The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1899-02-01
GOMEZ WANTS
SIXTY MILLIONS
HG Makes InSOlGnt Demands Upon The
United States.
GARCIA'S PLAN
REPUDIATED
The mmander-in-Chief Declares He
Will Not Accept the Paltry Three
Millions PrOfered.

New YORK, Jan. 31.-A special to the
Tribune from Washington says: Max
imo Gomez, the Cuban general, has de-
manded nearly $6O,OOO,OOo from the
United States and refuses to disband his
"army" until the money is paid. He
has repudiated the arrangement made
by Calixto Garcia, who came to Wash
ington with authority from Gomez to
provide for the return of the Cubans to
their peaceful pursuits, and whose work
WAS barely accomplished before his eud-
den death of December IL.
It was then agreed that the United
States in order to secure the prompt re-
sumption of labor on the plantations of
the island with view of promoting the
speedy revival of prosperity and settled
conditions, should distribute about
S., ,0O0, 900 among the 10000 men said to
be still under arms in the ratio of 500
man, the officers in proportion to their
rank to receive a greater amount, the
ordinary enlisted men to be discharged
with sums less than 500, depending
upon the length of service and other
considerations. For over a month the
pay corps of the army has been making
ready to carry out this arrangement, the
national defense fund being available for
the purpose. Accurate lists of the
soldiers entitled to compensation had to
be prepared and other formalities gone
through. 1t was intended that the
Cubans at the proper time should apply
at established American garrisons in the
various provinces, where on throwing
down their. arms and presenting the
proper credentials they we're to receive
their quota of the allotment from the
pay officers at the stations. In the
meantime General Brooke and his chief
subordinate have been endeavoring to
give employment, mostly of a perma-
nent character, to large numbers of
Cubans, in order to restore the number
requiring a bounty, and at the same
time give the inhabitants opportunity to
begin governing themselves.
Gomez has come out against this
scheme, which was operating satIsfac-
torily to most Cubans, and has struck
for greater stakes. 1t is officially known
that he is endeavoring to dissuade
Cubans from accepting Office under the
American occupation, and is urging all
the natives of every grade to stay with
| him in the field until the United States
is compelled to accede to his ''terms of
disbandment." Gomez alleges that his
army consists of 40, 600 men, and he in
sists that most of them shall be paid for
three years. service at the rates that pre-
vailed in the United States army. He
fixes the date of the Cuban declaration
of Independence February "a, 1895, as
the beginning of the period for, which
| himself and his forces are to be remuner-
ated, and for himself, with 1.-The rank OF
lieutenant-general,h he will be satisfied
with $11 900 annually, the American
rate for that grade.
Gomez has also about twenty major
generals, for each of whom he wants
$500 annually, and his "army" is
equipped with nearly 200 brigadier-
generals, each rated, accordingly to the
United States army pay table. at $500
annually. This aggregates the nice
little sum of $3,7s3, 900 for generals
alone; then there are cnlonels, lienten-
ant-colonels and majors whose numbers
run into the thousands. The privatef
1 do not amount to much, for they are