The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-02
mysterious kilograms Prevented
Dissolution of Assembly.
FIRST OF APRIL BUNCo
MILLIONS IN SIGHT FOR THE
CUBAN TROOPS.
General Sanguilly Held the Assembly
Together By Producing Messages
By Some Unknown Party Who
Proposed TO Control the Washing
ton authorities Session Is a Farce

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Havana, April 1-Beguiled by mys-
ferrous kilograms from Washington,
the military assembly did not dissolve
today, as the Americans and many Gu
bans had hoped and expected. The
fwenty-three members present were
unwilling to vote for dissolution be-
cause they still believe in the ability
>t the assembly to raise a large loan
With the help of the United States gov
eminent.
The sessions opened with the tender
ing of the designations of the members
OF the executive committee, action on
which was postponed until the next
meeting. A motion was offered provid-
ing for the appointment of a new eX-
ecutlve committee to close up the af-
fairs of the assembly after its dissolu-
ton.
A motion was also made to concede
military grades and insignia TO the civil
representatives of the Cubans in arms.
During the argument on the motion
1T appeared that the future payment Of
officers by a possible Cuban republic,
was being considered, and hence the
matter Of grade is important. General
Sanguilly favored paying many Gu
ban generals of today who have never
seen a. days fighting, declaring that
among the civilian members of the Gu
ban party there We're the most devoted
men he ever knew. The motion was
finally carried. 1t means the admission
to payment, according 10 conceded mil
1taTy grades, of many men who have
not been recognized before, if the day
Tor the payment of officers ever comes.
General Andrade, president of the
assembly, read kilograms from Senores
Hevia and Villalon, the delegates sent
to Washington by the assembly to
endeavor to secure more money for the
Cuban troops. The first telegram was
as follows:
March 81 Andrade, Havana: No
hope at present. Hay received US off,
cially. Transmits president today our
request. Said would convey answer
short time. Hay opines president will
not authorize loan"
The second read: President answers
impossible increase amount offered or
authorize loan. We accept resolution
to dissolve We leave Sunday"
General Sanguilly then requested a
secret meeting Of the assembly, but the
request was voted down. Then San
gully suggested that the assembly
should wait until Senores Villalon and
Hevia returned and made a fuller re-
port than was possible by cable. Dur
ing the discussion which followed it de-
veloped that at the last secret session
of the assembly, held on March q,
majority of the members favored i'm
mediate dissolution; but the minority
insisted that they would not concur
until a committee went to Washington
and made final effort to obtain a
larger sum than the S3,000,000 offered
by the United States for the payment
of the troops. If the committee re-
ported unfavorably, they said, they
would agree to vote to dissolve today.
The majority insisted that the minor
ity fulfill this compact, as the report
OF the committee was unfavorable.
MYSTERIOUS TELEGRAAIS.
General. Sanguilly then read the fol-
lowing cablegranlS, saying he had re-
ceived them from a man with whom
the assembly had negotiated for a loan
during the secret sessions and declar-
ing that the receipt OF these messages
made it impossible for him to vote.
The first dispatch was as follows:
"Sanguilly, Havana: Complete revul-
sion favorable assembly. Entire cash
ready. Have assembly Portuendo hold
fast. Hereafter use exact code. I'm
portant information morning.
The second read thus:
April 1: Would be crime soldiers
and assembly dissolve. Villalon fool
ishly following track ola commission
by calling secretary pompous manner
lily turned down. Previously under
stood if contract was signed all would
be presented president today. If as
sembly orders contract signed and au-
thorize Hewitt, myself, while matter be
received by president Everything most
favorable. Press more favorable as
sembly.s
The third read;
April l: See cable Fares. ViIalons
departure assures success. Money
ready"
These cable dispatches were in Eng
lsh and had every appearance 'of legit-
innate messages from the Havana ca
BILE Office. Sanguilly read them in
Spanish and it.was evident by their re
ception that the news had already been
communicated to a majority Of the
members present. The Fares referred
to in the third dispatch is the man
who some weeks ago .cabled to the as
sembly from Washington, advising
them not 10 accept the $1,000, 600, and
saying that he was bringing a better
proposition. He is now in Havana
Sanguiliy declined to give the name
If the sender of the three cables, which
were signed with a code word. but they
are generally belieyed to have been
sent by a man named Cohen, VINO made
the original proposition Of loan to the
assembly. Cohen while in Havana kept
known. and hence it is difficult to learn
If he has actually returned to the
United States.
After considerable argument it was
finally decided to suspend action as to
the dissolution of the assembly, by the
discussion Of Senior Despaigne's motion
to disband the army and dissolve the
assembly, until the commission to
Washington shall have arrived here,
which will probably be four days from
now.
Inspector General Carlos Roloff of
the Cuban army, speaking in reference
to surrender Of the muster rolls, said
the accusations made by American pa
pers were unjust. He declared that he
had not withheld the lists. He con-
sidered them the property Of the Cuban
army, and, in fulfllment of his duty, he
delivered them TO the assembly, which |
represented the army, when requested |
to do so.