The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-10-02
INTERVENTION is NOW FACT

.....r.ly TAFT ProcIaims Provisional
.t,rumcnt With Himself at the
urad-TIlc Step Taken Because
lawful authority Had Ceased to
I>i-t-Thc Present Status 10 Con-
fmuc Until Order j. Restored and
rbe pc0plc select Their Own Rulers
War Department at Washin2ton
Get- Busy-Ifrst Expedition 10
~.HI from Newport Ncvs-GcncraI
funston to Have Command OF
Military Forces in Cuba.
tBy the Associated Press.)
Washington, Sept. 29th.-Prepara-
-.u,- ror the military occupation OF
t.Ia moved at It rapid rate today af-
.rr tho receipt of Il dispatch from Sec
..ragy Tart urging the sending Of an
..uE TO cuba. All the organizations
baking up the first expedition arrang-
.l by the general staff were advised
of fh. request of the Secretary of War.
lInrt1rm1ster General Humphrey ana
his assistants Immediately began to
hire transports and to order supplies
delivered Immediately at Newport
News. where the first expedition will
bv mobilized. Sufficient supplies to
lost $500 men for thirty days are be-
.ug rushed to that point with full
speed. QuartermaSterS depOtS at
Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and
many other cities are being drawn ON, |
and Captain f.. Smalley, of the 18th
infantry, has been ordered to Newport
News where he will secure storehouses
and look after the supplies.
Eriadier General II. j. Whit, COM
handing the department of Missouri,
~ls ordered to Newport News today
where he will assume full charge Of
the tmbarkation of troops.
Funston i'll Chief Command.
Although the military secretary and
the chief of staff were Unable to COM
WuuiCate With President Roosevelt,
preparations for the immediate de
Uarture of the first expedition were
but little delayed, as the Secretary of
War, the President and the members
ol the general staff had gone so
thoroughly owe the situation that
thsre is a general understanding as
lp The policy Of the administration. It
is now know that Brigadier General
Frederick Funston, who is already in
cuba. is to be in command of all the
troops sent TO Cuba.
organization of the Expedition.
Full details of the organization OF
the first expedition were made public
by the chief of staff tonight.
Lieutenant Col. w. w. Witherspoon
is To be chief of the expedition staff
and he Will have as his assistants the
following officers of the general staff
corps.
Maj. William A. Mann, Maj. Francis
j. Herman, Major David ID. Gaillard,
captain George w. Read, Captain
charles T. Mencher, Captain John w.
FurIoug.
The military secretary of the eXpe-
ajtion will be Captain William 6: Ham
"t the artillery corps. Major Nllllalll
e.. Langtitt is to be the engineer Off
rrr. The Inspector general viii be
Major f. s. Greble. Major Chauncey
b. Baker. who will be chief quarter
master, has left for Cuba with five
assistants.
other officers on the expedition
STAFF are: Chief Commissary, Major
Harry L. Wilkins: depot sommissary,
Captain H. c. Cole; chief surgeon,
Col. Nalvery Hazard: medical inspec-
Ter. Lieutenant Col. Blair: chief ord
'.+' OlllCtI Captain 10 /
I-chappat; chief signal officer, Captain
William Mitchell: chief paymaster,
Col. Charles II. W1hipple; judge adVo-
cate, Major BIantOn Winship.
Medical Department II Signal Corps.
Secretary Taft ~telegraphed today for
Mayor jefferson r. Kean, of the medl-
gal department. and Captain Frank
MCINTYRE. of the 10Th infantry, VINO
VIII start for Havana at the earliest
possible moment.
ON, hundred and twenty-five mem
o'f- of the signal corps from fort
haha, Nebraska, ave been ordered
.' jo,n the expedition and will be
0"avf the command of Captain George
GIBBS. In addition to The troops
"~|+InaIlE ordered to Newport News
.-e lita battery of field artillery frois
I3ll sheridan, Illinois, alSo Will Joln
me expedition. New guns for all the
.ooIs which may be sent to CUBA are
J." l"adiness and as each of the or
r"Aizltjous arrives at Newport News
IL VIII be equipped with the latest
improved army rifle. This has a knlfe
"'<oA"t instead of the rod bayOnet
-9" generally in use in the army.
INTERVENTION PROCLAIMED.