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Show CENEHAL MILES'S LATEST. It Is unfortunate lhat Oen Miles could not allay his Itching for parade and seneatlonullsm Every movo lie makes hurts himself Ills very Httda-clous Httda-clous request that he be Bent to the Philippines to supersede all other authority au-thority there civil aa well aa military, lotiiit hardly have been made seriously by a man of any balance of mind Sei -retary Hoot ahovva amply the utter Impossibility Im-possibility or allowing any such a thing, giving reasons entirely unassail able ami Inst It The precedents w tilth lien allies rites as from Porto llleo nnd Oulia are deal Is not In point and as to one of them. Oen Miles a attempt to make himself the moving fiictor leaves htm In n pitiable plight l'ur-Iher l'ur-Iher on. his Junipeil-nt toni luslon that Hie war In the Philippines has been vioeeiutect with undue severity la shown to rest solelj uiion u letter of chargea which arc Just now being In-wetlgaled In-wetlgaled and which will In all prob-ability prob-ability lw loutid to be, untiue Mcem. larj ltipita comment on thla feature of tho .Miles letters Is deserved, though ery caustic The (lenernl s ntlvmpt to override his supeilora In olllce by his uilltional momorandun smacks of Irltk to forestall Congreaalonal fuvor fir liliuscir. The emphatU approval by the President of the 8ecretnr's memo ndum waa Inevitable, Miles mailo an ass or himself all through It Ih not at all llkil novv(thiit he will lie allowed to ro to the Philippines even for tho purpose of Inspection It v. out I le rtingerous for theie Is no telling wlml calamitous fnll a man of such iniUilaiicocl temiieriuuent might (oin-mlt (oin-mlt , |
