The San Francisco call., 1898-04-11
HOW INSURGENTS
 WON RECOGNITION
Review of the Establishment of the Cuban Republic and the Battle of
 Patriots for Independence.

zens. their individual and political rights, the officers of the Government, their pow CTS and provides for the assembling of the representatives. The principal arti- cleS are:
 Article 6.Cubans and foreigners will be pro- practice of their respective cults as long as they are not opposed to public morals. Article S-Education is free in all the terri Article 1O-The electoral right shall be regu- lated by the Government on the basis of uni
 Article 1.-The administration of justice in reference to civil matters belongs to the civil ia.s authorities, and its procedure shall be regu- Article 22-Besides the. powers conferred the Government. Council has the following:
 l. To make all laws and regulations regard ing the revolution and the military. civil and political life of the Cuban people
 2 To resolve the petitions addressed to it.. ordering those which are not properly trans mitted to take their due course.
 3: To depose for just cause and under dts responsibility re: any councillor or ub-secretary. assembly and can only be passed by the affirm atiNe votes of four councillors.
 4 To appoint secretary and sub-secretaries for the transactingsof business in any depart ment, when both positions shall have been va cated for two months.
 ares Of all classes in the manner provided by law ordering that they shall be submitted to .,6. To determine the nolicy of the war and the general lines of campaign, and to inter-
 
 motive for 1t in the military operations, al- ways ro oy means ie Of the generals of the nation to grant letters of marque.
 s, To grant military ranks from sub-lieuten- an ants to major-general in the form established py the law of military organization.
 g. To issue paper money, to coin money fix ing its kind and value.
 10. To contract loans. determining when they shall become due, the interests, discounts. commission and guarantees, and to make all negotiations advised by the public veal being strictly responsible for the use it shall make or these faculties and of those provided in the previous article.
 or the public funds and to ask and approve the ,o accounts ,To as.oet,,,lS of the .s same . appoint and remove agents representatives and delegates of all classes.
 14. To issue the safe conduct necessary for the discharge of the functions of the Govern ment.
 IS To make treaties with other powers. choosing the commissioners who are to ceie- erase h them psn but without being able to dele, peace with Spain must be ratified by the assembly and cannot be initiated but on the basis of the absolute and immediate inde- pendence ot all the Island of Cuba
 Article S1-The Secretary of War will be the superior chief Of the army of liberty.
 In the additional articles, as to mili- tary organization, the following are found:
 No. s-That the Government can name and may freely separate the general-in-chief and
 No 4That there shall be chief for every army corps, appointed by the Government, on eral-in- chief to the first mentioned and by the chief of department, through the general in-chief for the second.
 Pursuant of that constitution, which Is published in document 129 of the Fifty fifth Congress, second session, the new Government, was selected as follows: President Bartolomo Maso; vice-Presi- dent. Domingo Mendez Capote: Secretary of War. Jose B. Aleman; Secretary of Foreign Relations. Andres Mora Latorre: Secretary of the Treasury, Ernesto Fonts Sterling: Secretary of the Interior. Dr. Manuel R. Silva: Sub-Secretary of War Rafael de Cardenas; Sub-secretary of the Treasury, Colonel Saturnino Lastra; Sub Secretary of Foreign Relations, Nicolas Alberdi; Sub-Secretary of the Interior Pedro Aguilera Kindelan.
 The said Government Council appointed MaJor-General Maximo Gomez as gen. eral-in-chief and MajorGeneral CaIixto Garcia as Heutenant-general. But the best proof of the existence of the Cuban capital and Government is the following official telegram published by the Spanish Minister, Dupuy de Lome, dated the 22d of January. 1898, and signed by Senor Congosto, the secretary of the Spanish Government in Cuba. It is as follows:
 HAVANA. Jan. 21--General Castellanos has taken possession of the village of Esperanza in the Sierra de Cubtas. where the insurgent Government has its headquarters During the stubborn resistance made by the insurgents the Government officials escaped. The next day continuing his operations. the same general de- feated body of 2500 insurgents who were coming to the aid of the Government scatter Ing thems in all directions and killing fifty nine. CONGOSTO
 The Cubans are willing to rest their case on this testimony of the Spanish Government
 GONZALE DE QUESADA. Charge dAfaires of the Cuban Republic.