The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-01-27
BIG LOAN
Will BE Made TO the Cubans to
Enable Them t0 Pay off
Their Soldiers

! Havana, Jan. pa rumor mas beer
i'm circulation during the last few day.
that the United States viii lend 5000, ,OJI
TO be applied IN part payment Of arreas
of pay claimed by the cuban soldiers II
{ has provoked some strong criticism the
argument being that II the customs were
/ in The hands OF the Cubans the first
thing done would be to pay tho cuban sol.
diers in fun.
The executive committee of the Cuban
assembly makes public a document, the
/ Importance Of which lies IN tne fact that
the committee should have aeemod IT'S
publication necessary. The following eX-
rdcts will give an idea OF IT'S character;
1.-THE committee learns that some cx
citment prevails because OF the smalness
of the sum which it IS reported the Unit
ed States will loan 10 pay the cuban
troops. Although the reports of excitmcnl
are exaggregoted, the committee thinks
| / necessary 10 recommend TO t,.c civilian
and military elements concord unity and
the best discipline
LAS yet il has not been officially an-
nounced how much the United States will
lend or what the manner OF payment viii
DE. Tho Cuban assemblys committee "a
lay the case before the Washington gov
ernment Will soon return and judemeut
should be suspended until the facts are
known. This assembly Is properly the
representative and head Of the revolu-
tionary element. Our duty IS fuzzy to cN-
anime into the conditions that face MS
and to recommend the course of action
to be pursued. We have in the past wise
ly directed the action OF the people ana a c
fully able to continue TO do so.
The people should have confidence IN
tho assembly and obey it's rulings and
THE recommendations we believe noces-
sary.
We recommend quietude ana We do
not see cause for anxiety.
The Havana papers give prominence
to this address, saying THAT the voice of
the Cuban assembly. through the exc
cutive committee, should be listened 20
and needed.
Twenty thousand persons are fed dai-
ly in Cuba az the expense Of the United
States The machinery Of the military
administration is working toward the re-
/ lief Of fifteen or twenty thousand more
and probably another million rations vii
be required in addition to the two million
ordered on the first Of the montn Since
January 10, one million three hundred
thousand rations have been sent to de-
partment and district commanders,
The supply ship Comal now on her
way around the island. IS disembarklng
the remainder Of the two million rations
ordered for Cuba on January /. Yester-
day she landed u5,0vO rations at Matan-
zas, and she t. due to deposit 10000 al
| Neuvitas tomorrow. She viii then pro-
1 ceed 20 Clenfugos afterward coming "a
Havana.
, Reports received by Governor General
1 Brooke from Matanzas show tnat there
are 1900 destitute persons outside tn,
/ cities in that province DR.. Eschever.a
who has been collecting Information ir
the province, reports that about 900 need
! food on his estimates, ana General
| Wood, now In Havana, Is able 70 say that
! Santiago province Is not 80 need OF furth.
er rations
As the result OF conference between
| General Brooke and General Leonard
| Wood, a mutual understanding has been
reached regarding the customs receipt.
! at Santiago Santiago S2s.Oo0 W. not be
used in other provinces. The sum OF So
0Oj is required for the water works al San.
uago alone.
George W. Hyatt am American pro.
minent in Cuba for many years and q
member Of the special finance commltte,
now inquiring into the financial system
Of Hav7na. has been duly Installed "a,
mayor Of Guanabacoa by Captain Grehle
adjutant general. Guanabacoa. a suburb
! Of Havana, is included in General Lud
lows military department and Mr.. Hyatt
Is General Ludlows appointee. AS an
agent Of the Red Cross society he has
done excellent work In distributing relief
The ceremony Of installation was very
simple the outgoing alcade warmly wei
coming mis- successor in the name Of IN,
people Of the city whom he described al
"entircly satisfied with "a wh1',y com
mendable appointment"
The United states gunboat Machlas ar
rived here today.