Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1899-04-28
Especially Are Judiciary and POST
office Changes Being Made
Very Rapidly.
THE EXTENSION OF
CUBAN MORTGAGES.
II Grants Two Years Time In Which
These Debts Are 10 BE Paid
and Greatly Relieves the
Sugar Planters.

Havana. April q. - Major General
Chaffee. chief Of staff to the governor
general, and Senior Desyernine. secreta.
~ Of the treasury In the insular cabinet.
have returned from Washington and
their appearance at Vedado was signal
lied by the PRONUNCIATION Of the hing
looked for mortgage extension decree
The new order. Is brief, simply announc-
ing that two years time from May
will be granted for the payment Of mort
cages on realty now due or which may
become due within that period
General satisfaction had been ex-
pressed with the governments action in
granting two more years Of grace,
though the land owners were disposed
10 ask a greater extension. and he rad
ical Separatist politicians are little
exercised over the idea that the author
tiles at Washington should give any
legal or political guarantee with two
full years 20 run.
Governor General Brooke hns not yet
received from the secretary of justice
the decree he ordered prepared abolish
ing the odious legal custom Of inoom-
munication. The decree when issued
will 90 further than the mere annul-
ment Of this conspicuous abuse In the
old Spanish criminal code twill elm
mate many other seventies now prac-
ticed in the criminal administration and
provide for the submission in open court
OF all charges against prisoner,
The multiplication Of labor st.ikes
demonstrates the quick root American
ideas are taking In Cuba A week or
two ago the employees Of the United rail
roads Of Havana struck for higher wages
r but military exigencies soon broke the
tie up In Cienfuegos the steyedores
quit work and secured higher rate Of
wages.
At all the piers except that used By
the quartermasters department in
Havana. there have been half dozen
minor labor disturbances which seem 10
have eliminated in two new strikes one
by the longshoremen, al the big san
Jose wharf and the other by the EN-.
ployes Of the Havana waterworks CON.
G pany. In both cases the strikers are
q holding out for material increase In
j., wages
The Cuban mail service is also becom-
. ing highly Americanized Letter boxes
lof the American model still Illustrate
native efforts 10 solve their mechanism.
the letter carriers are soon 10 don uni.
] form which will rival those Of the GUS
tomhouse employees and of the munich
pal police. Early next month another
innovation is 10 be tried-a special mail
car. with all the modern convenience-
: for collection and distribution en- route.
At present the railway mail clerk IA.
to do his work on the bench Of second.
- class ear
La Lucha in its Spanish edition has a
timely rebuke for these native extrem
lists who are now painting the situation
in unrelieved black No other people
IL SAYS. has suffered transformation sc
absolute and complete rs have the Gu
bans with fewer disagreeable incident
and fewer disorders A country which
apart from the capitals and productiv,
ceniers. has since August last been LEFT
practically 10 itself. without any Other
protection than that its inhabitants
could improvise, has given great proc
that moderation since the isolated dis
orders which have occurred are nothing
ia compared 10 what has happened In othei
countries under analogous circum
stances The future Of Cuba, La Luch,
4 concludes. 80 far from being insecure an,
VI uncertain, appears both hopeful an,
hattering.
Six cases Of yellow fever have come Il
= light in the last 10 days but with th
continuance Of cool, dry weather n.
serious spread Of this disease Is antici
, pated. The death rate Of the city con
tinues unusually light