The supreme authority will be vested in the Captain-General, who will have to give his consent to all the acts of the Congress before they can become laws. The army and navy will be under his sole control and direction. Congress will have the right, subject to certain restrictions imposed by the home Government, to fix the tariff duties. The mayor and all the city officials will be elected by the people, and while the Spanish Government keeps to itself the right to the final voice in all decisions, the prospect offered the Cubans seems fair home rule. Porto Rico, another Spanish possession in the West Indies, is to enjoy the same privileges as Cuba. The insurgents, however, will have none of this. Both Gomez and Garcia have published proclamations, so severe in tone, that there can be no doubt that the insurgent leaders are sincere in their declaration that they will have nothing from Spain but independence. Here is Gomez's proclamation: "HEADQUARTERS OF THE GENERAL-IN-CHIEF OF THE } CUBAN ARMY, SANCTI-SPIRITUS, NOVEMBER 15th, } 1897, THIRD YEAR OF THE INDEPENDENCE. } "The news I have received of the establishment of autonomy in Cuba by the Spanish Government compels me to remind the military and civil leaders of the revolution once more that our only aim is independence. Therefore, "Article 1.--Any military commander of the Cuban army accepting proposals of autonomy from the Spanish Government, or even conferring with Spanish envoys for any arrangement of peace, shall be immediately put under arrest, summarily court-martialled, and, if declared guilty of such acts, sentenced to death as a traitor to his flag. "Article 2.--Any envoy from the Spanish Government, or from any Spanish or military commander, or from any political party favoring the Spanish dominion in Cuba, who shall approach our lines and confer or try to confer with any military or civil representative of the republic of Cuba, and propose to him the acceptance of autonomy from Spain, shall be immediately put under arrest, summarily court-martialled as a spy, and, if declared guilty, hanged according to our military laws. "These articles shall be enforced by all the generals and subordinates of the Cuban army in the West and Santa Clara, the general commander of the East already having orders to enforce our laws on the matter. For country and liberty. "MAXIMO GOMEZ." It is said that the publication of these proclamations has created a deep impression in Havana. Under these proclamations, any person who seeks the Cuban lines to offer home rule to the soldiers will be hanged as a spy, and any Cuban listening to such proposals will be shot as a traitor. The two brave commanders have therefore made it very difficult for Spanish agents to approach their soldiers and corrupt them.