Los Angeles Herald, Number 106, 14 January 1899 — Moulton's Report [ARTICLE]

Moulton's Report

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.—A dispatch to the Tribune from Havana says: Colonel Moulton's report on the organization ot' the police force and his part in it has been made public, with the exceptions of portions which are reported to relate to the controversy with General Ludlow. 1 lie | admonitions from Washington seem to ha\ e j ended the controversy and to have checked some of General Ludlow s radical change* in what had been done by his predecessors. General Ludlow and General Menoeal ot the Cuban forces had a conference with General Lee relative to the organization ot a rural police. General Lee expected Menocal's active co-operation, but since the latter is to be in Havana some other insurgent commander can be designated for the The graves of the Maine victims in the Columbus Cemetery will be inclosed by a simple railing, which will preserve the si ot from neglect until it is determined whether a monument shall be erected or whether the bodies shall be disinterred and removed to the United States. The last Spanish soldiers at have embarked and not more than 10,000 remain at Cienfuegos and Matanzas. Both the Spanish and Cuban classes are giving great importance to the recent ai tions of General Gomez. Particulars ha\e been received in Havana of his recent utterances at Remedios and Caibarien. At the latter place he and his staff were invited to a breakfast given by the Spanish colony. This Spanish colony is an organization ot Spaniards all over the island, which sprung up almost spontaneously a few weeks before the Spanish sovereignty ended. Its avowed purpose is to preserve the unity of language and interests in Cuba, and it has supplanted all the other organizations ot , the Spanish classes. It is not hostile to, the American authorities, but its political i policy is not fully developed. General Gomez i had a two-fold purpose in accepting the invitation. as he wanted to reassure the Spanish residents'in Cuba that his promises made during the insurrection would be kept, and i also wanted to impress on his insurgent I followers that they must bury their animosities. At this dinner of the Spanish colony ; General Gomez repeated that he had made war against Spain and not against the Spaniards, and that all classes should work together to secure the payment of insurgent troops and the establishment of a Cuban republic. . The American officials stationed at ( aibarien were invited by the Spanish colony to assist in the reception to Gomez and accepted. All the newspapers attach extraordinary significance to Gomez's utterances. The leading Cuban ones fall into line, and radical sheets which have been advising a boycott of the Spaniards moderate their violence. The Executive Committee of the Cuban Army Assembly announces that Gomez will scon visit Havana. His coming will be an interesting test of his influence and of the degree to which his views arc accepted. The workingmen in the city are showing uneasiness over the change in money values. They want their wages in American money as a safeguard, and the laborers on the docks have struck to enforce their demand that American currency be substituted for Spanish gold.