The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-15

Washington, April H.-The testimony
of General Lee before the senate COM
mittee on foreign relations has been
made public. With reference to the
responsibility for the destruction Of the
Maine, General Lee said:
am satisfied the explosion was
from the outside. | Cabled the state
department a few days after that
board assembled that it was almost
certain that the explosion was from
the exterior. 1 have always had an
idea about the Maine that, of course,
it was not blown up by any private
individual or by any private citizen,
but it was blown up by some of the Of
hcers who hud charge of thc mines
and electrical wires and torpedocs in
the arsenal there who thoroughly un-
derstood their business.
l do not think Gcnral BlanCU, the
present captain and governor general
of the island Of cuba had anything
to do with IL. | do not think he had
any knowledge of it. | saw him just
shortly after the occurrence. lie had
just heard il and was crying; tears
wer coming out Of his eyes. lie
seemed to regret it as much as any
body | saw in Havana; but | think it
came from some Of the subaltern Of
ficers who had been there under
Weyler, and who were probably anti
BlanCo anyhow, and who had IuH
knowledge of the business.
THAT ARMIsTICE.
In response to an inquiry from SEN
ator Frye as to his reasons for saying
that the insurgents would pay no at.
tention to the armistice, General Lee
said:
Because every attempt 50 far to
make terms or to make peace or to
buy the Insurgents or their leaders
has met with signal failure: and what
ever may he said about old General
Gomez, he is in my humble opinion.
lighting that war in the only way it
can he dunc--SCattCrng his troops out
because to concentrate would be to
starve, having no Commissary train
and no way to get supplies. They
come in sometimes for the purpose Of
making some little raid. whore he
thinks it will do something; but he has
given orders, 50 ] have ALWAYS been
informed. not to fight not to become
engaged. not to lose their cartridges;
and sometimes, when he gets into
dght each man is ordered not to fire
more than two cartridges.
Suppose Havana was blockaded,"
said Senator Mills, 80 that no pro-
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TEIE INSURGENTS.
senator FRYE asked "yh3t i'm vour
iudg,ncut. is fhe possibilit,. of Sr,in
Conuucrircr the INSURGENTS and ragtor-
ing pcare to tho isIandq"
General I.pe-I do not thfnl, there is
IN. SLIGHTEST roesiI,ility of hi. ,1oi,,,,
If ot al i'm any. way The same con-
dition or things cvfstea whom Mr. C1e,s-
land asked me- to .ro do,yn tbara laet
Juno. = vrar ago. I povp hin, a rern,,f
three weeks after 7 cot tbnra i'm ,vbi,b
toId him tbo,a ,yas NO cborc,, I'm nv,
orinion Of tho Standards eva,. s,nnroes-
inc that ipei5rrrrtion nc,. ,,,,., tbt,n ,,,y
chance of the irsuIrectionists axraIIinr
,ho sra,,isb enlIiars C.,,,,, a., i,,a,''I
That report is in the state department
somewhere 'o"'tE' ana II l h"i 10 write
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