Omaha daily bee., 1900-01-23
WOOD ON TOUR OF INSPECTION
Governor General Arrives at 0ienfuegos and
Visits Is Institutions.
TO REFORM TIL: CUBAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM
Newly appointed Commission win
hcgin work ImmcdintcIS-ScVcrc
EnRctmentS Are to he Insti-
tutcd Against Perjury.

ClENFU EGOS, Cuba, Jan. 22-Geueral
Wood, General Lee Mrs Lee, General Chat
fee, Mrs Chaffee, General Ruis Rivera. Mrs.
Rivera, Miss Lee, Miss Richards. Colonel
Burton, inspector general; Colonel Black,
chief engineer Of the division of Cuba;
Lieutenant Harper. aide de camp to General
Chaffee Senor Gonzales, General Woods 8
secretary; Senior pedigo, General Lees sec
retary, and the correspondent of the Asso-
ciatei Press arrived here by special train
from Havana this afternoon.
General Wood had previously wired that
he did not desire any public reception or
demonstration Of any nature. He said he
was out for work, not pleasure and that
while the women of the party would avail
themselves of all opportunities for enjoy
ment he was personally on a tour of in
spection.
The party left Havana at 6l5 a. m. The
train halted half an hour at Matanzas, where
breakfast was taken, although the party did
not leave the depot,
Tho band OF the Tenth infantry played
a selection and all the officers on dutye at
Matanzas presented themselves. At other
places where the train stopped the mayors
came on board to make various requests,
chiefly for assistance Most of them as.
serted that the total absence Of public work
of any kind had greatly impeded the circu-
lation of money in their districts and that
capitalists were apparently not investing to
any large extent.
The civil government and chief of the
rural guard boarded the train at Santo Do
mingo and accompanied the party 10 Glen
fuogos. Hero General Wood went over all
the public institutions of the town, General
Chaffee accompanying him
At all the stations on the way the rural
guards lined up and presented arms.
General Wood and the party will leave
this evening for Trinidad.
TO Reform Cuban judicial system.
b. HAVANA, Jan. 22.--The newly appointed
law reform commission will begin work
almost Immediately. Among the principal
innovations will be the establishment OF
police correctional courts, presided over by
salaried judges. The judicial system
throughout the island will be made to lend
itself to the speedy handling Of cases in
order that Justice may be obtained with
out delay At the same time facility to ap-
peal will be granted. Severe enactments
will be instituted against perjury, the com
mission being Of the opinion that a few
severe sentences will go long way toward
stopping that crime. Procurators are to be
abolished. They are a class OF runners
between the courts and the lawyers. often
receiving money from both parties to liti-
cation and being quite unnecessary.
The Lucha says today:
General Wood is statesman rather than
soldier. This is exempifed in his latest
decree, in which he softens the harsh aad
abrupt rules of the military regime and
aims to stimulate civil procedure, well as
to avoid any confusion between the military
and civil authorities.
During December 1000 houses were disin-
fected in Havana.
Senior de Quesada has returned from his
tour of the island and reports that the pep
pie are cheerful and confident Of Cuba's
future under the administration of General
Wood. He is now busy preparing exhibits
for the Paris exposition. These, he says,
will be varied and numerous. He has a
large assortment of tropical woods. tobacco
and sugar and a really splendid collection
of mineral specimens