The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-26
Protest by the Municipal Council
Against the American Method of
Conducting City Affairs.
TWO INDIANA MEN DEAD
ALONZO GRAHAM, OF THE 1851, 4
VICTIM OF SMALLPOX,
And Charles +. TrimbIe, of the same
Regiment, Succumbs to "a Hc-
lapse of Typhoid Fever.

HAVANA, Jan. 25.-Collector Bliss will
establish, on Feb. l. system of bonded
warehouses. hitherto unknown here They
will prove great convenience to commerce.
and will be largely patroniZed. He will also
establish a system under which an importer
may receive, Immediately after it is I'M
loaded, 80 per cent. of a cargo, the remain
ing 10 per cent. being held for appraisal and
the levy of duties on the whole. This will
tend to prevent congestion, and will allow
of goods being placed on the market with
the least possible delay. At present Col
lector Bliss makes practice of delivering
miscellaneous consignment upon payment
of the estimated dues, after examination, of
course, to prevent smuggling, and the final
adjustment is made later, the importer pay
ing the balance due or Collector Bliss
funding. This method has worked admir-
ably so far, the importers realizing the col
lectors efforts to prevent delay. The exam
nations are thorough and honest, as was
never the case before. Some delays arise
from the fact that Collector Bliss has
adopted new system of collection FORMS
but in the course of d month the depart
nent will be in thorough working order and
there will be no cause for complaint
The Municipal Council mas deputed Per-
fecto Lacoste, mayor of Havana, and Julio
San Martin and Luis De Arezarena to re-
quest Major General Ludlow to define clear
ly the functions of the Council. The discus
sion leading up to this step began to-day
with a statement by DR.. Raimundo MenOcal
that the Americans had seized the depart
meht of sanitation, ignoring the Council
and had even deposed the municipal DOCTOR
who was under the Councils control. Senior
rfR, h. oil.
energeticaly against this action, whereupon
Mayor Lacoste read the minutes of the last
meeting, stating that General Ludlow had
appointed American engineers to superin-
tend the city's public works and an Amer
lean to superntend the sanitation. Senior
Alfredo zayas, fourth assistant mayor, then
introduced a motion asking for definition
of the use of a Municipal Council to Ha-
vana, which motion was carried unani-
mously and amid applause.
The military administration is as yet UNI
able to make any announcement regarding
the future relations of the Bank of Spain
to the collection of taxes. The uncertainty
as to what Washington will do causes gen
eral apprehension. Since the publication of
the terms OF the contract of Jan. Z every
influence in the island has been arrayed
against the bank as a remnant of Spanish
oppression, but the CubanS are saying that
the Dank mas more influence at washington
than the whole Cuban people.
SeVenty-fiVe American women met in this
city to-day to arrange for memorial OF
the anniversary of the destruction or the
United States battle ship Maine, on Feb. 10.
Mrs. Estes G. Rathbone presided, and a
letter from Captain Sigsbee was read sug=
costing, as features or the programme,
prayer, singing, If desired, addresses by one
or two prominent persons and Volley fired
over the graves, by battalion of marines
from the United States battle ship Texas.
Captain Sigsbee wrote that he had granted
the request of a deputation of sailors and
marines of the Texas to be allowed to deco
rate the graves. These suggestions were
not acted upon, and the preparation of the
programme was deferred.
The sick report of the Seventh Army
Corps shows 357 in hospital and 352 in quar-
tiers. There has been no increase in small
poX and the work of vaccination is pro-
Ceedlng. There are l20 cases of measles.
Lieut.. Col. Louis NJ Maus, chief surgeon
of the corps, found in corner of the Gus
tom house to-day ten thousand vaccine
points which had been lost four days and
are now probably spoiled They We're sent
from New York for use in the interior of
the province.
Major General Lee, who went yesterday
to Guines on flying trip, is expected to re-
turn tomorrow.
General Wilson, commander of the mill
tary department of Matanzas accompanied
by the members of his staff, General Pedro
Betancourt, of the Cuban army, and Senior
DiaZ, the civil governor of the city of Ma
tanzas, Is now making a tour of Matanzas
province on a special train, carrying sup
of expense to the towns visited
A request is being formulated for presen-
tation to the military administration ask
ing the suspension for one year of fore
closure mortgages that have fallen due and
of the public sale OF lands for debt, on the
ground that this suspension has already
been made in Porto Rico.
Major General Ludlow has received from
a number of poor widows of Spanish Off
GERS who under his Instructions have been
getting government support, an expression
of their deep thanks. They say that never
in their lives were they so comfortable and
we'll cared for as they are to-day.
The summer home of the First United
states regular infantry at Pinar del Rio
Will be a massive Spanish barracks, which
has been disinfected. Surgeon General
Sternberg approves taking the regiment out
of the tents when the weather is warm and
a third story will be put on the building so
as TO accommodate all the regiment. The
structure cost half a million dollars and
was twenty-four years in construction
Surgeon Major George r. Fowler, of Gen.
Lees staff Is retiring and will go north on
the cruiser Brooklyn tomorrow.
Lieutenant Colonel Curtis Guild, ir in
spector general of the Seventh Army Corps,
Lieutenant Colonel Maus. chief surgeon Of
the Seventh Army Corps, requests to be re-
leved.
Governor General Brooke has appointed
Senior Baldemero Pichardo assistant secre-
tary of agriculture.
-Four troops of the Seventh Cavalry I'M
der Major Hayes and Batteries and F. of
the Second Light Artillery, arrived in camp
to-day.
Governor General Brooke has received a
letter from Salamanca, signed by 800 Span
lSh soldiers, who ask citizenship and en-
ployment under the United States govern
mert.
Two hundred thousand Mauser cartridges
We're seized by Colonel John G. Evans this
evening at house near the Pirotecnica
cartridge factory The possessor said he
had bought them.