New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-29
THE CUBAN ARMY LISTS.
PROBABILITY OF THEIR SWOLLEN PRO
PORTIONS BEING REDUCED.
MILLIONS OF AMERICAN FRACTIONAL
COINS IN HAVANA HARBOR AWAIT
ING DISTRIBUTION MORAL
REFORMS EXCITE Gu

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Havana April 2S.-The efforts Of the Ameri-
can military authorities to reduce to just and
reasonable proportions the swollen Cuban Army
lists promise to bear substantial fruit'
After many conferences between the committees
Of generals representing the insurgent forces
and General Ernst, the Governor-Generars chiet
of staff It has been decided to prepare two new
experimental lists-onc of the soldiers actually
under arms February 15. 1898. the day the
Maine was blown up, and one of those enroieu
April l of the same year, the day Governor
General Blanco under instructions from Ma
drid proclaimed truce with the Cubans. Cen
erals Brooke and Gomez then decide when
list more equitably represents the real hghting
strength Of the insurgent army. 1t is calculated
that not more than twenty Eight thousand
names Will be carried on the one of these two
rolls finally selected a basis for the distri-
button of the $3,O00OOO fund now locked up on
the Burnside
NEEDED SUPPLY OF SMALL COINS
The disbursement of this fund will release for
general circulation in Cuba a welcome supply OF
minor American coins. now much needed to re-
place the deprecated Spanish silver and copper
pieces. There the Burnside 2,JOoOoO IT,
cent pieces and 2OOOOO nckels. No effort has
pieces into popular USE the big copper centavos
Of Spanish coinage still holding the field.
REFORMS THAT AMAZE THEM.
Commenting on the fact that the DEGREES aboi-
fishing ull-hghting and cock-fghting are just
appearing in The Official Gazette" La Lucha'
INDUCES to-day in some good-natured banter
aimed at the Insular Cabinets reputed pro-
gramme of further social and domestic reforms.
ic gambling
which has been customary in Havana clubs VIII
be interdioted and that the favorite Cuban dis-
sipaton Of public balls will be subjected to many
novel restraints 1t is also suggested that the
Cabinet might we'll undertake TO suppress the
nawnshopa as incentives to improvdence. 10
travel oa this route is soon to reach heaven,
exclaims La Lucha" in its puzzled amazement
at these thicky crowdng Innovations Bull
dghting indeed ceased several months ago on
the departure OF the Spaniards. Cooking rnails
are still conducted, but with great secrecy l."
Santiago all gambling in the social clubs was
stopped last fall by General Woods orders
COMPLAINTS OF MEAGRE SALARIES.
The mustered-out American soldiers who have
been taken on the Havana police force are ais
posed to complain of the meagre salaries PAID
the guardians of the peace, and Of the long
hours Of regular duty. The local policeman gets
onlv $50 a month, which in an expensive city
like Havana is scarcely enough TO make ends
meet and the force is SO limited that according
TO the complaints made, patroiman mas oiteh
TO be on post eighteen hours out of the twenty
four Mistaken economy has perhaps been
shown IN all the civil departments here In re-
adopting the scale OF salaries paid under tne
Spanish administration. Few Spanish officials
cared what nominal salaries they drew, as
public commission OF any sort was looked upon
as a license TO line ones pockets literally at
the expense OF the Cuban public. Many span
ish sub-officials. with nominal salaries or less
than 81 600 had regular incomes OF Sloooo ana
$4,000 With rigid honesty OF administration
the connpensation offered in the Civil Service is
now in many cases inadequate, and far from
inducve to either efficiency or enthusiasm.
EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION FIGURES
To offset the gloomy predictions based the
departure Of 50 many Spaniards from the island,
one Of the local newspapers published a table
showing the totals of emigration and immigra-
ton for the months of January. February and
March. These figures show that 1,219 passen-
gers left this port. while 1896 landed here
The figures for April will. OF course. reverse this
apparently favorable balance, for most of the
now returning to the United States In large
numbers It is probably safe TO say that from
nineteen thousand twenty thousand Spaniards
have left Cuba since January 1. many of them
sailing from other ports than Havana.
MORTALITY IN HAVANA
During the week ending April % there were
ia deaths in the city. OF these none were due
to yellow fever. Diseases of the lungs prove. as
fat 70
thin-blooded population.