The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-07
Result of the Vote.


MADRID, April 6.-The result of the
vote of the question of the attitude of the
United States toward Cuba, taken on the
United States senates resolution in the
house today, was anxiously awaited here.
It is pointed out that hostilities must
I soon cease on account of the approach OF
the rainy season and no further reinforce
ments worth mentioning Will be sent TO
Cuba until the month of September But
the war department is making extensive
preparations in this connection and four
ircnclads and several torpedo boats are
ready to sail at short notice in order to
take part in the blockade of the coasts OF
Cuba should the insurgents be recognized
as belligerentS. The general opinion
here, however, is that the question as to
how and when the United States Will in
{ tervene in Cuba will be left to President
Cleveland, and it is believed that the
latter will only, at least as preliminary
offer
THE FRIENDLY OFFICES
of the United States in the matter, while
intimating that other steps may be taken
Should the offer be refused.
! Although some newspapers declare that
a crisis is at hand, the facts remain that
/ the people are almost entirely Gained
down and that little or no war talk is to
be heard. The military and naval prepar-
atoms being made by the war depart
ment and admiralty are more in the ma
/ ture of precautionary measures, the ult-
1fl1t6 OBJECT OIL WHICH Is the Anu
! still more energetic prosecution of the
campaign against the insurgents. There
/ is no intention to defy the United States
or to do anything calculated to inflame
popular feeling, although should 1t become
necessary to do so, 1t is understood that
the Spanish people will
RESPOND WITH ENTHUSIASM
to the call to arms in defense of Cuba
and the Spanish blood and treasury will
flow to the utmost in the efforts which
will be made to uphold the honor of the
country.
| The defenses of Havana have been
greatly strengthened recently by the ad-
dition to the armament of that place of
n number of the heaviest guns. Addi-
tional earth works have been thrown up
on the land side and everything possible
has been done to make that place capable
of withstanding combined attack by sea
and land. The Spanish troops in Cuba
now number about 10000 men of all arms
and the important towns and ports are
strongly garriSoned.
In spite of the fact that it has been
officially denied here and at Havana that
Captain General Weyler has rendered his
resigna tion or is to be recalled all classes
of people express surprise that the general
has been able to accomplish so little since
he assumed command in Cuba. Most peo-
Pile here. however. viewing the cutlery
against General Weyler, in the United
States. would look upon his recall under
the present circumstances as being very
much in the nature of a humiliating back
down on the part of Spain and this might
lead to serious results here. t-
But amongst all these clouds there is
feeling struggling for official recognition
that in arbitration there is a way out of
all such difficulties and that with mutual
concessions and
THE USE OF DIPLOMACY
OF high order some arrangements may
be arrived at which will give satisfaction
to all concerned. Cuba, it is asserted. all
claims to the contrary, could hardly,
under any circumstances, enter the sister,
hood of the United States in this genera
ton, and it is admitted here that the peo-
pie of the United States would be I'M
willing to declare war on Spain in order
to bring about such an addition to the
number of states of the union. There re-
mains, therefore, the plan of giving Cuba
some measure of self-government, which
may lead to a settlement of the internal
and external troubles which have ruined
Cuba for the time being, and which bid
fair to drive Spain into bankruptcy,,,