But there was another side to it all, a different line of activity.  Immediately after his arrival on the island, on April 11, 1895, Marti had issued a call for the selection of representatives to form a civil government.  He was killed before this was effected.  An assembly met, at Jimaguayu, in Camaguey, on September 13, 1895.  It consisted of twenty members, representing nearly all parts of the island.  Its purpose was the organization of a Cuban Republic.  On the 16th, it adopted a Constitution and, on the 18th, elected, as President, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, and as Vice-President, Bartolome Maso.  Secretaries and sub-secretaries were duly chosen, and all were formally installed.  Maximo Gomez was officially appointed as General-in-Chief of the army, with Antonio Maceo as Lieutenant General.  Tomas Estrada y Palma was chosen as delegate plenipotentiary and general agent abroad, with headquarters in New York.  Both civil and military organizations were, for a time, crude and somewhat incoherent.  It could not be otherwise.  They were engaged in a movement that could only succeed by success.  Arms and money were lacking.  The civil government was desirable in a field that the military arm could not cover.  Action lay with the military and with the Cuban Junta in the United States.  The latter organization immediately became active.  Calls were made for financial assistance and liberal responses were made, chiefly by Cubans.  In 1896 and 1897, bonds were issued and sold, or were exchanged for supplies and munitions of war.  For a number of years scandalous stories were afloat declaring that these bonds were printed by the acre, and issued, purely for speculative purposes, to the extent of millions upon millions of dollars.  The truth is that every bond printed, whether issued or unissued, has been fully accounted for, the actual issue being about $2,200,000.  Provision was made in Cuba’s Constitution for the recognition of this indebtedness, and it has since been discharged, while the plates and the unused bonds have been destroyed.  There may have been speculation in the bonds, as there was in the bonds issued by the United States during the Civil War, but Cuba’s conduct in the whole matter has been honest and most honorable.  In that matter certainly, its detractors have been confounded.  The principal difficulty encountered by the junta was the despatch to Cuba of the men and the munitions so greatly needed by those in the field.  That, however, is a story that I shall endeavor to tell, in part, in another chapter.  It cannot now, if ever, be told in full.