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Zayas, Jose Miguel G6mez, Tomas Recio, Demetrio Castillo
Duany, Jose de Jesus Monteagudo, Juan Gualberto G6mez,
and Carlos Garcia Velez.^19
Staffing the executive departments of the Cuban govern­
ment presented a different problem to the United States
policy-makers, for they wanted close fiscal control and an
American-oriented administration. The Moderate secretaries
had resigned with Estrada Palma. Rather than appoint new
men for such politically sensitive posts, Taft, during his brief
tenure as provisional governor, made the chief clerks (also
Moderates) acting secretaries. To insure that the depart­
ments functioned effectively Taft assigned four Army officers
as advisers to the secretaries of five key departments: Colonel
Enoch H. Crowder, Departments of State and Justice; Lieu­
tenant Colonel Edwin St. J. Greble, Department of Govern­
ment; Lieutenant Colonel William M. Black, Department of
Public Works; and Major Jefferson R. Kean, Department of
Sanitation.
Although Major Eugene F. Ladd returned to the United
States after his audit of the Treasury, an American Treasury
official, J. D. Terrill, served as adviser to the Department of
Hacienda. Major Herbert J. Slocum was detailed to assist
the commanding general of the armed forces. Major Frederick
S. Foltz served as chief of the Provisional Governor's office
and, later, supervisor of the Havana police. Lieutenant Col­
onel Robert L. Bullard and Captain James A. Ryan became
Magoon's aides and political agents. Major Francis J. Kernan
and Captain George W. Read headed the American repre­
sentatives on the Cuban Claims Commission, which settled
claims arising from the insurrection; they had six American
officers as assistants, all of whom spoke Spanish. Eight more
officers went to the Rural Guard as advisers. Four engineers
went to the Department of Public Works; four Army doctors
joined the Department of Sanitation, and three officers, the
Department of Government. By the end of 1908, the Army
had fifty-eight officers serving with the Provisional Govern­
ment.^20 Only the Department of Agriculture, Industry, and
Commerce remained solely in Cuban hands; even the Depart­