The record-union., 1899-02-01
Refuses to Dishand His Army Until the
Money Has Been Paid.
Is Urging the Natives to Stay
With Him in the Field Until
This Country is Compelled to
Accede to His Terms of Dis
bandment.

TITlOuu6 1IOIIi w lOu say
Maxine Gomez, the Cuban command
ing General, has demanded nearly SOU
100000 from the United States and re-
fuses to disband his army until the
money is paid. He has repudiated the
arrangement made by Calixto Garcia,
who came to Washington with author
ity from Gomez to provide for the re-
turn of the Cubans to their peaceful
pursuits, and whose work was barely
accomplished before his sudden death
on December 18th. 1t was then agreed
that the United States, in order to Sc
cure the prompt resumption of labor on
the plantations of the island, with
view of promoting the speedy revival
of prosperity and settled conditions,
should distribute about $3,OOO,O00
among the &C, 900 soldiers said to be
still under arms in the ratio of S1OO
to a man, the officers in proportion to
their rank to receive greater amount
the ordinary enlisted men to be dis
charged with sums less than 500, de-
pending on 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 ar
being available for the purpose.
Lists of the soldiers entitled to COM
pensation had to be prepared and other
formalities gone through 1t was in
tended that the Cubans at the proper
time should apply at established Amer
lean garrrisons in the various provinces
where, on throwing down their arms
and presenting the proper credentials.
they were to receive their quota of the
allotmGsEG from the pay officers at the
stations. In the meantime, General
Brooke and his chief subordinates have
been endeavoring to give employment,
mostly of a permanent character, to
large numbers of Cubans, in order to
reduce the number requiring a bounty
and, at the same time, to give the in
habitants opportunity to begin govarn-
ing 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 here that he is endeavorng to
Gissuade 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 aceede to
his terms of disarmament" Gomez
alleges that his army consists of 10000
men, and he insists that most of them
shall be paid for three years service at
the rates that prevail in the United
States army He fixes the date of the
Cuban declaration of independence at
February "A, 1895, as the beginning of
the period for which himself and his
forces are to be remunerated, and for
himself with the rank of Lieutenant
General, he will be satisfied with SILL
600 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, according to the
United States army pay table, at 5000
annually. This aggregates the nice lit
tie sum of 1888, 900 for Generals
alone; then there are Colonies, Lieuten-
ant-Colonels and Majors, whose num-
bers run into the thousands. The pri-
Yates do not amount to much for they
are comparatively few, but each of
them will require S64S, and the army
Paymasters who figured out the total
have reported that over $57 100000 win
be required to crafty adj these demands
at an average of 81 ,455 man. 1t is
to meet their demands and show Go
mez their absurdity that Gonzales Cues
ada, who for the last three years has
been the representative of the Cubans
in New York, started for Cuba last
week, after reaching a thorough under
standing with the War Department au-
thorities. Robert P Porter went along
with Mr.. Quesada as the official repre-
sentative of the United ST. ses.