Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1899 — OUSTS GOMEZ FROM OFFICE. [ARTICLE]

OUSTS GOMEZ FROM OFFICE.

Cuban Military Awembly Removes the General-in-Chief, The Cuban military assembly, in public session at Havana, impeached Gen. Maximo Gomez and removed him from his command as general in chief of the Cuban army, the first ballot taken resulting in twenty-six votes being cast in support of the motion to impeach and remove Gen. Gomez against four in opposition. Gen. Gomez’s only supporters were Gen. Cespedes and Gen. Nunez. Aguerro declared that Gomez was insubordinate and should be punished and Sanguilly insinuated that the general was 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 McKinley’s special emissary, without consulting the assembly, because he had taken upon himself the arrangements for the payment and disarming of the Cuban troops independent of the assembly and because he had declared to the assembly that he would observe its rulings in so far as he considered them beneficial to Cuba. The assembly then declared that the $3,000,000 is insufficient.