The record-union., 1898-01-01
Relative to the Possibility Of Intervention in
Cuban Affairs.
Calls Upon the Government to Re-
pei Every Action of the United
States Savoring Of Intervention
in the Island--Spanish Learn Of
Conspiracy in Cuba Among
Men Employed on Tobacco
Plantation to Join the Insur-
gents.

MADRID, Dec. 31-The 'Imparcial'
calls upon the Government to ''repel
every action OF the United States say
oring of Intervention in Cuba" and
adds:
There exists a widespread sentiment
against the conduct of the United
States, but we do not think General
Weyler is the most acceptable expo
nent thereof
Continuing, the 'Imparcial' criti-
cises the Government for stopping tele-
grams referring to the Generals pro-
test to the Queen Regent against the
wording Of President McKinley's mes
sage to Congress, and expresses the
opinion that it would have been to the
Governments interest not to hinder it's
publication.
The TEMPO is of the opinion that
General Weyler's protest demonstrates
lack of discipline in the Spanish army.
General Weyler and other Generals
We're to be guests of Senor Robledo to-
night. The newspapers comment on
this, and hint at possible i'll results.
CONSPIRACY AGAINST SPANISH
RULE IN CUBA.
HAVANA, Dec. 30.-(Via Key West,
Fla, Dec. 31.).-Details have been re-
ceIVed from Spanish sources of a con-
spiracy against Spanish rule said to
have been discovered in the Province of
Pinar del Rio. 1t is narrated that / 800
men employed in the field of Clay,
Brock q Co., tobacco growers, who had
been disarmed, conspired to join the
insurgents. Their leaders have been
imprisoned in Moro Castle.
On Christmas night there We're riots
similar to those which occurred at Ha-
vana, in Matanzas and other towns
The demonstrations We're intended as a
protest against autonomy. At Matan-
Zas crowds cheered for the United
States, President Mckinley and annex
alton.
A letter from an important insurgent
chief says that about $4,000 insur-
gents and reconcentrados have died in
Western Cuba. He also expresses re-
gret at the suffering endured by the in
surgents in the field.
DR.. Delfin calls attention in the
'Diaro de Lamarina" to the necessity
of sending about fifty physicians into
the interior of the island, provided with
y,
to save from certain death innumerable
human beings who are dying of hunger
and neglect. He adds that over 500 per-
sons, mostly children and women have
died of famine in the fields 1t is not
advisable, the Spanish say, to intrust
the distribution of food and money to
the concentrates.
Besides the pangs of famine, the re-
concentrates are suffering from
smallpox, dysentery, malaria. etc.
which threaten determination. There
fore DR.. Delfin says it is necessary to
send medicines with the food and ply
sicans.
1t is reported that an important en-
gagement occurred last Monday in the
Muatta Mountains, Province of Pinar
del Rio, and that large numbers were
killed on both sides. One prominent in
surgent was captured and brought to
Havana, where he is imprisoned incom-
municado.
VIEWS OF GOMEZ CAUSE NO SUR
PRISE.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31.-The inter-
view with General Maxine Gomez, in
which the chief of the Cuban insur-
gents declared that autonomy will
never be accepted, was read with great
interest in the State Department and
the Spanish legation.
The refusal of Gomez to consider
Spain's autonomy plan caused no sur
prise at the legation. Minister de Lone
has not a any time expected that Cen
eral Gomez would Immediately accept
an offer of autonomy, though he does
not credit all the statements that have
been attributed TO Gomez in official
dispatches from Havana. He said that
he had believed for scme time that it
would be necessary for General Blanco
to achieve several important military
advantages before there would be a
general acceptance of autonomy by the
insurgents in the field.
Officials of the State Department ex-
pected that General Gomez would hold
out against the acceptance of any
terms from Spain short of complete in
dependence, and they are not surprised
at his defiant statements. They do not
agree with him, however, in his opinion
that he and his followers will soon be
able to achieve the independence of
Cuba without the assistance of the
United States.
The Red Cross Society has been in
vited by the Administration TO aid in
the collection of money and supplies
for the relief of the sufferers in Cuba.
The original plans of the Administra-
ton called for no assistance from the
charitable influence exerted by the or
ganzation, it was determined by the
President to ask Miss Clara Barton to
call at the State Department and dis
cuss matters with Assistant Secretary
Day. An invitation was sent to Miss
Barton in accordance with this decis-
ion, and it is expected that she will ear
ly inform the department of the part
she viii take in the relief matter.
The authorities here were astonished
at the statement cabled from Havana
that Consular Agent Madrigal of Sancti
Spiritus carried letter from President
Mckinley to the insurgent commander,
General Gomez. 1t has even been re-
ported that when he appeared in
Gomez camp his life was threatened
and he only saved himself by repre-
senting that he bore communications
from the President of the United
States.