The age-herald., 1902-03-30
HE WANTED TO USE INDIAN
 METHODS TO QUIET THE FILIPINOS
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by President Mckinley, Secretary Root says the Presidents consent to receive the committee was asked for by General Wood, through the Secretary of War and was communicated to General Wood by the Secretary of War, who never heard General Miles name mentioned in con- nection with the transaction.
 The secretary adds that on July 1S 1900, General Miles applied to be sent to the Philippines and China in his official ca- pacity. General Macarthur had reported that not single regiment could be spared from the Philippines, yet General Miles accompanied his application by a recom- mendation that 15,OOO troops be with drawn from the Philippines and sent to China. The withdrawal of so many troops would have insured insurgent control of a large portion of the Philippines. The secretary says that at least two-thirds of the 15,0OO troops were wholly unneces- sary in China.
 Wanted Supreme Command.
 'The application and recommendation" says the secretary rwere in fact accom- panied by a request from General Miles that supreme command of the allied forces should be obtained for him. Under these circumstances President Mckinley declined to authorize the sending of Gen. eral Miles, either to the Philippines or to China. Afterward the secretary of war authorized the lieutenant general to ex- tend his inspection to the Philippines for the purpose of inspection only. He has never been authorized to go for any other purpose"
 Whether the carrying out of General Miles plan would interfere with the pres ent civil and military control in the Phil ippines must be determined the secretary says, by the proposed order itself. The lieutenant general asks authority ito give such directions as l may deem ad- visable and judicious for the best dispo- sition of the United States military forces"
 That, of course, means continues the secretary, "to command General Chaffee, and he asks authority. also to take such measures as will tend to restore as far as possible confidence to the people of those islands and demonstrate that the purpose of our government is prompted by the highest sense of justice. That means if 1t means anything, authority to do himself, or to require the civil of ficers of the Philippines to do under his direction, the very duties which were charged upon the Philippine commission and the civil governor in the islands by President Mckinley and which they are now engaged in doing"
 Civil Law Subordinate,
 The secretary says if the measures to be taken are to be determined by General Miles ''the system of civil government by which we have been gradually and steadily superceding military control would again be subordinated to military power and the people of the islands would be subjected to the arbitrary control of a military dictator"
 Referring to the reflections of General Miles upon the conduct of the military forces in the islands based upon olIcial reports, as he says. Secretary Root says that a report of the civil governor of the province of Tayabas containing in gen. eral terms and without specification or names serious charges against the mili- tary administration of that province and against the conduct of the army gen. orally in its relation to the civil govern ment were forwarded by Governor Taft to the Secretary of War.
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