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dan, H., to Columbus barracks. Ohio, all in
the n anf Of he lak -.

neers. from Jefferson barracks, Mo-. to Fort
Leavenworth. Kan, there to go into camp
temporarily If necessary until barracks,
now nearing completion, can be made avail
able.
Tenth Cavalry. department of the Mis-
souri-Headquarters, band and 1st and Sd
Neb.; Troops B and D. 18th Cavalry, from
Fort Robinson, Neb to Fort Meade, S. D.
Third Field Battery. department of the
east-Company G, signal corps. from Cuba
to Fort Myer, Va.
THE commanding officers will place them
selves in telegraphic communication with
the department comma nders to which their
commands are assigned, in order that quar-
ters and camps may be in readiness for
their comfort and accommodation on ar
rival at their stations.
THE sea-coast batteries remaining in
Cuba will constitute part of the command
or the department of the east and the COM
manding officer will report by letter to the
department commander for instructions.
Colonel Haskins is assigned to the COM
mand of the sea-coast batteries remaining
in Cuba and will repair to Havana as soon
as possible after the receipt of this order.
reaching there not later than the Both Of
April
with three months rations and stores for
sales. with the necessary amount of com
missary property.
"All unnecessary stores and property be-
longing to the subsistence department, of
whatever kind, to be sold at auction, after
due advertising of not less than ten days in
the island.
Such signal supplies as pertain to the
government accountability should be re-
turned to the signal corps post, Fort Myer,
Va, unless taken over by the government
of Cuba by agreement approved by the Sec
retary of War.
"All property and funds pertaining to the
ordnance department and no longer re-
quired will be disposed OF under special di-
rection of the chief Of ordnance.
miscellaneous quartermaster supplies
and clothing and eQuipage entirely service
able and fit for issue, as also such mules
and other means Of transportation in serv
iceable condition as may be required in the
United States, will be shipped to such
points in the United States may be
designated by the quartermaster general.
Such of these classes Of property may
be found upon inspection to be unfit for
service or are not worth cost Of transporta-
tion, or which the quartermaster general
deems 1t advisable to sell in the interest of
economy, will be sold at public sale, under
the direction of the department commander.
All vouchers and accounts in the office
of the auditor and elsewhere relating to the
receipt and disbursement of moneys during
the occupation of the Island of Cuba by the
United States will remain in the control
and available for the use Of the War De-
partment.
The department commander will give
such instructions as In his judgment may
be necessary to allow the new government
duct of business subsequent to the Goth of
May. The department commander will also
appoint an agent, with such assistance
from his clerical force may be required,
to take possession of these papers and re-
tain them in such place in the Island of
Cuba as may be agreed upon by him and
the new government until they can be re-
moved to the United States without detri-
ment to the current business of the govern
ment of Cuba. On the final removal of
these records the agent designated and his
clerical assistants will repair with the rec
ords to the city of Washington for file and
disposition as may then be ordered by the
Secretary of War;"
President-Elect Palma Talks.
President-elect Thomas Estrada Palma
of Cuba having finished his conferences
with President Roosevelt Secretary Root
and other officials matters connected
with the transfer of the island from Amer
lean to Cuban control, left the city at mid
night for his New York home, where he
will remain until the last of April, when
he will leave New York for Santiago prov
ince, in which he will spend a few days,
going thence to Havana to be inaugurated
May 90 He said he realized the magni-
tude of the work on which he was about
to enter and its attendant responsibilities,
but was confident that the future of Cuba
was assured and that the island would
have a successful career.
VIII enter upon my duties as president
of Cuba,' said General Palma, confident
in the belief that there is a splendid fu
ture in store for the island. The people
are naturally of an orderly, peaceable dis
position, mild hammered and submissive to
law and to order What they need Is the op-
portunity to work, and with this assured
prosperity will come to the people. Secre-
tary Root said to me today that he is sat
isfled with the conduct of the Cuban peo-
pie since the American occupation and that
he had no complaint to make in that re-
gard. The people are dignified and will re-
spect law and order. The condition Of af-
fairs is very different now from what It
was under the Spanish regime. when the
people were under the rule and subject to
the will of captain general and the mill
tary authorities.
ration will be In keeping with the require
ments Of the occasion One Of these will
be the lowering of the American colors In
Havana and the raising of the Cuban flag
an act which will mark the termination
Of American occupation and the formal
assumption of the government by the Gu
bans. These ceremonies will take place
in the palace. Closely following the induc-
ton of the new government will be the ap-
pointment of a minister to represent it at
Washington. AS soon as this has been
done and representative appointed from
the United States to Cuba, steps will be
taken for the drafting of treaty between
the two governments embodying the fea-
lures outlined in the Platt amendment.
Wncn mas Deen maze an appendix TO our
constitution. This will include provision
for naval station, probably at Guanta-
namo, although this is not settled, and the
establishment of coaling stations at points
to be mutually agreed upon"
"The orders given to General Wood con-
template the retention of about 500 artil-
lerymen at various coast points for a time
was suggested to General Palma.
'"Those artillerymen are to be kept at
the batteries with the consent of the Gu
ban government" responded General Pal
ma. They are not to interfere in any way
with Cuban affairs. They will be retained
until the Cuban government is ready to re-
place them with a force of it's own men.
The latter now has about three hundred
men who have been drilled In artillery
practice and to these it is contemplated
adding about one hundred more. AS soon
as they sufficiently familiar with the du-
ties that will devolve upon them they will
take the places of the Americans. The
Americans then, presumably, will be sent
to the naval and the coalng stations pro-
vided for in the treaty to be ratified be-
tween the two governments. The United
States government thus will avoid the
necessity of shipping the troops to the
United States and back again to Cuba
s'Of course should the remote poSSibil-