The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-03-17
NEW RULE AS TO RATIONs.
Must Hereafter be Charged Against
Customs Receipts of Provinces.

Must Hereafter be Charged Against
Customs Receipts of Provinces.
Havana, March 16.--An order was is
sued to-day by the United States mill
tary authorities to the effect that all
rations distributed to the Cuban poor,
after the supply now on hand is ex-
hausted, shall be charged against the
customs receipts of the province in
which they are distributed. Monthly
acquisitions will be made as heretofore.
and the United States authorities will
supply, buying in the Cuban markets.
such articles as sugar and rice, if they
can be obtained to better advantage
here. The rest of the nations will be
bought in the United States.
General Fitzhugh lie has returned
here from Cienfuegos.
Chief of Police Menocal, owing to the
recent censures of the force carries
his resignation in his pocket He has
rendered it two or three times, but on
reconsideration has withdrawn it.
The new police force has unfortunately
created bad impression. During the
last few days the policemen have shown
timidity in handling people. They APP
pear to be undetermined and undecided
what to do or how to do it. People
have no respect for them and pay lit
tie attention to their orders, which are
not enforced.
Several of the policemen have asked
for a detail of American soldiers to help
them arrest law-breakers. saying our soi-
diers are the only men the law-breakers
will obey.
General Pedro Betancourt has arrived
from Matanzas and conferred with Gen
erals Pedro Diaz, Jesus Monteagudo,
Luis Robau, Alberto Nodarse and Fran
cisco Peraza, who last night decided 70
act in conjunction with him in condemn
ing the action Of the military assembly
Considerable interest attaches to the
attitude they viii adopt with respect tc
General Gomez, because they command
over twenty thousand Cuban soldiers
If they adhere to Gomez, it is asserted
that their action will probably be the
assembly's death bow. The general
feeling is that they will support him, but
they would like to secure the co-opera
ton Of General Mayia Rodriguez, com
manding general in the Provinces OF
Pinar del Rio, Matanzas, Havana and
Santa Clara, but this may prove difficult
as he has already publicly expressed his
adherence TO the assembly
Should Rodriguez continue TO defend
the assemblys course, and should these
generals declare in favor of Gomez
trouble might follow. They are corps
commanders under him, but their united
Influence is considered stronger than his
The meeting they had arranged for this
afternoon was postponed.
The talk of Gomez for President of the
Cuban Republic is increasing. as very
natural reaction against the censures
passed upon him by the military assem-
bly,.
ASSEMBLY MCST KEEP QUIET.
Washington, March 16.-There has
been further telegraphic correspondence
between General Brooke and the War
Department regarding conditions in Gu
ba, with the result that hereafter Gen
eral Brooke will confine himself wholly
within the terms of the resolution adopt.
ed by Congress before the war. Nc
Government, organization or set of mer
will be recognized. The United States
Government will deal with the people
of Cuba. 1t is not stated who the "peo
ple' are, but it is inferred that the
United States authorities will determine
that point as different questions arise
In the same connection it is regarded al
important that the census which has