The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-12-13
WEYLER A BACK NUMBER.
No Enthusiasm Shown For Him
at Madrid.
LATE CUBAN GENERAL VISITS
THE SPANISH CAPITAL.

His Friends Receive Him ar..the Dkpot
But the Public Was Indifferent-Wil1
Be Received by the Queen Today.
Madrid, December 12.-Lieut. Gen.
Weyler arrived here this afternoon. He
was received on the railway platform
by Gen. Azoarraga, former premier, Gen.
Borrero, former commander of the 9th
army corps and by number of Republi-
cans, Carlists, Conservatives and
Robledoists.
AS he alighted T from, the train they
cheered him and then carried him
shoulder high to the entrance of the rail-
way station, where he took carriage
and was rapidly driven off. There was
no further incident, the public appearing
Indifferent.
A few friends, including Senior Romero
Robledo, accompanied Gen. Weyler to his
apartments. About a hundred people
had collected, but disappeared almost i'm
mediately after he entered the building.
The partisans of Gen Weyler pretend
that crow of 5000 people rendered him
an ovation with shouts of "Long live
Weyler; death to the Yankees and the
like. He will be received by the Queen
Regent tomorrow.
Gen. Weyler, in the course of an inter-
view, expressed the pleasure it had given
him to find, from the demonstrations &c
| corded him that the glorious traditions OF
the Spanish race were not dead and that
1t was ready for any sacrifices in defense of
the honor OF the nation and the army. He
| said he knew that the Canovas cabinet In
August last gave the Washington govern
ment to understand that it was the na-
tion's will to pursue his (Weyler's) policy
in Cuba until the rebellion should be sup
pressed without ever consenting to Amer
lean interference. He failed to under
stand how the United States, silent before
the declarations of Canovas, now adopted
in President McKinley's S message "tone
insulting TO Spain .s and the Spanish
army"
He believed, he declared emphatioally
that the government should be compelled
| to publish the Canovas note as q satisfac-
ton to the army and also to protest By all
means In its power against President
McKinley's message to Congress.
70 his personal knowledge, he asserted,
the generate residing in Madrid felt. keen
~ on this point.
PLANS OF INSURGENTS CHECKED.
| Havana, December l2.-The plans of
the insurgents to strike blow near the
city have been checked, according to the
official account, but the concentration of
their forces is such as to make it unlike
ly that thu local insurgent bands will
surrender. as the Spanish authorities
have been hoping
much discouraged by the actual situa-
ton. They do now look forward to a
| speedy end of the revolution. All say
they have abandoned the hope that the
| insurgents will surrender or accept the
conditions of autonomy.
Marshal Blanco has cabled Senior De-
| Lone, the Spanish minister at Washing
ton request that he tender his condol-
| ences to President Mckinley on the
death of his mother.
Gen. Pando and his staff are still with
gunboats Diego and Delasquez that are
engaged in removing the wreck of the
gunboat Rela mpago, which was dyna-
mited some months ago near the mouth
of the river Cauto, and are clearing
away all the other obstacles interfering
with navigation, while also protecting
the work of constructing forts near that
point.
There are persistent rumors here that
the insurgent general, Rabi, will accept
autonomy.
Gen. Velasco Lomas destroyed-an in
surgent camp at Madama, killing 19 in
| surgents. The Spanish column left four
| killed and nine wounded.
Near the city of Pinar del Rio, the in
surgents attacked the plantation Ameri-
ca, wounding the chief of the detachment
in charge of five soldiers
SHOW GOOD JUDGMENT.
Madrid, December 12.-El Correo Els
panel says that the Carlists have aban-
doned their projected demonstration
against President McKinley's message to
Congress, as they have not been able to
agree on the subject.
1t is alleged that the insurgents in
Eastern Cuba have asked the govern
ment for details as to the extent and
nature Of autonomy with view of COM
ing to terms.