The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-27
THEREBUKE OF NILES
May Cause Tilt Between Con-
gress and the President.
GENERAL THREATENS TORESIGN
Declares if Hawley Army Bill Becomes
Law, He Will Decline to Long
er Hold His Conn.,
mission.

A Washington special says: Cen
eral Miles second rebuff at the white
house and the recent publication OF
the incident may be followed by the
retirement Of the old warrior by
Roosevelt.
1t is said that both the president
and the secretary of war are highly in
dignant that the story leaked out, and
in consequence the president may ex-
ercise the law which allows him to re-
tire an officer over the ase of sixty.
Miles reached that age last August,
but unless sooner retired by Roosevelt,
will continue his present Office until
August, 1903.
1t was nearly month ago that Miles
called on the president, laid bare his
plan to stop the war in the Philippines
and received the second presidential
rebuke for mis- pains. There was an
understanding between the soldier and
the president that the matter should
be kept secret. Perhaps it would
have been kept secret had not Henry
Watterson, in general newspaper ar
ticle last Saturday, referred to it in a
paragraph. Then newspaper men at
Washington dug out the entire story.
How the Kentuckian got the fact that
Miles had been rebuked again is still!
a secret.
In view of the fact that the original
publication represented that General
Miles had been snubbed, or severely
rebuked by the president, it is not re-
garded as reasonable supposition
that the information was made public
b. him, but rather by some person
or persons inimical to his interests.
Neither the secretary of war nor Gen
eral Miles, nor, in fact, any of the
leading officials Of the war department.
will say anything for publication in re-
gard to the matter.
It was learned from other sources,
however, that the president had called
for all the papers in the case and is
considering the advisability Of making
them public, with view to showing
the facts and preventing further mis-
understanding of the matter.
Congressional notice of General
Miles rebuff by Roosevelt, when asked
to be sent to the Philippines to bring
tho war to a close, without further
loss of life on either side, came Thurs
day, when Representative Burleson, OF
Texas, introduced a resolution calling
on the president to furnish the house
of representatives with all the papers
bearing on the matter. By this means
both sides of the affair which now has
all Washington talking, will be made
public. Only scant information has
reached the public so far, and there
is a public demand for the full particu-
lars.
The following was the resolution Of
fered by Representative Murleson, Of
Texas:
"Resoived, that the president be. and
is hereby respectfully requested, if the
same is not incompatible with the pub
lie interests, to transmit to the house
copies of all correspondence relating
to and papers bearing upon the mat
ter of the recent request Of Lieutenant
General Nelson A. Miles to be assigned
to duty in the Philippines and to be
allowed to put into effect there a plan
outlined by him having for its purpose
and being calculated to bring about
an immediate cessation of hostilities
in said Philippines without further
loss of life on either side"