Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-05-07
CUBANS MUST STEAL.
So Says lacrst With Respect
to Them
A MOST GLOOMY OUTLOOK
Lower Glasses Will Soon Reach StarVa-
tion Point.
s.ooo. 900 WILL DO NO REAL GOOD.
IL VIII Soon he spent I'm Saloons -
Such Talk Believed to lie Causing
OutIawry-Strikes Are Spreading
Preparations for Paying Troops.

HABANA, May 6.-Utterances by Gene
raj Lacret and other of the Assemblist
leaders published here to-day might be
regarded as tending to inHame the minds
of the Cubans against the United States
and incite them to outlawry. General
Lacret is quoted as saying that, while
he has no doubt Of the honorable inten-
tons of the United States toward the
Cubans. troubles and MISUNDERSTANDING
arise through the ignorance Of depart
ments as to the conditions in Cuba
The General is also reported to have
said that he could not see how the lower
classes will be able to live during the
year. The crops are now harvested,
business is dull, and Industries are at
standstil. The capital of the islanders
is boarded, while foreign capital Is timid.
The General said he was confident that
starving Cubans would soon be obliged to
steal in order to keep body and soul to-
gether, and that were they, to steal his
property, he could not blame them.
MONEY WILL GO TO SALOONS.
AS for the 100000 from the United
States for the payment of the Cuban SOL
diers, that money he said, would soon be
spent in saloons, and would give no sub
stantial help.
Talk like this, which is repeated by
other prominent Cubans, is believed to
be causing outlawry.
Strikes are spreading. The stevedores
at Cienfuegos have again quit work.
General Wilson has ordered that the
reservoirs and tanks of the Cienfuegos
aqueduct be cleaned. They are in a filthy
condition, and to that source is at
tributed a large percentage of the illness
In Cienfuegos.
The Sisters of Charity of Matanzas, who
have been occupying the home owned by
Benehcencia. a charitable society, have
been ordered to move out. Major-Gene-
raj Brooke, the Go'ernor-General OF
Cuba, was asked to intervene, and tele-
graphed to the Benefcencia officials, for
bidding the expulsion of the nuns, who
are under American protection.
PETITION TO BUILD ROADS.
Fifteen districts. comprising fifty viii
lagos, have petitioned for authority 10
build wagon roads to establish commune
cation between various points and to fur
nsh needed employment for laborers.
General Brooke has ordered that in flu
ture soldiers dying shall be buried In the
military cemetery at Marianao, instead
of in the Colon Cemetery.
FORTY THOUSAND THE DIVISOR.
Forty thousand Will be used as the
divisor in fixing the shares of the SOL
diers in the s3,000,000 allotted by the
United States Government to be divided
among the Cuban troops, and the pay
ment will begin at the end of next week.
A general order declaring the payment
and setting forth the rules TO be OBJ
served will be issued by Governor-Gene-
raj Brooke on Monday next.
The Governor-General and General
Gomez have decided that II would be i'm
practicable to try TO verify further the
army rolls as submitted by the recently
dissolved Cuban Assembly. General
Brooke to-day sent to General Gomez
list of the commissioners for the several
CORPS. asking if he wished to make any
changes The commissioners-one Cuban
and one American for each corpS-will
be ordered TO meet at once In Habana,
TO take action as to the details Of the
division of the money.
ORDER OF PAYMENTS.
The order in which the payments Will
be made is as follows:
First, in Habana province; then in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio. Matanzas,
Santa Clara, Puerto Principe. and San
tiago.
The next important rule laid down Is
one requiring the giving up OF all arms
as a condition of the payment of the 40
each man is to receive.
After all the priyates and non-com-
missioned OTHERS are paid, some money
will be left and this remainder will prob
ably be divided among the manned and
destitute officers of the army.
AMERICAN LAWYERS IN HABANA.
General Ludlow, Military Governor Of
Uabana. recently asked Senior Lanuza.
Secretary of Justice in General Brooke's
Advisory Cabinet. to arrange 10 allow
American lawyers to practice here, be-
cause of the desire Of the American syn
dicates and merchants coming TO Ha-
hama TO employ Americans TO defend
their interests. Senior LanuZa referred
the matter to the Universidad. which
Governs admission to the Habana Bar.
and its reply. which was approved by the
Secretary of Justice was a refusal Of
tho request, 1t being held that IL would
be for the best interests OF Americans
10 employ Cubans with knowledge Of