The record-union., 1897-04-11
VEYLER DODaES TIE issue.
SEEMS NOT TO WANT TO nEET
GENERAL COMETS FORCES.
The Extraordinary Conduct of the
Captain General Causes Storm
of Adverse Comment.

NEW YORK, April 10.-A dispatch
to the Herald" from Havana Says:
The extraordinary conduct of General
| Weyler has caused a storm of adverse
! comment. Since he left Havana on
March list the Captain General has
done simply nothing from a military
| STANDPOINT. He is now in Trinidad
and 1t is believed he is going to the
Jucaro- Moron trocha, presumably to
inspect that much talked-of barrier
which apparently serves no purpose
but to fence General Gomez off from
Calixto Garcia.
| While it has been notorious that Cen
eral Gomez has been at Arroyo Blanco
/ since before General Weyler set out,
no attempt has been made to dislodge
him and nearly three weeks of vaIua-
Die hghting weather has been marked
by no military operations of even pre-
tended Importance.
| The Captain Generals morality cam
paign against corruptionists through
out the island, however much need
there may be- for it in the Spanish serv-
| ice, is not the matter of first moment
General Gomez it is considered, is the
all-important issue, and it has become
plain that General Weyler has been
lodging it. 1t is believed here that the
Captain General was warned by Senior
| Canovas not to remain longer in Ha-
vana, as the great and growing dissat-
isfaction might necesstate his recall,
and his so-called trip to the front was
made simply to give the impression in
Madrid that. he had actually taken to
| the field.
| A few days ago, during a temporary
marshaling of insurgent forces in this
province under Rodriguez Castillo, Del
/ gado and Acosta, 1000 men were en-
camped within cannon shot of Moro
Castle. This, with the daily reports of
! fighting, show what the story of pacifi-
cation amounts to. In the meantime it
is estimated that the Spanish loss to
date in the field and in hospitals will
reach 10000
| Mrs. Rosalie LamaS 81 years old,
! four of whose sons are with the in
surgents and fifth in a Spanish pris-
on in Africa, has sailed for Key West,
/ having been released after several
months of Imprisonment in Las Recog-
| itas with the lowest class of female
criminals. OF her five sons, three joined
| the insurgents at the outset ana the
other two were arrested. One was re-
! leased and one was sent without trial
| to Ceuta incommunicado. The one
who was released then joined the reb-
| els. AS Mrs Lamas suffered from pa
ralysis, her unmarried daughter, Ro-
sale, was accorded permission to go
with her to Vule Prison. Mrs. Lamas
was finally sentenced to go to the isle
! of Pinos, then to Fernandino, but it
| has now been decided to allow her to
leave Cuba. She was charged with
maintaining correspondence with the
rebels and sending them medicines. In
reality her sole offense was that her
sons were in arms against Spain and
could only be punished through her.
There is renewed talk here about ne
gotiations for peace, based on the be-
lief that Secretary Sherman and Min
lister de LONE are discussing some plan
which will have the approval of the
Junta in New York and General Gomez
and the Cuban Civil Government 1t is
not thought here that anything short
of independence is under consideration.
General Gomez who hates a Spaniard
and is too old to reap any selfish re-
ward, is wholly committed to the-sub-
ject of freeing the island.