The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-10-19
SPLENDID RECORD
Made By War Department In
Handling Troops.
Question of Ultimate Annexation
Bobs Up Often and From
Cuban Sources.
OTHER WASHINGTON ITEMS
Especial to Tns RrrupLrAS.l

Washington, ID. c. Oct. 1.-THE
showing for the War Department is
exceedingly good for the embarka-
ton Of troops for Cuban service.
According to the statement of the
Quartermaster Generals Office, it
has taken just twelve days to get all
the troops ahoat, the last expedition,
having already left Newport News,
is probably by this time on Cuban
soil. This is the more remarkable in
that there was only one transport,
the Sumner, available when the en-
Urgency occurred. Both Quarter
master General Humphrey and his
assistants are very proud of the
showing that has been made. II
transports had been available when
the order was given to move the
troops, the entire expedition could
have been afioat within one week.
AS it was. however, steamers had to
be chartered and re-fitted for use as
transports. In addition to the men
that have been sent. amounting al
together to 5000. there has been
over 1000 horses shipped beside
large quantities of stores and ammu-
milton. It is understood that New
port News will be made the base of
supplies as long as il is necessary to
retain military control in Cuba.
The question of ultimate annexa-
ton comes up much oftener from
Cuban sources than the United
States officials are willing to discuss
it. II is said, unofiicially, at the
State Department. That there is not
only no present intention of anneXa-
ton. but this country will refuse
every opportunity in that direction,
and the Cubans must take their
chances with another trial of govern
ment on their own responsibility.
Officials of the immigration De-
partment are going on a still hunt
for the people whom it is supposed
have been evading the alien contract
labor law for long time past in
importing English girls to work in
the Southern cotton mills. This
case was first brought to light by
the detention in Washington of a
girl who gave her name first as
Hilda Barnes and afterward as Hilda
Elliott. She said that she was 60
ing South to visit relatives and had
been deserted in Washington. 1t
afterward developed that she had
been in South Carolina for some
time and that she was really on her
way north, instead of south, when
she applied to the police for assis-
lance. The girls conflicting stories
aroused suspicion. and there after
ward developed a strong probability
of extensive immigration frauds.
Preparations were made to send an
inspector to CASTOR, N. c., but the
case was kept quiet in the belief that
premature publication would defeat
the ends of justice. One of the
Washington papers, however, broke
faith in the matter, and as the whole
story has now been printed, no harm
can be done by referring to it. 1t is
alleged that agents have been work.
ing extensively in England attract
ing young girls to this country with
the promise Of high wages and good
working conditions. 1t is believed
that as many as 1000 have been i'm
ported to different points in the
south. Once landed here the girls
were bitterly undeceived, and it is
said that the Barnes girl was escap-
ing from the Southern country when
her money gave out. Since then
money has been sent her in an effort
to get her out of the reach of the
authorities and put stop to the in
vestigation, but it is now too late to
do this.
Another bad story of Southern
cruelty has been laid before the De-
partment of Justice, which has been
asked to send special agent to in
quire into labor conditions south of
Tampa, Fla. 1t is claimed that