The Politics of Intervention

186 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION

MID to C/S, ACP, December 10, 1906, File 021, CC/PGoC; Capt.
Carl Reichman to MID, January 11, 1907, File 014-6, CC/PGoC;
Capt. A. J. McNab, Jr., to MID, February 28, 1907, File 079, CC/PGoC;
Maj. M. W. Day to MID, December 26, 1906, File 014-2, CC/PGoC;
MID to C/S, ACP, January 15, 1907, File 047, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
Captain Furlong estimated that perhaps 10 per cent of the weapons used
in the August Revolution had been confiscated.

12. Col. J. T. Van Orsdale to Military Secretary, ACP, December
    8-19, 1906, File 020-020-4, CC/PGoC; Capt. C. I. Crockett to Maj.
    H. J. Slocum, January 19, 1907, File 020-7, CC/PGoC, RG 199. These
    particular reports were forwarded all the way to Secretary Taft.


13. Capt. C. F. Crain to MID, February 2, 1907, File 017-9,
    CC/PGoC, RG 199.


14. MID to C/S, ACP, December 10, 1906, File 021, CC/PGoC,
    RG 199.


15. Maj. F. P. Fremont to Military Secretary, ACP, December 7,
    1906, File 015-1, CC/PGoC; Lt. Col. R. L. Bullard to Magoon, Decem­
    ber ?-21, 1906, File 015-2 to 015-6, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


16. MID to C/S, ACP, March 18, 1907, File 022-1, CC/PGoC;
    Maj. M. W. Day to MID, ACP, January 1, 1907, File 014-5, CC/PGoC;
    Lt. Col. R. L. Bullard to Magoon, December 21, 1906, File 033,
    CC/PGoC; "Report of the Very Rev. Albion W. Knight," previously
    cited.


17. Maj. W. D. Beach to C/S, ACP, February 9, 1907, File 063-6,
    CC/PGoC, RG 199.


18. Magoon to Taft, March 4, 1907, File 082, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


19. Reports of Capt. D. E. Aultman to MID, December 7, 1906, to
    January 2, 1907, File 023-023-3, CC/PGoC; Sr. I. Sobrado, Governor
    of Pinar del Rio, to Magoon, April (?), 1907, File 096-5, CC/PGoC,
    RG 199.


20. Fuentes, secret service agent, to MID, January (?), 1907, File
    052, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


21. MID to C/S, ACP, March 28, 1907, File 96-4, CC/PGoC;
    "Notes of Capt. C. F. Crain on conditions in Matanzas, December 13,
    1906," File 017-017-3, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


22. Col. O. J. Sweet to MID, December 19, 1906, File 013-2,
    CC/PGoC, RG 199.


23. The account of the Republicans' Cuban inspection is from J.
    Hampton Moore, With Speaker Cannon through the Tropics, pp. 291­


24. Moore was recorder of unforgettable phrases for the party and a
    Cannon protege.


25. Ibid., p. 333.


26. Ibid., p. 305.


27. Ibid., p. 313.


28. Ibid., p. 407.


29. Ibid. Andrew D. White, former president of Cornell University
    and ambassador to Germany, visited Cuba at the same time and, upon
    his return, posed the dilemma: Cuba was incapable of self-government,