Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-06-03
CALHOUN PUZZLED.
Bls Report on Cuba viii Recommend
That Tbs War Be Stopped.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MURDERED
Charg OF Fraud In the Administration
Brought Against Weyler by One
OF His Fri nds.

NEW IDhlsj Suue % rpooini w
the World from Havana via Key
West, says:
Mr.. Calhoun goes homs puzzled.
He Ia 10 sail on the Wari line
steamer. Many contradictory stories
OF the insurrection have been poured
into bis ears. He has declined to be
interviewed, but your correspondent
has an absolute assurance HI to the
nature of his views.
Mr.. Calhoun Is for peace, II peace
be possible, and II 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 con.
ditiops Ut Americans and American
interests here and with more force
the frightiul condition of tue country
iolk, which he knows from personal
experience, aud 80, in the long run,
Mr.. Calhoun will see President Nc.
Kinisy aud with whatever weight he
mas as the President's pereon nal r, pre-
sentative, will aug est that Bpaih be
told that war GU women anu children
IN the island OF Cuba must csase.
Personally, MIR. Calhoun is not In
bympathy with the jingoes. But his
heart hue been stirreo by The woes OF
the wfetcheu, starving rec0ncentra.
does. de has soi1 al much, and when
he gets MIR. McKinley's ear no will
urge that spain bs asked diplomatic.
ally to stop The war. He will dwell
upon the possibility Of the good offices
OF the United States government, but
In the end MIR. Calhoun, with the
la. - "A,
the memory OF the dying anu toe lack
OF coffi as, VIII suggest that President
Nick ,nley use what means he can to
stop this war Of GENERALIZATION.
1he Americans who met Mr.. CAL
houD, and for that matter the Spanish,
feel that he Will tell Mr.. Mckinley
what he felt when he went into the
Ieconcentrsdoes at Mantapzas, where u
man was dying, anu learniug that the
weeping woman aud her children " ere
not given foou because it was rep rted
that they had relatives am ing the In
surgents.
MIR. Calhoun said that wi,ile he was
merely counsel Tor Gen. Leo in the
RUIZ CASE, he c3uic not De supposed to
remain here with eyes and ears cioseu.
That Interpreted means tnat he ia to
report on tae progress Of the insufrec-
ton, the copdilion OF the country and
suggest possible remedy Tor the evils
which have iallen upon stricken
Cuba.
The Ruiz Investigation ia closed. Ae
predicted, tue matter is exactly where
Gen. Lee lett 1t IN February last. AT
the conclusion OF the investigation
DR.. Congostos prepared report which
he requested Gen. Lee to sign. La IL
he eaiu that Ruiz had been treated aB
aguest oil the nation, had a mattress
auu pill5wr, good food. the attention
OF nursesand all in fact that any man
could Wish. This IN reaiii y WAS based
upon evidence which Geu. Lee de-
ciinen 20 consider. so Gen. Lee de-
Glued positively to sign the report
which DR.. Congostos SUBMITTED.
Then Gen. Lee submitted q report
setting form strongly the fact That
Rug W, 8 kept 3l5 nours incommuBi-
caaU, that 1t was known that he was
an American citizen, and that us these
facts are admitted the claim must no Id
go0u. DR.. Cong0sI0s declined to sign
This report.
Then as each had, declined TO
sign The othef's report, an attempt was
made TO draw up report which
would merely cover the acknowledge, .
mente OF eaco Other. This was done,
the report employing what every one
knows-rhsi RUS was arrested on a
certain uate anu uieu ON u certain date.
This both rigued, but with the under
standing that each would report 10 his
government his version Of the invest.
CATION.
Genera! Lees report goes to Wash-
iDgt0n at once. He says that abso-
ute evidence Tearing upon the mau
ntr In which Ruiz received tho blow
which kilieJ MN 10 unobtainnble,
because OF ruling conditions, but as
lie would have been aiive, probably,
had he only peen hep, az hours iucoui.
municado, as the treaty provides, the
American claim IL proved. That Ia
The whole story Of the Ruiz investiga.
ton. MIR. Calhoun viii support Gen.
Lee absolutely.
The war Tor food has begun in Ha.
vana. In Anton RIccio strest.on May
81, four email shop keepers were muir.
dereu most brutalIy, one being decapi.
lated and The skulls OF the Others
crushed with hammer. Tho money
WIS left in the tills. The crimes were
committed for foud.
A captain, lieutenant and So sol-
diers have been brought here as
prisoners from Camp Flordo anu
condemned TO be shot because they
sold arms and medicine TO the Gu
bans. 1t 10 now said that the ng
OF cartridges to the Insurgents Is con :
mon In Havana province, AZ the sol.
Tiers lack money for food.
Gen. Weyler has announced that
his demonstration DEGREES apply to
Santiago de Cuba and Puerto Principe.
A distinguished American soldier on
hearing this called attention 10 the
TACT that while the four western pro-
vinces were declared pacified Gen.
Weyler kept five times as many troops
In them az he uid In tie eastern pro-
vinces, which were admitted to be In
The hands OF tho rebeie.
A sPANIARD's PORTRAIT OF GEN.
WEYLER.
New YORK. June 3.-The Herald
tsyt: Senor Santiago Barroets, VIII
uutil recently was deputy In the
PROVINCIAL assembly OF santa ClaIa
province, Cuba, Is at present in this
city, while the agents OF Gen. Wey-
Ter are still looking for hun, In order
To brisg him before court martial Ia
Havana. His address In this city IL
known to only few trusted friends.
Senior BarroeIa is native SpaniArd
hnu has daring the Iaat fourteen
Vssfs bad important judicial positions