The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-23
Sets Forth the Condition of AT
fairs in the Island.
SPANS REGIME is ARRAIGNED
Her Government Unable to Pro
tect Foreigners.
AUTONOMY is ONE SOLUTION
Yet the Consul General Says Even That
Remedy May Prove Intellectual
Now and the United States
May Have to Interfere.

lSHavanR Cuba. June 22.-Consul
General Zee forwarded to President
cleveland at noon Saturday dispatches
of the utmost Importance. They
should reach the President and Secre-
zfary Olney early in this week. The de-
spatehes contain the full reports of
the Consul General upon the Cuban sit
uation, and are of extremely sensa-
tional character.
In the dispatches there are two
quite distinct documents, the one who'll
ly confidential and for the personal
information of President Cleveland,
the other a clear, frank exposition of
the situation in the island at the pre-
sent time With the greatest candor
the representative of the United States
in Havana describes the existing con-
I dition of affairs in Cuba, both from a
political and a commercial point of
view
q MAY LEAD TO INTERVENTION.
Is, The New York Herald's special cor
respondent here sends to that paper
the following despatch under date of
June 20:
81 have seen Consul General Lee to-
day, and, notwithstanding his extreme
reticence and his refusal to reply to
questions in relation especially to his
]. confidential report to President Cleve-
land, am justified in drawing the con-
.clusion that his document is of tre-
mendous Importance to the United
States and to Spain. So strong is 1T,
in fact, that it's contents may it is
hinted, be made the basis of armed in
tervention in Cuban affairs on the part
of the administration at Washington.
ssThe report intended as information
particularly designed for the Depart
ment of State, and which will be pre-
sented to Secretary Olney, is, / am in
.sformed, and as I have already indicat-
.sed. a complete and impartial review of
the field. Consul General Lee takes
the ground. / understand, that the only
possible solution of the dreadful pro-
blem existing in the island is autono-
/. my on Canadian lines. While the
. Spanish flag flies in the island of Cuba,
Consul General Lee says, no other rem
!. edy can be found to stay the rebellion
, or end the bloodshed and devastation
which are at present making a Col
gotha of one of the fairest portions of
the earth's surface.
THE REMEDY PERHAPS TOO LATE.
.'Even this remedy, the Consul Gen.
eral informs President Cleveland and
Secretary Olney, at this late day may
be Intellectual. At one time in the
course of the rebellion the Cuban revo-
lutionists might. perhaps, have well
coined such autonomy, as it would
have won friends in a party of peculiar
respectability in the island. But at
present this party has lost its hold in
a great degree, and as for the insur-
gents and their friends their watch
words are now unconditional surrender
on the part of Spain and free republic
in Cuba.
"Consul General Lee finds that the
Spanish government has in many in
stances been entirely impotent in its
efforts to protect either the lives of for
-eigners resident in the island or their
property. This has been, perhaps, un-
avoidable, the Spanish troops having
been fully occupied in the field in re-
sisting the persistent raids and
strategic manoeuyres of the insur-
gents.
'sThe Consul General hints, finally,
that unless this danger to foreign resi-
dents can be avoided the recognition of
the belligerency of the Cuban reyolu-
tionists will soon become advisable"