The Second Intervention 113- New York Times, September 22, 1906; Washington Post, Septem
ber 27, 1906. The Post reported the General Staff was ready to deploy
45,000 men, all the Regulars in the United States. - New York Times, September 21, 1906.
- Ibid., September 23, 1906.
- Ibid., September 22, 1906.
- Times (London), September 21, 1906.
- Graphic (London), September 22, 1906.
- Report of Capt. A. R. Couden, USN, to Secretary of the Navy,
October 11, 1906, Area 8 File (October, 1906), RG 45. - Fullam to Bureau of Navigation, September 23, 1906, Area 8
File (September, 1906), RG 45. - Ladd to Ainsworth, September 15, 22, and 25, 1906, Doc. File
1164984, RG 94. - Taft-Bacon Report, 450; Cmdr. J. T. Newton, USN, to Bureau
of Navigation, September 27, 1906, Case 244/235, Num. File, 1906
1910, Vol. XXXVII, RG 59; Harry Gannett, administrator of the Trini
dad Sugar Company, to Sir Edward Grey, September 18, 1906, FO
371-56, PRO. - Sir William Van Home to G. M. Dodge, September 27, 1906,
Case 244/276, Num. File, 1906-1910, Vol. XXXVII, RG 59. - The basic printed source on the Taft-Bacon Mission is the
Commissioners' Report, previously cited, in which is reprinted the Taft-
Roosevelt correspondence (edited) and various related papers, including
peace proposals, letters to the Cuban government, reports of the Dis
armament Commission, and other miscellaneous documents. The original
copies are scattered throughout the Taft and Roosevelt Papers in the
Library of Congress and in the archives of the State Department.
Unedited copies of the Taft-Roosevelt correspondence are included in
the Records of the Provisional Government of Cuba, National Archives,
Record Group 199. For ease of reference the author has used the Taft-
Bacon Report for citations except where documents do not appear there
or have been edited.
Reliable accounts of Taft's Cuban experience based on the Taft
Papers are Ralph Eldin Minger, "William Howard Taft and the United
States Intervention in Cuba in 1906," Hispanic American Historical Re
view, XLI (February, 1961), 75-89, and Henry F. Pringle, The Life
and Times of William Howard Taft (New York and Toronto, 1939), I,
305-10. - Taft to Root, September 15, 1906, Root Papers.
- Taft to Roosevelt, September 16, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
- James Brown Scott, Robert Bacon: Life and Letters (New York,
1923), pp. 117-18. - Memo from the Judge Advocate General to the Secretary of
War, September 15, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 493-95. The essence
of Davis' brief was that intervention was legal under the Platt Amend