Evening star., 1896-04-06
Financial Stringsnoy Beginning to
Be Badly Felt.
DISSATISFACTION WITH GEN. WEYIER
GonzaIo De Quesada Sketches the
Conditions Now Existing.
cUBANs SURE OF SUCCESS

Senior Gonzalo de Quesada, secretary of
the. delegation which represents the Cuban
republic In this city, was seen at his rooms
in the Raleigh this morning by Star re-
porter and interrogated on the subject of
the war in Cuba and the developments of
the recent past in that connection. He had
just finished the perusal of a batch of
European newspapers and his correspond
ence
Il see that the Bank Of France and the
Low Countries has refused to lend
Spain any more money, In addition to the
100000 already advanced" said Senior
Quesada. land consequently Spain has been
compelled to call on her own people and to
sell or mortgage so-called Cuban securities.
What the result of this demand has been
Is still unknown, but when the depressed
condition Of affairs in Spain is considered
l may be pardoned for doubling Its success.
The worst part of the situation for Spain Is
that on May she will have to pay $5OOO,-
COO to the Bank of France and the Low
Countries. and in June the remaining S.
OOo.OOo of the $1O.OOO.OOO loan I have alluded
TO or forfeit the securities she deposited to
secure that loan.
The public in Spain is in state Of fer
ment and agitation over the manner in
which the war is being conducted" he con-
lnued: Spanish newspapers, which have
recently arrived, show general dissatisfac-
tlon existing over the failure of Weyler to
carry out the expectations of the people
whose clamor caused the recall of Martinez
Sampos, and led to Weyler's appointment.
me cry OF the papers Is that the war must
De Drought to an end shortly, no matter
What the cost may be.
"eyler's Unfulhlled Promises.
'Weyler promised when he left Spain to
clean out the insurgents from the provinces
OF Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas by
the 1st Of March. 1896. Some time after his
arrival In Cuba he went further, and de-
clared that by the 18th of March sugar
would be being ground in those three
provinces. and SO sure was he of this that
he announced his intention of moving his
headquarters to Matanzas.
To-day is the 9Th of April" continued
Seno- QueSada with a smile land Gen
Maceo is as strong as ever in Pinar del
R1o, where the Spanish have claimed to
nave mad him trapped many times. Maceo
enters or leaves the province as he sees fit
When he leaves we are told with great ac-
claim by the press censor in Havana that
ne has been driven out; when he returns
We are told by the same authority that he
Is trapped. The insurgents are also all over
the provinces of Havana and Matanzas,
and not plantation Is grinding sugar
Even the Spanish authorities have permit
ted the news to be sent out of the attacks
on and the destruction of towns within
twelve miles of the city Of Havana itself.
Gomez a Lively Corpse.
Gen. Gomez was reported few days ago
as being dead and buried, the name Of the
place where his demise occurred even be-
ing given. In this mornings dispatches
from Havana we hear he is in Santa Clara,
in the very heart of the island, occupying
a camp six miles long. Such a remarkable
case of resurrection probably has never
been chrOnicled in civilized annals before.
"Oh. it is most amusing; these mixed-up
dispatches we are treated to from Havana.
Every day there are from 800 to 1000 in
sursents killed, with occasionally a wound
ed mule on the Spanish side, according to
the official emanations from Havana given
out here by the Spanish minister. Still, in
spite Of all this enormous slaughter and
continued overwhelming victories on the
part of the Spanish forces, the revolutions
lists continue to hold more than three
fourths of the island under absolute au-
thority; with the officials in charge of the
prefectures loyal to the Cuban republic and
the property owners, even in the cities held
by the Spaniards themselves, paying their
taxes to the Cuban collectors. This is the
condition in the provinces of Puerto Prin-
cipe and Santiago de Cuba, to which prov
inces, by the way, the ten-years' war was
almost wholly confined.
The Spanish troops now in these prov
iDces are virtually prisoners of war In the
cities, and 1t Is not strange, therefore, that
the official news promulgators in Havana
and their agency at the Spanish legation
here never breathe a word about slaugh-
tiers and victories in Puerto Principe and
Santiago de Cuba.
Arms and Ammunition Easy to Land.
There is no trouble whatever in landing
arms and ammunition and medical stores
on the Cuban coast when once the ves-
sells containing them get beyond the risk of
illegal detention by the United States au-
thorities." said Quesada. During the last
three weeks Gen. Coldazo, Major Pena and
Cen Calxto Garcia, whom the Spanish
minister vigorously denied having landed.
reached Cuba, landing at three separate