Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-02
AMERICANS IN CUBA.
The Correspondence with Consul
General Lee.

The Correspondence with Consul.
General Lee.
WARRINGTON, March I.-President
Cleveland sent to the Senate corre-
spondenoe relating to American citl.
zsns arrested in Cuba. The most i'm.
pOrtsnt are the kilograms in the case
OF Charles Scott, which are as follows,
being kilograms sent by Consul. Gen.
eral Lee to the State department.. No
replies from the State department are
given in this case.
On February Goth, Mr.. Lee tele-
graphed as follows to the State DEPART
ment.
Charles SCOTT, a citizen OF the United
States, arrested az Regslia. No charges
given. Been without communication
IN jail at Havana 264 hours. Cannot
stand another Ruiz murder and have
demanded bis release. How many
war vessels Key West or within reach,
and Will they be ordered here at once
IL necessary to sustain the dsmand2
On the 23rd he said, in n Cable mes
sage:
Situation simple. Experience at
GusDabacOa made 1t my duty to
demand before too late that another
who had been iocommunicado 264
hours be released from said incommu.
nicsdo, and L did 30 in courteous
terms. Ii you support 1t ana Scott is
so released tbs trouble will terminate.
II you do not L must depart. All
others arrested with Scott have been
put incommunicsdo. Why should
not the only American be released?
He has been inoommunicado ass
hours.
Later on the same day, the 23rd uIti-
mo, Mr.. Lee wired: Demand com.
Piled with. Scott released from in.
cummunicauo today on demand after
fourteen days solitary confinement In
cell five leet by eleven, damp, water
on bottom OF cell. not allowed any,
thing to sleep on but chair. Dis.
charges OF the body removed opcs In
five days. Was charged with having
CUBAN stamps in the house. scott
says he went always twelve hours
without water and once two days.
He was an empioye of an American
gas company"
Tho most voluminous correspon-
doLce Ia that in the case OF Sylvester
ScOveI, correspondent VI the New York
World, who was arrested on February
DHus Anu thUh
that Mr.. Lee promptly notified the
state department and that Mr.. Olney
responded Immediately, directing him
to soc that all OF Scovei's rights AS an
American citizen were protected.
The letteTs ANA telsgTAms in this
case run irom the 5,h TO the 18th Of
February. Mr.. Lss iirst stated mat 10
uid not anticipate serious trouble in
the case, but laier chaOgeI his opinion,
saying: ut 10 supposed Scovel bore
| discriminating papers, which gives the
case a more serious aspect"
Later Gen. Lee tried to have Scovel
removed from bancl Sp!riius TO Hay.
ana, out failed.
| Tho remaining case covered Is that
OF Il. }. Casanor, Arrested on February
18Th, but on wnat charge docs not
appear. Gen. Lse's fret information
was contained u IA Telegram February
10Th. In the dispatch no conveys the
| reformation Of the arrest, WHOM ht
says took place at Sagua, and says Tia :
cououPs report Will follow, adding:
"procesdlngs q great outrage. Sim
liar cR6e here AMI elsewhere on the
islano. Redress cannot DO obtained
here"
On the 25th Gen. Lee stated, Ia
reply TO u message from the slate de.
paIiment, that Casanos had resided al