The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-05-27
ORDER ISSUED BY MKINLEY
CREATING THE IMPORTANT OFFICES
OF AUDITOR AND TREASURER.
VIII Look After All Accounts and
Care of Money in Islands of Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines.

the $3,Vc,VU Wnlcn the united StdleS
government has offered as gratuity to the
Cuban troops OH. disbanding and surrender
ing their arms will begin at 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning at the foot of the Prado
Under the swollen muster rolls prepared by
the late Cuban Military Assembly. the
Americans who have closely followed the
subject are curious TO see what proportion
of the numbers listed will actually appear
There are only 400 on the list for Havana
ard Lieut. Col. George NJ. Randall of the
Eighth United States Infantry, the commits
sioner experimenting the distribution here,
does not expect any trouble.
That the rolls are regarded as unreliable
is plain from the official report of George
H. Chadwick, the clerk who has had charge
of the preparation of rolls in behalf or the
paymaster. He says that lists aggregat-
ing 1924 names were received from several
department commanders representing men
engaged in civil employment in their respec-
tive districts. The organizations in the
Cuban army to which these men belong
were not definitely stated in more than 200
cases, leaving 1,124 names to be searched
for on rolls containing 10000 names. "Of
these" says Mr.. Chadwick, "twenty-seven
were found. 1t appears strange that such
many cases unless purposely done"
Major General Ludlow, military governor
of the Department of Havana, forwarding
the list for his department, says: Some Of
the employees refused to give the desired
information. while others, ex-soldiers Of the
Cuban army. denied having been members
of the Cuban army at all. Many things in
the rolls from which our copies were made
tto INN cSiO
have been made up for the occasion of this
payment, but az General Ernest In his letter
to the adjutant general of the division on his
relinquishing his command here covered
these fully, 1 do not deem it necessary to
repeat them on paper, lest the generals
should have determined to discourage the
soldiers taking the $75.'
At a meeting of the Veterans of Independ-
ence last night, which was largely attended,
il was resolved to approve the decision Of
the army in the orient, or eastern provinces,
and to recommend the army in the occident.
or western provinces, to take the same
course. resolution declaring against Ell
ther giving up arms or accepting money
from the United States was carried unan-
imously. In accordance with this action,
Colonel Nunez began to disband his follow
ers to-day. 500 men being bileted among
the towns Of Pinar del Rio province. The
FIRST Brigade. 400 infantry and 500 cavalry.
are under orders TO muster out on May 81.
The Second Brigade. SAT cavalry and 800 in
fantry, will begin to muster out tomorrow.
Four regiments which Colonel Illeras has
quartered near San Antonio de las Banos.
with eighty cavalrymen Will be mustered
out next Monday.
The Cubans are attempting to form a club.
composed of all the government employees.
with view to a contribution of a per-
centage of salaries to a general fund for the
relief of the necessities of ex-soldiers.
Governor General Brooke has decree
ready to be Issued making editors and pub
fishers responsible for libes. The Spanish
law made the writer of an article alone
responsible, and therefore every Havana
editor has a hired substitute. paid to sign
articles Of a defamatory character This
substitute is usually longtime Jail bird"
who. for money enough to make imprison-
ment easy. will sign anything.
A decree is In preparation directing the
release of Spanish soldiers now serving
terms of imprisonment for purely military
offenses. There are several hundreds of
these In the island prisons
Another decree will abolish the practice
of 'jubilacion' in the educational system.
"Jubilacion" is the custom of hiring SUBJ
stitutes to fill places for less compensation
than the salary of the appointed incumbent.
For instance. one of the professors of the
Havana University has been In Spain for
the last nineteen years, all the while draw
ing salary Of 5000 a year, while his du-
ties have been discharged by a substitute.
who has been receiving $500 year Indeed.
nearly all the chairs of the university are
occupied in that way. The proposed de-
cree will direct that all such positions must
be filled within a month by the appointed
incumbent. and that otherwise the substitute
shall receive the full salary attached.
The collector of customs here, Major T. III.
Bliss. has ordered the ISLAND collectors TO
issue clearance 10 vessels carrying the coast
ing flag, going to the United States or for
eign ports, but he stipulates that the gov
ernment cannot guarantee to protect such
vessels either in the United States or else
where. Tie Havana papers. commenting on
the order. generally express dissatisfaction
and disgust. FL Diario de la Marina saws:
1T permits vessels to go to the United
States. but refuses them protection in Amer
lean waters. 1t shows an utter failure To
grasp the situation and TO offer a sensible
and just solution"
NEW OFFICES CREATED
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