The herald., 1897-10-26
M'KINLEY'S
ATTITUDE
Will Be Determined by
Events in Cuba
SPAIN'S REPLY TO WCODFORD
NOT EXPECTED TO RESULT IN
TROUBLE
SPAIN'S REPLY TO WCODFORD
Captain General Weyler Makes Report
of the Wonderful Results of His
Cuban Policy
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated ITeSS special w Ire.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-Develop-
ments in Cuba within the next thirty
days will definitely determine President
McKinley's attitude on the Spanish
question, but he expects no trouble.
The administration looks with much
favor on Spain's change of policy. and
believes that Spain's new ministry is
sincere in it's endeavor to bring about a
speedy termination of the strife in Cuba
by granting substantial reforms.
1t is not doubted among officials that
the basis of the Spanish reply to Mr..
Woodford's note will be the charge that
the United States has not observed the
requirements of international law in the
matter of preventing filibustering. In
| this case the state department will have
some pertinent facts to present which
the officials believe will completely
ALLEVIATE from Spain any sympathy that
she may have contracted from any
Europeans on that score. 1t is asserted
positively that in no single case where
the Spanish authorities have brought to
the attention of our government the
fact that an Illegal expedition was about
to start from our shores for Cuba has
it neglected to use all the means permit
ted by our laws to prevent the start.
Altogether the officials here are con-
fident of their ability to show that the
government has more than complied
with the requirements of international
To- ,saI, II; 4
arbitration, simply demands that ma
tion use due diligence" to prevent the
departure of hostile expeditions.
AS intimations have been made that
the instructions to Minister Woodford
may be made public at Madrid, the
statement is made by officials here that
no publication of the instructions before
the assemblage of congress will be ap-
proved by the United States, and with
out this approval it would be contrary to
the usage of diplomacy for the Madrid
authorities to make public the cores
pOndence.
WEYLER'S REPORT
NEW YORK, Oct. pa dispatch to
the Herald from Havana says: The
publication In Captain General Weyler's
personal organ, Ell Guerrilleco, of this
city, of the Generals repor. to the Min
lister of War at Madrid, causes much
comment here. The report commences
with the statement that upon his, arri-
val in Havana on February II, 1896, he
founo the entire Island invaded by in
surgents, whose forces were thoroughly
organized in divisions, brigades, regi-
ments, battalions and squadrons from
Cape San Antonio to the extreme east
err end of Cuba, under command of
able leaders, among whom were many
who participated in the last war. Maceo,
Maximo Gomez, Serafin Sanchez. Zavas,
Aguirre, Quentin Barderas, Carrillo and
others, since killed in battle, roamed the
island from east to west at will, rading,
pillaging and applying the torch to viii
lagos. forcing the surrender of the vol
unteers and, being emboldened to such
an extent as to exercise municipal func-
tions in public buildings within the
towns raided.
The Spanish troops made no attempt
to pursue the enemy, but confined their
work to resisting attack ard defending
public property, making, however, little
headway. The rebel invasion COM
menced from Santiago to Juaraco and
continued thence to Pinar del Rio.
Paths taken by the two rebel columns, led
by Maceo and Gomez in their march
from Santiago to Pinar del Rio are to
this day blackered by the torch and
blighted by desolation and run. In Ha-
vana, he says, he found cannon mounted
at the approaches to the capital from
the Corro Jesus del Monte and other
avenues. The public parks had been
transformed into armories and volun-
teers were constantly under arms.
The trains and other public convey
ances leaving in the evening were
crowded with troops and volunteers, not,
however, going in search Of the enemy,
but detailed to occupy the strategic
points during the night. The general
postoffice building was constantly
guarded by regulars the very day he ar
rived, he says. He could not announce
having assumed command to his subor-
dinates in the interior for the reason
that the telegraph wires had been cut
and railroad traffic interrupted. All the
railroads had been damaged by dyna-
mite and depots demolished by the in
surgents in their rapid flight across the
island.
One of the principal papers, Diario de
Ia Marina, had sounded the alarm by
stating that the insurgents were knock
ing with the handles of their machetes
at the gates of Havana. All of the in
terror cities were paying tribute to the
rebels, and plantations not destroyed
by rebel torches during the early raids
were protected only by the contributions
of their owners
Genaral Weyler's chief aim was to
separate the forces of Gomez and Maceo,
for which purpose he constructed the
military trocha cf Mariel- Me- jara re-
sulting in penning Maceo in Pinar del
Rio and Gomez in the eastern province
Today the insurgents along the lire of
the trocha from San Fernando to Cape
San Antonio are in groups of not more
than 200 armed men.
The weak resistance offered to the in
cur fct ~ to Obj TD.s