Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-26
CHINESE Are
- Shut OUT
Of Cuba by instructions to
Gen. Brooke.
SATISFACTION in HAVANA
AS These People and the Shiftless
Laborers From Other Islands
We're Not Wanted.
SATISFACTION in HAVANA

New York. April ga dispatch to the
Tribune from Havana says: The instruc-
ions received by General Brooke from
Washington to declare applicable to Cuba
the immigration laws of the United
States are certain to give general salts
faction here. For one thing, the new
regulations will prevent the ingress of
any more Chinese laborers, who, though
useful in certain ~employments, notably
the truck gardening. are from their
habits a constant menace to the public
health. The sanitary bureau has been
forced to burn out the quarters of the
/ various Chinese colonies here, there be-
| ing NJ other way to purify those centers
of contagion.
Another undesirable class of immi-
grants is likely to be prevented under
American law from overrunning the east
ern half of the island. This class is COM
posed of shiftless negroes from Jamaica,
Hayti and San Domingo. who may wish
to better their fortunes at Santiago and
elsewhere in the east. General Wood
foresaW embarrassment some time ago
and quietly put in force in his province
a norder returning the would-be immi-
grants who could not show $40 each in
ready money. General BrOokefs decree
will establish restrictions of this sort at
all Cuban ports on arrival of those who
threaten to become charges on the
island.
While the present conditions Of agri-
cultural prostration last there will be
little or no room here for additional
labor of unskilled classes. The council
of secretaries or insular cabinet, sub
mitted to General Brooke today the draft
of, a decree providing for the registra-
ton of aliens under the terms of article
. Of the treaty of Paris. After the regis
tration bureau is opened Spaniards who
desire to remain in Cuba will have a year
in which to decide whether or not they
will surrender their nationality. This
! postponement of a final choice on the
part of so many of the actual residents
of Cuba may COmplicate to some extent
| the problem of in%stituting a representa-
tive government for the island before a
native constituent assembly can be elect
4 ed. Some satisfactory definition of Cuban
citizenship must be evolved.
Not a few Of the leaders here who are
now struggling for political powers are
technically aliens. General Gomez is a
Santo Dominican general: Julio Sanguilly
/ is. or was, a naturaiized citizen OF the
United States, and dozens of revolution
/ airy leaders and agitators took out similar
H papers btlpIc NISpStIS IA LIN y
against Spain. Only a day or two ago a
Cuban lawyer presented himself as a cam
didate for a place on the new supreme
bench. He admitted that he was a natur-
allied American citizen and when asked
whether he would abandon his acquired
. citizenship to become a justice, he pro-
tested vigorously against the necessity
of any such remuneration. He had an es-
tate in the interior of the island and
| could not afford to give up the rights in
| volyed in surrendering such a safeguard.
Some difficulty has been experienced
in filing the places on the supreme
bench. Two more declinations to serve
have been received. one from Matanzas
and one from Puerto Principe. Senior
Eduardo Tamayo of Santiago, a prom
inent lawyer, t~elegraphed today, how
| ever. that he would take one Of the va
cant posts.
!. very sencfble experiment is being
tried by the Havana police authorities.
This consists in the enlistment of a
| special SQUAD of American ex-sOIdlers,
which is to be used in patrolllng the
| parts Of the city most f~requented by
| Americans. The new p~atroimen are eN-
pecIed to introduce an element of cool
ness and methods INTO the service, and
to minimize the %frictfont NOW existing
between the soldiers and police. They
will be especially valuable in handling
pltI XII taiiE 'It > oiiu
Others who become disorde1ly in the
streets and cafes. The police force
continues to engag in shooting ARRAYS.
Two detectives in plain clothes shot a
saloonkeeper yesterday apparently with
out sufficient justification, and one
roundsman was himself mortally
wounded last Saturday by an antagonist,
III escaped.
The Cuban telegraph operators are the
latest native body to complain of Amer
/ icanism They say that they are being
displaced by operators from the United
States. and have written to Gen. Gomez
to ask has influence to restore them to ia
vor. American operators are, in fact, in
good drmnnH in Cuba owing to their
greater experience and skill.