The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-16
General Brooke May Dissolve the
Military Assembly.
A GOMEZ DEMONSTRATION
PEOPLE OF THE ISLAND SUP
PORT THE GENERAL.
Will Proceed With His Plans For
Disbanding the Army, Regardless
of the Action of the Assembly
Archbishop Chapelle Confers With
General Brooke.

Havana, March 15.-General Gomez
has decided to proceed with the plans
agreed upon for distributing the 3d.
G00.000 to the Cuban troops, on disband-
ing, as though the military assembly
did not exist. He conferred for two
hours today with General Brooke re-
garding details.
General Brooke asked Washington
several days ago whether, in case he
dissolved the assembly, his act would
be approved. The cabled reply author
lied him to dissolve that body If. IN
his judgment, such an act was neces-
Sary. He hopes the assembly Will soon
cease of its own accord to hold its seS-
sions, but should sessions disquieting to
the public mind continue, he will in
terVene.
Havana is much more quiet today,
This is partly due to the fact that the
assembly held no meeting.
AT meeting this morning, the Cuban
generals, Diaz Robeau, Monteaguado,
Nodarez, Peraz and others decided to
join with General Pedro Betancourt,
commander of the Cuban troops in Ma
tanzas, in a public declaration of their
position. La Discussion understands
that they will side with General Go
mez The papers continue to print let
tiers and kilograms from all points, de-
claring adherence to the veteran pa
triotS cause.
There are numerous fresh calls today
for the resignation of Civil Governor
Mora and Chief of Police Menocal be-
cause OF their attitudes, the result OF
misunderstanding or otherwise, toward
Sundays parade in honor of General
Gomez.
The United States military authori-
ties publish the following statement:
1--WE are officially authorized to say
that the president of the United States
will not recognize any obligation in
Cured by the body known as the Gu
ban assembly, and that all reports and
assertions to the contrary are abso-
lutely untrue
This is, perhaps, due to a story pub
lished in Ell Reconcentrado to the eff
feet that a representative of an Amer
lean syndicate, including Senator Han
ma, is now here with a view of making
a loan to the assembly.
There have been six designations
from the assembly since Sunday.
This afternoons demonstration in
favor Of General Gomez, in which all
the patriotic clubs. as we'll as many
women and children took part, was bet
ter organized than that of Monday,
though not so spontaneous. Several
thousand people paraded to General
Gomezs residence. He made his aD-
Dearance and addressed them, and the
procession did not return until after
nightfall
Archbishop ChaDelle, the apostolic
delegate to the West Indies, discussed
with General Brooke today the situa-
ton of the Roman Catholic church il
Cuba. He asks nothing except that the
church be allowed to retain it's prop
erty, jurisdiction and rights as a COR
poration under the Spanish law. TC
this General Brooke sees no objection,
though there are some titles in dispute
that may have to come before the
courts The church will continue to
control the cemeteries, and in cases
where these have been taken by tie
municipalities, the latter will be order
ed to give them back. The archbishop
realizes that a certain amount of dis
trust is relt regarding the church in
Cuba, and he may suggest to Rome
some plan to "Cubanize" the church,
gradually recruiting the hierarchy from
the CubanS themselves. and giving the
local Spanish element less authority
a number of newspaper sellers gath
cred this morning at the office of q
Havana paper which had not criticised
the action of the military assembly on
Saturday in terms sufficiently strong to
suit the people, and they requested that
today's issue contain an article show
ing that the paper sided with the peo-
pie, also notifying the management
that the newspaper sellers would refuse
to sell this paper if the request was
not complied with. This evening the
paper comes out openly in favor of
Gomez.