Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1897-10-16
WEYLER'S JOB is GONE
NO LONGER GOVERNOR OF CUBA.
Says He Will Submit to the Decfs-
ion of the Spanish Cabfnet-Cap-
tain General BIanco Arenas
Will Be His Successor.

Madrid, Oct. 9-The cabinet has decid-
ed upon the immediate recall of General
Weyler from Cuba A decree will be is
sued appointing Captain General Blanco
y Arenas, marquis OF Pena-Plana, COVER
nor of the island. The queen regent will
sign the decree tomorrow.
According to Ell Heraldo 10000 rein
forcements will accompany General Blan-
CO. In the course of cable message sent
by General Weyler to Premier Sagasta:
placing the post in Cuba at the disposal
of the government, he said:
If the functions with which they had
entrupsted me had been those of merely
the government of Cuba, | should have
hastened to resign. But the two-fold char
acter of my mission and my duty as COM
mander-in in the army prevent me
rendering a resignation. Nevertheless, al
though l can rely on the absolute and un-
conditional support of the autonomist and
constitutional parties as well as upon pub
lie opinion, this would be indefinite with
out the confidence of the government.
This confidence would be necessary to
enable me to put an end to the war, which
already has been virtually concluded
from our lines at Jucaro to Cape Anto-
MO"
Senor sagasta replied: Il thank you for
your explanation and value your frank
ness. | wish to assure you that the gov
ernment recognizes your services and val
ues them as they deserve, but thinks a
change of policy, in order to succeed, re-
quires that the authorities should be as
one with the ministry. This has nothing
to do with the confidence felt in you by
the government, for the liberals have al
ways said that the responsibility for a
given policy does not fall upon those who
carry it out, but upon the government in
spring it. | shall communicate with the
government shortly.''
WeyIer Says He Will Go.
Havana, Oct. 9.-General Weyler gave
an emphatic and absolute denial to the re-
ports that he would resist removal from
his command in Cuba and in certain con-
tingencies might espouse the Carlist cause.
He said, according to the official account:
"My principles and my military record
are firm guarantees that [ will never OPP
pose the constituted government, what
ever it may be. | never have put obsta-
cles in the way of the government and !
never shall. SO far as popular demonstra
tions 60 accept them only as expressions
of approval of my military policy and as
tokens of personal sympathy.'
The merchants of the island, according
to the official account, continue to send
Gale messages to Senor Sagasta express
ing their approval of General Weyler's
command and their entire confidence in
him.
Nine. Ana Milan de Bendou, who has
been in charge of the hall at the Casa de
Recogidas, where Senorita Evangelina
Cossio was confined and in whose house
in San Rafael street the police several
months ago found trunks containing dy
Mantle and cartridges, is one of the four
employees who, with the jailer, have been
arrested and confined incommunicado
pending the result of inquiry being made
into the circumstances of the escape of
Senorita Cossio.
General Blanco will be accompanied by
General Arderine as vice governor of Gu
ba, by General Gonzales Painale as chief
of staff, and Generals Spando, Bernal and
Canallon.