Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-15
BACK FROM HAVANA
CAPT. MCINTYRE, WHO HAS AR
RANGED CLERICAL MACHINERY.

Capt. Frank Mcintyre. acting chief Of the
| bureau Of insular affairs. who has been in
Cuba comforting with Secretary Taft for
two weeks resumed his duties at the War
Department today. The insular bureau is
now charged. as it was in 1898. with the
| administration Of certain Cuban affairs
such as auditing and other civil duties as
cannot be performed In Havana. Capt.
Mcintyre has perfected arrangements by
Secretary Taft's' direction for the clerical
machinery and the business methods nee
essary to discharge that heavy task
Capt. Mcintyre was satisfied when he left
Havana that there was no likelihood of fur
Their disturbances in Cuba in the near fu-
i ture. The best interests in the island are
extremely anxious that they shall not lose
the prospective sugar crop, and the planters
| and others used their influence with both
sides in the late rebellion to bring about q
| cessation of hostflities with the single pur-
pose of getting the labor back on the plan
tat1ons in time to cut the cane and save Che
crop That work will continue until next
March at least, so that tranquility for that
period of time seems assured +,
For the same reason, namely that the Ia
Dor Is needed so badly on the plantations
no considerable element in Cuba is demand
ing the holding of elections that would call
the men away from their work. hence these
elections also are in the distant future next
spring being the earliest date vet mem
toned.
Claims for Property Destroyed.
Indications were not lacking that a con-
siderable number of claims for property de-
stroyed or taken during the course of the
rebellion would be filed with the provisional
government If it will receive them If not
they will in all probability be submitted to
the next regular constitutional government
of Cuba. Included in the list will be num-
Der of foreign claims, for the plantation
owners in many cases are foreigners and
the corporations that suffered from the re-
bellion, such as the railroads. which lost
bridges and stations, are owned by foreign
stockholders. Following the precedent laid
down by our own Spanish-American claims
commission in adjusting claims for dam
ages in Cuba growing out of the war of
separation, it is understood that none Of
these claims will be paid by the Cuban gov
eminent where they are based on damages
inflicted by the rebels. Only claims grow
ing out of property destroyed or used by
the titular government will be recognized.
1t was a practice of the insurgent generals
to freely avail themselves of individual
property for the maintenance Of troops.
They went through the form of giving the
owners of the property receipt for the
goods taken and a promise to pay in be-
half of 1.-The constitutional government of
Cuba" Many thousand dollars worth of
this paper is afloat in Cuba, and 1t is very
doubtful If any OF 1t will be redeemed al
next elections their congress may, as an act
of grace, though not Of legal right, pay the
claimants
A more serious matter is the large ex-
penditure of money by the Cuban govern
ment in its effort to suppress the rebellion.
and, while the figures are not positively
known here 1t is believed that in the pur
chase of arms and munitions Of war and
the payment of extraordinary bOuntieS to
volunteers about $12,O00,OOO has been ex-
pended.