The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-06-04

New York, June ga special to the
World from Havana, via Key West,
says:
Mr.. Calhoun goes home puzzled
Many contradictory stories of the IN
surrection have been poured into MS
ears. Mr.. Calhoun is for peace If pos
sjble. and, if need be. for war. He
will recommend that the war here be
stopped at all hazards. He will urge
in support of his position the condi-
lions of Americans and American in
terests here, and with more force the
frightful condition of the country folk,
which he knows from personal exper-
fence; and so in the long run MI. Cal
houa viii see President Mckinley ana
with whatever weight he has as the
presidents personal representative,
will suggest that Spain be told that
war on women and children in the
island of Cuba must cease.
HIS HEART STIRRED.
Personally Mr.. Calhoun is not in
sympathy with the jingoes, but his
heart has been stirred by the woes OF
the wretched, starving reconcentradoes-
He has said as much, and when he
gets Mr. McKinley's ear he VIII urge
that Spain be asked, diplomatcally, TO
stoD the war He will dwell upon the
possibility of the good offices OF the
United States government, but in the
end MI Calhoun, with the memory OF
Matanzas upon him, with the memory
of diving and the lack of collins, will
suggest that President Mckinley use
what means he can to stop this war
of determination.
The Americans who met Mr.. Cal
houn, and, for that matter, the Span
4all N TRI nj
what he felt when he went into a re-
concentrates at Matanzas, where a
man was dying, and learning that the
weeping woman and her children were
not given food because il was reported
that they had relatives among the in
surgents.
EVILS IN CUBA.
Mr.. Calhoun said that while he was
merely counsel to General Lee in the
Ruiz case he could not be supposed t.
remain here with eyes and ears closed
That Interpreted means that he is tC
report on the progress of the insur-
rection, the condition of the countr5
and suggest a possible remedy for the
evils which have fallen upon stricken
Cuba.
The Ruiz investigation is closed. A:
predicted, the matter is exactly where
General Lee left it in February last
DR.. Congostos prepared a report, which
he requested General Lee to sign. In il
he said that Ruiz had been treated az
a guest of the nation, had a mattreS:
and pillows, good food, the attention
of nurses and all in fact that any mar
could wish. This in reality was based
lpOn evidence which General Lee de
.lined to consider. So General Lee de
.lined positively TO sign the repor
which DR.. Congostos submitted.
Then General Lee submitted a repor
setting forth the fact that Ruiz wa:
kept 315 hours incommunicado; that i
was known that he was an American
citizen, and that as these facts art
admitted the claim must hold good
DR. Congostos declined to sign this re
port.
Then, as each other had declined Il
sign the others report, an attempt was
made to draw up a, report which would
merely cover the acknowledgment o.
each other. This was done, the repor
embodying what every one knows-tha-
Ruiz was arrested on q, certain datt
and died on a certain date. This boil
signed, but with the understanding
that each would report to his govern
ment his version of the investigation.
IMPRISONMENT DID 1T.
General Lees report goes to Wash
evidence bearing upon the manner il
which Ruiz received the blow which
killed him is unobtainable, because O
ruling conditions, but as he would
have been alive probably mad he no
been kept 72 hours incommunicado, a
the treaty provides, the American CLAIM
is proved. That is the whole story o.
the Rniz Investigation Mr.. Calhoun
Will support General Lee absolutely.
The war for food has begun in Ha
vana. In Anton Riccio street, on Ma
81, four small shop-xeepers were muir
dered most brutality, one being decapi
tated and the skulls of the others wer
crushed with a. hammer. The none,
was left in the tills. The crimes wer
committed for food.
A captain, lieutenant and So soldier
have been brought here as prisoner
from Campo Florida and condemned Il
be shot, because they sold arms ant
medicine to the Cubans. 1t is now salt
that the selling of cartridges to the in
surgents is common in Havana prov
ince, as the soldiers lack money 70
food.
General Weyler has announced tina
his Recommendation DEGREES apply L
Santiago de Cuba and Porto Principe
A distinguished American soldier, OIL
hearing this, called attention to tn,
fact that while the four western prov
inces We're declared pacified, Genera
Weyler kept five times as many troop
in them as he did in the eastern prov
inces, which were admitted to be in tn
hands of the rebels.