The morning news., 1899-01-19
,1coIcsN RULE CRITICISED.
,,pERs CHARGE THAT 1T
BA' ~ u,JOsT ANARCHY.

General brooke says the s." Statements rmtrn"
Gen'i Are Unfounded and Untrue
ha"' ,,ious case of Fever-Over
4 'l-- - of Measles in the seventh
loV neral Ludlow Finds II
Corr ,.,e state of Affairs in H"-
.na Hospital
van" Ian ls-EI Diario de la Marina,
H.''- sa El Pals and La Discussion as
la - ,+bsr papers less influential in
wen =, editorial criticisms of the United
dl'se -ri.srv administration, asserting
o'-. .t, tends to anarchy.
'I-, ,.. declare that each provisional gov
i'-' ,, each garrison commander is
erno' dictator, acting Independently Of
n.'',,, s,rsrnor general and exercising ad-
'rs '-.s,.,tiye. legislative, judicial and even
-,ie.iastical functions.
result of this system, as those pa
As -,r3 it, there is no uniformity of
per- IN details and no general code of
aeuol euo'lI...ra,ior .'i for the various localities.
allli'',- .s, ~ttenri5n of Gov. Gen. Brooke be-
OH p.l ' today to an editorial along
hs nras in La Lucha. he replied
,hot -he criticism was unfounded' as IT
llia' l,,i+a untrue that there was. no uni
formity of action
lo.I.'' ,.l,l,-,ly the reverse is the fact" said
+bs Governor general. The same general
,,l... .I IS Observed by the military admins
py,i lr,tior in al parts of the island
sickness in Seventh Corps.
rss csmp surgeons disagree regarding
s os suspected yellow fever in the
o., Tsvas Regiment, and expert opinion
viii he called I'D.
The five cases of smallpox in the One
Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana Regiment
are now dong well.
The Seventh Army Corps men were not
,,oc,narsd at Jacksonville, but have I'M
5orgone the operation here. Out of 301
roe5 in the hospitals. over 100 are down
with measles.
private advices from Washington were
r.osirej in camp last evening indicating
hat the Forty-ninth Iowa, Fourth I'LL
rois Fourth virginia and Third Nebraska
voIrnteer regiments would soon be mus
tered out The news spread rapidly
through the camp and the members of
these regfments cheered again and again.
The newly appointed cabinet secretaries
will have distinctly limited powers. They
are merely heads of departments under
Gen. Rrooke's direct control, reporting to
him regularly. with the responsibility for
decisions and acts vested exclusively in
the governor general.
Badly Managed Hospital.
Mai Gen. Ludlow has been informed of
the frigatful condition of the municipal
hospital at AldecOa, where there is an
assortment of patients, including crimi-
mails and insane persons, neglected, with
little food and that very unsuitable, and
all the conditions of great wretchedness.
The nurses have been attending three
smallpox cases and then passing to other
patients without change of clothing or
any other precaution against carrying the
Infection Prompt measures will be taken
to equip hospital in the immediate neigh
borho0d that will allow a separation of the
patients
The commission appointed on Monday to
inquire into the finances of the city has
discovered that some salaries have been
unpaid BY Spain for every year since 1867
There is great confusion in the accounts
with an infinite number of claims against
the Municipality.
Alfredo Laborde, leader of the famous
Competitor flibus tering expedition of
April 1895, has been appointed a lieuten-
ant Of police and Thomas Callazo an in
spect0r