The Reconstruction of the Cuban Armed Forces 241- Transcript, "Proceedings of a Board of Officers Convened to
Consider the Proposed Plan of Rural Guard Reorganization." File 15984,
General Classified Files, BIA. The members of the board were Lt. Col.
W. W. Wotherspoon (C/S, ACP), Maj. W. A. Mann (Ass't C/S, ACP),
and Maj. D. D. Gaillard (MID, ACP); Maj. F. S. Foltz to Capt. F. R.
McCoy, December 22, 1906, McCoy Papers. - Transcript, "Report of Conference of the Provisional Governor
with Generals Faustino Guerra, Carlos Garcia Velez and Jose de Jesus
Monteagudo, November 28, 1906," File 012, CC/PGoC. - Magoon to Taft, December 31, 1906, File 062, CC/PGoC. One
cause of Liberal concern may have been the position of the old Mod
erates. At the convention abolishing that party, General Rius Rivera
called for a five-thousand man regular army as part of the platform
of the conservative party he hoped to form. Independent, LXI (Novem
ber 8, 1906), 1078-79. - Taft to Magoon, February 2, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
- Magoon to Taft, February 6, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
- Editorial, La Lucha (Havana), February 4, 1907.
- Stenographic record, "Conference between the Provisional Gov
ernor and Liberal Directorate, February 6, 1907," File 062, CC/PGoC,
RG 199. - Memo, Maj. H. J. Slocum to the Provisional Governor, February
7, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - Magoon to Taft, February 7, 1907, and Taft to Magoon, Feb
ruary 8, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - El Mundo (Havana), February 10, 1907; La Discusion
(Havana), February 9, 1907. - Notes, conference of the Provisional Governor with General
Faustino Guerra, February 8, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199. - Army and Navy Journal, April 20 and May 11, 1907.
- Taft to Magoon, February 15, 1907, File 062, CC/PGoC, RG 199.
- Editorial, Havana Post, reprinted in the Army and Navy Journal,
February 23, 1907. - Memorandum, "The Political Aspect of a Cuban Army," Capt.
J. A. Ryan to Maj. H. J. Slocum, February 25, 1907, File 15984, Gen
eral Classified Files, BIA, RG 350. - Brig. Gen. W. W. Wotherspoon to Capt. Frank Parker, October
10, 1910, Frank Parker Papers, Southern Historical Manuscripts Col
lection, Library of the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). - H. E. Havens to Taft, February 19, 1907, File 15984, General
Classified Files, BIA, RG 350. - Position paper from the Liberal Committee to the Provisional
Governor, March 14, 1907, File 15984, General Classified Files, BIA,
RG 350. - Transcript, "Meeting of the Secretary of War William Howard
Taft with the Liberal Committee, April 8, 1907," File 15984, General
Classified Files, BIA, RG 350.