The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-05-13
Weyler is Still Captain General
of Cuba.
HAS NOT BEEN DISMISSED
But General Blaco May Sue
ceed Him.
ATTITUDE OF UNITED STATES
The Government in Spain Does Not
Believe that President CIeVe-
land Will Recognize the
insurgents.
Insurgents

Havana, May 12.-There is 4po foun-
dation for the rumors that Captain
General Weyler has been dismissed.
The naval authorities have formed
an ordinary court-martial for the trial
of Chas. Barnett and VIM. Leavitt, the
two Americans who are said to have
formed part of the Competitor expedi-
ton and who were captured, as an
nounced in these dispatches yesterday,
by the local guerrilla of Palma, Pinar
del Rio.
Madrid. May 12.-At a meeting Of the
Liberal Deputies and Senators last
evening Senior Sagasta admitted the
difficulties attending the immediate
application of reforms to Cuba and de-
MED the right Of the United States
to recognize the insurgents as belliger-
ents since, he added, they did nothing
but flee before the Spanish troops,
burning property and committing
murder
Continuing Senior Sagasta expressed
the be lief that President Cleveland
would not accord belligerent rights TO
''rebels who have no government with
a fixed place of residence and who do
not hold fortified position"
Senior Sagasta also promised to sup
port the government in the matter of
the expenditures necessary to prose
cute the Cuban campaign and declared
that the elections in Madrid and Cuba
will be quashed.
The Correspondence says it believes
that if Captain-GeneraI Weyler resigns
he will be succeeded by Gen. Blaco, Of
the PHILIPPINE Islands, who will pro-
ceed to Cuba via the Pacific and San
Francisco.
The Minister for the Colonies, Senior
Tomas Caste1Iano, denies that Captain
General WeyIer intends to resign.
London, May 12.-The Madrid cor
respondent of the STANDARD says: s'On
Monday Spain and the United States
arrived at an aInicable understanding
and the Competitor prisoners win be
allowed fresh trial before the ordi-
nary court under the existing treaties
between Spain and the United States =
Paris, May 12.-The Figaro referring
to the attitude of the United States
towards Cuba says this morning: "The
United States authorities since the
outbreak of the revolt, have observed
an attitude OF defiance towards Spain
and support of the insurgents. They
ought to consider that Europe will
not sanction this mode of action, if
the Monroe doctrine permits them to
turn the French and the British out
rntnshhaeiFri dtnochertheBulutfPr
The Soliel commenting on the same
subject remarks: "The United States
have no more right to interfere in the
affairs Of Spain than to mix them
selves up with the affairs of Guadal-
oupe, Martinique and Guiana. II
Spain loses Cuba it will be a terrible
blow to Europe'a influence in the An
TILES
The Matin says; Europe win pro-
test unanimously against the contin-
ual interference of Americans in mat
ters which do not concern them. The
United States government does not
gain credit by pleading the prisoners
case with attentuating cireum-
stances"
The Gaulois expresses the opinion
that the steps taken by the United
State on the Cuban question are not
of nature to facilitate d settlement.