Evening star., 1897-01-02
MR.. MONEY AT HAVANA,
He Called at the Palace, but Saw Only
m Aid.

nm Aid.
Senator-elect Money of Mississippi, who
is member of the committee on foreign
affairs of the House of Representatives.
paid visit yesterday to the palace in
Havana. accompanied by Consul General
Lee and Vice Consul, General Springer.
The Marquis of Ahumada, acting captain
general. was absent, and an aid-de-camp
informed the visitorsr that General Weyler
would soon return to Havana. Mr. Money
expressed his regret at not seeing the mar
4uis and at being unable to await the re-
turn of Gen. Weylere before he left the
island. Vice Consul General Springer will
sail for the United States today on the
steamer Olivette. Il a
Francisco Rovirosa wasisent to the Chat
drinas, but upon arriving at Porto Rico
he was liberated, it being proved that he
was Mexican. He Wilt, however, be ex-
PEELED from the island. j
Coo1ncss ut Madrid.
The London Standards Madrid corre-
spondent says: ''Puhlic, ', opinion has re-
celyed the announcements Fof concessions to
Porto Rico rather coldly, as involving a
reversal of the colonial policy under press
ure from the United States and Europe.
The Correo. Siglo. Future and several
other liberal. military. Carlist and ultra
Inonteine newspapers. will be prosecuted
FOR attacking the commissariat and hos
pital staffs in Cuba. The opposition will
prlnS the matter before the cortes.''
Gen. Weyier Says It's All Over.
The war correspondent of La I,ucha of
havana, Senior Canarte, has telegraphed
% mis- paper the substance of an interview
which he had with Captain General Wey-
-er, whose column he joined at San Cristo-
Dal. A short distance from Rio Hondo the
column halted. and the Spanish commander
mad breakfast on foot and on the high
way, with his staff and his son Fernando
After breakfast, while on the march, the
captain general assured the CORRESPONDENT
hat there was only about 500 insurgents
III the province of Pinar del Rio, adding: {:
L am able to say that the province is
pacihed. Sickness. bullets and hunger will
terminate the revolution. 1 will treat the
leaders with consideration if they surrender
all, or nearly all, their followers
Nobody can consider himself the owner
of the cattle in the mountains and woods
which We're born last year. and l allow the
soldiers and the poor to gather them to-
gether and get what benefit they can from
them l have also provided for the estab-
iishment of cultivation zones, in order to
avoid famine, and l congratulate myself
upon the suppression of the revolution in
Pinar del Rio. The rebels are lacking in
va-lor and other elements to make the up-
rising a success.
with the assistance of the commercial
cHhihoeFs, nope TO establish cultivation
zones in the province of Havana, between
The two railroad lines, but cannot allow
people to build houses outside of the towns
as they only serve as refuge for bandits.
Rius Rivero (the name hitherto spelled
generally Ruis Rivera) is disregarded by
the Cuban partisans and is lacking in the
qualities necessary to make an insurgent
commander. and neither Quintin Bandtras
nor CaliXtO Garcia has as much prestige as
Antonio Maceo." ..,.r,-.
At San Cristobal Gen. Weyler Joined
forces with those of Gen. Obregon, from
Candelaria, where the captain general put
up at the house Of the parish priest, Pa
tricio Antique, who was the generals COM
panion in the ten years war.
At Candelaria and at San Cristobal there
are Spanish hospitals, each capable of ac-
commodating 800 sick soldiers. Both hos
pitals are well supplied with attendants
ard Senior Canarte says 1t would be impos-
sible for the sick to be better looked after
He adds that both hospitals are clean and
in good order.