Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-19
4TH COMING HOME I?
vIRGrNrANs LEARN THEY ARE SOON
TO BE MUSTERED OUT.
OUR SWAY IN CUBA CRITICISED.
IL Tends 10 Anarchy, the Habnna
Papers sny--Lce's Corps vnccinnted.
Suspicion of YeIIow-Fever I'm First
Texas Regiment

HABANA, January 1s-El Diaro. FL
Marina, Ia Lucha. FL Pals. and La Dis
cussion, as we'll as other papers less In
fiuentiaI. indulge in editorial criticism OF
the United States military administra-
ton. asserting that IL tends to anarchy
They declare that each provincial COVER
nor and each garrison commander Is
military dictator. acting independently OF
the Governor-General, and exercising adj
minstrative, executive. judicial. and even
ecclesiastical functions. AZ result OF
this system, as these papers regard 1t,
there Is no uniformity OF action in de-
tails, and no general code of adminstra-
ton for the various localities.
On the attention OF Governor-General
Brooke being called to-day to an edito-
rial along these lines in La Lucha. he re-
piled that the criticism was unfounded,
as II was quite untrue that there was no
uniformity Of action.
"Exactly the reverse Is the fact" said
the Governor-GeneraL The same general
policy is observed by the military admin
istration In all parts OF the island"
SUSPICION OF YELLOW-FEVER.
The camp surgeons disagree regarding
a case of suspected yellow-fever In the
| First Texas Regiment, and expert opin-
ion will be called in. The five cases or
smallpox In the 16lst Indiana regiment
are now doing well.
The Seventh Army Corps men were
not vaccnated at Jacksonville, but have
undergone the operation here. out of 3Ol
men in the hospital, over 100 are down
| with measles.
Private advices from Washington were
received in camp last evening, indicating
that the Forty-ninth Iowa, Fourth ILL
nois, Fourth Virginia, and Ihird Ne
braska regiments would soon be mus
tered out. The news spread rapidly
through the camp and the members oil
these regiments cheered again and again
The newly-appointed Cabinet secreta'
ries will have distinctly limited powers
They are merely heads of departments
under General Brooke's direction. re-
porting TO him regularly. with the re
sponsbility for decisions and acts vested
exclusively I'm the Governor-General
FRIGHTFUL CONDITIONS.
Major-General Ludlow has been inform
ed of the frightful condition of the mu
nicipal hospital at Aldeco, where there !
an assortment of patients, INCLUDING
criminals and insane persons, neglected
with little food and that very unsuitable
and all the conditions of great wretched
ness. All the nurses have been attend
ing three smallpox cases and then pass
ing to other patients without chang
of clothing or any other precautio
against carrying the infection. Promr
measures will be taken to equip hos
pital in the immediate neighborhood, tha
will allow a separation of the patients.
committee appointed on Monday
inquire into the finances Of the city ia
J discovered that some salaries have bee
unpaid by Spain for every year since 1sS
There is great confusion in the account
with an infinite number OF claims again
the municipality.
Alfredo IAborde leader of the famot
Competitor flibustering expedition
April. 1896, has been appointed lieutel
ant OF police and Thomas Callazo an II
: spector.