Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-10-26
It Was the Plan to Get Him to an Anti-Catholic Meeting and Say
 He Indorsed It.
CHANGE PROPOSED IN
 DISINFEGTING VESSELS.
Vessels Are to Be Disinfected at Their Starting Points Instead Ofat Quar- antine Stations Sanitary Com
 mission For Cuba.

New York, Oct. 25.-A dispatch to The Herald from Havana, Cuba, says;
 Rear Admiral and Mrs Sampson started to attend church on Sunday, but on tho way were joined by several American friends and for some reason the carriage turned back when almost at the church door. Sampson did not deliver the address which had been ad- vertised
 large crowd gathered at the old Jane theater now known as the old Gethsemane chapel, great majority of those present being there merely to hear Admiral Sampson, The services were prolonged nearly two hours, but the con. gregation was finally dismissed, when Rev. Fulton decided there was 10 hope of the admiral appearing.
 In explanation Mir. Fulton said Admi. raj Sampson had not only promised 10 attend, but was anxious to do so. A majority of the Americans here believe Admiral Sampson learned at the last moment that an attempt had been made to secure his apparent endorsement of an attack upon Catholicism by means of his presence at the meeting. The serv- ices are supposed to be unseetarian, but were conducted by 1Ir Fulton, whose attacks upon Catholicism have made him notorious, assisted by Rev Diaz, once a Catholic, and now bitter opBo- nent and Rev Leyte of Boston. who announces that he was educated for the priesthood. Their attacks on Rome were mild, but circular account writ ten by Mir Fulton making q fierce at- tack upon the church in Caba was dis tributed.
 The American commission is still awaiting a reply from Washington tore cent cable messages Arrangements are already being made for the estab- nshment of a new system of marine in- soeetion in Cuba and Porto Rico. First a disinfecting plant will be established in Havana early next spring. Later, plants will be established at Santiago and San Juan The plan is to have all vessels thoroughly disinfected at the port of sailing instead Of the port of des- tination By this means many lives may be saved by preventing the appear ance of disease, and epidemios will be shut out of the United States.
 The commercial influence of this plan upon. southern ports will be great and northern ports will suffer somewhat. A ship now sailing from Havana for Mo bic, for instance, must be disinfected and quarantined there. In the future, having been disinfected before sailing, the time consumed during the voyage will count IS quarantine. That means that Cuba and Porto Rico will be from three to five days nearer all the ports south of Norfolk than at present.
 It is understood that the president eontemplates the appointment of sani- tary commission for Cuba composed of five members two doctors, sanitary en- giueer, q lawyer and an accountant This commission will not only have general charae of the work of improving sani. tation, but will attempt to stamp out yellow fever. smallpox, beri beri, gland ers--all now more or less epidemic The commission will also coloniza the lep- CTS, of whom there are now about 800 in the island
 It IS reported that Spain has provided s2, COG, coo tc pay tho army in Cuba and S3,C00, ,000 more will be advanced ill few days.
 A small band of insurgents near Glen. fuegos, who left the camp on Thursday, are reported to be committing depreda- tions. So far they have killed no one and an attempt will be made to persuade them to give up their arms and go home.