Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-02-11

tion. The state department. gave out
| This morning tor publication the SUBJ
stance of the cablesrnn' to General
| WoodfNHd. 1t is as follows:
There mas appeared, in the pubic
print lettsr addressed by the Spanish
| minister to Mr. Canalejas. This letter,
| the minister admits. was written by
hum. 1t contains expressions concern
| ing the President of the United States
/ OF SUCH character as to- end the min
| lSterS usefulness as q repre- sentative of
his government in this country. Gen
| eral Woodfcrd thsn, was instructed at
once to say to the minister of state that
the immediate recall of Mr. Dupuy de
LonEa is expected by the PresidSnt''
When inquiries We're made at the
| Spanish legation today as to how the
| lGtter reached the hands OF the Cuban
junta 1t was said that thu: statements
made by the junta as to Canalejas re-
| CSiVing the letter were abSolu tedy fa,se
Private inquiries. it was stated, had
been made through a New York gen
tleman which had disclosed that Canal
| ejas never saw the letter. This inquiry
was sent y.cAbfeE direct TO 6sanaIeias.
now at Madrid. and he was asked If he
! he'd ever received a letter of the char
acter described. To this Senior Canal
| ejas answered that he newer received
the letter. and knew nothing OF it's con-
tents: that if he had received it me
would have made an answer to the let
ter. There has never been an ac-
acknowledgements or an answer from
lCanalejaS.
After this statement direct from Ca
| nale5as, the Spanish authorities regard
| 1t as plain that the letter was stolen
III transit and that the reports of Ca
nalejas receiving it and reading it to
|Dr. Congosto. are fabrications intended
ITO cover up the plan by which the let
| ter was distracted. The fact that the
envelope was not produced is taken as
| another evidence that the letter was
| taken in transit, as the envelope would
| have disclosed the POS tmark, with the
| time of sending and receipt, both in
| this country and Havana, If it ever
reached the latter place
LONDON, Feb. 1O.-Thc ST. James
IHaZette this afternoon, alone comments
| upon the de LONE incident. 1t says:
''Senor de LONE has resigned. and it
was 1.-THE right course, whe Their he wrote
| or did not write the letter; but the in
cident is bound to make unplea santness
between the two governments, and add
| to the chances of trouble about Cuba
which are by no means SO few as GER
tain authorities profess to believe
HAVANA. Feb. 1O.-La Lucha. COM
mentng upon the De LONE affair, says:
AT various times during past years
| We have said that Senior Dupuy de
LONE is not the man Spain needs at
this moment in Washington. In spite
of this, the most prominent Ma drid poi
iticia Ms have not thought SO. We have
reliable information to the effect that
the letter attributed to Senior de LONE
was Intercepted before it was delivered
| to Senior Canalejas. Other things are
| said, which Will be cleared UP in time
and cause considerable astonishment."
| MADRID, Feb. 10.-All ui.a newspap-
ers comment on the subject ana bitter
Hannnnpp nj CT linz r
and publishing a private letter."
After ahe cabinet council the premier,
Senior Sagasra. told the correspondent
of the Associated Press that Senior
lDupuy de Lone had tbravely" admitted
| the authorship OF this letter.
Ell Epoca says: 'Senor De Lome's
| resignation having bSsn accepted, the
International question dfsa ppearS.
Nevertheless the Cuban Insurgents have
succeeded in chasing from Washington
ways displayed great zeal to prevent fiji
clustering expeditions. but thvy have
done so by tricks Only employed by the
clisnts OF aenitentaries.''
Correspondence Militar says: "The
governments should not have accepted
Senior DE Lome's resignation TIE
American attituG. is offensive and hu-
initiating to SPAIN
| Ell Correo Espnna. the Carlist organ,
says: Events precipitate themselves
ana We are at the t)@ginning of the Snd
of cur respect Tor the United States"
La Nacional, tbs Weylerist organ, re-
proacN. S the government for yielding
| to the eNigencies of Washington and
| adds: The Americans have become our
| lords and masters"
| LONDON Feb. a1.-The Times this
morning says editoral.y:
1t is from Every point of view de-
| ploralble and lamentable that so useful
! A career should have been Terminated
| by an act of the Dasest treach%ry
Senior De Lone has long been the oh
| 1ect of profound d@t5station to the Gu
BAN ring because he frustrated their
deep laid plots.
Honest men, whether in America or
| England. must regard with contempt
| too profound for words a party which
sinks to such methods of warfare.
| That party" the Times continue s,
is doubtless eXu.tlng in its success ;
but 1T cannot abolish the good work
Senior De LONE has actually accom-
piished. 1t must be recorded to Presi-
| d, mt LMckinley's credit that although
! he might feel PERSONAL resentment, he
mas refused to @xaggerate the incd mt
in any way. This has crafty iissaps
pointed the Cuban ring.
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