The record-union., 1897-10-09

the Government. This confidence would
| be necessary to enable me to put an
end to the war, which has already been
virtually concluded from our lines at
Juraco to Cape Antonio"
Senior Sagasta replied: II thank you
| for your explanation and value your
frankness. / wish to assure you that
the Government recognizes your SER
vices, and values them as they deserve
but it thinks a change of policy, in or
der to succeed, requires that the au-
thorities should be at one with the
Ministry. This has nothing to do with
the confidence felt in you by the Gov
ernment, for the Liberals have always
said that the responsibility for a given
policy does not fall upon those who
carry it out, but upon the Government
| inspiring it. I shall communicate your
communication to the Government
shortly
MAY TURN TRAITOR.
NEW YORK, Oct S.-A dispatch to
the Herald from Madrid says:
General Weyler will fight tooth and
nail against being removed from Cuba.
He is trying to terrorize the Liberal
Ministry into retaining him in COM
mand until next June, and if recalled
now he will utilize his influence over the
peninsula or sell himself to the Car
| lists.
Now that the late Conservative ad-
ministration is no more than a shat
tered remnant, the organs of the Con-
servative press are not backward in
vituperating one another and the de-
funct Ministry in so malignant a tone
as to clearly betray that there was no
intention whatever of surrendering the
reins of government, had not the Queen
Regent herself deliberately induced and
insisted on the crisis.
In consequence of this the fallen mag
mates of that party. which has been one
of continuous brawl and national scan
dal for so many weary months, are
being so bitterly assailed in the columns
of their own newspapers that their tenn
pers are said to have suffered in the
melee, and more than one will have TO
part from public life and even from
Madrid They go with scowls upon
their brows and anathemas upon their
lips, causing no little merriment to the
unconcerned onlookers.
The Conservative paper, "El Nacion-
al" has made a dead set" against
Azcarraga, attacking him more fiercely
than ever, while Senior Romero Rob-
ledo, the notorious antagonist of Cuban
refornl-''the man who has lost us
Cuba" as he is now branded in Spain
in wrath at similar Trades against HIM
self. has stopped his ears and fed south
Antinn1ra n There
the authorities turned out on the sta
ton platform to receive him. The adu-
lation of the villagers will doubtless
compensate him for the harshness,
sneers and ridicule of the capital.
WEYLER DENIES IT.
HAVANA, Oct. S.-General Weyler
gave to-day an emphatic and absolute
denial to the reports that he would re-
sist removal from his command in Gu
ba, and in certain contingencies might
espouse the cause of the Carlists. He
said. according to the official account:
MY principles and my military rec
ord are firm guarantees that l will
never oppose the constitutional Gov
ernment, whatever it may be. / never
have put obstacles in the way of the
Government, and I never shall. have
always obeyed orders, and I always
shall. SO far as popular demonstra-
tions go, accept them only as express
sions of approval of my military policy,
and as tokens of personal sympathy"
The merchants of the island, accord
ing to the official account, continue to
send cable messages to Senior Sagasta
expressing their approval of General
Weylers campaign and their entire
confidence in him.
Madame Ana Milan De Bendou, who
has been in charge of the hall at the
Casa De Recogidas, where Senorita
Evangelina Cisneros was confined, and
in whose house in San Rafael street
the police several months ago found
trunks containing dynamite and cart
ridges. is one of the four employees,
who, with the jailer, have been arrest
ed and confined incommunicado, pend
ing the result of the inquiry being made
into the circumstances of the escape
of Senorita Cassie.
AN AMERICANS DEATH.
WASHINGTON, Oct. S-The Acting
United States Consul General at Ha-
vana has informed the State Depart
ment that George Samuel Newton, q
young American, formerly a watch
maker in Havana, who was wounded
and captured by Spanish troops near
Baracoa, in Pinar del Rio Province, in
August last, died in Havana September
30th, from the effects of his wounds
and fever. Newton's father lives in
Caracas, and his mother was in Og-
den, Utah, at last accounts.