Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-11-14
CUBAlS, It is Said, Do Not Desire Anglo-Saxon Re-
 cognition. GROVER IS SILENT. The Attempts to Outline the Presidents Policy are Based
 on Imagination.
GROVER IS SILENT.

CHICAGO, Nov. 11-A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, D. o., ssys "rhere has been DO change in the policy of the administration regarding Cuba, said Secretary Lamont, land as far as know none has been contemplated since the adjournment of congress. So far as the visit of Consul General Lee to Wash inRton Is concerned, 1t has no more sig nificsnce than my walking from the war department to my residence would have There are private matters demanding. General Lees attention in this country, and be came home to attend to them. He took advantage of this opportunity to enlighten the president as to The con- dItiOn of affairs and the exact situation in Cuba.
 "Whst the Presidents intentions may be in this matter are known to himself ard the speoulstions and surmises about proclamation according belligerent rights to the Cubsns are manufactured out of whole cloth.
 "As 8 matter of fact, the president has not even begun the preparation of his annual message to. congress. Nobody hss been taken into his confidence oD the Cuban question, and the people who are attempting to outline 8 plan for him are simply indulging in rot. This Gu osn matter has been settled and unset tied SO many times by clique of stock operators that it has become amusl lg to witness their movements. One day there is 6 rumor started which sends stocks soaring upward, 6nd the next day there is another yarn which causes a cores bonding depression of the market. It can be put down as 8 certainty, how- ever. that the president will pursue the same course in regard to Cuba that has marked his administration, regardless of clsmor from the outside.
 "It should be borne in mind, too, that the president is by no meaDs unad vised as to the people and condition of Cubs, for at the close of bis first admin lstrstion he went down to tse island with party of friends and studied things very closely while be was there.
 "There has been no communication between the president or secretary of state and the representative of any for eign government In regard to the Cuban situation, and consequently DO member of the diplomatic corps is competent to give any information concerning the plans of the administration on :hIs quss- tion. All sorts of stories are likely to be circulated, but they have absolutely no foundation DOT authority from any mem- Der of the administration"
 There is a difference of opinion in dip- lcmatic circles here from that expressed by the secretary of war, and members of the diplomatic corps are not at all backward about expressing themselves. One of the leading foreign representa- lives, who voices the feelings of the Spanish government, inclines to the be- lief that the president of the United States will make a recommendatio in line with the policy already indicated in & former dispatch. That course is to throw the entire responsibility upon con- gress.
 This diplomat has had interviews with Counsel General Lee. Secretary Olney and the Spanish minister within the last week, and he is more than ever con vinced that nothing will be attempted by the United States before the re-ss- sem bling of congress.
 "It not for any lack of sympathy with the Cubaus," said the diplomatic repre- sentative, "but because it does not seem the proper time for the United States to interfere.
 "And another argument against the intervention by the United States in Cuban affairs is that there is tendency on the part of the Cubans themselves to oppose any fraternizstion with the An glo-Ssxons."