New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-29
SENIOR LACOSTE ACCEPTS.
TAKES THE POST LEFT VACANT BY THE
RESIGNATION OF RIVERA.

Havana April 2S.-Sehor Perfecto Lacoste has
accepted the office Of Secretary of Agriculture,
made vacant by the resignation of General Ruis
Rivera.
A delegation from the Planters Association
called upon Sehor Lacoste and urged him TO
accept the office. and later visited Governor
General Wood and thanked him for the appoint
ment. which. they said, the best appoint
ment yet made by the United States Govern
ment, Sefor Lacoste represented in the most
complete manner the agriculturists Of Cuba.
To Senior Estrada Mora, Acting Mayor of Ha-
vana, will be offered the Mayoralty for the re-
mainder of the term. which will expire some
time after the elections held.
Members Of the Democratic Union party de-
clare that it will not be the policy OF the party
to try to win in the coming elections. Some OF
the members Of the party say they do not wish
to win owing to their belief that the municipal
tiles when elected will not be able to accomplish
anything, because of a lack OF funds and for
other reasons. Consequently. they will be dis
credited in the eyes Of the country. 1t is point
ed out by the officials of the Democratic Union
party that the proposed reforms in Havana sug-
gested in the programme issued by the Ma
tionaI party some weeks ago would be very
costly. and that il is not clear where the money
carry them out is to come from 1t is also
with regard to the intervening government have
not been defined, and consequently the results
Of the coming municipal elections are likely to
be barren and reflect discredit upon those who
took part in them.
The Democratic Union party contends that it
VIII gain strength owing to the revulsion OF
feeling, and it will thus be enabled to elect a
representative body to treat with the United
States on a general basis Of action. Those who
will be elected in the coming elections Will only
hold office for one year. and the Democratic
Union party contends that it cannot lose any
thing by holding aloof for that period.
The revenue gunboat Baracoa has captured a
small British sloop off Batabano engaged in the
sponge fishery The vessel is now in charge Of
the customs authorities.
The report that a sugar trust has been or
ganized in Berlin causes some uneasiness among
the sugar men here. They are fearful that this
will force the planters to accept the United
States the sole market.
An investigation into the allegation made IN
a dispatch from Madrid that Jesus Ranl' the
Cuban leader, had headed an 'insuTrectlonary
movement in the Province of Santiago de
cuba shows that Rabi yesterday was at his
farm near Manzanillo where he lives curing
the greater part of the year and tnat ne IS per
fecrly quiet. Governor-General Wood charac-
terzes the Madrid story as being absolutely
without foundation. He says there is no more
chance at present Of rising in santiago IMAM
OF a rising in Washington.
General Eusebio Hernandez. a prominent
member Of the Democratic Union, said recently
at meeting that only the Annexarionlsts
wanted immediate independence, as II the Amer
leans went away now they would scarcely ar
rive in New-York before they would be com
PEELED to return in order TO take possession OF
the island forever. He added that those VINO
are now screaming for independence" have
onlv been destroyers and pullers down, not hav-
ing attempted TO build ything permanent IN
the place of what they have been instrumental
in destroying.