Omaha daily bee., 1897-02-10
CAMPOS WILLING TO co BACK
In Hearty Sympathy with the Spirit Of
Recent Reforms.
COMMENTS OF OTHER SPANISH GENERALS
Castelar, Believes the Proposed Con
cessiops Are Ample to Satisfy
All Demands and the Desires
of the United States.

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MADRID, Feb. 9.-(New York World |
Cablegram-special Telegram.)--O good au- |
thority am assured Marshal Campos today
expressed a willingness to resume command
in Cuba, IL he could contribute to ensure
sooner the submission Of the rebels. adding:
81 approve the spirit Of the recent reforms,
but their efficacy depends on the mode of
carrying them out. ! believe the suffrage
ought to have been more extensive and the
conditions Of the election of the insular as
sembly better defined. consider the protec-
tion kept up for Spanish imports into Cuba
excessive. as 1t may prove prohbitive on
many articles. The government could afford
to be more liberal II 1t had really sure
insight to the close Of the war"
Equally favorable declarations on the re-
forms were made by Generals Pando
Ecbague and Canellas, recently returned
from Cuba and several generals In the
island also The military papers Correo
Militari and Correspondence Militar, de-
clare the army approves the reforms and
considers Spain paying debt due to Cuba
in the fulfillment of old standing promises.
Ejercito Espanol the organ of Weyler, states
the governor of Cuba, despite his own opln-
ions on the eXpgdiency OF the reforms, VIII
obey the government.
CASTELAR, GIVES REASONS.
saw CASTELAR, today He gave me addi-
tional reasons for his considering the re-
forms excellent and decided progress and
his reasons for believing emphatically they
ought to satisfy American public opinion
and the American government as being
public assertion of the sincerity OF intep-
lions of Spain toward her colonies. Castelar,
says 1t is but proof the reforms are good
and meet the requirements OF the colony
and the aspirations of the autonomlsts
tl,at thnx,
reactionary groups of Spanish and Cuban
conservative parties, headed by Romero
Robledo himself at the imminent risk OF
dividing his party and some day hastening
Its fall. m
CASTELAR, heartily believes Canovas will
sincerely carry out the reforms when cir
cumstances permit. He also believes Wey-
Ter is likely to be removed when the day
comes for carrying out the reform pollcy'
though the present government belleVeS
Weyler equal to the task of vanquishing the
rebels very soon in the field. CASTELAR, says
the conduct of Canovas is noble, far-slgnteo
statesmanlike and patriotic, especially II
people abroad will only remember all
Canoyas had to surmount at home and IN
mast traditions and habits to accomplish re-
forms more liberal and sweeping than those
of Maura and Abarzuza CASTELAR,, IN con-
clusion expressed the warmest hope Amer
lea will respect the rights OF spain anu
the sincerity OF her new evolution, ana, as
usual. he expressed himself lifelong
friend and admirer of the United States.
spanish military men. having experience
In colonial affairs perhaps more than poii-
ticians are in a majority favorable TO the
home rule of Cuba, only, like Marshals Cam.
nos and Blanco and Generals Cali1a and
Marin and many others, they often IL
private express regret that they were mo-
Tried sooner, either before the present In
surrection broke out. as senor MauraT sus
gested in 1894 or when Campos landed ii
Cuba in 1895 and expressed such surprise
disgust and disappointment when the coionla
authorities replied negatively to his query
whether the government had telegraphed IN
structions and regulations FOR carrying ou
the home rule bill Of 1895.
WEYLER A FAILURE.
Military men in the majority consider
themselves obliged to observe natura
reserve. but they do not conceal that the!
consider Weyler a political and militar!
failure and the principal obstacle 10 Tn
success OF Canovas' reform policy or TN
medication of the island by home rule, a
even the military men admit that to carr
out the reform by force of arms would re
oujre much time and great sacrlhces o
men and money.
In military clubs and in Madrid saloni
marshals and generals do not conceal thel
belief that Weyler will be recalled dlrectl;
circumstances allow the government to q
so without seeming to give way TO clamor
the Madrid press or oppositions. ohiy SOU
striking success OF Weyler coulu opise III
government to keep him in Cuba some TIM
and II would increase the difficulties the cat
met encounters both in Cuba and SpaiI
Weyier is also the principal obstacle to tn
settlement of many American reclamation
like the Competitor case and American CIT
zens' claims for undue or prolonged In
prisonment recently pressed by Olney an
Taylor in rather sharp dispatches.
Other foreign powers, chiefly France an
England also recently made strong repr'
AGAINST the treatment OF the
subiects and the property of the same
several provinces of Cuba, demanding r.
lease and compensation.
ARTHUR e. HOUGHToN.