The herald., 1896-06-23

asked congress for unlimited authority
to raise loans, guaranteed by all the
revenues of Spain and Cuba to carry out
operations in Cuba.
NO REPORT MADE.
HAVANAfi June 22.-United States
Consul general Lee. when asked regard
ing the published allegations that he has
sent report to President Cleveland on
the Cuban situation, denies absolutely
that he has sent any report on this sub
ject.
Operations against Maceo in Pinar del
Rio have once more commenced.
Gen. Munoz with six battalions and
four cannon has gone toward RUM.
LEES LATER LETTER.
WASHINGTON, June 22-The Post
tomorrow will say:
very interesting letter was received
today by relative from General Lee
1t was written on the 18th and deals
pretty fully with Cuban affairs. The
Spanish authorities, the general SAYS,
nave treated him with great courtesy
and Captain-General Weyler has
granted every request thus far preferred,
even allowing him to visit the prison
where the captured Americans are con-
fined.
The Spanish troops, he says, are
fairly fairly well drilled but under sys-
tenn of tactics and manual totally differ
ent from anything the general has ever
seen. AS to the insurgents they practi-
cally had control of the island Their
emissaries come in and go out of the
towns and cities as they will and he be-
lieves the native population is in SYM
pathy with them. AS to the inhumanity
of the Spanish commander. General Lee
expresses himself in the plainest terms
"They do not regard the laws of mod
ern warfare nor the usages customary
among civilized nations at all,'' he says.
From either quarter there is the same
testimony concerning the barbarities of
the Spanish soldirs. Some of the evil
dence I have heard would be beyond
belief did I not know it to be most re-
liable. Violations of women, the plund-
ering of inoffensive citizens, murder,
every form of rapine, have been in
flicted on natives of the island and it
takes very little indeed to place you
under suspicion"
General Lee doubts if peace could be
made now short of a basis of absolute
independence and freedom from Spanish
control
SPANISH ANXIETY.
NEW YORK. June PA dispatch to
the World from MadridE says:
The profoundest sensation has been
caused here by the news of the alleged
a,,+ Of H.
Lee to President Cleveland on the state
of affairs in Cuba. which is said to be on
the way from Havana to Washington.
The intelligence is difficult to exagger-
ate. All classes of the community are
greatly wrought up, but the commo-
tion is especially great in parliament
tary and political circles. The lobbies
of the senate were extremely animated
just before Senator Comas began an
energetic anti-American speech on
moving an amendment to the address in
reply to the speech from the throne ask
ing the government to annul all treaties
between Spain and the United States.
The impression is general among pol
iticians and military men that the gov
ernment will be requested to withdraw
Consul Lees exequater if he really has
expressed opinions as unfavorable to
Spanish rule in Cuba as report credits
him with having done.
The minister of colonies introduced
in the cortes today bill authorizing
the government to expend in the war
in Cuba as much of the colonial and
imperial revenues as may be necessary
to secure success and also authorizing
it to execute unlimited loans and credits