The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-04-27
PAYMENT OF CUBAN ARMY
THE NUMBER OF MEN ENTITLED
 TO PAT.

In tho Opinion of General Gomez no More Than 3O,OOO Should share tho
 s3.0OO,00O from the United States La
 Discussion Vigorously Attacks tho Administration.
 Havana, April 26.-General Gomez
 and the committee of consulting Cuban
 generals, are sending despatches
 around the island asking the various
 subordinate commanders to make re-
 turns of the number of their men, as 1t
 is believed that the rolls submitted con
 tain too many cooks, camp followers
 and privates who left the army long
 ago. In the opinion of General Gomez
 no more than 30,000 are entitled to pay.
 The delay in making the payment is
 caused solely by this inability to de-
 eide as to a proper division of the $3.-
 000,O0O. Early in January the military
 administration forbade the importation and sale of rifles. As a result of the order such Cubans as were without rifles and equipment were unable to get
 them. Now, however, it has come to the knowledge of the administration that special efforts in that direction have been made, and no one will bU recognized at the pay table who does not have rifle.
 senor Pablo Desvernine, secretary of finance in General Brooke's advisory cabinet, returned to-day the decree re- garding mortgages, which is not to be- issued until telegraphic correspondence with Washington has settled one or two points now under criticism
 La Discussion says editoriaIly today: "All appear imbued with species of insanity. They do not realize the dep- tiny planned by the military adminis- tration. For President Mckinley the Cubans do not exist, but only Gomez; and Cuban independence now depends solely on President Mckinley, who Is guided entirely by the American mili- tary commanders in the island, just as Spain was guided by her captain gem eral. There is no difference between President Mckinley and Secretary Alger and Senor Sagasta and Senor Canoyas: no difference between General Brooke { and General Eaton and Marshal Blanco and General Arolas; no difference be- tween Mckinley and Brooke and SaE- asta and Weyler.' S
 La Lucha denounces the administra- tion of Major General Ludlow, military governor of Havana, as 'super1uous.'s "It is too much to say that the govern - ment now existing in Havana interfereg with itself. Senor Mora (the civil gov ernor) does nothing; and he does not suit General Ludlow, who is not thASs right man for the place. X
 The National league has made for mai announcement of it's policy It's is to establish liberal and rational government, based upon the concord of all the inhabitants par regardless of national differ- ences of birth.' Formal naturalization is required, however, in the case of for eign-born residents. The leagues pros nouncement asserts that for the recon struction of the country harmony is needed and there cannot be liberty with union in the work of political rebuild- ing" The results of former elections are to be entirely ignored, as not att tained under proper influences; and hereafter, according to the appeal of the league, candidates for office are to- be subjected solely to the tests of ca pability, honesty and the desire to serve the country.