New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-04
UBA'SGROWING REVENUES
ENCOURAGING FIGURES FROM THE HA-
yANA CUSTOM HOUSE.
MAJOR DoDGEs FINANCIAL TAsK-sPANIsH
COIN LEAVING THE ISLAND
THE HABEAs CORPUS.

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Havana. May 3.-Receipts at the Havana Gus.
.o,, House for April justify the prediction made
.ora than once In these dispatches that the
souect,ons at this port for 1899 will reach fully
s,oOOOOOO The April total is given as $500, 900
=, round numbers. This is a decrease of $36 COO
.,st one days collections from the figures for
,..rcb hut an increase Of S154 900 over Feb
nary and of S12000 over January. The total
..osnts for the first third OF the year
60 o4o 600. Yesterday SOL, 900 was collected at
.ha Custom House, an amount far above the
daily average
MAJOR DoDGES MISSION
Major Dodge, of the Army Pay Department,
.rr,ved here this morning the Havana, bring
inc with him S5O0.OOo with which to pay the
american troops. The chief object of his trip
,s however. to superintend the distribution of
,bs 100000 fund among the Cubans carried
IN the rolls of the insurgent army. After a
conference at vedado, it was announced that
nsvroent would be begun within a very few
days
DRIVING OUT SPANISH COIN
r-.s rapid flow Of American currency into Cuba
,s fastening the expectation of Spanish gold
and silver. whose legal and nominal valuation
IN Spain Twenty-six thousand dollars in Span
,sb pieces arrived to-day from Santiago where
only American money now passes current, for
shprnent abroad.
WELCOMING THE HABEAs CORPUS
Commenting on the decree ENGRAVING the
habeas corpus upon the criminal code. the Span
ish edition of La Lucha" says to-day: Every
body should rejoice at this great reform which
lo7xyC
ere not lacking. nevertheless. persons who view
that prospect with dsfavor. but this is due TO
the vicious intellectual education which they
have received. People accustomed to be gov
erned rudely cannot conceive of a system OF
procedure In which the social power exercises
its rule without prejudice to individual rights
or without heaping taunts on the accused 1t IL
said that the habeas corpus will leave the State
defenceless and will augment crime; but this
will not happen with a good police sustained
by the honest elements which form the majority
in avery society. When citizens themselves
effectively protected by the police and the courts
they will no longer fear the vengeance of crml-
mails and will cease to withhold their aid In the
uor,, Of Justice We have faith in the success
of the reform which the people Of Cuba VIII
welcome as the supreme guarantee Of the right
Of the citizen"
MRS BRooKE's WORK FOR CHARITY.
Tho wife Of Governor General Brooke was
some time ago chosen honorary president of
La Beuehciencia one OF the leading charitable
institutions of Havana Yesterday she made a
,,sit 70 the establishment and turned over to the
superntendent an order for $1,000 in gold. which
she had collected by private subscription in the
United States According to La Lucha'' Sloo
was contributed to this fund by President Nc
Kinley. and another 800 by Secretary Hay.
SANITARY WORK IN THE ISLAND.
The Insular Cabinet has prepared plan for
the establishment Of a bureau OF vaccination
which is to have general charge Of this i'm
nor,ant branch Of public hygiene throughout
the island. The bureau will! furnish virus for
all the provincial stations, and keep records of
all vaccinations made. With the institution OF
vaccination smallpox will soon cease
70 be a public menace in Cuba, and the bar
riars of quarantine caa be lowe red sufficiently
N allow travel to and from the United States
~ nursue for the greatest part Of the year its
natural and normal course.
Colonel Davis continues his exemplary work
Of hygiene and sanitation in this city. He has
issued orders forbiddng the carrying OF soiled
linen In streetcars or public conveyances, and'
what is an even more important precaution has
decided to compel the covering OF the open
sewers now emptying at hgh-water mark along
the city's ocean front.
Mr. BOOK SAILS FOR NEW-Yofth-
Gustave Book, the representative here OF the
Henry Clay G. Book Company, cigar manu-
tacturers will sail for New-York in the next
few days. to take part in the negotiations now
well advanced, for the merging of the henry
Clay with the Havana Commercial Company,
Mr. Book has just brought suit for tooVVo
against the spanish Government for INJURIES
done his property interests here by the span
ards during the war
FOR PRESIDENT OF CUBA.
-Apros crepvDrs HAS INFLUENTIAL BACKING