The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-05-23
OMNIBUS SILENCE.
Matters Are Not So Quiet as They
Seem in Cuba.
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SOLDIERS WANT THEIR RIFLES
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And will Keep Them, Though They
Get No Money.
THIS COURSE Is MUCH COMMENDED
By the Influential Papers Of the Cuban
Capital.
is COURSE is MUCH COMMENDED
GENERAL GOMEZ MAY VISIT WASHINGTON
VIII Plead with Mckinley That
something he Done for
His Country.


following from Havana:
General Gomez said in his manifesto that
n the occasion REQUIRED he would 20 10
Washington and plead for the welfare OF
Cuba. Cespedes said tonight he thought
Gomez would sec President Mckinley II
something was not done Immediately.
Cespedes is going to America on Thurs
accompany him,
The situation here remains the same to-
day as yesterday, Governor General
Brooke took a trim into the country.
There is no information at Vedado In
regard to the much discussed decree.
General Gomez is fast losing prestige with
his army, and the anti Gomez leaders are
taking every opportunity to increase the
feeling OF bitterness.
Cuban officers were forced into accept
ing the last agreement between Generals
Brooke and Gomez to disarm quietly and
hand over their arms to municipal au
thorities by the strong feeling OF the Gu
ban people against further delay and their
desire to see the men go TO work bat
now that 1t is probable another hitch has
arisen they condemn Gomez for ever en-
tering into NEGOTIATIONS with the United
States, declaring he has been a tool IN
the American hands
The qutetness prevailing among the old
assemblymen and strong anti American
element OF The CubanH looks suspicious.
Under present conditions 1t is the black
element wherein danger lies. Their lead
ers are most bitter against American oc-
-cupation
! Juan Gomez is in Havana, but Quintin
/ Banderas is somewhere in tho country.
and he has influence with the blacks.
/ Havana, May 22-The arms question Is
/ apparently nearing a complete and rapid
I settlement The PAYMENT and dispersal
Of half OF the armed cuban bands will be.
| gin, according to the programme next
| Saturday in this city Today Governor
General Brooke aud General Maxine
Gomez bad what both consider 6nal
interview on the disposition 20 be made
of the arms. They went over The payment
of the Cuban soldiers and every word and
phrase of the agreement was re examined
and nothing was changed Al the end Of
two hours and half devoted to the eX-
animation General Gomez said he was
entirely satisfied and felt convinced that
the order met ali the objections which
had been raised no, only by himself. but
also bv those outside his councis The
text Of the article disposinG OF tho arms
's as follows;
The arms and equipment Of the Cuban
soldiers viii he turned over to the civil
governors or 20 the alcaldeB OF the mu-
/ inequalities. either al the place OF resi-
| dence of the soldiers. or he place Of pay
ment to the United States officers in
! charge Said civjl governors and alcaldea
huF md tssta l.
! age and care OF tho same until they can
be collected for storage in Cuban arsenaIs
/ OF Havana and Santiago as already ar
ranged
Other parts Of the order deal with
necessary details respecting the hiring OF
officers, the guarding OF the money and
/ the giving Of receipts
Colonel Actea. who was al one time n
! member Of the stan of the late General
Maceo, today disbanded his force of 900
men who had been stationed near Alduizar,
| province Of Pnar Del Rio The men going
quietly 10 their homes with their arms,
resolved neither TO accept the money of
the United States nor to walt longer in
condition Of suspense
A meeting Of the Cuban chiefs in the
| occldent or Western provinces has besn
called 10 consider the situation and VIII
probably decide to adopt he same course
! The staff officers and the generals who
say they do not want money and will not
surrender their arms but their assertions
are not regarded az specially significant.
General Julio S81guily said today Our
officers and men realize the imposslbility
OF resisting the Americans il a resort 10
force should be had. but they earnestly
wish 10 retain the arms. which are right
fully theirs. and II will be a source Of
animosity il they are not allowed to do
So"
La Discussion. in spirited editorial.
urged emulation OF the example OF the
Cubans in the Orient and reprints the
dispatch OF the veterans OF Santiago 10
General Msyia Rodriguez announcing that
1t Is no lonTer an organized army In the
Orient and declaring their determination
to refuse American money. The Spanish
La Lucia says The rifle represents to
each soldier more than dollars and II is
not hard TO prophesy that the rest OF The
Cuban soldiers will initiate those in the
eastern provinces. We are now standing
! over trouble which. sooner or later, VIII
| break out, II the Americans possess those
arms. as they have already stopped the
importation"
The English La Lucha. in an editorial,
| points out the impossibility Of war and
says "Cubsns are too Intelligent not to
realize the rashness OF such . proceeding.
II would simply bring ruin; and they do
not wish to have the world think that they
want war;