The Second Intervention 117- Report of secret service agent to Taft, October 5, 1906, Taft
Papers. - New York Times, October 1, 1906.
- Taft to Roosevelt, October 7 and 8, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report,
pp. 488-89; Maj. E. F. Ladd, Report of the Disarmament Commission,
November 8, 1906, Exhibit 22, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 530-32; Pro
visional Governor (PG) C. E. Magoon to Brig. Gen. J. F. Bell, Novem
ber (?), 1906, and Report of the Arms Commission, November 22,
1906, and February 4, 1907, File 009, CC/PGoC.
The Arms Commission estimated that "nearly every house outside
of the larger cities has an arm of some kind." Governor Magoon urged
General Bell to get what arms he could with persuasion and money,
but would not permit forcible searches. - Taft to Roosevelt, October 6, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
- Taft to Roosevelt, October 7, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 488;
Funston to Taft, October 13, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 521-22.
For a copy of the certificate, see the Taft-Bacon Report, p. 533.
Major Ladd thought the Cubans had arranged to have the phrase
omitted, but Taft told E. F. Atkins that Funston made a mistake in
the translation. Ladd to Taft, October 9, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report,
p. 526; Atkins, Sixty Years in Cuba, p. 339. - Funston to Taft, October 13, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 522.
"Unanimous opinion board that they (horse certificates) largely
aided in disbanding rebel forces.. ." Ladd to Secretary of War, Octo
ber 25, 1906, Case 2102, General Classified Files, BIA, RG 350.
Colonel James Parker found Funston amused by the horse con
troversy and unrepentent. To Parker, Funston said he purposely left
the horses in rebel hands. Parker, The Old Army, p. 398. - Taft to Roosevelt, October 7, 1906; Roosevelt to Taft, October
7, 1906, both Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 488-89. Taft believed that
$500,000 would be necessary to make reparations; actually the cost was
$296,508. Magoon to Taft, June 24, 1907, Case 2102, General Classi
fied Files, BIA, RG 350. - Taft to Roosevelt, October 6, 1906, Roosevelt Papers; Martinez
Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos de independencia, II, 753. - Wood to McCoy, October (?), 1906, General Frank R. McCoy
Papers, Library of Congress; Army and Navy Journal, October 13,
1906; New York Times, October 5 and 18, 1906. - William Inglis, "The Last Act of Cuba's Tragi-Comedy of In
surrection," Harpers Weekly, L (October 27, 1906), p. 1526. - Independent, October 25, 1906, p. 959; New York Times, October
24, 1906. - Taft to Roosevelt, October 10, 1906, and Amnesty Proclamation,
October 10, 1906, both Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 490, 533-34. The revolt's
principal victim, Tomas Estrada Palma, left Havana with his family on
October 2 and returned to his modest home near Bayamo (Oriente).
There he died in political exile on November 4, 1908.