Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-31
Wants the Cuban Troops to Be
Paid in Full.
TERMS OF DISARMAMENT
According TO Their Leader 1t Would
Take Sixty Million Dollars to
Pay the Officers.

new YORK, Jan. 31.-A special to the
tribune from Washington says Maximo
Gomez, the Cuban commanding general,
mas demanded nearly $50, 900, 900 from the
united States and refuses to disband his
| army until the money is paid He has
fepudiated the ARRANGEMENT made nv
CaliXto Garcia, who came to Washine-
ton with authority from Gomez to pro-
vide for the return of the Cubans to their
peaceful pursuits and whose work was
barely accomplished before his sudden
death of December II.
! II was then agreed that the United
states, in order to secure the prompt re-
sumption of labor on the plantations of
the island, with view of promoting the
speedy revival of prosperity and settled
conditions, should distribute about So. .OOO,- :
600 among the 10000 said to be still under
arms, equal to $100 a man.
! For over month the paw CORPS of the
army has been making ready to carry out
this arrangement, the national defense
FUND being available for the purposes
Accurate lists of those entitled to COM
pensation have been prepared and other
formalities gone through. 1t was intend
ed that the Cubans at the proper time
should apply at established American
garrisons in the various provinces, where,
on throwing down their arms and pre-
sentlng the proper credentials they were
to receive their quota of the allotment
from the pay officers at the stations.
In the meantime Gen. Brooke and his
chief aide have been endeavoring to give
employment, mostly of permanent
character to large numbers of Cubans.
IN order to restore the number recurring
a bounty and at the same time give the
inhabitants opportunity to begin govern
ing themselves. Gomez has come ont
against this scheme which was operatine
satisfactorily to most CubanS and has
struck for greater stakes 1t is officially
known that he is endeavoring to dissua de
CuDans from accepting office under the
American occupation and is urging all the
natives of every grade to stay with him
IN the field until the United States is
compelled to accede to his terms of dis
pandment Gomez alleges that his army
consists OF 10000 men and he insists that
most of them shall be paid for three
years service at the rates that prevailed
in the United States army.
He fixes the date of the Cuban declara-
ton OF independence February "a 1895,
as the beginning of the period from which
himself and forces are to be rcmunera ted
and for himself, with the rank of lieuten-
ant general, he will be satisfied with $11-
600 annually, the American rate for that
grade. Gomez has also about 20 major
generals for each of whom he wants
$500 annually, and his army" Is
equipped with nearly 200 brigadier gen
erals, each rated, according to the United
States army pay table at S., 500 annually
This aggregates the nice little sum of
So, $4,000 for generals alone; then there
are colOnes, lieutenant colonels and
majors whose numbers run into the
thousands The privates do not amount
to much for they are comparatively few,
but each of them will require $64S and the
army paymaSters who figured out the
total have reported that over S57 000 900
will be required to crafty the demands
Gomez has made, which is an average of
1,455 a man.
1t is to meet their demands and show
Gomez their absurdity that Gonzalo
Quesada, who for the last three years has
been the representative of the Cubans in
Washington, started for Cuba last week
after reaching thorough understanding
with the war department authorities.
Robert p. Porter went along with Mr..
Quesada as the official representative Of
the United States in the matter.