The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1899-05-18
TO IGNORE OFFICERS
GEN. BROOKE DECIDES ON HIS
POLICY IN CUBA.
CIVIL GOVERNORS TO ACT
Arms of the Insurgents are to be Turned
over to the Municipal Authorities
Each Private and Non Commission
ed of1cer to Receive S75.
/, CIVIL GOVERNORS TO ACT

| Havana, May 1.-THE Cuban army
officers will have no more than nom
inal part in the distribution of the
| American millions among the insur-
gent soldiers, according to the revise d
scheme for the payment of the troop !.
The Cuban commissioners are entirely
eliminated from the game, the evil
governors of the provinces in which til
several corps are concentrated taking
their places as representatives of the
army. Gen. Gomez or the corps com
manders may, if they choose, nominate
representatives to look after the inter
ests of their commands but all the re-
sponsibility of the American authorl-
ties centers in Major Dodge and the
various colonies who will assist him
and the civil governors.
The new scheme lodges the cruc al
point of the distribution of the rifles
affirming that the arms may be turne1
lover to the municipalities, although the
language of the following paragraph
makes clear the understanding between
Gems. Brooke and Gomez.
After directing the civil governors
to use all diligence in arranging with
the American officers for the payment
of the troops, the decree makes these
| civil governors, with the alcaldes OF the
towns where the arms shall be depos-
| tied, responsible for the custody and
care of the surrendered rifles, ordering
them to report the number and char
acter and condition of the weapons
and to appoint former insurgent to
watch the armory wherever the num-
Der of equipments amounts to 500 or
more
Apart from the manner of payment,
which is the essential thing in the
eyes of the insurgents, all the features
of the original scheme are retained,
each private and non-cOmmissioned
officer receiving SIS. A sort of codicil
to the testament makes provision for
the distribution of the surplus to
needy officers of Gen. Gomez nomina-
ton.
The actual passing of money across
the pay tables can hardly begin be-
fore the end of the week, because OF
the consultations with the civil gov
errors to arrange the details of the
distribution It is practically settled
that payment shall begin at Mari
anao.
The assembly and it's partisans are
celebrating what they regard as sub
stantial victory over Gems. Gomez
and Brooke. A gathering of $50
chiefs, including all the important
members of the defunct congress and
number of former adherents of the
commander-in- chief, voted to assure
the veterans association of Santiago
that Havana would join the eastern in
surgents in refusing to surrender arms
unless the provisions of Gen. Brooke's
delayed decree should accord with the
demand of the final manifesto of the
assembly that the municipalities be
made the custodianS of the arms.
These chiefs announce that change
is expected in the order of disband-
ment, and promise another defnitive
resolution when the governors decree
appears.
Partisans of the assembly affect to
see in the hearty American concession
of the army's demand complete tr1-
umph of their principles and prophesy
The complete overthrow of Gen. Go
mez as soon as the army is disbanded
Conservative Cubans and anti-annexa-
tionists deplore the passing of Gomez,
as the only man in Cuba who is able
to unite the people against further ag-
gressions of the United States They
call Gen. Brooke, instead of tactless
soldier, a politician and a diplomat,
who has helped to make Gomez the
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