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Show CUBANS TO ?,K PAID. GENERAL BROOKE NOW HASTHE MUSTER ROLLS. The Officers of the Ciilmn Forces Seleo General Maximo (Jomoz as Their Representative In This Affair. Havana, April 15. Tho original rolla of the Cuban urmy having been de-I de-I livered to (lovemor-lleneral lirooke, the 53,000,000 sent to Cuba to distribute among the Cuban soldiers will now be disposed of. Senor Domingo Mendez Capote, vice-president of tho recently dissolved military nssembty, obtained the muster rolls from the special executive exec-utive committee that survived the assembly. as-sembly. Twelve geuerals and many other officers of the First and Second army corps of the Cuban forces met at Bayamo and decided to name General Maximo Gomez as tho representative of the Cuban army to the Americans, with full power to treat for the army. There were 120 votes in favor of Gomez and twelve against him. General Gomez has accepted the trust. After accepting the position of representative, rep-resentative, General Gomez said, in an address to his fellow officers: "A soon as this work is completed I desire full liberty to withdraw to aforeigu country or to any part of Cuba, there to spend the remainder of my days. Vfe must . recognize the only power today in ' Cuba is the power of those who have intervened, and, therefore, for the present, thoughts of a Cuban independent indepen-dent government can be no more thav dreams." |