Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-09-28
MACARTHUR TOCONMlHD
FORMER MILWAUKEEAN BELIEVED
To HAVE BEEN PICKED TO EN-
FORCE PEACE ON ISLAND.
NEGOTIATIONS FALL FLAT.
seCretacy Taft Cables That 1t Is IrlPos-
slbie to Reach ANY Sort OF
Compromise.

ComPT0mise.
WASHINGTON. d. G, Sept D
Special After three days spent in
conferences with the leaders of the gov
Tnment and the insurgents the em.ssarieS
Of President Roosevelt i'll Cuba, pracu-
c&ily. nave abandoned all hope OF ar
ranging compromise. Secretary Tart
las cabled President Roosevelt his views.
There are 10000 men ready 10 80 70
Cuba.
Macarthur to Command.
Brighten. Funston has concluded his
| conferences with Gen. Bell and will leave
today for Havana. But Gen. Funston
IS not to command the army Wh,cA
eventually Will police Cuba. He would
lirect the operations of first expedition.
Brighten. ". T. Duvall will command
L second division and Brighten. Ihom-
IS II: Barry also Will have charge OF an
expedition.
The commander-in-chef will be an of
/ iceT Of higher rank and III this connec-
ion significance attaches to the orders
s~ued today to brighten. Stephens 7.
jocelyn to relieve Licut.-Gen. Arthur
Macarthur of the command OF Tie mill
! AIRY department of the Columbia. Gen.
Macarthur would be an ideal man FOR
he sllyice in Cuba.
He knows the Cubdus. lie partlcl-
Dated in the operations III the l'nri1p-
pines: he was commander of the Amcrl-
FAN military forces III the island and
served as governor general OF the archl-
2elago. The war department. recognizes
hat the Cuban campaign Will be Il re-
Dlica of that i'll Luzon wien Aguinaldo
was directing the operations OF The IN
SurgentS.
The name of Gen. Bell has been sug-
. nH Jcr -ip-cIinf nf the
American forces in Cuba, but it can be
stated positively that he will remain
III Washington, where he will be OF
great value.
More Cruisers at Havana.
The United State cruisers Minneapolis
I and Newark arrived i'll Havana this
morning.
\ conflict between the insurgents and
! the American forces would be Il match
which would set the whole island afiame.
The authorities here are not waiting for
such Il catastrophe before completing
their preparations for the invasion of the
island. 1t is evident from the dispatches
sent by Secretary Taft direct to the Pres
ident that the time when the United
States must intervene by force is almost
come The army does not propose to
make two bites of the Cuban cherry.
Brighton. Bell, chief of staff. proposes
to send Il big army to Cuba and arrange
meHts are being made to send 10000 men
to Cuba. Later on reintOrcemontS OF
20OOO men will be transported to the
island.
The American army row consists of
/ 60 900 men, $4,000 of whom are III the
/ Philippines and $4,000 are serving as
coast artillCrymcn, and therefore un-
available for service over sea. II order
to get a large enough army for the Occu-
| patton of Cuba it will be necessary to
increase the army to the full limit au-
thurized hy laW-10O,0OO men.
President Needn't Wait
Fortunately. the President will not
/ have to appeal to Congress for authority.
1t will be 4 surprise 10 the people OF the
country to know that the military au-
thoritieS have decided thot it is neces-
sary to send such a large force to Cuba.
1t must not be believed that this decision
has been taken unaGvisedly. Gen. Fun
Ston. who knows the Cuban methods of
warfare better than any one else
| through his two years of service on the
! island has expressed the opinion that II
the United States wants to pacify Cuba
within six months It must send pfac-
tically it's whole army there.
GaIrisons will he established in every
city. town and hamlet. and upon large
estates. These garrisons will be re-
CURED to maintain the peace within a
certain zone. Expeditions will pene-
traIe the NOUN lilllS anu JibSlNN anu
destroy the bands or keep them on the
move.
Rebels Ready to Fight.
NEW YORK. Sept. 22.-The Cuban
revolutionary junta here, it was learned
Yesterday. ordered in Germany about
three weeks ago for use by the rebels, a
large quantity of arms and ammunition.
the shipment of which has been tenn
porarily countermanded, pending the re
suit of tue peace negotiations now in
progress
The oIder for the arms and ammuni-
ton was placed with a firm in Ham
burg which makes a speciality of selling
slightly used war supplies to South
American governments and revolution
lists 1t includes 5000 Mauser rifles
and 100000 cartridges, the entire order
amounting to 100000. In case the peace
negotiations in Havana fail, these sup
plies. which are held awaiting further
! orders. will he Immediately shipped to
the CUBAN insurgents.