The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-03


of the crown, less o good percentage
| retained for the compensation and ag-
| grandizement of officers and employees
| and the establishment and maintenance
| Of q thorough espionage. The small pit
tance left in the island for local gov
| eminent was an act of grace py the
crown, not a concession OF right. LII IS
not surprising, under such a regime,
thta upon our occupation schoolhousea
were unknown, sanitation panlshed,
/ disease and cpidemics rife, harbors and
natural resources undevloped, capital
fearing investment, courts inlpeded
with circumlocution and intricacy OF
procedure prisons filled with persons
many of whom had been imprisoned
upon charges Of misdenleanors and de-
| prived Of liberty for years without trial,
The cities and towns were without suit
able lighting or transportation facill-
| ties, the country undeveloped, and re-
Eources dormant and unimproved, with
poverty and want on every hand. The
transformation to the conditions which
have existed since this island came un-
der the control and protection of thsi
government is Incompatible and phe-
nomenal.
BY direction of the president sched-
Of tariff duties was established and
promulgated for Santiago de Cuba,
which was extended to the entire island
upon it's evacuation by the Spanish
forces. The total collections of revenue
from all sources for the calendar year
1899 amounted to more than sixteen
millions of dollars, being six millions
of dollars more than ever reported In
any one year by the Spanish govern
ment under a schedule OF tariff duties
so per cent. higher than that estab-
lished by this government for Cuba.
OF these revenues fifteep millions OF
dollars came from customs, two hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars from
postal receipts, seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars from internal revenue,
an the balance from other sources.
The percentage OF cost of collection for
all the custom hoiises In the island Of
Cuba for the first, six months Of 1889
was 37-1O0 per cent, and for the port
of Havana 37-100 per cent. This per
centage at the port of Havana was
lower than the percentage Of cost OF
collection at any port of entry In the
United States as shown by the report
of the supervising special agent to the
secretary of the treasury for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1899 The percen-
tage of cost Of collection at New York
was 2 80-100 per cent, al Philadelphia
$4,000 per cent, at San Francisco 7
2o-100 per cent, at New Orleans IS 50-l0O
percent, and at Baltimore 10 50-10o per
cent. The percentage Of cost of collec-
ton at all ports in the United States,
as shown by the report above men
toned was 4 62-100 per cent, or
] 32-100 per cent. more than the cost of
collection throughout the customs SER
vice Of Cuba for the firts six months
of 1899. 'At
Judging by the first half of the pres
ent year, the port of Havana is ex-
ceeded in its annual collection only by
the ports Of New York, Philadelphia
and Boston in the order named, the lat
ter being less than 100000 year great
er than the port of Havana.
There have been expended more than
one and quarter millions of dollars
for construction, repair and renova
ton of barracks and quarters, and
cities and towns have been blessed with
the cleasing effect of more than three
of dollars in sanitation. The
munificent sum of nearly a million dol
lars has been used in administering to
the wants Of those who were left in
poverty and restitution, when Spain
her sovereignty. There
have been distributed to the destitute
more than FIVE millions rations pur-
chased from the appropriations of this
government, aside from one million ra-
tons donated by the philanthropists of
the country. The poor and INDECENT In
towns and cities throughout the ISL
and, and in homes and hospitals for |
the INDECENT and insane, have been re- |
Iieved from distress and want through |
these sums expended for charity.
There have been paid for the estab-
ishment of free schools and for re-
forms in the judiciary more than three
quarters of million Of dollars, and
most efficient postal service has been
established throughout this island by
he expenditure of but a quarter of
million If dollars over and above postal
receipts.
To relieve the distress, poverty and
which universally prevailed
1t the occupancy Of the island by this
government, public works in cities har-
oors and ports were commenced by
which the unemployed were employed,
esulting in a distribution of nearly
hree-quarters of a million of dollars,
giving employment to those who were
Without bread ana asking for work, not
harity. Through the wisdom and sa-
,acity of the president, more than two
nd a half millions of dollars were dis
ributed to more than thirty-three
men in the Cuban army. The
distribution of this money through this
hannel caused the disbandment of the
rmy, alleviated in great degree the
distressing conditions then existing. and
furnished to those who had left homes
nd pursuits Of life to battle for the
reedon? and liberty Of their race,
leans, though small, to return to their
evastated homes and lands and again
ngage in the cultivation of the soil.
Officers of the army Of the United
tatee were appointed collectors of
ustoms without other compensation
han their army pay. These appoint
lents ensured integrity in the manage
tent of custom houses, and saved to
he inhabitants of Cuba a large salary
count which would have been paid
ad civilian officials been appointed to
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