The sun., 1896-10-08
THE COMPETITOR CASE.
Deputy GnileSo Sees No Use In Keeping
Spanish Wnrships In Cuban Waters.


MADRID, Sept. 24.-Referrins to tho reversal
Of the Competitor sentence, Deputy Tesipouto
Gallego writes to the Herdldo:
Tho Spanish Government has been humili-
ated by the bold Laborde. Olncy has triumphed.
The men were captured while landing an expo
dition in Pinar del Rio They were on n illlbus-
terinR expedition. This, whatever Canovas may
say, was an outrage upon the nation. What Is
worse is that the Government intends to shclve
the matter and say nothing more about 1t.
THUS we have had practically n repetition OF
the Allanca affair. What can be expected now
from our navy2 What is the uso OF having so
many vessels in Cuba IL all they do must be
rendered Ineffective
us 1t not timc that the Government should
know that the maintenance of such an out
ragcously weak policy may cause serious et-
fectsr The Government ought to know that a
catastrophe may occur at Havana should there
be another Competitor incident or anything
like it. or should Consul General Lee continue
administering Justice In Cuba The Govern
ment Is wrong in closing its eyes 20 the actual
A telegram from Paris says that several
bankers there do not conceal the fact that their
participation In tho Spanish loan depends upon
the result of the Pres dental election in tho
United states. Private letters from prominent
persons say that other bankers would be willing
70 subscribe to the loan were IL To be devoted TO
the obtaining of peace, 10 which spain does not
seem lhClihcd. The spanish ministerial news
paporS, using the ambiguous and sclf-dcCUving
language in which the spanish excel begin TO
say that nasmuch As tho Treasury does not
need now all OF the $500, 100000 more than
half OF this sum viii be covered by giving bonds
OF the new issue IN payment of the floating d ebt
OF the peninsnlar and Cuban trcR~ure-, and
consequently the actual money Subscriptions to
the loan need hardly amount to 10000. 900
when II Is iloaied. This money would enable
Spa in to maintain her army ic Cuba until May
or June. What neXtI
some time ago Lc if0niieur dcs interetS ma
4. is of tI,n nf In
world were cias-ed in three groups as regards
tions whose credit Is highest, begins with Eng
land and ends with Norway. The second begins
with rransvhal and ends with China; and the
third group includes those nations the securities
OF which are hardly marketable. Attheir head Is
Turkey. Uruguay occupies the twenty seventh
place. and Spain the twenty-eighth or last of
the series.
Gen. Wcyler tclegraphs that the new re-en-
forceneuts viii he distributed thus: Twenty
thousand men will go to Pinar del Rio. IL 900
TO the Jucaro and Moron trocha, and the rest to
Santiago de Cuba
Several newspapers say, " on the best author
ity.' that hty-nne expeditions in aid of the
Cuban patriot army have been organized in the
United States since the beginning of the war.
Fifty-one is also the number OF the prisoners
whom Weyler confesses to have put to death in
Cuba He forgets that when he was fishing for
tho Governorship of the island, he wrote to a
Valencia newspaper. protesting against the re-
ports OF the cruelty, and declaring that the
more generous Il ruler. the greater he Is.