Connecticut western news., 1896-05-14
Spain Heeds . Warming.

WASHINGTON, May l2-COncern1pg the sentence of death imposed by the court martial at Havana on the prisoners cap. tured on the American schooner Competi- tor it can be authoritatively stated that at the request of the United States the Spanish government will postpone exsou- ton of the death sentences upon American citizens until the views of the United States government respecting the applica- ton to their cases of the treaty of 17e5 and the protocol of 1877 can be presented and considered.
 The above announceme ant means a delay of some weeks at least in the attempt to carry out the sentences- The matter will be made the subject of correspondence on the interpretation to be given the treaty provisions, and meanwhile popular excite ment both here and In Spain will have time to become allayed.
 It Is stased here on the highest authori- ty that the Spanish minister has advised his government to commute the sentences of the Americans captured on the Com petitor, and that there is good reason to believe that his advice wih be followed It is expected that in the end the Ameri cans will be fully pardoned. unless, after a civil trial, fairly and dispassionately conducted. they shall be found guilty. In that event the sentence of the civil court
 
 test from our government
 We'll informed officials say their case is in many respects similar to that of ex- Consul Waller in Madagascar, against whom, however, the evidence was moro of a circumstantial character. yet he WAS sentenced to penal servitude for life, sub sequently to be fully pardoned upon the energetic insistenoe of Secretary Olney, whose prompt intervention in the Com petitor affair, it is not doubted, will b. ultimately as successful.
 Fighting Bob's Views on Cuba
 WASHINGTON. May 1s-Fighting Bob Evans of the United States navy does not approve of the Cuban policy of the admin. istration, and when he was in Washington | . few days ago he frankly told the presi- dent so. He thinks this government ought to show its sympathy with the in- surgents and take a hand in the shindy. If he had his way, he would drive the | Spaniards out of Cuba entirely and annex the island Co the United States- He gave the president some powerful arguments to sustain that view of the case. but the pres ident begged of and referred Fighting Bob to Secretary Olney, who. he said, was | looking after the Cuban business So when Captain Evans was in Washington he called upon the secretary of state and was introduced by Assistant Secretary McAdoo of the navy department, who is also a Cuban sympathizer in secret Captain Evans expressed his views with great freedom to the secretary of state, as | he did to his friend, the president and among other things he said:
 Mir. Secretary, the battleship Indiana, which have the honor to command, is the fastest fighting machine afioat, and If you will give the word I will go down to Cuba and with her alone will undertake to clean out the entire Spanish fleet" The secretary of state smiled, but re- mained silent
 See here, MT. Secretary" continued the captain earnestly, "wouldn't you like to have me cruise down around Cuha and bring home a box of fine Havana oigarss"
 "I don't smoke" was the secretary's curt reply.
 Captain Evans bowed obediently to the decision and said goodby, but he could not conceal his disappointment When he left the secretary's office, he remarked in an undertone to Mir. McAdoo that if they would only give him a chance in Cuba with his battleship mo language but Spanish would be spoken in hell for the next five years"