The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-03
MADE NO OBJECTION.
Gomez Showed No Animosity Towards
the United States.

Remedies, Province of Santa Clara.
Feb. g via maguey-Immediately
after yesterdays conference, General
Gomez wrote the following letter to
President Mckinley in Spanish:
Republic of Cuba, Headquarters of
the Army. Remedies. Feb. l. 1885,
President Mckinley, Washington: 1t
has been great pleasure to me to con-
fer with your commissioner Mr.. Por-
ter, introduced by my friend Quesada,
and / am now aware of and pleased
with your wishes. In a short time |
shall go to Havana and confer with
General Brooke, so that everything
will go WELL Following your advice, I
willingly cooperate in the work of
reconstructing Cuba.
"MAxIMO GOMEZ. General"
To-day General Gomez is preparing
for the trip to Havana. The whole at
titude of the. old fighter is much more
cordial than was anticipated by MI
Porter. He told the latter he was
proud to meet the special commissioner
of the president and he is evidently
much gratified at the prospect of the
early solution of the disbandment prob
lem. The money will be sent on Com
missioner Porters order to General
Brooke and will be paid out as called
for by distribution through sub commit
tees of Cuban and American officers in
the various provinces. AS agreed upon
at yesterdays conference, the entire
amount will be in Spanish silver.
At the rate of so. it will amount to
81, 200, 900. or nearly $100 for each man
in the Cuban army, as estimated by
the delegation from the Cuban military
assembly which went to Washington
in December and has recently returned
to Cuba. The late General Garcia told
President Mckinley this amount would
be satisfactory.
The correspondent of the associated
press learns that the delegation was
examined by Mr.. Porter for the presi-
dent and that report was submitted
which has not yet been made public.
The figures given in it, as supplied to
the correspondent of the associated
press yesterday, call for $57, 100000 as
the first estimate of the delegation but
the delegation said they would take
less and acknowledged they could hard
ly expect better pay for the Cuban prl-
Yates than the American privates get.
which is $13 a month or 43 per cent of
their figures, and the American basis
would mean $4,000, 900 for privates. AS
the sum to be paid is worth more than
s4,00o,000 in Spanish silver here, nearly
half the amount calculated on the
American basis is to be realized by the
Cubans At the conference Mr.. Porter
laid special stress on the fact that the
$4,000, 900 was not to be regarded as
wages due for services rendered, but as
a relief fund from the United States to
expedite the disbandment of the army
and to further the aims of reconstruc-
ton. This article of the compact pre-
viously cabled, was the most delicate
point under consideration, as the ques-
ton of recognition of the Cuban army
as a military body and tacitly of the
Cuban revolutionary government was
involved.
General Gomez acquiesced in this pre-
mise more readily than might have
been expected, in view of this reputed
hostility to the United States.
Immediately after writing to Presi-
dent Mckinley, General Gomez address
ed the following letter to Mr. Porler:
Republic of Cuba, Headquarters of
the Armv Remedies. Feb. 2, 1S99.--H IN.
Robert p Porter: Dear Sir-Your visit
has enlightened our path and what We
have spoken encourages me to go to
Havana so that by comforting with
General Brooke I may aid in directing
the unsettled affairs of this country. BE
kind enough to say to President Nc
kinley that I am grateful for his kind
regards. | shall do all in my power to
maintain public order, helping to apply
the constitution of the republic, SO that
Cuba may be really free and independ-
ent and thus carrying out President
Mckinley's wishes and my own.
"MAXIMO GOMEZ, General."'
General Gomez presented his portrait