Show GOMEZ IS 1 IMPEACHED Cuban Commander in Chief Removed Re-moved By the Assembly + ItlANYOFFENSES CHARGED AGREED TO DIsBAND WITHOUT CONSULTING ASSEMBLY t oi 1ao Accepta Three Million Dollars I For the Army andShowed a Spirit of Ins bordip tion GomEz Is Greater Than theAsSemblyCoin Shipped to Cuba + Havana March nTh Cuban mill tary assembly l inpublic sessIon this afternoon af-ternoon imp ihed General Maximo I Gomez and removed him from his com I I mand as generalinchief of the Cuban I army the first ballot taken resulting Iin 26 votes being cas4tn4support of the i motion Impeach an remove General Gomez against 4 in opposition The i tneetlng lasted from 2 oclock untIl 7 General Gomezs only supporters were General Cespedes and General Nunez The original motion which was introduced by Senor Manuel San guilly provided for the abolition of the grade of generalInchlef but an amendment was offered to this bv Senor Se-nor guerro which read To abolish the grade of generalinchlef and to remove re-move General Gomez for failure In his mHltory duties and disobedince to the assembly Senor Aguerro declared that Gomez was insubordinate and should be punIshed pun-Ished and Senor Sanguilly insinuated that the general vas a traitor to Cuba Much passIon was evident in the speeches in some of which Gomez was declared to have been delinquent In his duties and dIsobedIent because he had accepted the proposition of Robert P Porter President McKinleys special emissary without consulting the assembly as-sembly because he had takea upon himself the arrangements for the payment pay-ment and disarming of the Cuban troops independent of the assembly and because he had declared to the w sembiy that he would observe its rulIngs rul-Ings in so far as he could see them beneficial ben-eficial to Cuba The assembly then declared that the 3000000 Is sufficient and that ithas not yet accepted the proposItion The dIscussion of thIs question will soon be t1len up now that General Gomez has been removed Senor Gonzales de Quesada who accompanied I ac-companied Mr Porter in Cuba was attacked at-tacked by Senors Gualberto Gomez Sangu1l1y and Agtierro who declared that he had acted in bad faith and had deceived them Senor Aguerro likened the present conditions confronting the assembly to those that confronted the French chamber when it was proposed to impeach PresIdent lIaclIahon I Colonel More and General Nunez declared de-clared that the present step was useless use-less and would male the assembly ridiculous in the eyes of the world Tomorrow General Gomez will be officially of-ficIally notified of the assembl 1 action General Gomez is believed to be stronger strong-er than the assembly In tile affection of the Cuban army Many privates are anxious to leave the army and go to work especially when they are able to obtain money to start them In life anew The position of the assembly Is notably not-ably weal as the military administration administra-tion supports Gomez also the planters and propertyownIng element who are tired of the Cuban army which subsists sub-sists half upci charity and half upon contrIbutions levIed by means of threats General Gomez received at Mollnas this evening a telephone message announcing an-nouncing to hIm the assemblys decIsion decI-sion He answered calmlY All right I enjoy the situation He then came to Havana to keep a dinner engagement engage-ment with his daughter at the house of a friend General Carrl1lo of General Gomezs staff and commander of thl > Sixth Cuban Cu-ban army corps It Is reported Is now engaged In writing a document discharging dis-charging from the assembly those members who represent that army declaring de-claring that they obtained their posts as army representatives Illegally At the termInation of tile session of the aSsembly Senor Lastra strongly crltlcised some of President Andrades rulings and was sharply called to order by President Andrade who Immediately Immediate-ly declared the meeting over A violent vio-lent dIscussion ensued between Senor Lastra and the nresldent Senor Santa Maria formerly president presi-dent of the Cuban republic was the n3f 3 f m 1 second man signing th Sanguilly ma tioa for Impeachment as amended by Senor Aguerro The news of the action of the 3SSrlrn I bly Is aU over Havana and thc cafes around the plaza are filled with excited men dfscusslng the situatIol1 The general gen-eral expreslon is one of strong censure ot the assembly The next meeting of that body wIll be held on Monday The surrendered arms of the Cuban troops will in accordance with agreement agree-ment between Governorqeneral Brooke iI and General Gomez be stored at Ha Fana and Santiago In the general custody cus-tody of the United States but under the Immediate charge of Cubans In the employ of the military 1Overnment Every Cuban soldier must give UD his arms even if they were bought by himself him-self or else he will receive no share of I the money advanced by the United States I |