Arizona republican., 1906-10-07
CUBAN STUBBORNNESS
 DELAYS DISARMAMENT
The Volunteers First Want Pay for Their
 Efficient Military Services
4 Popular Feeling Rising Against Palma Who is Accused of TEeachery in Bringing On the Interven- tiOn of the United States.

Havana Oct. 6.-The disarmament of the rebels cannot be successfully com pleted until the volunteers organized by the Cuban government have been paid off. disarmed and disbanded- That is the position taken by various rebel commands scattered throughout the island, which are strongly inclined to remain under arms until the volunteer organizations disappear. It is the only important element retarding the other wise fairly rapid dispersal of the rebel forces. The disposition of the provis- ional government is to yield to this demand. The volunteers would have been mustered out of service sooner but for the necessity to have some force in addition to the police for the purpose of guarding the towns.
 It is related, however, that in many sections the presence of the volunteers and the militia only acts as an irritant to the surrendering rebels. The con duct of the volunteers toward their late opponents is not always exemp- lary and what seems most needed is the presence of a sufficient force of United States soldiers and marines to so thoroughly garrison every town that the volunteers can be rapidly dispensed with and succeeded by capable and we'll disciplined American soldiers. Until the towns are thus garTisOned it is not believed that the qualification work will be complete.
 While the provisional government is not insistent on getting in all or even a majority of the guns held by the rebels, it is believed that most of these weapons would be surrendered but for the presence of the volunteers. This attitude is apparent at all points where % raxroITFfinDiGfC rnnGidHra hle force, but it is particularly so in south ern Santa Clara. where the progress of disbandment today was very poor and where the number of guns surrendered was ridiculously small as compared with the number of men dispersed. Of 5000 rebels visited in the Palmira dis trict the three days preceding today only 150 surrendered their rifles.
 QuarrelsOme conditions and threats are prevailing between the rebels and volunteers in the southern part of the province of Santiago, but elsewhere in that province it is believed the rebels have all been disbanded.
 Criticism of ex-President Palma on account of his invitation to the United States to intervene is now developing into denunciation. Editorials on this subject printed in the afternoon news papers vary from guardedly expressed suspicion by organs hitherto most friendly to Palma to violent execra- tions by opposing journals. The latter papers do not hesitate to characterize the conduct of Palma and ex-Secretary of State O'Farrel as traitorOus.
 La Discussion, formerly a govern ment organ. demands that the matter be probed until it's true history is de- veloped. Referring to the appearance that Palma played double in blaming President Roosevelt's commissioners for intervention which he himself pre- viously asked, the paper sums up the case. declaring that either O'Farrel or Col. Steinhart equivocated or were mis- taken, or that Palma had been decefv- ing his countrymen.
 The Associated Press learns that not even all the cabinet officers were in