The San Francisco call., 1897-04-07
INSURGENTS ARE
IN DEFIANT MOOD
They Continue to Refuse
to Listen to Weyler's
Offers.
Cubans Will Not Cease Fight.
ing Until Independence Is
Granted.
Rivera Will Not Be Shot Unless Per.
mission Is Granted by M drid
Authorities.

NEW YORK, N. Y, April 6-The
Suns Havana cable saws: Desertions are
still very numerous in the Spanish army.
at Matanzas a company of forty-seven
men passed over to the insurgents on
| account of the scanty and poor food sup
ply and the non-payment of the money
due them. The authorities are careful to
prevent this news from being printed here
for fear it may influence the rest of the
| army TO follow the same course. In Santa
Clara province the desertions are still
more numerous.
BY orders from Madrid, Weyler is trying
again to induce the insurgents to accept
the alleged reforms, and has employed for
| that purpose Senior Mario Garcia, ex-
Mayor of the town of Sancti Spiritus
Senor Garcia, Notwithstanding the ILL
success OF his former proposals, indirectly
made to Gomez by the correspondent OF
Ell Liberal, Senior Morot, has again ac-
| copied the mission and has written the
Cubans in pleading way and asked their
| acceptance of the reforms
General Weyler suggests TO the insur-
gents that after the present plau of re-
forms had been practically tried i'll the
island Spain will grant to Cuba more lib
| eral home, rule. lie holds out the pros
pect OF a general amnesty, including the
pardon OF all Cubans who are in the revo.
tlonary ranks and all who are under
charges before the Spanish tribunals for
common offenses. He adds that in the
treaty of capitulation the insurgents will
receive all the military honors of a bellig-
erent army.
1t is positively known that notwith-
standing all the semi-official Spanish new
to the contrary, General Gomez has sternly
rejected all those proposals ana warned
Senor Garcia that if he ever falls into his
hands he will be hanged as traitor
The same attitude is assumed by the
CUBAN Government at Camaguey. COM
mittee from General Jiuinez Castellanos
was dismissed by President Cisneros with
| the answer that though the Cubans do not
like TO ill-treat official deputations, they
| will be obliged to arrest and try before a
drum b cad court-martial all who NAV in
future enter the Cuban camp with pro-
posals for peace not based on the bso-
lutte independence of the island
There is great excitement among the
uncom promising Spaniards of Havana be-
/ cause the proceedings of the court m art1al
against General Ruiz Rivera have been
delayed by orders from Madrid. Yester-
day in Murallo street, which is the
borough that is crowded with Spanish
volunteers, the Government was openly
accused of cowardice. The Spanish au-
thorities answer that the delay in the exc
cution of Rivera is not fear of retaliation
by the Cubans but is diplomatic meas
ure intended to produce a good impress
sion among the foreign powers. The
press censors have suppressed all news
about resolutions protesting against the
shooting OF Rivera presented In the United
States Senate and in all manifestations OF
| sympathy for Rivera in that country.
General Weyler very reluctantly gave
the order to the court m artial to delay the
! sentence. put he has not ordered the pro-
ceedings to stop. Rivera, therefore, may
be shot whenever Weyler can secure per-
mission from Madrid