The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-10-05

Washington. October 2.-Sscretary
Taft cabled 10 the var department %
day requesting that Brigadier General
Frederick Funston be designated TO
command the American troops in Cuba.
and the military secretary Immediately
issued an order to that effect Formal
orders were also issued TO Brigadier
General T. J.. Whit, commander OF
the department of Missouri, who reach
ed here late today, and who is 20 Be
in charge Of the embarkation OF the
expedition from Newior New. Tie
orders show that the first expedit on
20 Cuba is 10 be known as the FIRST
expeditionary brigade. Ii is much
larger than al ordinary brigaCe, but
consider it as such. General Whit lief.
tonight for Newport News. II is no.
eXl ected he will go TO Cuba.
Secretary Root has been interesting
himself in the Cuban situation since
his return to duty in the state depart
ment. and in doing so has teen going
over the diplomatic correspondence
that took place between Washington
and Havana before Secretary Taft was
sent to Cuba by the president. Il is
quite likely that tbs correspondence
will be made public in a short Tim
in order to give the people Of both the
United States and Cuba a clear idea
| of uyhof nffnrtc thsc rNrnp pNa-r rpnIn
TO avoid intervention. No information
has been received in Washington which
indicates the length of time thai the
United States will occupy the island of
Cuba, and none of the officials will
! venture a prediction On this subjecr,
but the presumption is that it viii he
! some time before IA stable government
can be placed in power, and it is cX-
pect2d that meantime a civil govern
ment will lie appointed TO administer
the affairs of the island under the sec
rotary of war. Governor MagOon. who
has just returned from Panama. and
i Governor Winthrop, of Porto Rico,
! have both been mention d in connec-
ton with the g~overnorship of,Cuba-
Quartermaster General Humphrey
has concluded the charters of eleven
vessels which will be used for the
transportation of animals from this
country to Cuba for the first expedi-
tionary brigade. Their cargoes will
consist of horses and mules and the
necessary vehicles required. One of
them, the Andes, will sail from Tampa
with the horses and mules of the light
battery of the 14th artillery, and two
pack trains. The other transports viii,
sail from Newport News. Their names
and the animals they will carry are
as follows:
Antilles, with 300 animals for tn,
seth infantry, 18th infantry and 18th
infantry; Yumuri, with 206 animals Of
the 9th and 28th infantry; Guiana,
with $50 animals of the 18th and 18th
infantry; Mobila, with zoo animals of
of the 18th and 18th mountain batter
les; Paloma, with 237 animals OF the
End battalion of engineers; Laupar,
with PA animals of the medical depart
lei and signal corps; Bergen, with
200 horses ID be used as officers
mounts; Jacob Bright, with $50 horses
of the 18th cavalry; Taarholm, with
696 horses of the 18th and 18th cavalry:
BayOma, ordered TO report at Newport
News, but her cargo not yet assigned.
The Olivette, a troops transport row
at Key West, was chartered today. She
will proceed to Tampa and probably
will carry the officers and men Of the
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