The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-26
FEARS OF GEN. RIVERA
THINKS CUBANS WILL RESENT CIVIL
GOVERNMENT BY AMERICANS.
He Does Not Object to a Governor, but
Says h People should BE Per-
mftted to Rule Themselves.

HAVANA, Nov. %. Gen. Ruiz Rivera
says he does not object to a civil Governor
for Cuba, but thinks it would be far better
for the island to have one who would di-
rect the Cubans in the formation of a gov
eminent of their own. But he does OBJ
ject to a civil government, for 1t would also
be accepted very badly by the country,
which would regard it as an evidence of
bad faith on the part of the United States.
The establishment of such a government
General Rivera says, would be a step toward
convincing the Cubans that the United
States intends to keep the island. He also
asserts that when the Cubans are convinced
that this is SO they will certainly fight,
many Spaniards joining with them through
racial sympathy. Havana, General Rivera
says, is not Cuba. The main interests Of
Cuba are agriculture, and without consult
ing the wishes of the agricultural popula-
ton the good of the island would not be OBJ
tanned.
Civil Governor Nune has issued a circular
warning journalists that he intends to hold
them responsible, under the existing press
laws, for any article published in the future
with q view of embittering the socialistic
elements of the country against the author
tiles, or Of melting them to illegal demon
STATIONS.
Messrs. Rasco and Olmstead, supervisor
of the Cuban census and assistant director
Of the census in Cuba, respectively, have
gene to the Isle of Pines. Out of three
enumerators there, two have finished their
work. and the third has decided to go to
the southern part of the Island by sea in
northern part from the south. A local huge
was recently lost in the swamp for twenty
aays. The roads are impossible. and this
pecte0 That II will be finished almost imme-
diateiy.
The veterans of Havana decided to tele-
graph to President Mckinley that the vet
Grams. being aware that the United States
government intends to create a civil gov
eminent for Cuba, thinks that such a step
changes the noble aims OF the Cniued
States. The veterans will ask President
Mckinley, instead of changing the nature
OF the Intervention, to keep it unaltered in
us present tranSitory nature, Fastening, as
far as possible, the electoral organisms
that are 10 constitute a purely Cuban gov
eminent, to which, according to the joint
resolution OF Congress, the government of
the island is to be delivered. They also
declare that whatever situation does not
tend to further this end provokes distrust
and alarms the people, who aspire to find
a friend in the American people.
The veterans of Matanzas lave tele-
graphed their congratulations to Gen.
Maxine Gomez. and nave expressed to him
their opposition against the establishment
or a civil government in the island.
Elaborate arrangements nave been made
for a series of cock fights to take place on
Sunday at Guanabacoa. These will be the
first fights of the season.
The Diario de la Marina says the mer-
chants of Havana have read with surprise
of the proposals made in Washington on
behalf OF the Cuban Board of Trade that
the old reciprocity conditions of the treaty
between Madrid and Washington, made in
1881, should be revived. This treaty, which
gave American products a great advantage
In the Cuban markets, was found very dis
astrous. However, the Cuban planters and
farmers, when they accepted the offer of
assistance from the New York Chamber of
to obtain concessions favorable
to Cuban sugar in the American market.
ought to have expected that New York mer-
chants and manufacturers would ask adj
vantages in the Cuban market. If, SAYS the
Diario de la Marina, President Mckinley
acts favorably on the petition. Cuban mer-
chants may expect a supply Of American
cheap.