The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-10
TO IGNORE GOMEZ
GEN. BROOKE WILL PAY orr NUN
CUBAN ARMY WITHOUT
HIS AID
RAILWAY TRAFFIC STOPPED
me strike of Railway Employees u
Serious Inconvenience to the
People of Havana-Reuuest for
the Persecution of Gen. LudIoxx
VIII he Hefused-GOmez Not Yet
Notified of His Reimbursement.

HAVANA, April 9.-Today the Cuban
generals. who yesterday elected Gen.
Gomez commander-in-chief. were tn no
tify him officially of their action. Tbev
had not done so up to o'clock this even
ing Out 1t Is reported he Is TO be waited
upon by committee during the course
OF the evening. There are SO manv con-
Trajectory reports as to their intentions
and doings that the fact of their ac
complishing little or nothing is begin
ming to discredit In advance whatever
action they may ultimately take. which
for the best will be merely the comforting
OIL an honorary distinction, as Gen.
Brooke Is preparing to handle the nav
ment of the Cuban army quite indepen-
IDENTIFY of Gen. Gomez
All railway communication from ua-
vana eastward Is suspended because tba
strike of 200 employees Of the United
railroads affects the provinces of Matan-
zas and Santa Clara as we'll as routes to
Guana1ay, province of Pinar del Rio and
" 6atapano, on the southern coast of
Havana province, where the steamships
make their communication with Havana
NO freight. passengers or even milk could
be moved today. Many people. in ienor-
ance OF the situation, went to the city
stations and waited in hope the trains
could be started The inconvenience re-
sultfng Is very great. 1t is hoped. how
ever, that the strike will be settled by
the company acceding to the demands OF
the strikers, who want a re-establishment
OF the wage scale that existed before the
war.
TO IGNORE ORTIZ.
Secretary Of Justice Lanusa will prob
ably not comply with the request of
Judge Ortiz, of the Guadalupe district
court, Havana province, to prosecute
Gen. Ludlow, the military governor, for
interfering to prevent Dr. Juliffe and
Mr.. Barton. Americans, being kept in
communicate, as provided by the Span
ish law"
Judge Ortiz bases his request for the
prosecution upon the following paragraph
of the penal code:
Administrative or military function
aries who shall give orders or limitations
to judicial authority relative to actions
or matters in controversy, whose cog
nizance or decision Is within the exclusive
competency of courts of justice, shall in
cur the penalties of suspension in their
minimum and medium degrees, and of
fines ranging from G25 to $3.50 pesetas''
II the matter is brought to an issue the
duColiOH WILL Ne WuelISr an american
official has right to issue an order con-
travening Spanish law, unless support
ed by decree of the governor general.
Judge Ortiz insists that the incommunica-
do law is in full force, like all other
Spanish laws, which Gen. Brooke's proc
lamation Of Jan. 1 affirmed We're to be
unchanged.
Gen. Ludlow interviewed in the case of
Joliffe and Barton because the Spanish
70 oil fIn oft
and friends of the prisoners to have ac-
cess to them. It was this condition of
things that prompted his written instruc-
lions to Judge Ortiz not to apply the in
communicate rule to Americans.
A party of soldiers, while cleaning the
court yard of the palace, found a number
Of Spanish gold pieces. The members of
the squad Immediately staked off claims
in the Western style and dug up the
whole yard, finding coins dated all the
way from 1870 to 1903. and worth BOG Amer
lean dollars.