The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-06
cuba's Assembly in an Uproar.

CIDa'S Assembly IN an ODrOar.
Innocuous desuetude is likely to be
the fate of the bull fight in Cuba. APP
parently, under the beneficent admin
istration of the Americans. it is des-
tined to be supplanted by the political
shindy. in which the ward workers will
strive for the possession of the ballot
box and for the suppression of all who
are against the Cuban machine
The New York Sun, whose Cuban
news is the best now printed in Ameri-
can newspapers. publishes a story of
the meeting of the Cuban assembly.
held at Marianao the other day, about
the same hour that Senator Davis was
peacefully addressing the peaceable
Minnesota Legislature. The Cuban ia
cobson brought up the question of the
payment of the Cuban soldiers, pa
thriots.' as Mr.. Dooley describes them
to Mr. Hinnissy, and Immediately
there was tumult. One Cuban repre-
sentative so far forgot himself as to
accuse the griZzled Gomez of having
received a bride from the Americanos
The presiding officer endeavored to keep
the peace with his gavel, and, finding
ordered the guards to clear the hall of
reporters and outsiders. Naturally the
reporters protested, but it was in vain.
After they were all bundled outside
they listened intently at the leyhole,
in true journalistic fashion, where, ac-
cording to the Suns chronicler, who
presumably was among the expatri-
ated, the presidents bell could be heard
ding donging for more peace; and the
members fell to mouthing one another,
much after the fashion Of the Paris
chamber of deputies and other Latin
representative bodies. Their speech
es." We are told, were frequently In
terrupted by an uprOar that could be
heard a long distance" Ard Mr.. ia
cobson. of Lac qui Parle, was not pres
ent. either.
The upshot was that the Cuban as
sembly decided rot to accept the 49,
600, 900 for the soldiers offered by the
Great Father Washington. This will
be bitter news to the Americana tax
payer Indeed, the assembly not only
got con its ear" but also ION its dig
nifty" by declaring that $4,000, 600 was
about the proper figure, and that it
would raise this amount by "a loan"
There must have been some sort of
reaction in favor of Americana coin.
for after seven hours session the as
sembly emerged, having decided that It
would raise only $12, 900, 900, which sum,
together with the 100000 which this
government has agreed to pay to Sc
cure the DISPERSAL of the Cuban
army" would fix matters to the salts
faction of everybody-eXcept possibly
those poems of the United States who
pay taxes The assembly is now re-
Ported as being in some doubt about
whether it can raise 1.-The wind with
cut authority from this government. 1t
will take up the white mans burden
again, however, at Cerro, we are in
formed, and dispose of the matter in
secret, Cerro presumably being alto
gether remote from beer tunnels and
wine shops and hence less likely TO be
intru6ed upon by the representatives
of the Cuban press
This is only the beginning of the Gu
ban scheme of autonomy. When it Is
fully inflated and floated, the Ameri-
cano newspapers will be enlivened with
daily reports of the proceedings of the
Cuban chambers Get us hope the
scheme of government contemplates
not less than three chambers). We
shall no longer need to import the
news of the Paris chambers. All the
| fun contained in a barrel Of monkeys
| can then be procured within eighty
| miles of our own mainland
/ Clearly no form of government in
Cuba can be complete without all the
appu1 tenances of a Philadelphia or a
Cincinnati primary. After these have
become fully engrafted upon the body
polite, the Americana statesman of the
higher order may safely step in BY
that time Cuba will be about ripe for
| the United States to gather in-an-
other star in the diadem of the greatest
nation under the SUM-
Speed the day