The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-05-11
WEYLER MAY RESIGN
HE Is DETERMINED TO EXECUTE
AMERICAN FILIBUsTERs.
Unless the Sentences Imposed ON the
Crew OF the Competitor Are Carried
Ont, He VIII Quit His Post.
PROTEST FROM WASHINGTON
MIR. CLEVELAND ALLEGED TO HAVE
SERVED WARNING ON SPAIN.
Execution of the Prisoners VIII he
Regarded as a Deliberate Outrage
ON This Government.
CASES REFERRED TO MADRID
| WHERE THE PRESIDENTS PROTEST
HAS CAUSED EXCITEMENT.
Our Relations with Spain Again
Strained to the Danger Pofnt-In-
tervention by q British Consul.
Execution of the Prisoners VIII BE
Regarded as a Deliberate Outrage
ON This Government.
CASES REFERRED TO MADRID
WHERE THE PRESIDENTS PROTEST
HAS CAUSED EXCITEMENT.
Our Relations with Spain Again
Strained to the Danger Point-In-
tervention by q British Consul.

WASHINGTON, May 10.-If any official
news has been received by the government
in Washington to-day regarding the Ameri-
cans captured aboard the Competitor by the
Spaniards and condemned by corrt-martial
to be shot. diligent inquiry fails to disclose
its nature. Secretary Olney, to whom a
note was addressed on the subject, replied
that there was nothing new to be made
public. Inquiry IN Congressional circles
among those directly interested in the case
Of one OF tho NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. that no
additional facts have been received by them.
Senator Pasco, of Florida, who has taken
especial interest in the cases, believes that
the Spanish government will not be inclined
toward hasty action, as in the present state
of public feeding any summary decision by
1T may lead to serious consequences. The
fact that the Havana officials have referred
the execution of the sentence TO Madrid is
source OF qualification to those interested
In the prisoners fate and inspires the be-
lief that some leniency may be shown. 1t
Is not improbable that an effort may be
made in Congress during the coming week
by resolution to acquaint the public with
the facts in the case by calling on the Pres
ident for information and requesting him
TO take such steps as will give the con-
demned men civil trial. In this connec-
tion the following dispatch, sent to the New
York Morning Journal by its correspondent
here. is interesting:
President Cleveland will not permit the
summary execution of American citizens by
Weyler. Secretary Olney was summoned to
the White House Saturday afternoon. After
a long conference Mr.. Olney returned to the
State Department and sent for Senor
DuPuy de LONE, the Spanish minister. To
in unequivocal terms. However ambiguous
the Secretary Of State may have been in
former communica tons. this time fifs Ian
guage admitted of no misconception. The
Secretary declared that in the opinion of the
PRESIDENT the Cuban question had reached
more acute stage than since the beginning
OF the war on the island.
General Weyler has refused TO intervene
IN the cases of the condemned men the
| tnat those prisoners must not be executed
upon the conviction OF military court
70 Havana without delay. He will leave for
Tampa at the earliest moment
President Cleveland is irritated at the
manifest purpose of the Spanish rulers to
| invoke absurd technicalities to sustain their
claim to the right to put TO death immedi-
ately the three Americans so summarily
| sentenced. The President has virtually taxi
| en- the matter in his own hands. In his
conference with Secretary Olney this after
noon he directed that the demands of this
| government be put in terms not to be mis-
| understood by either Weyler or his su-
| periors in Spain. He dictated dispatches to
CnlIcQ states Minister IaylOr at Madrid
| and to Consul-general Williams
The substance of the orders of President
| Cleveland is that if any single one of the
Americans captured with the Competitor
be summarily executed that act will be re-
garded by the United States a deliber-
| ate outrage upon this government; that as
| the Spanish authorities have been admon-
| ished that the government of the United
| States does not recognize their right to eg-
| ecute American citizens, upon the finding
| of a military tribunal, such execution would
| provoke the resentment of this government.
1.-The Indications are that President Cleve-
| land will have use for the magnificent fleet
| of war vessels arrayed under the flag Of
| Admiral Bunce al New York harbor. 1t is
| evident that the President has decided to
| can halt upon the Spanish butcheries in
| Cuba The only event that can prevent the
| sending of naval vessels TO Havana is the
| complete back-down of Weyler.
I'm his interview with Secretary Olney the
| Spanish minister sought to sustain the posi-
| ton taken by Weyler, but the Secretary
| warned him that President Cleveland would
| not tolerate the shedding Of American blood
| under the existing circumstances, and this
| point might just as we'll be understood from
/ the first Depuy de LONE was admonished
| to use his influence to prevent an open rup-
| ture between his government and the United
| States, and he cabled at once the substance
| of his talk with Secretary Oiney to the Mad
| rid authorities"
| Dispatches received here indicate that Gen.
| eral Weyler will resign unless the sentences
imposed on the Americans are carried out.