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TAFT AND BACON TO GO TO ISL
AND TO INVESTIGATE STU
ALTON.
MORE SHIPS RUSH TO Scene
UNITED STATES READY FOR ANY
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES GIVEN
FULL POWER.

Oyster Bay, Sept. 16.-After pro.
tracted conference with Secretary OF
War Taft, Acting Secretary Of State
Bacon and Secretary of the Navy
Bonaparte, President Roosevelt last
night addressed an important commu-
nication to Cuba and arranged to send
Secretary Taft and Acting Secretary
Bacon to the island on Sunday to
make thorough investigation of con
ditions there and lend their influence
to restore peace.
The communication is addressed to
the Cuban minister to the United
States, Senior Quesada.
Plea for Peace.
1t Is an impassioned plea to Cuba to
realize her responsibility as a self
governing republic and to restore
peace in the island. Her attention is
called in no uncertain language to the
responsibility which the United States
bears to the island. and the certainty
that such responsibility will neces-
sarily be exercised should peace not
be preserved.
The president says he has certain
information that the peace of the isl
and is now menaced and that Amerl
can property has been destroyed.
Taft and Bacon Go to Cuba.
Taft and Bacon will leave for Cuba
Sunday. They will go by rail to Key
West, Fla, and from there the journey
to Havana will be completed on Ma
val vessel.
The conference which resulted in
the Cuban decision began at Saga.
more Hill shortly after O'Clock yes.
terday afternoon and continued until
10 o'clock last night. At its conclu-
sion Secretaries Taft, Bonaparte and
Bacon left for New York and will go
to Washington to-day.
No Haste in investigation.
Secretary Taft said as he left Oys.
ter Bay that he had no idea as to the
length OF his visit to Cuba. He indi-
Gated that there would be no haste in
the Investigation which would he
made there. Aside from this infor-
nation nothing will be divulged by
those attending the conference, the
statement being made that the letter
of the president was intended to cover
the whole Cuban situation so far as
1t was desirable to do SO in the public
press.
Senator Beveridge of Indiana, a
member Of the senate committee on
Cuban relations, also participated in
the conference
Give Palma Full Powers.
Havana, Sept. 16.-The extra SEES
sion Of congress called by President
Palma completed at one sitting the
business for which it was summoned
It granted to President Palma the
fullest powers not already constitu-
tionally possessed by the executive for
carrying on war, including the right
to use public funds for war purposes,
revolving appropriations voted at the
preceding session in order to permit
diversion Of the moneys, and author
izing increases Of the rural guards to
10000 and artillery to 1000 men.
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increases the Army. a
This triples the former force of ru.
raj guards and doubles the artillery.
The measures, which were combined
IN one blanket bill, were passed by
party votes, the Liberals and indie
pendents refrain1ng from voting and
the Liberal Nationalists voting with
the Moderates.
President Palma submitted a brief
message, deploring the conduct Of the
opposition, which he charged with
causing the revolution. The message
contained no recommended beyond
suggestions that congress approve all
recent executive DEGREES and take
steps for ending the war.
Denver tackles Withdrawn.
Another feature Of the daySwas the
return to the Denver Of the bluejack-
cts who were landed Thursday even
Ing. The Washing on government is
believed here toEEhaye regarded the
step as open to reconstruction of in
.teryention. The events Of yesterday
also indicated that the Insurgents in
Havana province regarded the landing
OF American sailors as constituting
Intervention. and they signifed their
readiness on that account to quit the
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