The herald., 1897-11-23

As this dispatch is sent, the cabinet,
which met at S o'clock this afternoon,
is still in session. and it is rumored that
there are dissensions among the min
listers.
The Commercial union of Madrid sup
ports autonomy.
The cabinet council came to an end
at $50. According to an official COM
munication it appears that Gen. Cor
rea, minister of war, reported to his col
leagues that, beyond Gen. WeylerS pro-
nouncement printed in the Havana Ga
zette, the retiring governor general of
Cuba, when receiving deputations just
prior to his departure, confined himself
to advising all classes to show their re-
spect for the decisions of the consti-
tuted government. The council then pro-
ceeded to discuss, article by article,
Senor Morets projects of autonomy for
Cuba and Porto Rico, approving all eX-
cept the article dealing with tarifls,
which will be discussed tomorrow.
NEW YORK, Nov. pa dispatch to
the World from Matanzas, Cuba. says:
The half of the story of suffering in
Cuba has not been told. In Havana
and it's suburbs the streets are dotted
with beggars, the hospitals are over
flowing with starving innocents and the
barracks are filled with destitute and
dying But from Havana to this place
there is a succession of small cities al
most free from sickness and hunger
Nobody is left there. The swarmine
population is gone. They are cities of
the dead Protecting forts overlook
empty houses. Fallid, ragged Spanish
soldiers guard q few--a very few-hu-
man skeletons. Very soon they will have
| only themselves to protect. They neeo
| it. 1t is almost a question of whether
! Weyler has not been as awful for them
as he has been for the peaceful Cubans
| The towns of Campo Florida, San Mi
guel, Minas, Jaruco, Bainoa, Mocha and
Buona Vista were trebled and quadru-
pied in population by Weyler's concen-
tration of the surrounding country peo-
pie under the rifles of their respective
sets of little forts.
The loyal. obedient farmers took theil
furniture and their babes in OK carts
their cows and pigs, wives and children
on foot and built long streets of palm
pillared, raftered, thatched and sided
houses. Today nothing remains but the
wood. The animals have been eaten, al
articles OF value have been changed into
bread and the people, and everything
having been used up, are dead.
Our train stopped at each place men,
toned. We counted only 25 women and
children and three men in the palm
house lanes. There are two trains a
day. They are the great events of each
miserable twenty-four hours and we
counted twenty-eight spectators. There
should have been visible 5000. There
were at least $1,000 to 10000 reconcen-
trados in those palm bark villages when
Weyler's victims first began to die and
we counted twenty-eight survivors.
Even the Senator from Spain can be
convinced of the determination of q
people in which he assisted when he sup
ported Spain in supporting Weyler. He
needs but to take train from Havana
to Matanzas, three hours ride through
a beautiful but abandoned country. The
squalid, abandoned villages are proof
enough. Three years of silence and ruin
would show him determination, even
though he never before had heard OF
Cuba or claimed there had been no war;