The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-06-19

Island TO the 9kdLGSs
WASHINGTON, June 1S-Spain is to
be brought to terms. General Stewart
L.Woodford, the new Minister to Spain,
after dining with President Mckinley
last night spent the evening at the
White House. He received instructions
as to his work in the Spanish Capital
for which he viii start in a week or
two. General Woodford's task is divid-
ed into three parts.
His first mission is to present a de-
mand for reparatiOn and indemnity for
the death of DR.. Ruiz.
His second task is to prepare the
Spanish Government for the inevitable
and the inevitable is the loss of Cuba
as "a colony.
The third phase of his work is the
presentation of a distinct proposal from
the United States as to the disposition
of Cuba
1t is as to the first and second chap
ters that General Woodford is now con-
ferring with the President He will re
ceive full instructions as to the third
either before he sails or as soon as he
shall have had opportunity to report
upon the state of mind in which he
finds the Spanish Ministry and Queen
Regent President Mckinley also in
structed General Woodford to impress
upon the public men at Madrid these
three vital points:
l. The United States is not actuated
by an unfriendly feeling toward Spain.
,. The United States does not desire
to take advantage Of Spain's troubles
with her colony to bring about the an
neXation of Cuba to this country.
). But unless Spain will herself make
a move toward meeting the inevitable,
toward giving Cuba freedom, the Unit
ed States will be compelled to interfere,
and in the case of Intervention anneXa-
ton might naturally follow.
SPAIN IS INUNDATED.
MADRID, June 1S-Premier Canovas
is willing to pay the widow of DR.. Ruiz
$40, 600 if the United States Govern
ment viii not press an official claim
The announcement of this fact has
aroused vehement public opposition,
which the Madrid press is inflaming.
The newspapers blame the Govern
ment for allowing DR.. Ruiz to be killed.
but censure it most for acknowledging
it, They say Spain is under the iron
heel of the Yankees
The Impartial" bitterly declares
that Neither Cuba nor a hundred
Cubans would be worth the sad hurnil-
iatiOn to which, in the name of the ma
ton, the Canovas Cabinet subjects us
with deplOrable frequency. Recognition
of the claim puts Spain as a nation
beneath the Moors, because this dentist
for whose death such an enormous
sum viii have to be paid was not killed
in a Spanish prison by undisciplined
natives and semi-savages, but by func-
tionaries of her Catholic majesty's
Government"
The present Spanish demand for the
truth about Cuba, already met by a
fearless statement that the military
situation there is hopeless is answered
now by the first definite admission of
cruelty. The Spanish officers actions
are not so much deplored as their be-
ing discovered, while it is their being
acknowledged that causes anguish.
Senior Silvela, the leader of a con-
siderable section of the Spanish Con-
sentative party hostile to Premier Ca
novas, strongly indorses the war policy
in Cuba, yet has just said: IF it is
true that the Cuban war is one of con-
quest to subdue a people united against
Spain it constitutes an insolvable prob
lem and the island should have been
given up a year ago"
Such a stat eTnent would have caused
the speaker to be publicly stoned if
made in the streets Of Madrid. but it
was received with prolonged and en-
thusiastic cheers from a high-class au-
dience of Conservatives packing the
theater from pit to roof, was COM
mended by the Liberal press and only
perfunctorily criticised by the Con-
sentative press.
The Liberal paper "El Globo." says:
Weyler already has had seventeen
out of the twenty-four months in
which he promised to finish the war by
the severe measures he learned TO use
in the ten-years' struggle.
Weyler's marciel trocha is called a
horrible burial ditch for thousands"
its military efficacy is declared to be
such that it was TRANQUILITY crossed by
Maceo who only met his death by fall
ing into cirijudea hands. Weyler's en-
deavor to surround Gomez is charac-
terized as -four months flourish.
during which the rebel chief never left
a small circle near the Jucaro trocha,"
and the pacif1ed provinces are admitted
to be so only in name.
Regarding the present plan TO invade
the eastern half of Cuba, "E Globo"
quotes from the report of General Sc
tano that during the rainy season two
battalions of 500 We're reduced to 800
and 400 by yellow fever, cholera and
dysentery adding: Daily marches.
each costing 10 per cent, the disabled
requiring further loss of eight soldiers
TO each stretcher. are made in pursuit
of an invisible enemy never open to at
tack; an enemy whose plan Of cam
paign is to decimate the troops by the
mortality in the marches and camps
and the rigor of the climate
Weyler's campaign generally is char
acterized as an expenditure of many
months and immense resources in try
ing to destroy what in Cuba is indie
structible.
INSURGENTS HOPEFUL
NEW YORK, June Is = The Cuban
Junta has received a long letter from
General Maxine Gomez dated L. Gloria.
Sancti Spiritus, May 10TH Gomez