Havana Daily Telegraph, August 25, 1906, appended to Report
160, Sleeper to Secretary of State, August 25, 1906, Case 244, Num.
File, 1906-1910, Vol. XXXVI, RG 59.
Wright, Cuba, p. 179; Havana Daily Telegraph, August 27, 1906.
On August 28, La Discusion reported fifty incidents, all of horse requi
sitioning, and many falsos rumores.
General Eduardo Guzman to the manager, Central Parque Alto,
appended to the report of Cmdr. W. F. Fullam, USN, to Bureau of
Navigation, September 18, 1906, Area 8 (Caribbean) File for Septem
ber, 1906, in the Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Rec
ords and Library, National Archives, Record Group 45. Hereafter cited
as Area 8 File, (month), RG 45.
Taft-Bacon Report, p. 457; New York Times, August 21-26,
1906; Sleeper to Secretary of State, August 28-September 1, 1906,
Foreign Relations, 1906, pp. 457-65.
Sleeper to Secretary of State, August 25 and 28, 1906, Foreign
Relations, 1906, pp. 456-59.
Sleeper to Secretary of State, August 25 and September 1, 1906,
Foreign Relations, 1906, pp. 456, 464-65; Taft-Bacon Report, pp.
456-57; Washington Post, September 2, 1906.
This was the central theme of Root's addresses in Brazil, Uru
guay, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Panama. See U.S. De
partment of State, Speeches Incident to the Visit of Secretary Root to
South America: July 4 to September 30, 1906 (Washington, 1906),
passim.
Quoted in James Brown Scott, "Elihu Root," in Samuel Flagg
Bemis (ed.), The American Secretaries of State and Their Diplomacy
(New York, 1927 ), IX, 217.
Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge, April 30, 1906, Roosevelt
Papers.
Acting Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee to Sleeper, August 31,
1906, Foreign Relations, 1906, pp. 463-64.
Roosevelt to Taft, August 27, 1906, Roosevelt Papers; Maj. Gen.
F. C. Ainsworth to William Loeb, Roosevelt's secretary, August 27,
1906; Ainsworth to Loeb, August 29, 1906; Loeb to Ainsworth, August
29, 1906, Roosevelt Papers and File 1158957, Document File, 1890-1917,
Records of the Adjutant General's Office, National Archives, Record
Group 94. Hereafter cited as Doc. File (number), RG 94.
Brig. Gen. J. F. Bell to Roosevelt, August 30, 1906, Roosevelt
Papers.
Portell Vila (Historia de Cuba, IV, 450) says Taft ordered Bell to
send troops from the Philippines to Cuba on August 26. Two Army
transports, "Meade" and "Ingalls," did leave Manila on September 1
via Suez for the East Coast, but the troops were not included in the
contingency plans. The vessels were to relieve the shortage of shipping
on the Atlantic coast where only the "Sumner" was stationed. Portell
Vila is mistaken when he says Roosevelt began to move troops to
Cuba before Estrada Palma requested them. See Parts II and III, Army
