The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-05
Better Understanding of the Policy of
the United States Desired by
Many People in Cuba.
DISTURBANCE in A CAFE
SEVERAL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS AR
RESTED BY COLONEL GARY.
Rev. DIR. Craft, Who Wanted to Estab-
Iish Sisters of Charity at Havana,
InsuIted by Bishop Santander.

| HAVANA, Feb. 4-Prominent Americans
who are studying the Cuban question ex-
| press the belief that if the United States
! government would define its Cuban policy it
would do much to ameliorate the feelings
| of unrest, uncertainty and fear and the lack
| Of confidence which prevails among all ele-
| ments in the island. Occasional scraps of
news in partial explanation of America S fu-
ture course, they say, serve political opera
| tors with grounds of speculation and cause
misleading and incorrect statements to be
made From the Cuban standpoint the ac-
tions of the United States are full of mys-
| terry and evil portent. If the governments
policy were more definitely defined. it is
urged, Cuba would know who is to pay the
American army of occupation.
| La Lucia prints long list of Cuba's al
legged ills, from the pen of General Collazo,
| from which the following extracts are
| taken: 1.-The Treasury Department ex-
presses the intention of giving honest
administration, but it employs men who
were used to the dishonesties of the Spanish
regime, and the Department of Justice is
| administered as under Spain. We hoped,
| but vainly, that the Americans would teach
us new and better ways of government. It
| was logical to believe that they would
| break the old molds and build on methods
prevailing in the United States. There laws
! based on the demands Of the people pre-
| vail, but in the American administration in
| Cuba caprice rules with the sword and the
| Cubans are thrown aside and almost ex-
communicated.
| THE Cubans demanded with one voice
the payment of their army and the United
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and food. The United States come to in
| struct us in governing, but they will not let
us try to show what we can do. They come
| to give US independence, but seem to pre-
| pare for annexation. We may eventually
vote upon the question of annexation, but
| with the reins of government in the hands
of the Americans there is little hope of g
| fair expression of the peoples wants. The
| Capitalization Of power is established by
the fact that General Brooke, or the Wash
| ington government, makes the appoint
ments. We are growing to be a nation of
petty office seekers; we have no political
| personality. The ways of the Americans
are daily becoming more incomprehensible
We hoped to see the return of prosperity,
but the country cannot pay even the re-
duced taxes demanded"
ROW IN A CAFE.
AS Col. John Gary Evans, superintend-
ent of the department of corrections, was
going home last night he saw three United
| States soldiers, sailor and two or three
American civilians fighting with a crowd
of Cubans in a cafe on the Prado. Colonel
Evans, who was not in uniform stopped the
fight and arrested all those who were en-
| gagged in the disturbance. Courts-martial
were ordered this morning for Jacob Strobel
of Company K, and John Burns, Company
| II, Tenth Regiment, and Frank e. Johnson,
Company c, Second Artillery. John Weber
of the ship Hartford, was sent on board his
vessel badly cut on the head by a bottle.
Three Cubans were beaten.
Values on the local bourse and general
business confidence were revived yesterday
| by the exclusive news of the Associated
Press from Remedies of General Maxine
Gomezs acceptance of the proposition of
Mr.. Robert p Porter, President McKinleys
special commissioner, for the payment Of
the Cuban army.
The variety in the rates of exchange Of
Spanish and United States money causes the
Americans to complain that they are
cheated every day. The government en-
ployes are paid in large bills and cannot
get small ones in exchange. Governor
| General Brooke may consider the fixing of
equitable rates for local exchange without
| touching foreign transactions.
| Major General Ludlow, military governor
of the department of Havana, yesterday
| wired Secretary AIger that the death rate
for January was reduced 40 per cent. be-
| low that of the corresponding month last
| year, through the measures adopted for the
sanitation of streets and houses the clean
ing or local points of infection, the vigilance
/ exercised in watching for and isolating cases
of contagious diseases and the supply of
medicines to the sick and food to the starry
| ing. General Alger replied to-day as fol-
lows Your dispatch of yesterday is most
gratifying. Accept congratulations and
keep the good work going"
Much suffering exists among the dis
| charged men of the Spanish army who are
still in Cuba. They cannot find work and
have appealed for repatriation to General
! Castellanos, who replied that they had no
right to passage. and they are now appeal
ing to the Spanish war minister, Lieutenant
General Correa, begging him to send them
home before they die of hunger.
There are $3.50 civilians here from the
United States.
The cruiser Brooklyn sailed from this port
to-day.
The announcement that General Calixto
Garcias body is being brought here on the
United States gunboat Nashville, is very
pleasing to the Cubans and preparations are
being made for the holding of impressiona-
BILE service here. The City Council which
has the matter in hand has decided that
such action will be the best way Of express 4
ing the city's and the nations sorrow and
coincidence 1t is said that General Ludlow
will permit 500 Cuban soldiers under arms
to enter Havana On the day set for the