Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-28
ARMY AND NAVY WATCHING
Constantly Changing Conditions in Cuba
Prove Perple1ing.
INTERVENTION AND PEACE ALTERNATE
Max J. Bnebr of Nebraska Returns TO
His Post ms Consul at CienfueEOs =
After Conference mt state
Department.
cFrom a stan Correspondent

(From a STAN CorrespondentD
WASHINGTON, Sept 27.-(special Telc-
gram Army and navy circles today were
considerably exercised over the meeting
Of the Cuban congress tomorrow. They
saw in It the result of peace or interven-
tion. The consensus of opinion was that
congress would refuse to accept the resig-
nation of President Palma and his cabinet.
thereby forcing upon the mediators of the
United States goyernment-Secretary Taft
and Assistant Secretary Bacon--to either
arrange modus vivendi or recognize the
contention OF the liberals that Intervention
upon the part of our government is the
only way out of the difficulty.
The news from Cuba the last week has
been blowing hot or cold. until General
Ainsworth. military secretary. has come to
regard the situation as ''chlll days" and
fever days, chills and fever being the
manner in which the situation in Cuba is
now regarded in army circles. Notwith-
standing the optimistic reports from Cuba.
every department OF the army and navy
is actively at work TO bring about the
assembling of the first expeditlonary force
in the quickest time possible. and even
though nothing comes Of the mooted inter-
vention in Cuba, army officers would like
to see the expedition go forth, because they
regard 1t as the very best maneuver possi-
BILE and the very best training the soldier
could have.
Max j. Baehr of Nebraska, consul al
Cienfuegos, Cuba, who has been on leave
arrived in Washington today and immedi.
ately repaired to the State Department
where he held long conference with
Assistant Secretary Wilson regarding mat.
ters in Msntanzes province. Mr.. Baehi
81 1n6 If III l,,t.
was at his post during the present up.
rising in Cuba and having personal ac.
quaintanee with the leaders on both sides
he volunteered to return to his post, which
was gratefully accepted by the State de-
partment. Mr.. Baehr left Washington fol
New York tonight and sails on Saturday
| for Havana, which he will reach Tuesday
next, where he will have conferences will
Assistant Secretary Bacon and Secretar,
Taft before proceeding to his post of duty
Iowa Land Case Up.
Attorneys representing the case of tn
Iowa railroad Land company of Ceda
Rapids, against w. E. Moses OF Denver,
speculator in land scrip, were given hear
| ing today before the assistant dommis
sioner of the general land Office. Henr.
Ii. Griffiths of Des Moines appeared fo
Noses; Frank Farrell OF Fort Dodge. 70
the settlers. and j. b. Thompson OF Wash
ington, for the Iowa Railroad Land com
pany. The lands involved in this discus
sion amounts TO fourteen tracts of fort
acres each. lying in Webster county, Iowa
4 and were originally disposed OF in 1857 Z
settlers by the state of Iowa as SWAIN
land. sl
Subsequently the Cedar Rapids & Mis-
souri, Railroad company secured a gran
and ran its line of railroad Through thi
particular territory in Webster cohIHy an
claimed the lands which the state ha
previously sold TO settlers. basing thei
contention on the provisions of thei
charter The railroad company selecte
lands in Webster county under it's grant
which had been sold by the county @
Webster long before the railroad wa
project. w. E. Moses bought scrip an
figures against the Iowa Railroad Ian
company, successors to the Cedar Rapid
& Missouri Railroad company in claims
the case. The case was tried in the De
Moines land Office as far back as 1901 an
is now before the general land Office o
appeal.