Show I CUSTOMS AT HAVANA All Subordinate Places t Be Fled By Cubans Washington Ja 15Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of War Meiklejohn gave out today to-day a synopsis of a report recently made by the collector of customs at nvana ColonelTaskar H Bliss Colonel Colo-nel Bliss writes that the operations at the cistoms house at Havana are pro Deeding very smoothly considering all of the conditions under which he has to ork On the day following his installation instal-lation a number of employees vacated I their positions Some of them were i Spaniards returning to their own country I coun-try or were employees who under the I SpanLh law ha become entitled to a letirmg pension Had this class remained I re-mained in the service their tensions I wouia nave Been aeoparmzeu utners left for reasons best known to themselves them-selves At present Colonel Bliss is carefully readjusting his force placing Americans only on guard where a gen I ersl supervision over the whole force is necessary I Colonel Bliss says that in his opinion the customs service of the island should be not only an object lesson but a school of instruction for the natives na-tives I can he says be made a object lesson by having no one except Americans In the service But i ca be made a school for instruction only by having the natives for the great mass employees with only enough Americans to se that their work is faithfully and honestly done Colonel Bliss announces that in addition to the weekly reports required from such collectors the executive order colecto by executve of De 9 he proposes to institute a s stem s-tem of daily reports showing all money received He thinks he can keep the war department daily informed in-formed as to the revenues of the island at a trifling expense Colonel Bliss found on hand when he took possession of the customs house at Havana only 1500 resulting from a I I special tax which was laid upon loading load-ing and unloading vessels under the Spanish regime His collections on the I first day amounted in cash to 152221 I The second day they rose to 392059 |