Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-19
THE FIRST CABINET MEETING Since the President Returned From His Fishing Trip. ALL THE MEMBERS PRESENT Antonio Maxima Mora Has at Last Received
 His Money
MORE GOLD HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN
The Nicarauguan Canal Commissioners Will Report in Favor of the Project-Bra-
 z,l Has Done Recognized the Insurgents.

Washington, Oct. 18.--The first cabinet meeting since the president returned was held today, all the members being pres ent. The meeting lasted two and half hours The Cuban situation and many matters of foreign policy, as we'll as of domestic administration, occupied the attention of the president and his conf- dential advisors. Each cabinet officer carried over portfolio filled with papers requiring the presidents consideration, and notwithstanding the unusual length of the session a very large pile of docu- ments remained untouched upon when the cabinet adjourned. AS the president is going to Atlanta there will be no fur ther meeting until after his return
 After more than a score of years wait ing Antonio Maxima Mora today received through representatives payment for the confisca tion of his Cuban estate. The payment was made directly to Dr. Rod riguez and Crammond Kennedy, attor- neys for MT Mora, in the form of a check signed by Secretary Olney drawn on the assistant treasurer of the United States at New York. Secretary Olney was at the cabinet meeting when Dr. Rodriguez and MT. Kennedy called at the state de- partment and the transfer was made by
  of Mr. Fred Dyne, the acting solicitor of the treasury department. the attor- neys giving a receipt. The amount or the check was $594 4,S09.76, which repre- sents MT. Morals interest in the indem- nifty secured from Spain, minus his as- signments of 40 per cent to Dr. Rod riguez and Mir Nathaniel Page his prin- cipal legal representatiyes. and minor as signmerits made to other persons. The list of assignments made by MT. Page and pr. Rodriguez has been completed and the beneficiaries will probably re- ceive their share in few days.
 It is understood here that the report of the commission of engineers which vls- tied Nicaragua last summer will favor the construction of the inter-oceanic ca- nal, but that it will not recommend the entire route already surveyed and upon which it is claimed that work costing in the aggregate several million dollars has been performed. It is also believed that the commissioners will fix the cost of the canal at much greater sum than that estimated by the Maritime Canal com pany, whose charter it is proposed the government shall purchase.
 New York today for export to Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, reduces the gold reserve to S92,s4O,05S. It has been several weeks since the gold export move ment ceased and it's resumption, while not unexpected, is unwelcome.
 Senor de Lome, Spanish minister, is in. receipt of an official dispatch from Madrid to the effect that Brazil has de-. clared in favor of granting belligerent. rights to- the Cuban insurgents is abso-s lutely false. On the contrary, the Brazil- ian government has given in the past. three days all kinds of, facilities for the em ba rkation of more than 300 Spaniards, who have volunteered to go to Cuba to fight the rebels ..a4s