Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-24
MAKE NO SEARCH FOR ARMS
Cuban Soldiers Can Bring Them In or Go
Without Their Money,
PREPARATIONS FOR DECORATION DAY
scnor Mora of the Opinion AboIishinE
of IncOmmunicndo system Is
wrong until Entire Judicial
Procedure lis Revised.


HAVANA, May 23.-l0:45 a. m.--Some Of
the lac insurgents aver that they will not
give up their arms, but Governor General
Brooke has no present intention OF making
a house to house search in order to seize
arms. Ii the Cuban soldiers are not Will
ing to bring in their arms and thereby get
the SO allotted to eacn man as his share OF
the $3OOO,OOO the matter will be passed
over.
Mrs. Estes G. Rathbone is organizing
Decoration day exercises. The graves Of
the forty nine American soldiers buried at
Quemados during the winter will be decor
ated with flowers, and General Fitzhugh
Lee will issue an order ON the subject of
the uSual military display. A special train
has been arranged for in order to take peo-
pie from this city to witness the Decoration
day celebration.
Senor Mora, the supreme court fiscal, in an
interview, is quoted as saying he agrees that
Senor Lanu2a, head Of the Department Of
Justice and Public Instruction, was wrong
to abolish the inCommunicado system before
reforming the entire procedure According
to the present method, it is pointed out, a
prisoner cannot arrange to have his friends
testify favorably or subsdi2e a lawyer.
The Spanish code Furnishes perjury severely,
but the people here have not the respect
for an oath which people have in the United
States. This Is owing to the corruption of
the Spanish officials, who had the idea of
profiting from everything done. Therefore,
Senior Mora added, the matter requires
careful study, and in the meanwhile | will
allow of no change until prepared to COM
plete the reform process"
The collector of customs, Major T. H.
Bliss, explained at a meeting of Spanish
merchants today the advantages of the
bonded warehouse and dock plan that he
had originated 1t appears that $4,000 900
are now spent on the antiquated lighter sys-
TEN, and 1t is the collectors design to build
two docks slightly longer than the New
York piers used by the Transatlantic Steam
ship companies, with double stories, electric
cranes and electric railroads. 1t is esti-
mated that they will save their cost in
twenty seven months.
Spirit of the Press.
La Union Espanola says editCrially today:
ut is easy to see the near approach of
war between Cuba and the United States"
La Discussion, which denounces this SEN
timent as absurd and malicious says:
Against the statements of such enemies
of Cuba are Cuban patriotism and the de-
termination not to delay or to endanger the
republic by a single imprudence."
The eightieth birthday of Queen Victoria
will be celebrated here by banquet given
by the British consul and the principal
British residents and British visitors to
Havana.
Among the guests OF American nation
ality will be Governor General Brooke and
Generals Lee, Chaffee, Ludlow and Humph-
reys and many other Americans OF prom
nence, Senor PeTfecto Lacoste, mayor OF
Havana, and Senor Federico Mora of the
supreme court.
All the army funds and the Cuban reve-
nues are now in the hands of the North
American Trust company, except the pay
masters funds, which by an order issued
today are to be deposited Immediately with
that institution.
Tho striking dockmen are giving some
trouble and orders have been issued to
place a military guard on the wharves as
a precaution against possible outbreaks.
Captain Greble, who has been in charge
of the distribution Of INDECENT rations, has
returned to duty with his regiment.
Spaninrds Forget Their Wives.
There are still many deserted wives of
Spanish officials on the relief list. with
them is a problem that puzzles the officials.
Several arrests have recently been made
under the municipal regulation that forbids
wearing an undershirt without a shirt or
coat Among those arrested are several
American teamsters. The working class OF
Cubans are fast adopting the practice of
both discarding coat and undeTshrts and
wear instead very short outer shirts leav-
ing several inches Of skin showing between
the bottom of the shirt and the trouser
band. This costume which is cool and com
Portable, though not exactly elegant, COM
plies with the law.
Major General Wilson, military governor
of the Matanzas- Santa Clara department,
will make an allowance of $4,000 month
for the purchase of oxen and implements to
enable the poor to cultivate the land and
rebuild homes in the interior of the prov
ince of Matanzas
At o'clock this afternoon the tempera-
ture in Havana was "a degrees Fahrenheit.