Show ENI CHAFFEE ON THE AR j 1 i He Bc Succeeds iu In Offense tc t Senators Representatives and Secretary Taft FaIL FaILy y HIS H RECEPTION OF REP It Was Vas Like That Given by the Jap JapI I Fleet t to the lie l Cruiser Special Correspondence Ii Washington ii April As of n a cavalry regiment or brigade 41 len Jen Chaffee la I nn Ideal soldier He won von his hIM soldier straps trap through pure pur merit his iI long military career cov covering covering ering a a period of about 10 0 years In I II I which he hat seen all sort ort ot of foreign and service entitled him to ti tithe the two Mars tar which he ho wears MaJ Jon Gen Chaffee hns spent nearly all hie nh life out on oi the tho frontier r and recently In Inthe t ti i the tho Philippines He Is i a brush rigid with a seated bene beneI I In methods Through the tho very verb nature of or things ho lie In IM not a diplomat and It ht requires a diplomat to mako nako fi n k successful chief of staff In tho United States army Unfortunately tho ho gener general al hns not yet learned that the tho civil t power loser Id In thus this country Ig l paramount tc sI tho military power and ho Iii hohan nn han proved himself during the tho past few O weeks to havo been leen a veritable bull buh In hil Ina hilI I a china shop iop In 1 tho ho first llaco lon Con longre gros gre decided that there shall be bEI I established five great greut practise camps 1 ono one at or near Fort Douglas Wiscon Wisconsin sin Another In the In hr 1 Pennsylvania n a third on the tho Henry ranch In southern California a near San Ban Antonio Texas and a fifth la is to bo ho created by iy the purchase of nd t land adjoining the Jill and Chattanooga National park In lii f c Georgia Ge Gen 1114 present duties the war sar department t had selected these sites anti and tho ho only thing necessary to their establishment i van as the appropriation Naturally sen en ti titers utora and members from the tho states In Ini i which these camp sites ore to bo be beat located il ed Cl very deeply Interested In these 7 matters of 1 Texas In fri order that there might be no misunderstanding concluded a tow few days ago no tu tO COil call upon lien Gen ant ami talk the th matter over with ItI him Tha Th reception which he received was sas some something something thing like that which watt was tendered hy ly hythe r the Japanese fleet tu the tho cruis cruiser 4 er or which came camo out of the harbor of tt n den lou Chaff co declared that 1 Han Antonio was no HO pinco for or n u camp caturi and that hat In his judgment Congress lint bisel no to attempt to such suii pisces of for tor Ihn tim troops Ho other oilier things none of which tn Cl designed to straighten out outi i the tho ruffled feathers of ut tho th Texas con comi 4 F grossman A 4 or two after several c number of tho thit Pennsylvania then called upon the liim general with refer reference l ence to the tho Pennsylvania site He lie Im Immediately mediately started In to criticize that t declared the tho of land iamb Is outrageously high Next ho made u n nI I l t upon two senators torn ii from Wisconsin expressing the opinion In lii that forceful manner which would l bi n i by IJ fitlY of If his old that flint Congress WItS interfering prerogative of the Iho war var depart department ment Unit t Douglas IM i no phico 1 fur tint the it n il slip timid flint on onI I tI I principle pies llo hi opposed tU tO the whole plan Plait Ho lb no tin moro dip ilip 4 I when tL he lie wits was visited hy by the tho members Cali California forum fornia received no tie different time The result of all ull this Is that Clon bom has succeeded In IlL prime of time the must powerful members of mit mitI I tin gre s many ot whom declare that f m Sri Cite ns an they win remittal control things lit in the future they will the powers of time the general Matt by ii absolutely rutting off err lump appropriations for or whatever under the war sitt department t en going to time the of if purchases may lie made out omit of the contingent fund It stern too tOi that Hint lou the complacency of former Alger A 4 few Ow years ago ngn under tho th of Mr tr Alger arrangement were mado for the of n a tout four company post P st nt lit Hear Prescott Arizona Jn I n order enter that this his I post might bo Ito ProP irly equipped tile tho people cf cC that city have themselves to thin tho amount of oC for the purpose of In stalling n a proper system of water amid for the city it and ama the rout Post Now Nu comes comas flen leil and declares that one Is enough for or Port Fp t that he will not consent to a larger push post The rho people of to Gen iou Alger who In lii turn took time the matt or up i with the secretary of mit war i Ol Ume Taft ha lj n Ii no Ii bili with a Philippine lii Lii mat mattern t tern lerS liK he took loOk the Ibm war portfolio Hint t i hat has had little time to devote to the minor details of his department He lit was wry very warm when he lie that thy th f of staff proposed to set net the lit virtual contracts of ot hits his predecessor with the people Pros colt and hIs of ot to flen lou Chaffer vm is tint not abated one jot when ho discovered be hat had hoeR been lad bit Into writing a ii letter to Congress time the rani intuit sites Kites which he nf of tei wards hind had the cordial rn of Secy Hoot Tuft Taft to uw us hM lilt own expect has han been compelled to bark bac to timid and lie ito too may bo ho said to ti have havo jollied tho thu rank of those host who are diplomatically nt RI to the tho soldier chief of th lh general staff spilt IN i tUA rite Tho In iii Cuba n it iroil situation ore for or In flail and amid yet no on party line has been able to make a national UK Isle The Na National party anti and tho thu Mo Mother ut ate party are somewhat to 0 President and his tattoo They fuel