The herald., 1896-03-27
|NSURG[NT RECOGNITION
HOUSE CONFEREES AGREE TO ACCEPT
THE SENATE RESOLUTIONS
Debate Will Now Bs Transferred to the
House. and Of the Result There Is Very
Little Doubt-lnsurgent Supplies Landed
st Pinar Del Rio


st Pinar Del Rio
Associated Press Special Wire
WASHINGTON, March 26.-After session
with the senate conference committee on
the Cuban question today of less than half
an hour the house conferees agreed to &C
cept the senate resolutions. This action
will have the effect of taking the question
entirely out of the senate and transferring
all discussion TO the house.
The senate resolutions are as follows:
Resolved, By the senate. the house OF
representatives concurring therein, that, in
the opinion of congress-, condition OF pub.
lie war exists between the government of
Spain and the government proclaime dand
for some time maintained by force of arms
by the people of Cuba, and that the United
States of America should maintain a strict
neutrality between the contending powers.
according to each all the rights of beiliger-
ents in the ports and territory of the United
States.
Resolved. further. That the friendly
offices of the United States should be
offered by the president to the Spanish
government for the recognition of the in
dependence of Cuba.
EXPEDITIONS LANDED
HAVANA, March 26 (via Key West, Fla.)
The most important events in Cuba
within a week have been the successful
landing of Calazzo and the Calixto Garcia
radero Beach, the other the Bermuda. in
the harbor of Muriel, on the north coast of
Pinar del Rio, only few miles west of the
border line of Havana province.
To the insurgents, already strong in ev-
erything but equipment and ammunition.
these successful landings are likely to be
more far-reaching in their effects than the
vuir ~ AT haf a n
the expeditions. particularly the cargo Of
the Bermuda, means that the empty car
fridge belts will be filled in thousand
rebe! camps, and that thousands of sturdy
fellows, hitherto unarmed, will now carry
modern rifles, and that dynamite will
again become a factor in the warfare. The
Bermuda, so far as known, landed her en-
tire cargo without having been molested
or even challenged
A column of troops commanded by Col
onel Sanchez and E. Chevarri have cap
tured camp of insurgents at Cherety and
Santa Monica, province OF Pinar del Rio,
and are said to have obtained possession
of nearly all the supplies of the insurgents
of that province. The insurgents left fifty
killed and retired with many wounded.
Troops destroyed the stores which could
not be made available for the use of the
army. 1t is estimated the store. captured
are worth over $4,000
Captain.G eneral Weyler has once more
issued proclamation. He proclaiIns that
in view of the fact that the insurgents
avoid engagements with the troops, and
devote themselves entirely to actg Of in
cendiarism, he has resolved to deal with
them as incendiaries and bandits. applying
the rule set out in his former proclamation.
Maceo is now in the western end Of the
island. between the west coast and the
military line running through Mariet,
Majana, Guanajay, Waterloo. .Artemisa
and Neptune. The guardianship of this
line has been entrusted to Genera! Arolas,
who is riding along it with his chief of staf
and column of troops numbering $4,000
men. This renders Maceo's position very
critical, and the Spanish authorities once
more express their confidence that they
have the insurgents in a trap from which
they cannot escape. Gomez is at present
near Guines, but Is going westward.
The report OF the landing OF the flibus-
tering steamer Bermuda with an expedi-
ton headed by the insurgent general,
Calixto Garcia, on board, is confirmed.
General Pando has transferred his head
quarters to CienfueRos, province of Santa
Clara. A detachment OF insurgent cavalry
rode into the city Of Santa Clara at mid
night, fighting and shouting sal machete."
The raid caused considerable alarm, but
the insurgents were repulsed by the troops
stationed at the theater after some fighting
on the Plaza Armas and in the adjoining
streets. The insurgent leader, Vidal was
killed and the enemy retired with many
wounded. Sixiy.threc wounded eoldiers
have arrived here from the province of
Pinar del Rio.
SPANISH RElNFoRcEMENTs
New YORK, March PA special to the
World from Havana says: Another army
corps. it has been decided, is TO be sent
here from Spain in May. It will consist of
10000 infantry, 5000 cavalry and 10000
artillery.
PLATONIC SYMPATHY
New YORK. March pa special to the
World from Madrid, via Eayonne, France,
says:
it has leaked out in diplomatic circles
that the Spanish foreign office has been in
formed by it's amba ssadors in the principal
European courts that Spain is not likely to
receive more than purely platonic SYM
patty even from the French government,
in q conflict with the United States.
The Spanish representatives in all the
European coprts have discovered it is alb
soluteiy absurd to hope that European
governments would act in concert to sup
port Spain. even by friendly mediation or
moral influence. They have also discov-
cred that both thu foreign governments
and the whole European public wonder
why Spain does not Immediately give
Cuba and Porto Rico colonial autonomy
and self government such as England has
given 70 Canada, in order to disarm the
secessionists in Cuba and to conciiiate
American sympathF s. ~ff
THE BERMUDA FILIEUSTER
New YORK, March 27.--lhe Herald this
moruing says locally: fGe
No word has been received by the Cuban
iunta in this city relative 10 the report re-
Gently circulated to the elect that the
Bermuda had been fired upon and sunk
by u British warship, and the Cubans
generally discredited the rumor. Several
prominent leaders who were discussing
the Garcia expedition expressed their fears
that the report of the arrival of the Bey-
mutia was a mistake. They thought the
expedition which landed was another and
smaller one than that which sailed in the
Bermuda.
One, of the men who organized the ex-
pedition said:
I'VE have received as yet no confirma-
ton of the Bermuda's landing in Cuba,
nor can we reasonably expect it until her
captain reaches some port away from the
island, Kingston, Jamaica, for instance, or
Vera Graz, Mexico, from which she can
cable us direct. 1t may be some days yet
before positive information reaches us, hut
in the meantime it is hard for us to believe
that she has landed on the north coast of
the island.
"When the Bermuda left the Jersey
coast week ago last Tuesday she did not
follow the Atlantic coast line, but in ac-
cordance with the captains plan. steamed
straight to sea, laying a course that would
carry her several hundred miles to the east
ward of possible interference from either