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Names of the Men who VIII Compose
the First Cabinet of the War
Devastated Spanish Colony.
SENIOR GOWN WILL ACCEPT
HE CHANGES HIS MIND REGARDING
RETURN TO THE ISLAND.
Plans to Relieve the Starving Recon-
centrados-5OO,o0o Deaths from
Famine and Disease.

HAVANA, Dec. 81. = Captain General
Blanco last night signed the appointments
of the president for the council and the
five secretaries. The name of Eduardo DOLE
was substituted for that of Senior Amblard
as the minister Of commerce. The following
will therefore compose the first colonial
Cabinet of Cuba under the recently insti-
tuted scheme of autonomy, which goes into
effect tomorrow:
President of Cabinet-SENOR JOSE MA
RIA GALVEZ.
Minister of Finance-SENoR RAFAEL
MONTORO, Marquis of Montoro.
Minister of InteriOr-SENOR ANTONIO
GOWN.
Minister of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FRAN
Minister of Commerce = EDUARDO
DOLE.
Minister of Posts and Telegraph-sENOR
LAUREAU S. RODRIGUEZ.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. = The Spanish
minister received a dispatch from Havana
this afternoon giving the list of the new
Cabinet 1t is the same as the foregoing
except that the official announcement places
Senior Rodriguez as minister of commerce
and Eduardo DOLE as minister of pubic
works and telegraph. The dispatch adds
that in the absence of Senior Doz, who is in
Spain, Senior Rodriguez will handle his own
portfolio and also that OF public works and
telegraph. Mr.. Dolz, the new man on the
official list, is young lawyer, and has been
secretary OF the central committee of the
reform party. He has quite reputation as
an orator
The Spanish minister regards the Cabinet
as an exceptionally strong organization,
thoroughly representative of Cuba, as three
of the members are Cuban born and have
spent their lives in Cuba. and another,
Rodriguez while of Spanish birth, has lived
for thirty years in Cuba and has all his
interests there. 1t is said, also, that the
Cabinet represents the Autonomists and the
Reformists, the two elements who are seek
ing to carry out the present policy in Cuba.
Rodriguez and DOLE are both reformists,
DOLE being secretary of the Central Reform
party. When asked for a sketch of the sew
eral ministers, Mr. Dupuy de LONE turned
to the book Cuba and the Cubans," by Raj
mundo Cabrera, from which the following
biographies of Galvez, Montero and Gown
are taken:
Jose NJ. Galvez, premier, was born in Ma
tanzas, Nov. "A, 1885. Lawyer and famous
forensic orator. Journalist; has published
anonymously many political articles. During
the revolutionary period he was confined In
the Isle of Pines. Before and after his i'm
Havana, exercising his profession and
operating with the revolutionary Junto of
New York. In recognition of his patriotism
and talents he was elected by reclamation
as president of the organization committee
of the Autonomist party.
Rafael Montero, minister or nnance, was
born in Havana, 1852, and is a lawyer. He
went to Madrid in 1867 and became known
as critic and litterateur, and he was ed, ed
tor Of La Revista Contemporaries In 1871;
also under secretary of the Society of Span
ish Authors and Artists, under the preslden-
cy of Emilio Castelar,. He returned to Cuba
in 1878 He figures as one of the founders
and pillars of the Autonomlst party, or
whose executive committee he is most ac-
tive member. He has been editor of the
Revista Guiana, FL Triunfo and Ell Pals,
and vice secretary of the Sociedad Econo-
by Havana and by Puerto Principe in three
successive legislatures, and was made COM
missioner by the Sociedad Economica QS9O)
to report to the government IN Madrld on
the financial crisis
Antonio Gown, minister of the interior
was born in MatanzaS, Sept. p, 1S49. Grad
uated in law in 1872; one Of the founders of
the AutonomiSt party in 1873; elected secre-
tary of the executive committee in 1879,
which office he still holds; grand master of
the United Masonic Order of Colon and OF
the Island of Cuba; first editor of the po-
tGa n d IrnadD' f9 tSe Rey
ia Gen. De Derecho Administration; col
laborated in other literary and scientific
journals; has published several works on
law; orator jurisconsult, publicist
Senior Rodriguez, minister of commerce, is
a Spaniard by birth, but at an early age he
removed to Cuba, settling at Santiago de
Cuba where he became prominent as law
yer and also as the owner of an extensive
tobacco plantation. Later he went 70 Ha-
vana, where he was the representative of
the Santiago Chamber OF Commerce He
took a leading position in the reformist
movement, and is named in order to give
recognition to that element in politics. His
landed interests in Cuba are said to be ex-
tenSive.
GOWN Changes His Mind Again.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 91.-Antonio Gown,
who was quoted last night in opposition to
the new autonomous government Of Cuba,
to-day announces his acceptance of the Of
fee of secretary of the interior under Gen
eral Blanco. His Cuban friends, through
whom his views were given to the press
Yesterday, are greatly surprised at his ac-
ton. as his declarations We're such as to
have forbidden his acceptance OF office.
Great pressure was brought to bear on
GOWN from Havana, and he finally yielded
ont of feeling that even in the last moments
something might be done to remedy the sit