Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-24
VIOLATING THE PROTOCOL.
Spain'n Inst Days of Power In Cubn
Arc Eull of MiHrUle.

Spain'A Last Days of Power In Cuba
Are Full of Misrule.
Havana, Oct. 24-General Wade, the
president of the American military
commission has informed the war de-
partment that Captain General Blanco
has offered the Spanish soldiers to Sc
cure their honorable discharges from
the army and give them their back pay
if they desire to remain in Cuba. The
Spanish commissioners on the evacua
ton commission estimate that about
$4,000 soldiers will avail themselves Of
this offer, but General Wade believes
that the actual figure will be much
larger.
The American commission here Is
placed in an unfortunate position The
Spanish government, it is alleged, dali
ly commits some act in violation of the
terms of the protocol or the legality of
which is doubtful, such as the removal
of guns or the sale of government
property, against which all the Ameri-
can commission is able to do is to pro-
test, which it does regularly. only to
see it's protests UNDECIDED and ignored.
AS one of the members OF the commits
sion said: I'VE cannot go out into the
street and stop guns being carried on
the road ourselves. We should have
troops or marines here to enforce our
protests. All we can do is to protest.
to which action no attention is paid. II
is the most extraordinary situation
ever known. In the teeth of the pro.
tests of our commission the Spaniards
first dismounted the guns of the AL.
fonSo XII in the Santa Clara battery
and quietly returned them to the cruis-
err, and they now announce that she
will sail for Spain on the 30th These
guns technicaTv belor~ed to the for
tress, where thy We're placed and
mounted and could not accurately be
considered as r'ovahle property Next
the authorities held a sale of about
100000 of hr?rs common. which were
disposed of dnsnite protests at less than
half their value. Waters have now Gull
minated in total disregard of our COM
missionors, in the d'smount'rg of the
heavy Krunn r'rs in the CcIna bat
terry for shipment t. Spain"
In Cienfuegos and Pi,nr del Rio there
Is intense III feeling between the Cubans
and Spaniards, which gives rise to daily
disturbances. An investiga ton into the
The Cuban CHIEF Juan Bravo in viola
ton of the terms of the armstice, has
entered and occupied the village of Ell
Condado. n9nr Trinidad dismissed ev-
Try official end arnointed others to re-
place them from his own band. Another
nsurrert oN'ef. F.. NJ Gomez, has occu-
pied Ovas Station Pinar del Rio prov
nee, leaving a company of Cubans there
wit
tary authorities of the Santa Clara
province have forbidden that any food
be allowed to pass the Spanish lines
unless accompanied by a special per-
NIT, which it is very difficult to obtain.
thus not only increasing the want and
hunger in the Cuban camps, but also
making 1T difficult to send supplies to
the sugar estates and farms.
Para Libertad, one of the daily pa
pers Of Cienfuegos, published with the
sanction of the government, prints a
manifesto over 300 signatures a great
many of which are those of Spaniards,
openly proclaiming Cuban independ-
ence. Commerce in the interior of the
island is demoralized Owing to tho
fact that Spanish officers are selling
commssary stores at any price OBJ
lainable, army supplies are now a drug
In the market in the interior, making
legitimate trade impossible. 1t is as
serted that as the Spanish rule in Cuba
draws toward close corruption, pun
der and robbery become daily more
open and wholesale. The commission OF
charged with furnishing
passage tickets to Spanish officers re-
turning to Spain, charges an arbitrary
tax of 81 each for BERTH If the VIC
tim refuses to give up, he is made to
walt for several steamers, the commits
sion claiming that there is no room.
Generally the officer is glad to pay tho
tax in order to get away