The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
TO BEGIN PAYING CUBANS.
EACH OF THE SOLDIERS WILL RE
CEIVE THE sun OF S75.

The s3,OOOOOO VIII BE Divided by
4O,COO-AnythinE Left over VIII Re
Given to INDECENT Cuban OmcerS.
American Lawyers Barred From
PracticIng I'm Cuban Courts-Ln-
cret Is Very IndIscreet-Snys He
Expects Cubans to steal.
Havana. May 6.-Forty thousand will be
used as the divisor in fixing the shares
Of the soldiers in the 100000 allotted by
the United States government TO be d.
vlded among the Cuban troops, and the
payment will begin at the end Of next
week.
A general order declaring the payment
and setting forth the rules to be observed
viii be issued by Gov. Gen. Brooke ON
Monday next. The governor general and
GEN Gomez have decided that it would
be impracticable to try TO verify further
the army rolls as submitted by the recent
ly dissolved Cuban assembly.
Cen Brooke to-day sent to Gen. Co
mez a list of the commissioners for the
several corps, asking if he wished to
make any changes.
The commissioners-one Cuban and one
American for each corps-win be ordered
to meet at once in Havana to take action
as to the details OF the division of the
money. The order in which the payments
will be made is as follows:
First, in Havana province. then in the
province of Pinar del Rio. Matanzas,
Santa Clara, Puerto Principe and San
tago.
The next important rule laid down is
that one requiring the giving up of all
arms, as a condition of the payment of
the SIS each man is to receive.
After all the privates and non-commis-
stoned officers are paid, some money win
be left, and the remainder will probably
be divided among the manned and desti-
tute officers of the army.
American Lawyers Barred.
Gov Gen. Ludlow. military governor OF
the department of Havana, recently asked
Senior Lanuza, secretary of justice in Gen.
Brooke's advisory cabinet, to arrange to
allow American lawyers 10 practice here
because of the desire of the American
syndicates and merchants coming to Ha-
vana to employ Americans to defend their
interests.
Senior Lanuza referred the matter to the
Universidad, which governs admission to
the Havana bar, and its reply, which was
approved by the secretary of justice, was
a refusal of the request. 1t being held that
it would be for the best interests of Ameri-
cans to employ Cubans with a knowledge
| of the local laws.
Utteranees by Gen. Lacret and other of
| the assemblst leaders, are published here
| to-day, which might be regarded as tend
ing to infiame the minds of the Cubans
against the United States, and incite them
TO outlawry. Gen. Lacret is quoted as
saying that, while he has no doubt of the
honorable Intentions of the United States
toward the Cubans. troubles and mlsun-
| derstandiugs arise through the ignorance
| of departments as 10 the conditions in
| Cuba.
Expects Them to Steal.
The general is also reported to have
said that he could not see how the lower
( classes will be able to live
during the year. The crops are
now harvested, business is dull
and industries at a standsull. The capital
Of the islanders is boarded. while foreign
capital is timid. The general said he was
confident that starving Cubans would soon
| be obliged to steal, in order to keep body
and soul together and that were they to
steal his property he could not blame
| them.
AS for the 100000 from the United
States for the payment of the Cuban sol
diers, that money would soon be spent in
saloons and would give no substantial
| help.
Talk Ike this, which is repeated by other
prominent Cubans, is believed to be caus-
| ing outlawry.
| Strikes are spreading. The stevedores at
| n gain unit work
AN ENGLISHMAN ARRESTED.