The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-05
Military Assembly Has Settled the
Army Question.
YIELDED TO PRESSURE
ASSEMBLY DIssoLvEs, AFTER A
QUIET SESSION.
Ordered the Army to Disband and the
Muster Rolls Will Now Be Turned
Over to the American Authorities
Removal of Catholic Priest at
Governor Brooke's Request.

Havana, Aaril 4.-The Cuban mill
tary assembly this afternoon voted to
disband the army and to dissolve. The
voting was 81 in favor against / op-
posed.
The muster rolls were left in the
possession of the executive committee
of the assembly, who will facilitate the
preparation of copies for Governor
General Brooke.
The army question is considered set
tied.
'"As the shadows of night. fall over
the city we finish our work. So is CUBA S
future clouded and dark. l take leave
of you with sorrow, and my last words
are: May Cuba some day be free and
INDEPENDENT
With these words General Fernando
Freyre de Andrade, president of the
military assembly, closed its last ses-
sion at o'clock this evening. The
whole meeting was calm and dispaS-
sionate. 1t lasted four hours. General
Sanguilly's flights of oratory, in which
he lilsened the members of the assem-
bly, to a band of faithful workers, de-
voted to Cubas good. but finally van
pushed by uncomfortable conditions,
were received with applause.
The assembly ordered the disbanding
of the army in accordance with Senior
de Spaigne's motion, and passed upon
the details and methods of the disband-
ment. A new executive committee was
then appointed to attend to the routine
work connected with the commission of
Cuban officers, and this committee win
supply to General Brooke the copies of
the Cuban muster rolls. Twenty-Five
members attended the closing session.
tnT of O-in
who was chosen president of the Cuban
republic at the meeting of the provin-
cial delegates at Puerto Principe, Sept.
g. 1895, and was ultimately succeeded
by Senior Bartolomeo Masso, was the
only member to vote against the reSo-
lutions to disband and to dissolve. To
the very last he declared that, in anv
event the resolution TO dissolve was
unconstitutional, and that he would
never give up his position until a new
assembly had been elected. Senior Cts
neros is very old man, his voice is
weak, and his protests were hardly
needed by his colleagues.
CATHOLIC PRIEST REMOVED.
Monsignor Santander, bishop OF Ha-
vana, at he suggestion of Governor
General Brooke, has removed a priest
in Cabezas parish, province of Matan-
ton by the military administration in
ecclesiastical affairs. Major General
Wilson, military governor of the de-
partment of Matanzas, wrote to head
quarters that the priest in question was
a drunken, worthless, dirty oldSscoun-
drel'; that he had Dastured his hn-se
in the cemetery, and let the consecrated
enclosure so to weeds, and that if the
bishop did not remove him, he General
a,n -, 1T
sponsibility.
General Wilson was requested to
make a report on the case in a differ
ent form, which he did The latter was
referred to Mgr. Santander, with rec
concentration that he take proper ac-
ton and this resulted in the removal
of the offending priest.
The Fourth illinois sailed today by
the Yarmouth and the Whitney for
Egmont Key, whence, after five days
quarantine there, it wal proceed TO
TAMPA.