Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-13
CONTROVERSY
IS ENDED
Colonel MOultOn'S Report on
Havana Police Force.
UTTERANCES OF GOMEZ
Assures the Spaniards of the Island
That All of His Promises
Will Be Kept.

New York, Jan. ia dispatch to the
Tribune from Havana says: Colonel
Moulton's report on the organization of
the police force and his part in it has
been made public, with the exception OF
portions which are reported to relate to
the controversy with General Ludlow.
The admonitions from Washington seem
to have ended the controversy and to
have checked some of General Ludlows
radical changes in what had been done
by his predecessors.
General Ludlow and General Menocal,
of the Cuban forces, had a conference
with General Lee relative to the organ
ization of a rural police. General Lee ex-
pected Menocars active cooperation, but
since the latter is to be in Havana some
ignated for the work.
The graves of the Maine victims in the
Columbus cemetery will be inclosed by
a simple railing, which will preserve the
spot from neglect until it is determined
whether a monument shall be erected or
whether the bodies shall be disinterred
and removed to tn United States.
The last Spanish soldiers at Matanzas
have embarked and not more than 10000
remain at Cienfuegos and Matanzas.
Both the Spanish and Cuban classes
are giving great Importance to the re-
cent actions of General Gomez. Partlcu-
lars have been received in Havana OF
his recent utterances at Remedies and
Caibarien. At the latter place he and
his staff were invited to breakfast
| given by the Spanish colony. The Span
ish colony is an organization Of Span
| iards all over the island, which sprung
UP almost spontaneously few weeks be-
fore the Spanish sovereignty ended. It's
aVOWed purpose is to preserve the unity
of language and interests in Cuba, and it
has supplanted all the other organiZa-
| tions Of the Spanish classes. 1t is not
| hostile to the American authorities, but
| political policy is not fully developed.
| General Gomez had two-fold purpose
in accepting the invitation, as he wanted
to reassure the Spanish residents in Cuba
that his promises, made during the in
surrection, would be kept, and also want
ed to impress on his insurgent followers
that they must bury their animosities.
At this dinner of the Spanish colony
General Gomez repeated that he had
made war against Spain and not against
the Spanards and that all classes should
| work together to secure the payment of
of a Cuban republic. The American Off
cials stationed at Caibarien We're invited
by the Spanish colony to assist in the re-
ception to General Gomez, and accepted.
All the newspapers attach extra ordinary
significance to Gomezs utterances. The
leading Cuban ones fall into lines and
radical sheets, which have been advising
a boycott Of the Spaniards, moderate
their violence.
The executive committee of the Cuba n
army assembly announces that Gomez
will soon visit Havana. His coming will
be an interesting test of his influence
and of the degree to which his views are
accepted.
The working men in the city are show
ing uneasiness over the change in money
values They want their wages in Amer
lean money as a safeguard, and the la
borers on the docks have struck to en-
force their demand that American cur
rency be substituted for Spanish gold