feel that President ma lila clings tea closely to thu Matt and has hams too friendly n a feel feh feelIng leg Ing for tho lie United States Both Hum would like to 0 have Cuba entire entirely ly Independent anti and without entangling alliances The party on the theother other hand that hint the he States made their freedom their erection Into the of republics n a certainty has pursued tho lie course of conservatism Insisting at atti ti iy t on Oil to the lie Platt amend amendment ment and amid nil all therein contained In a talk had with n it gentleman recently returned from Cuba he ho stated that the tho political parties In that country have milled Hum far to make moke tiny any national issue that lint their were ere purely In Internal largely criticising the govern government ment meni for br thin HIP failure to do the things rather than for doing things badly like Ilko every other country ho said that hIts has just Its position In the world of or republics or of monarchies political parties ore for In lii tim early days of our own republic tilts Hilt condition obtained In Iii Cuba Cohn however u m much different pro proposition position exists In Iii that flint a number of the how I 1 cannot say feel that I Ii itt the t lie Plait I in t t amendment itt emit which iichi really makes America for the acts of the Cuban republic should be ohm on tho thu part of time the Cuban uban peo people lie The thinking classes of Cubi while I that America trade It possible for them to become n Li tuition nation feel that they mire are overshadowed owed by the wings of the eagle engle and the tho political parties now inia In iii their for formative stages will Into a definite purpose and amid that flint will y ii be In the determination of thin the republic o to cancel rut nil obligations between the United Stolen and Cuba One cannot live In Culm long without realizing that one of two io things must be he done Cuba must be he u a republic In nil particulars charged with itt Its own destiny or else elce It must mount be benn nn Integral part of the United States The Platt amendment Wits was ti it mistake Cuba should ha a territory of the tho United if IC tint not n ii state POUTO LOAN A tow few tOYS days ago a Ii delegation arrived here from Porto orti for the t of consulting tho tio authorities of Wash Washington ashi ington In Iii reference to the he proposed loan which the tho Island to flout float Thin Tho two million dollars which witH refunded to Porto Rico a year or two ago ugo has hua been 1000 used largely In It the construction of if roads and other oilier public Improve Improvements ments Hut tit there are still many works needing mild aid the Porto Porte dele delegation gation hero beio came for the purpose of a ii loan of three million dollars This they have havo virtually I ii I sheil timid the thiO money to bo lie ruined raIsed through n ii bond Issue will vIii bo ho ex ox expended entirely In lii tho thio Island In hi extend log ing tim the public Improvements There lire itro by time the way several American mem items hern of tho tue Porto lorto legislature who upend their t bid r time during tho he t time hue t the tim legIslature Is in iii on Ott the island Inland returning to the tue United limIted States upon the tho adjournment of that body This Is possible through the Porto lorto Rican Jaw which provides that nn no American citi eltI citizen zen whether n ii resident of Rico flirt nr or not hot may he elected to the tho legUIn lure IMPROVED WINDMILLS Inventors have recently turned their attention to cheap power for lifting water Demosthenes n a leech Greek electrical residing tern tem temporarily In Han Francisco has Just taken out omit an tin American A patent upon a ti system of wind motors which seems to time tho problem of obtaining great groat power say sd from rain H II I P to a II 11 I P from this bibs ever present source of supply Heretofore tho ho power obtainable from from wind wheels has not exceeded IG 1 H I 1 P for the tho reason that even to ob oh obtain tain this limited force It was necessary sary to build tall tail towers anti to employ wheels of great length anti spread There aru nyu obvious limitations to such structures both with respect to the original expense and amid especially because of their liability to 0 become wrecked In imi event of n a Tho Iho Invention of ot the Greek engineer consists In locating its his wind wheel In iii a horizontal plane and Immediately be below below low u ti structure whore side walls tire provided with Inwardly opening flap filth doors doom go to as to admit the wind from tiny quarter Moveable n govern time tho direction of Impact of the wind as It Issues from earn this structure and pusses through the lie wind wheel If these vanes are adjusted BO so as its to be parallel to the tho wheel the lie wheel will stand still for the reason that bitt the wind will through ft it without exercising timmy driving ing force Then by altering the ad adjustment of the lie vanes time the wind can be to strike tIme the wheel blades with greater anti and greater directness of o Impact so 50 as flIt to bring It up to any de desired sired speed or bring It to rest no matter how strong the wind may nitty be blowing The Tho protection which time the wheel re receives cohen by lenson of Its sup support port with respect to the wind receiving structure and also the tact fact that this latter hatter structure Is provided with safety valve Hups In Its top nil contribute to practically eliminate danger of wreck wreckIng lag Ing lie tho structure even In iii severe storms When to this nrc added the tho exactness of regulation as an to speed of which time tho motor U Is capable and Iho high hoi so power attainable It teems seems unquestionable able that the system lion has a most prom promising ising future |