Wants Troops In Cuba

WANTS TROOPS IN CUBA

Dons Are Sending to Spain Property That Goes with the Island.

STRIPPING THE FORTS OF BIG GUNS.

Our Commissioners Powerless for Want of Soldiers-Witness Before the War Investigators Condemns Camp Thomas Except for Temporary Use.

Havana, Oct. 24.- The American commission has informed the Spanish commissioners that the United States troops would begin to come to the island during November.

The American commission here is placed in an unfortunate position. The Spanish government, it is alleged, daily commits some act in violation of the terms of the protocol, or the legality of which is doubtful - such as the removal of guns or the sale of government property, against which all the American commission is able to do is protest, which it does regularly only to see its protests unheeded and ignored. As one of the members of the commission said: "We cannot go out into the street and stop the guns being carted on the road ourselves. We should have troops or marines here to enforce our protests. All we can do is to protest, to which action no attention is paid. It is the most extraordinary situation ever known. In the teeth of the protests of our commission the Spaniards first dismounted the guns of the Alfonso XII in the Santa Clara battery and quietly returned them to the cruiser, and they now announce that she will sail for Spain on the 30th.

"These guns technically belonged to the fortress where they were placed and mounted, and could not accurately be considered as movable property. Next the authorities held a sale of about $200,000 worth of brass cannon, which were disposed of despite protests at less than half their value. Matters have now culminated, in total disregard of our commissioners, in the dismounting of the heavy Krupp guns in the Reina battery for shipment to Spain."