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Show OFFICIALS ARE FICURINO. H Cnrls Nam Will Nead Man? Mlllloot of I)o! B lar lo Comlucl thn War. B Washington, Aug. IS. Secretary ffl (lago la engaged In the task of oncer- B talnlng whence the funda aro to como B to pay the largely Increased army de H termlned uku by the president and M Secretary Hoot. H The mere question of pay It easily B decided, but to thlt mutt bo added tho R enormous expense of additional trana H portatton; the cost of subsistence, which, with the army thousand of B miles away, will require the expend! m lure of millions of dollars; the added I cost of new equipment for 30,000 men, W and the Innumerable item that go to H make an effective fighting army, prop B erly clothed, thoroughly equipped for B duly and well fed; all of thee thing M are expensive, and their cost Is inoro or B lea conjectural. K Secretary (lago haa authority, It Is B asserted, to Issue more bonds for tho R? prosecution of the war In the Philippines, Philip-pines, and that mudoof procedure will probably be resorted to. Tho war revenuo authorlied the Issue of 8100, 000,000 worth of ccrtlllcatcs of Indclit-'cdnets,nnd8IOO,000,000 Indclit-'cdnets,nnd8IOO,000,000 worth of bonds. The Inw says that the proceeds of the sale of these bonds shall be used "lo defray expenditure authorized on account ac-count of the existing war," etc. It I held by the Inw oMccr of the government govern-ment that the Insurrection In tlio Philippine Phil-ippine I to nil Intent and purposes a part of thn "existing war" with Spain. |
