New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-24
TO SETTLE DADY'S CLAJr
APPRAISERS TO BE NAMED-cryBsN
ERs BEFORE THE SENATORS


Havana. March 23.-Governor-Csensr,, NJ
to-day issued order appointing thru
praisers to settle the amount due M,ch.a,
Dady his contract One OF the ann-ot..S
will be choren by General Wood. another ~, .,a
municipality of Havana and the third hv ~
Dady. Their decision will be final
Another commission. consisting Of ,h-ss -
gineers. will be appointed to prepare a nlar =.
sewerage FOR the entire city. This win ha =
far as the American authorities in Cuba -r,
concern themselves, and General Woods 49,;
settles question which for a long time -
prevented the carrying out Of city imnro
ments The reports that were prepared by IN.
three engineering experts who were appoints,
at various times last year by General Ipa,o-.
to prepare plans and to submit opinions on n.
proposed sewerage schemes will be laid be,o,.
the Board. which will meet in the s,-,
part of April.
An order Will issue early next waAk 80.
ing the mayors much more extensive pov.-.
than they formerly had quite irrespectiva =,
the civil governors.
The Society of Planters visited the Sen,,.
Commission to-day and requested aid in the -,
fort to procure lowering Of duties on Cubao
sugar sent into the United States and mo,
machinery imported into Cuba They asked al,o
for increased facilities in the matter OF i'm
migration and for help in settling the ques,io,
Of liabilities of land debtors The comuitfa.
presented report on this last point asking N.
Senators TO forward it to Washington. This "a.
port says. in part:
At the end of the time named by Presidents
Mckinley within which creditors NAV NOT taLs
steps toward the recovery of money lent a
serious question will be presented 10 the Govern
ment and to the society The Government viii
difficulties of the situation of the creditor hav-
only made that situation worse. The socia,v
sees its productive forces paralyzed by the in
stability of the relations between debtor and
creditor. The society suggests that bonds ha
issued which might be given to the debtors IN
accordance with the value of their land. and the
debtors could then pay their creditors with
bonds. We ask that landhOlderS be allowed
ten years to repay the bonds in cash cancellinr
outstanding interest.
This is the most generally agitated question in
Cuba.
The Discussion" says:
Three autonomists in the OF their m.
terviews with the Senate Commission have -ac
commended that the United States should eyer
else the same suzerainty over Cuba which Spain
did during the late Autonomist Government
giving 1t as a reason for the recommendation
that Cuba Is not ready for independence. The
Satanic hate and spite Of the Autonomists are
unquestonable. Cubans should utterly boycol.
these people.
Senior Galvez, one OF the three Autononists
referred to. says that the conferences were en-
tirely confidential between the six men, and u
Is impossible that any other person could know
what passed.
The widow of the Cuban General Aguirre re-
Gently applied to the municipality of Havana
for pecuniary assistance. The municipality re-
piled that 1t was the duty of the State to help
the widows and orphans Of those killed in the
war, but, there was National Assembly
this duty devolved upon the intervening Govern
ment A report on the subject is TO be FOR.
warded by the municipality to the State De-
partment.
To-day the members of the Senate Commits
sion left Havana for Matanzas from which
point they Will proceed tomorrow to Cisnfue-
gos, returning on Tuesday. A special train
will be at their disposal the entire time. that
If they decide to visit Santa Clara they can do
SO comfortably. The Dolphin has started t0r
MatanZas. and the Senators sleep aboard
tonight