The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-11
GOVERNMENT COUNCIL


GOVERNMENT COUNCIL
To make all laws and regulations
regarding the. revolution and the military
pie. ''''''i peo-
2 To resolve the petitions addressed
cry transmitted to take their due course.
% The deDoSe. for Just cause and
UNDER rs responsibility of any councilor or
sub-secretary- This resolution shall he
reported to the first assembly and can
only be passed by the affirmative votes
OF four councillors
"A To appoint secretary and sub-sec-
retarles Tor the transacting OF business
N any department. when both positions
snail nave been vacated for two months
.. 10 appoint and remove public
provided by law. ordering that they shall
De submitted to the courts of Justice in
the proper cases.
6. To determine the policy of the
war and the general lines of the cam
9aign. and 10 intervene. when. in their
il y. en- there be found motive for it.
means or the generals of the nation.
TO RAISE TROOPS.
=; To raise troops. to declare re-
prisais. and TO grant letters of marque
s. To grant military ranks from sub
heutenantS TO major general. in the form
cation.
% To issue paper money. to coin
money ne ,nxing its kind and value.
10. To contract loans determining
when they shall become due the inter-
ssts. discounts. commissions and guaran-
tees, and TO make al negotiations adj
ViSed BY the public veal being strictly
Responsible for the use it shall make Of
these faculties and Of those provided in
the previous article.
II To lew taxes. to decree the in
vestment of the public funds and 70
ask and approve the accounts of the same.
7 y To determine the foreign policy
ana TO appoint and remove agents. repre-
SentatiVeS and delegates of all classes
+" -. To grant passports.
" II. To issue the safe conduct neces-
sary for the discharge of the functions OF
the government
TO MAKE TREATIES.
Is. To make treaties with other
powers, choosing the commissioners who
are 10 celebrate them. but without icing
ablo to delegate in them its final ap-
proval; The one OF peace with Spain
cannot be initiated but on the basis OF
TIE absolute and immediate independence
Of al the island of Cuba
Article 81 The secretary of war will
be the superior chief of rank of the army
Of liberty.
I'm the additional articles as to mill
tary organization, the following are
''CNo. s.)-That the government can
name and may freely separate the general
in chief and the lieutenant general.
''tNo. 4.)-That there shall be a chief for
every army corps. appointed by the gov
eminent on the information or at the
proposal of the general in chief as to the
first mentioned and by thu chief OF de-
partment. through the general in chief.
for the second
NEW GOVERNMENT.
Pursuant to that constitution. which
is published in document 129. of the Fifty
NTH congress. second session. the new
government was selected as follows:
Observation-Disclosures MaSso.
Vice President-Domingo Mendez
cagote.
Secretary of Foreign Relations-An-
dres Mora Latorre
Secretary of the Treasury-Ernesto
Secretary Of the Interior-Dr. Manuel
r. Silva
denas.
-subsecretary of the Treasury-Colonel
SaturninO Lastra.
,.sg7bseer7eatery of Foreign Relations
''subsecretary of the Interior-Pedro
Aguilera Kindelan-
1.-The said government council appoint
ed Major General Maxine Gomez as gen
eral in chief and Major general Calixto
Garcia as lieutenant general But the
best proof of the existence of the Cuban
capital and government is the following
official telegram published by the Span
ism minister. Dupuy de LONE. dated the
22nd Of January. 1888. and signed by
Spanish government in Cuba. 1t is as
follows:
SPANISH TESTIMONY.
Havana. Jan a.
" General Castellanos has taken posses
sion of the village of Esperanto. in the
Sierra de Cubitas. where the insurgsnt
government hes its headquarters.
During the stubborn resistance made
by the insurgents the government off,
Gals escaped.
The next day. continuing his opera
I tons. the same general defeated a body
of $3.50 insurgents who were coming 10
the aid of the government scattering
than in all directions and killing So
'CONGOSTO'
1.-The Cubans are willing to rest their
case on this testimony of the Spanish
government.
(Signed) GONZALE DE QUESADA.
charge d Afires OF the Cuban Re
public"