The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-08
A WEST INDIES REPUBLIC.
Gomez Dreams of Uniting the ISL
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From the Now York world.

! From the New York World.
Havana, Jan. 5.-The dissension among
the leaders of the insurgent forces has
reached an acute stage. Gen. Menocal who
commands in Havana province, has sent
his resignation to the executive commit
/ tee Of the provincial government, and at
least two other officers of high rank are
| preparing to follow his example.
MeuocaTs resignation has not been ac-
cepted and probably win not be, notwith-
standing Gen. Gomez avowed dislike for
/ him. This dislike is based entirely upon
! Menocars Americanism, the latter having
! been graduated from Cornell. He under
stands the Americans better than any 9TH
| er Cuban leader, aud as Gomez classes
! the Americans as little above Spanards,
! the young general has never found favor
! in his eyes
Menocaf wants his men, about 800 In
| number to return to peaceful pursuits, and
/ has several times urged Gomez TO author
| ize the disbandment of the forces in west
/ ern provinces. Gomez refused to do IT, and
! then elevated Betancourt 10 the rank of
! major general Betancourt is in Matanzas
/ and must take his orders direct from Men
/ ocal. who is still the division general
Gomez evidently thought to humiiate
| Menocal by elevatng his inferior officer
J to rank above his own.
Gomez win never sanction the disband-
ment of the insurgents until his men have
| received their pay, and there Is no doubt
! he win lead his forces back into the mills
/ if the American policy is not soon chang
| ed. This is the opinion of the Cuban Of
! hcers generally, and though many are in
| sympathy with him, few will follow his
! lead into hopeless revolution. Menocal re-
oil
command ten thousand men should he re-
sumo hostilities.
Gomez Would Join with SAN Do
minEO.
! [ was told to-day by a colonel under
Menocal that Gomez had recently sounded
| the army on his old ambition of uniting
| Cuba and San Domingo under one gov
eminent. The willy old chief thinks that
the United States can offer no objection
! to this pian which, if accomplished, would
! create a state strong enough to absorb
Eayu soon With this done, Gomez be-
! lieves the foundation would be laid for a
republic, which would soon take rank in
| the western world second only 10 the
! United States.
/ Menocal has been requested by Gen Lee
/ to accept a position as assistant governor
! of province. Gen. Ludlow has also offered
| Menocai a position in The city. He win
/ accept one of these offers after permission
I has been obtained from the executive COM
! mlttee.
The body of Col. Mabry Of the First
| Texas rested in state in a tent near Lees
headquarters al Buena Vista to-day. Short
| services We're held at 3 o'clock by Chap
| lain Watson, Gems Lee, Keifer and Has
brouck were present The body was
brought to Havana, being escorted to the
! Almandares river by his entire regiment.
! 1t will go to Miami tomorrow to be for
/ warded to Texas Lieut. Devine escoriing
Adjt. Gen. Dorst of the Fifth Cavalry is
critically Ill with malarial fever
| Lees forces are being lessened day by
! day Four companies now doing provost
| duty in the suburbs, were to-day detached
! from his command and ordered to report
| 10 Gen. Ludlow.
When the American occupation took
! place the members of a lottery company
| that was famous a few years ago in a
! Southern city made an attempt to secure
a concession here. Local papers have ap-
parently been subsidized, but Gen. Brooke
! declares that so long as the American oc-
cupation lasts lotteries will be barred
Nurses Demand Transfers.
A large number of volunteer trained
nurses of the Second Division Hospital
Corps will demand transfer to The First
Division or a cancellation of their contracts
alleging that their health is endangered in
their present quarters.
| talked with one of the nurses whose
| name l am not at liberty to give but who
VIII be recognized by many in New York
| She had two brothers in the Seventy-frst
! New York Volunteers at Santiago one of
! whom was buried there, the death being
| due to the lack of proper nursing. The
! other brother went home a wreck, seeing
which the young >woman enlisted as a
] nurse. hoping to do more for others than
| was done for her brothers.
She told me that the first fifty nurses ar
rived here on Dec. %, and for two DAYS
| lived in the shack of the cook who pro-
vided for the Second Battalion of the Sec
ond Engineers. Then they got into tents
many of which has yet to be supplied with
flooring. Only army rations were issued
no bread being given the nurses until Jan.
2 The special appropriation of % cents per
day provided for nurses has not been re-
ceived Little invalid food had been pro-
vided. matted milk and beef extract being
all that has been available for the invalid
soldiers.
Rather than allow lives to be forfeited,
the nurses have bought milk and delica-
cies for those needing them. While at
camp l went with the nurses to Quemados
where food for the invalids was purchased.
The nurses give freely when they have
anything 10 give but many of their own
number are III as a result Of the unnec-
essary hardships and will consequently de-
mand their transfers.
The smallpox has become epidemic at
Marianao, and Gen. Lee has ordered
number of infected houses burned. Frank
lin Scott, a private in the hospital corps
of the one Hundred and Sixty-frst Indi-
ana, has the smallpox, probably the re-
suit of exposure in nursing Sergt. lines,
who is now convalescent.
Lieuts. Anthony Anheire Percy Welch
and T. H. Owens Of Companies l. b and X,
Second Illinois, have been detailed to the
Tenth Regulars.
Two hundred and fifty nanigos arrived
on the Spanish transport Ovadonga to-
cay. and were turned loose in body this
evening. The Fourth and Ninth Illinois
arrived on the Mobile from Savannah to-
night. having had a rough passage. The
men almost without exception were sea-
sick during nearly the entire trip
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