The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-23
MANY WILL NOT TAKE MONEY.
sovE CUBAN SOLDIERS PREFER TO
KEEP THEIR ARMS.

provisions Decided Upon for the
Care of the Arms by Municipal
covernors-Many Soldiers of San
tt,go Province Will Keep Their
o,ns-Suanish La Lucha Talks of
rroubIe-The English La Lucha
saws war Would Mean Ruin.
Havana. May 22.-The Cuban arms
question is apparently nearing a complete
and rlpid settlement.
The pavment and dispersal of half the
armed bands that have been voluntarily
or unyoluntarily quartered on the coun-
,rv will begin, according TO the present
,rogramme. next Saturday in this city.
To-day GOV. Gen. Brooke and Gen. Max
imo Gomez had what both consider final
inerv,ew on the question of surrendering
tha arms. The payment order was signed
INV tbe governor general on Saturday, but
not published
Al the end of two hours and a half de-
,,ot45 TO its examination, Gen. Gomez
said he was entirely satisfied and felt con-
yiroed that the order met all the objee-
rions which had been raised. The text
of rhe article disposlng of the arms is
as follows:
"Tbe arms and equipments of the Cuban
soldiers will be turned over to the civil
governors or to the alcades of municipali
lies. either at the place of residence of
the soldiers or at the places of payment
nv the United States officers in charge.
Said governors and alcades are hereby
charged with the proper storage and care
of the same until they can be collected
for storage in Cuban arsenals at Havana
and Santiago, as already arranged
Receipts will be given to soldiers for
arms turned in, and civil governor and al
cades viii forward to headquarters a re-
port of the number of arms in their charge
Where 500 arms are stored in one place
an ex-Cuban soldier will be employed as
armorer and shall be paid for his services
by the general government. The name Of
such person shall be sent to headquarters
10 be placed on the rolls for the proper
and prompt payment for his services"
Will Not Take the Money.
Col. Acea. who was at one time a mem
ber Of the staff of the late Gen. An
tonic Maceo, to-day disbanded his force
OF 3O men, which had been stationed near
Aquizar province of Pinar del Rio, the
men going quietly to their homes with
their arms, resolved neither to accept the
money of the United States nor wait
longer in a condition of suspense
meeting of Cuban chiefs in the Occi-
dent or western provinces, has been call
ed 10 consider the situation and will prob
ably decide to adopt the same course.
Gen. Julio Sanguilly said to-day: "Our
officers and men realize the impossibility
OF resisting the Americans if a resort to
force should be had, but they earnestly
wish TO retain the arms which are rightful-
P theirs' and it will be a source of ani-
mostly if they are not allowed to do so"
la Discussion, in a spirited editorial
urges emulation of the example of the
Cuoans in the Orient, and reprints the
uSpatch of the veterans of Santiago to
Gen Mayia Rodriguez, announcing that
lnefe is no longer an organized army in
tne orient and declaring their determina-
uoh TO refuse American money.
La Lucha Predicts Trouble.
Ihe Spanish La Luoha says: 1.-THE rifle
represents TO each soldier much more
lAah dollars and it is not hard to proph-
tsy tAat the rest of the Cuban soldiers
WIZ initiate those in the eastern prov
hces. We are now standing over a
trouble, which, sooner or later, will break
CUT II the Americans prohibit the use of
a., an arms as they have already stopped
tne Importation"
ne English La Lucha, in an editorial
PoAuhg OUT the impossibillty of war, saws.
Ouoans are too intelligent not TO real
no tae rashness of such proceeding. It
would SIMPLY bring ruin; and they do not
~lsA 10 have the world think that they
want war"
is now believed that the disease which
a'"eked the Canary Islanders. who re-
tsnuy arrived here and which was
oousnt TO be yellow fever, is only pernici-
Gus malaria.