The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-13
CUBAN INTERVENTION
 EXPENSIVE JOB Uncle Sam Has Shelled Out in Excess of
 $3, 1000, 900.
FAVORS INTERVENTION
What Secretary Taft Thinks of Outlay and Reim-
 bursement.

 vention in Cuba and of the work of re- organizing the government of the is- land and putting 1t on stable and permanent basis. The total cost of the intervention to April 1, 1907, as reokoned by the Bureau of Insular Affairs was $2,969. .395.S7. The cost to the United States for the unusual expenditures re- sulting from the sending of the army of qualification to Cuba amounted on November SO 1906, to $2O1263277. Secre- tary Taft has estimated the total cost of the intervention to June 30, 1907, at $3.33O, ,56S91.
 Secretary Taft. in letter to Repre- sentative Tawney, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, comments as follows on the expendi- lures being made in Cuba and the methods by which the treasury of the United States may be reimbursed:
 Secretary Tafts Comments.
 An insurrection against the govern ment of Cuba that arose during the past summer assumed such proportions by September Qast) that the president of the republic requested the interven- tion of the United States, under the authority derived from the so-called fPlatt amendment; and in connection with the establishment of a provisional government for Cuba for the purposes of pacification an expeditionary force of regular troops, aggregating 5,S96 men, was dispatched to Cuba, and is now there. During our first military oc- cupation of Cuba, and while the army was employed in putting down the in- surrection in the Philippines, a large part of the expense involved in such use of the United States army was made charge against the revenues of Cuba and the Philippines respectively. Among the classes of army expendi- lures thus paid out of the Cubans and Philippine treasuries were the follow ing:
 Rent for barracks, hospitals, store houses, quarters for officers and for en- listed men entitled thereto by the reg ulations of the United States army; rent of target ranges, pactures, drill grounds, and similar expenditures; re- pairs for quarters, and material used for such repairs, services, such as scav- engers and policing not required to be performed by troops and prisoners; all expense necessary in the supply of wa uten:~such expenditures as are made from the appropriation for transporta- ton of the army, as the repairs of wag- ons, transportation material, shoeing of horses and mules, maintenance of ves- sells and crews used by the Quarter masters Department in Cuba; survey ing Instruments and books; expenses connected with the maintenance and es- tablishment of detention camps, materi- al used in disinfection, and similar emergency expenditures, maintenance and operation of telephone and tele- Tires used by the army and hire of 2 scouts, guides, and interpreters.
 The sending of an eXpeditionary force to Cuba, of course, involves a very considerable expenditure for army purposes additional to that which would bs necessary if the same force were employed in their ordinary places of duty. An itemized account of such ex- penditures is being kept by the depart
 
 the increased cost to the United States of sending expeditionary forces to Cuba should be paid out of the funds of the Cuban treasury.
 The authority for the use of revenues of "occupied territory" is found in the familiar principle of international law which Is referred to by Hon. Elihu Root, then secretary of war, in his let ter to the chairman of the committee on military affairs of the house of rep resentatives, dater May 91, 1902.
 Nature of Present Government.
 While the present provision adminis- tration of the affairs of the Republic of Cuba is not military, but civil in its form, it is in effect an assumption of the functions of government. As a necessary corollary to it's obligation to maintain stability and to preserve life. liberty, and property, there comes the right to administer and expend such portions of the revenues of the oc- cEpied territory as may be necessary fos those purposes. Under military oc- cLpation, the governing control is lodg- ed in the President of the United States. Under the former occupation there was a general direction by the President of the United States for the expenditure of such portions of the revenues of Cuba as might be neces- sary to maintain peace and order, which extended to all necessary instru- mentalities to attain the same. By direction of the Secretary of War vari- pus expenditures were made by the military governor of Cuba for those ob- 3ects.
 Cuban Appropriations for United States
 Forces.
 The present government of the island Is actually exercised by the President, through the provisional governor of the Republic of Cuba, and he has, by his various decretal orders. appropriated various sums for providing shelter and preserving the health of the United States forces on duty in Cuba to wit: Decree No. II, October 13, 19O6. $50, ,OOt Decree No IS, October 1S, 1906,
 general disbursement for neces-
 sary expenses from general
 revenue ........ .......,,...,... .... Decree No. 105. October 91, 1906,
 for rents, maintenance, and
 repairs of public buildings, sup
 plying water to troops, dis
 posal of sewage, screening
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