been executed
and other criminals have received heavy
sentences
Nicholas HeTrero, the murderer Of the
famous Captain Lara of the Manila po-
lice, whose services to the United States
during the height of the insurrection
were invaluable and whose faithfulness
was never questioned, was sentenced to
but ten years in Bilfbid prison. The light
sentence was due to the fact that the
conVicting evidence was rather meagar
although there was little doubt that Her
rero was guilty Of the assassination