The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27
CLAMoRING FOR THEIR PAY.
spanish Soldiers Worrying BIanco
and Some Sent to Prison.


HAVANA, via Key West, Oct. 26-The
bitter feeling among the Spanish troons
against the government for not paving
them is increasing daily and menaces possi-
Die outbreaks, entailing serious trouble be-
fore long. The orden publco constitute the
most seditous and turbulent element. At
irst the government proposed to pay only
those who were discharged. Then, after
protest, 1t offered to pay all by promissory
notes, proposal which was refused. No
clsh settlement has been made and the en-
tire body expresses it's dissatisfaction open-
~ Yesterday eighty irregulars. movilza-
dos, from the Camajuani Regiment, arrived
here and went to the palace to demand pay
Their attitude before General Blanco was
such that he ordered them to be taken to
the Cabanas prison on pretext of being fed
there, but they have not been allowed to
leave the prison, and to all intents and pur-
poses are under arrest Twenty-one MEM
bers of the Civil Guards of this province
also presented themselves at the palace to
demand payment. They arrived just as
the Moviizados were leaving for Cabanas
prison and met General Blanco's aid. who
threatened to send them there also The
threat had the desired effect and they left
the palace without further trouble. These
ihciuciilS prove the real feeling of the
troops The possibility of an outbreak is
confirmed in private conversations with
the men, who threaten riot If they are or
dered to embark without payment
During these last few weeks Spanish rule
in the island has been marked by un-
bridled corruption and license on the part
of every man in power. One of the most
fragrant instances is that of Spanish colo
Ia nf
cos decree forbidding the confiscation of
cattle, went last week to a rich tobacco
planter, in the province of Pinar del Rio,
and under threat of force took a hundred
yoke of oxen, pretending that he needed
lood Tor his hungry men. The planter set
trap for his man. He sent an emissary
with an offer TO buy cattle from the colonel,
VINO sold him fifty yoke and gave him a
bill of sale. With this documentary evil
dence, the planter made a formal protest to
Gen. Hernadez de Velasco, Spanish military
Governor of the province. who shrugged his
shoulders, replying that it was an obvious
theft, but that he could do nothing
The Spanish mail steamer Villaverde,
which has just arrived here, brought sixty
deported prisoners from Ceuta, Morocco.
mostly Nanigos.
Ihe demand for overdue salaries has
.dheH an active ana aggressive form in the
municipal departments. Besides mobs who
daily lnfest the office of the mayor, clam
oring for pay, threatening every variety of
personal violence, and even drawing guns.
as happened one day last week. there are
many individual instances, more or less sem
sational in. character. one of the victims
an employe of the city named Casares. en-
tered the mayors office on Monday morning
TO insist upon settlement. The MARQUIS
d Estoban refused and made some excuse
not entirely satisfactory to the claimant.
who slapped the mayors face, following up
the slap with couple of well directed bows.
The attendants hustled Casares out OF the
building. but the mayor refused to prose-
cute and endeavored to hush the matter up.
The story leaked out, however, and gave
rise to a good deal of unfavorable comment
at the expense of the mayor, although his
friends applauded his GOODNESS and self
restraint in not returning the blows.
Advices from the interior, particularly
from the city of Matanzas bring fresh
stories OF misery, intensified by the late
Hoods. Yesterday at Matanzas twenty
seven sick and dying persons were picked
up in the street.
The United States evacuation commission
ers are daily visited by Spanish officers who
wish to enter the United States service. All
such requests have been met with a mega
tive. In view Of this it was thought the ap-
piications would cease but. on the contrary,
Two or three Spanish officers put in an ap-
pearance daily at the Hotel Trocha with the
same proposition.