The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-20
THE CUBANS
ARE ACTING
In BAD FAITH.
The Agreement Between General
Gomez and Porter is Very
Explicit in Terms
AS TO SURRENDERING ARMS.
The Manifesto of Gomez is Very
Unsatisfactory to Military
Administration.
GENERAL BR00KE'S PLAN
AS TO SURRENDERING ARMS.
GENERAL BRooKE'S PLAN
Has not Been Intcrfcred With by
President or Secretary
/. OF War.

HAVANA, May 19.-Havana Is In a
ferment over the idea that the Wash
ington administration has determined
to take the arms OF the Cuban troops
and to retain them In military possess
sion. This view Of the latest news from
Washington had been telegraphed to the
various cities.
Governor General Brooke is thus far
unaware, save through the press tele-
grams, Of any dissatisfaction on the
part of General Alger. secretary Of war.
with his General Brooke's) plan to
have the arms deposited in the care Of
the mayors Of the municipalities, nor
has he received any other inltling Of the
secretary's purpose to lay the matter
before President Mckinley. Conse-
quently, unless Instructions to the con-
trary are received from the Washington
administration, the governor generals
order respecting the distribution of the
S3,o00,0OO as modified will be issued to-
morrow.
The secretary of war has been in
formed as to the substance Of this or
| der In the usual course OF business.
Article four OF the agreement between
General Gomez and Robert P. Porter,
President McKinley's special represen-
tutive. runs as follows:
"The Cubans shall surrender their
arms to the Cuban assembly or to its
representatives"
General Gomez, who at the time Of
coming to the agreement with Mr.. Por-
ter, had not quarreled. and the assem-
bly, insisted upon this point. Since the
quarrel he has again raised the point
repeatedly, saying that NC. Porter
brought fuil written authority y~frons
President Mckinley and in the PresI-
dents name agreed that the arms
| should SO into the custody of the as
| sembly or It's Representatives.
Very Foolish Action.
AT Monday nights meeting Of the So
ciety of Veterans of Independence Or
ganized by former members of the as
sembiy. the SPEAKERS dilated upon arti-
Gle four, us asserting bad faith. the
Presidents plenpotentiary having
agreed to deposit the arms with the rep
resentativcs of the assembly while.
through the connivance OF Gomez, they
were to be surrendered to the AmerI-
can army.
CubanS OF prominence object to talk
Ing for publication on the subject, but
wherever they have been interviewed,
they say without exception that such
nn order as Is referred to In the press
| dispatches from Washington would
| cause much trouble and would still fur
thcr separate Cuba from the United
States.
The manifesto of General Gomez is
| sued last evening, Is unsatisfactory to
the military administration, because It's
author failed to disband the army. He
had been asked to include paragraph
directing the various commands to dis
| solve, and had said he was In doubt rs
| TO whether he was authorized to dis
band the army, promising to reflect
| upon the matter His attitude at head
| quarters yesterday was quite different
from his previous bearing and 1t soon
became obvious that he wished to dis
continue giving any advice, even on the
subject OF the payment to the troops.