The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-14
SPAIN SAID TO BE SATISFIED.
SENIOR DE LONE INTERVIEWED ON
THE PROCLAMATION.

] cans DfscusSed-A Fflibustering
Expedition said TO Have Slipped
Out of Philadelphia.
Washington, June IA Senior Enrique
/ Dupuy de Lone, the Spanish minister. is
more discrete than his predecessor. Senor
/ Muruaga, in discussing the Cuban COM
4 plicatiOns. When the Morning News cor
respondent called at the Spanish legation
to-day to inquire Of the minister if the
Presidents proclamation issued yester-
/ day on the Cuban question was satisfac-
tory to the Spanish government, Senior De
LONE, with delightful castllian accent.
replied that so far as he is individually
concerned he had no opinion to express as
/ to the proclamation. 1T is a matter be-
tween the Secretary of State and the prime
minister al Madrid. 1t is not a question
of whether I am satisfied or not. but you
may say that it is satisfactory at Ma
/ drid." This is as far as he would go on
the subject, for he has learned by expe-
rience, so he says, that diplomacy is the
science Of keeping silent at the proper
/ time"
He says he has established a rule since
he came to Washington as the representa-
tive of the Spanish government to avoid as
| far as possible discussing foreign affairs
/ in the newspapers, for it frequently hap
pens that very small and insignificant mat
/ ters are magnifed beyond all reason. THAT
fact" he added. will be demonstrated
when all the official correspondence in the
] 70 afF 10 al to
| That was really a small matter, yet 1t was
distorted and confused by too much unnec.
essary discussion on both sides. l will be
/ glad at any time to explain dispatches or
official communications after they have
been regularly promulgated, but pending
negotiations l must maintain discrete 81
! lence."
Senior de Lomes attention was next cali
/ ed TO the proceedings pending between the
/ United States and the Spanish government
growing out of the Incarceration of GER
| tain naturalized American citizens at Ha-
| vana, Cuba. The cases referred TO are those
of Francisco Carrillo. Julio Sanguily, and
Jose NJ. Aguirre These men reside in the
| city of Havana and they are charged with
| being sympathizers with the insurgents.
| Senior Aguirre and Senior Sanguily are said
10 have been actively engaged with the
| former insurgents in Cuba many years ago,
Dut tACy subsequently DtCdlle diiItu
under the laws of the United States and
are merchants at Havana. 1t is said that
they were arrested by the Spanish authori-
| ties at the railway station, and 1t is fur
ther charged that they We're then en- route
to join the belligerents. Senor
| Carrillo was arrested at his
home on a similar charge and because
he was regarded as a dangerous man by
! the Spanish authorities. Senior Aguirre
has many influential friends in the United
| States, and he has a brother in New York
| and one in St Louis. His friends are
| making vigorous effort to secure his re-
| lease from custody.
Senior de LONE says in the case of Car
| rille he claimed to be d naturalized Amer
lean citizen, but he could not produce sur
| ficient evidence to sustain that claim.
He was not entitled to the same treat
| ment that was due naturalized Amer
| lean citizen, so he was released, with
the understanding that he would leave
Cuba and never return. He is now in
New York, and his case is settled.
Seniors Aguirre and Sanguily are now
undergoing trial by the clvil authoriues
| of Havana When they were arrested the
citv of Havana was under martial law,
and they were treated as military priS-
oners. The fact that they are naturalized
| American citizens was brought TO the at
tention of the Secretary OF state and our
| representative at Havana notned the
Spanish government that Messrs. Aguirre
and Sanguily as American cltlzehs were
entitled under the treaty of 1895 and the
proctocol of Jan. /, 1877, between
/ Mr Gushing. minister to Spain, and Mr..
| Calderon V Collantss, Spanish minister
of state to a civil instead OF a military
trial. Senor de LONE says the trial IS now
in progress in accordance with the treaty
stipulations. This statement OF the case
/ a.. oYafi~ cd
/ the officials of the department OF state.
/ Pending the trial the prisoners named
are confined in the military prison at
/ Habana. lust across the bay from the city
/ of Havana. 1t is said that they are rem
/ dered more comfortable there than they
would be in the city of Havana. AS soon
as they established their citizenship they
were accorded o civil instead of mill
| tarv trial 1t is possible that the trial
NAV be dragged along for an unlimited
/ neriod. for it is likely that the Spanish
! government is better satisfied TO have
| these two men under trial, and therefore
harmless for the present at least.
Several consultations were held to-day
between Secretary Olney and Commodore
! Ramsay of the navy in connection with
| the Cuban matter. A member of the ad-
| rninistration who is actively engaged in
! this question said to-day that this gov
( ernnent realizes that nine-tenths Of the
American people sympathize with the Gu
ban beligerents in their struggle for liber-
ty. He said he knew III you should ask
the first hundred Americans you meet how
they stand on the Cuban question, ninety
five of the hundred would say: If it is
freedom they are fghing for, l am with
them The situation is just in that con-
dition that the United states government
is Obliged to respect the treaty made with
Spain as far back as 1885, and therefore
the Presidents proclamation yesterday
was in the nature OF precautionary
measure 1t is not generally admitted,
but it is nevertheless fact, that the
United states is to a certain degree ham
pered by the precedent set in the settle
nent of the Alabama claims. The policy
of arbitration resorted to in that instance
was not acceptable to any government
but our own, and in the event of dis
mute between the United States and Spain
and the matter is left to arbitration, all of
the countries of Europe will be only toe.
glad of an opportunity to give the United
States sor1e OF its own arbitration medi-
cine. Under the circumstances, the
United States IS obliged to proceed with
due deliberation IN dealing with this
question"
Information reached Washington