The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-01-03
THE SITUATION AT HAVANA
CONVENIENCE OF THE CUBAN SOL
 DIERS IN -4RMS.

Islands-Ncgotiatio for the Payment of the Cubans to be Conducted from
 Wasliington--P Payment is Demanded. ] Havana, Jan. 2,--The continuance or the Cubans in arms is the most puzzling question connected with the administra- tion of the island. The negotiations for the payment of the soldiers are to be conducted from Washington, so as to relieve Major General Brooke of his dif- fculty. For the present the Cuban com manders are holding their men closely together and under discipline. General Davis, military governor of the depart ment of Pinar del Rio has gone into the matter fully with General Rio Menocal and other Cuban commanders. They say that they expect the United States to pay them and that they will not disband until they get an answer. The majority of military observers here seem to think that probably the easiest way out is to make the payment, taking mortgage on the revenues of Cuba in the form of bonds. There are probably 35U0O men able to work but now spong- ing on the country. The United States military authorities do not look with favor upon the notion of forcible dis armament.
 General Brooke received to-day the following dispatch from General simon snyder, military governor of the depart ment of Santa Clara: Certain Cuban forces in the district of Castilda, the port of Trinidad, have surrendered their arms.'
 There are twelve vessels in Havana harbor to-day unloading, and the GUS toms entries for the first day figure out about S27 000. To-day's receipts are prs- sumably heavier than they will be later, Major Kennen of General Brooke's staff, while in the department of agriculture to-day, saw forty clerks doing nothing and told thirty-eight to go home until there was something for them to do Generals Brooks and Lud- low wish to use all the available clerks in all the departments; but 1t will be a slow operation to distinguish between the real workers andthose who are on the payrolls by favor. A general house cleaning in all the public buildings is an immediate necessity General Brooke and Mrs Brooke looked through the palace to-day. Eye and nose were of fended at what they encountered. The living apartments, as well as the offices are insufferably dirty and it would take two weeks to clean them General Brooke now governs the island from one small room in a crowded hotel
 One hundred and eight men of bat tery B are encamped on the plaza fronting the palace and around the statue of Ferdinand VII. They will act as palace guards relieving the 10th in- fantry men, who are at Camp Quema- dos resting. Out of 5000 men only thir- ty left yesterdays parade. The 1st Ne hraska regiment marched to camp to- day. Lieutenant Colonel Louis M. Maus, chief surgeon, says that less shan 1 per cent. of the Seventh army corps is on the sick list and there Is not a single case of yellow fever among the United States troops. He thinks it would be unWise to send freshly re- cruited regulars here in the spring. It would be better to leave the volunteers, who will have learned how to take care of themselves. The piping to con- duct water to the various camps is now in place. With the consent of the Washington authorities Lieutenant Col onel Maus will equip the general hospi- tai in the city for Americans only so that they may have the best care. Three sick and destitute Americans are in the care of private charity to-day. One man, who was formerly a railroad man. ager, was found almost dead in a hovel The cabinet of secretaries in the auton- onist government has rendered it's res- ignation.