The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-12
SILVEIRA FREE OF The SEAS.
BELIEVED TO HAVE THE LOST
MILLION on HIS CATTLE SHIP.
Plenty Of Countries That wouldn't Extra.
dIte Him n some Might BIackmaiI
IAlm Efforts to Catch Him somehow
STORY OF Plunge on soldiers warrants

Senior Manuel Silveira, Cuban banker,
Cuban lobbyist Cuban patriot, Cuban
revolutionist, Cuban promoter and alleged
Cuban wrscker Of J. M. Ceballos a Co., Is
80 far as 10 known to the authorities OF any
port on the Iive continents still sailing
blithely somewhere over the seven seas.
or q certainty he is comforted by the society
Of Sen ora Silveira and the Silveira chill
dren. Most OF the world is open to him
to and and abide wher he pleases. And
the ship Carmelina. under his command.
IL an argosy, q treasure ship as rich AZ my
ever taken across the ocean by Pizarro or
Cortez.
Sen or Msnuel-he may be King Manuel I.
of Silveira s~oon-has, unless some untoward
accident has befallen. life, liberty and h
pursuit OF happiness before him. More
over. the sehor has wealth in an amount
not reckoned by Ceballos q Co. prior to
yesterday. He has their million. There
was cumulative evidence of that yesterday
in cables from Havana. Besides , he haa
money belonging to William Solomon a Co.!
very prominent bankers Of this city. and other
prominent banking houses Of both this and
foreign countries. The ser or's treasure
ship very probably carries 81, 900 900. Very
likely it has much more.
But the Senior must not steer the argoey
toward Mexico. Belgium. Spain, England
or the United Stat e.. With these countries.
SO Senior c. A. Zayas, the Cuban Consul
General said yesterday, the Republic Of
Cuba has extradition treaties and Cuban
authorities might bring the Senior back.
Senior Zayas also said-and this information
is important to Senior Manuel ID Il Cuba has
no extradition treaties with other countries.
is il probable that Senior Silveira will he
arrested" an attache OF the consulate was
asked yesterday.
-Pouf!' was the reply. he may go as
far as he like"
william Nelson Cromwell, counsel for the
assignee Of T. NJ. Ceballos A Co, would not
talk about extradition. He did not wish,
he said, to make public the legal steps he
had either taken or contemplated to APP
prehend the fugitive. That u might give
valuable hints 10 Silveira he assigned as the
reason for a policy Of taciturnity.
However" added Mr.. Cromwell, you
gentlemen may rest assured that VIC have
put in motion the forces hat we consider
best calculated TO bring Silveira to Justice.
We rave acted promptly and, We hope,
effectively, and are not Respondent over
the outcome. We have engaged the best
Diet ective forces in the world"
HOW GET HIM? SEIZE HIM?
~ John s.. Fiske, one of the partners Of
Ceballos & Co., said that he feared Silveira
Ial u,aIa TO- Vapn,,raIo opa Of tho gron
countries for Cuban refugees.
As soon as | read the papers this morn
ing" said a lawyer very prominent in adj
miralty practice and with wide experience
in South American business matters, Il
judged that long before Silveira decided
upon his departure he picked out a destina-
ton where he knew he could not he molested
by the law. We Americans err in believ-
ing that the Yankee is shrewder than the
Spaniard. In my opinion there is no man
on earth who can do more things that ap-
pear bad and still keep within the letter
of the law than an INSCRIPTIONS. Spanish
merchant
This lawyer was OF the opinion that the
provisional government established by
Secretary Taft in Cuba assured to Cubans
all the rights existing under their own
loVs uIA NIOuNlCS nv GhAH Nih"b iD AAuAA
made no extended research into the matter.
and for that reason preferred not to be
quoted, but he believed that there would,
at any rate. be a grave question over the
right OF the United States Government
to extradite the flying Spaniard under
e%xtradition treaties between this Cow
ernment and foreign countries. From
his knowledge Of Spanish America, he said;
he should judge that the best way to get
the money was to go and get IL.
The despatch of an armed expedition to
take the money by force would be the last
touch on the romantic side. There is
another side, and this is quite as sordid as
any scandal ever revealed by the muck
rake.
THE sPEc. IN SOLDIERS WARRANTS.
This side concerns the payment of SOL
diers' warrants by the Cuban Government.
During the war with Spain American off,
GERS found it difficult TO count more than
1000 Cuban patriot soldiers and this num-
Der is very generally considered a high
estimate. Since the war, claims for
arrearsges of pay with interest for 80 900
soldiers have been passed upon and APP
proved by the commission appointed for
that purpose. To meet these arrearages Of
pay Inc SepuDIC mas appropriated b01,OOOs-
OO0, and it has actually paid in ash all bus
50, 800, 900 Of this amount. The remainder
is being passed out Of the treasury daily.
In 1908 the Cuban Government hoated
in this country a loan of SIS ,OOO. 900. OF
this amount s27, 900, 900 went to pay soldiers
claims. With half Of the obligation thus
discharged, there vas an incessant clamor,
fostered vigorously by politicians and
lobbyists, for the payment Of the remainder.
For this provision was made last year,
Il cannot help il" President Palma is re-
ported TO have said to an American official
demonstrating with him against the APP
parent scandal in he collection Of the claims.
The men in power here are interested
Palma gave his reluctant approval to a
measure providing for a bond i-rgs 81
sI2, 900 900 and the payment OF $4,000 OO IA
cash from current revenues, all to he used
in paying of the residu Of the war claims.
Sixty per rent Of the claims then o%utstand-
ing and the interest were to he paid in cash,
40 per cent. in bonds.
IL was well known then and has been since
that very little Of this money was to go to
any one Of the 81. 600 supDosed sOldierI.