The herald., 1898-09-13
CUBAN COMMISSION
GETTING TO WORK WITH GREAT
DELIBERATION
MATTERS GROWING SERIOUS
PoliticaE and Civil Chaos Reigns on thu
Island and this Cubans Are the
Sufferers
Associated Press Special Wire.

| Associated Press SpeclaI wire.
| HAVANA, Sept. 12.-The United States
Cuban Evacuation Commissioners will not
hold a meeting today. This morning Gen
Butler, two members of his staff and a
doctor landed att La Machina wharf and
went for carriage ride through the streets
of Havana, taking photographs of public
buildings, etc.
At 9:15 am. Col. Clous. accompanied by
Col. Hart the interpreter. visited Senol
Monteri. bearing a sealed communication
understood to bear relation to the nex'
meeting of THE commissioners.
| The yacht Alfredo arrived here yesterday
having on board Senior Benjamin Guerra
the Treasurer of the Cuban Junta OF New
York, and Senior Theodore Perez y Caras-
CO. The government did not permit them
| to land.
| The steamer Arrecuna has arrived here
from the north coast without passengers,
| and the steamer Como Herrera has reached
here from Vera Cruz with a cargo and
passengers. The steamer Alava. has ar
rived at this port from Sagua.
The United States Commissioners have
not engaged rooms ashore. They are re-
naming on board the Resolute. Rear Ad-
mral Sampson will probably come ashore
this afternoon.
Captain General Blanco has cabled to
Madrid a protest against the alleged un-
just attacks upon the Spanish army made
In the Senate at Madrid.
The local newspapers here today pub
lished the text Of the protocol.
Chaos In Cuba
NEW YORK, Sept. ia special to the
Press from Washington says:
Senor Thomas Estrada Palma has just
received a communication from the repre-
sentative of the Cuban revolutionary gov
ernment, who has secretly been in Havana
since the beginning of the war. The letter
Is as follows:
1.-THE situation of the Cubans in this city
and this province is in truth critical. The
termination of the war, in which we re-
joice, and the independence of the island,
has brought with 1t direful woe to the Gu
bans and demands immediate attention,
and 1t is this condition of affairs that COM
pels me to write to you at this time, in
the hope that you will be able to present the
case TO the American government and Sc
cure immediate relief.
Each days delay in the adjustment of
affairs to bring about the Spanish evacua-
tion increases our sufferings and still fur
ther complicates the problem Of recon-
struction which confronts us. 1t would
be far from possible for me to paint the
exact situation as 1t exists. in one small
letter. The war Is ended and at the same
time we are living in peace. Nevertheless,
In the rejoicing over the outcome, the
victims Of the war, the real sufferers are
almost entirely forgotten. The victims are
the Cubans. Neither the United States nor
Spain have suffered from the ravages OF
war upon their own territory, while all
the destruction and devastation wrought
by the struggle have been endured by poor,
suffering Cuba. and the end is not yet.
\ I'VE are, as It were, between two1fires.
We must keep peace because the United
States and Spain are no longer engaged in
active. strife and we must endure all the
atrocities, cruelties and barbarism imposed
upon US by the Spaniards, worse now than
before the signing Of peace meas asures, be-
cause they realize that they must soon
leave our island and they desire to heap
all the vengeance upon US that is in their
power to do.
"Chaos reigns In Havana. The public
service has. In nearly all departments, been
practically abandoned and the employees.
thus being thrown out Of their positions.
take the more from US. What is true of
the civil authorities is doubly true Of the
soldiers. The industrial public is complete.
ly parayzed. All animals, all horses have
been taken away to meet the necessities OF
the Spanish army. There is nothing for
the laboring people, for the poor classes.
the big majority Of whom are Cubans. to
do.
MATTERS have not improved for them
since raising of the blockade. The poor man
who manages to plant little garden place
to save himself and his family from starva-
tion finds that Just as he is able to harvest
his little crop, he is made the prey of the
soldiery, who rob him Of all. The city
is full Of thieves and vagabonds who
steal, plunder and destroy all they can.
Neither is there any Justice or attempt at