The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-01-14
The Riots at Cuba's Capital Re-
ported to be at an End.
No Present Necessity Of Sending Warships
to the Island.
While Consul General Lee is APP
prehensive That Another Out
break May at Any Moment Oc-
cur, He Made No Demand Upon
the Washington Authorities for
War Vessels.

War Vessels.
WASHINGTON, JAN IS. - United
| States Consul General Lee has reported
| to the State Department from Havana,
under date of yesterday, the facts con-
nected with the rioting there yester-
day While the State Department Off
| Gals do not divulge the truth of the
dispatch, it is said that it corroborates
generally the newspaper reports on the
| subject.
| According to General Lees report the
disturbance has been quelled for the
| time being, but he was apprehensive of
another outbreak at any moment. Moth
ing has been heard from the Consul
General to-day, SO it is assumed at
the State Department that the situa-
| ton remains unchanged in Havana.
General Lee did not ask to have a
warship sent to Havana, and in the
opinion of the State Department Off
Gals that is a sufficient reason for the
assumption that there is no occasion
| for sending one. The officials are evil
IDENTIFY not apprehensive of any trouble
| in the immediate future that will re-
| quire the forcible intervention Of our
| Government.
The disquieting feature of the situa-
| ton is the horrible condition of the
poor in Cuba. According to General
Lees advices, no less than 200, 900 peo-
| pie on the island are in the last stages
of restitution, and are wholly dependent
upon charity. To feed these people
on 10-cent ration per day would cost
| 0,cO9 daily, which sum is double the
amount SO far received in contribu-
| tons by the State Department. In
| the opinion of General Lee 20 per cent.
| of these poor people are surely doomed
| to death from starvation and disease.
| In such a state of affairs, the existence
of any form of organized government is
| threatened, and the autonomy plans
| of Spain command little attention.
| The naval authorities maintain their
| serenity, Notwithstanding many ru-
| mors of radical action, such as the
| dispatch of warships to Havana and
| like stories. Secretary Long was ask
| ed whether any Of the American ships
| had been ordered to be ready to sail
| for Havana. He replied that while he
could not discuss the matter, he would
| say that he had not made any change
| in the orders for the battleship Maine.
now lying at Key West Inquiry devel-
| oped the fact that the Names last or
| ders were to go out for target practice,
and upon falling in with the North
Atlantic squadron to attach herself
| Although there is no expectation at
| the Navy Department of any trouble
| just now, still in case it should occur
| the navy is more strongly represented
| in Florida and West Indian waters
| than it has been in the past ten years.
| At Key West there is the second class
| battleship Maine; at Jacksonville the
| dynamite cruiser Vesuvius; at Guada-
| loupe the Wilmington. The Detroit is
| on the way from Cape Haytien to Key
| West. where she is now due. The
Marblehead is at Port Tampa, Florida.
She has been ordered to remain at Key
| West instead of sailing for Navassa,
| according to original orders.
| QUIET AT HAVANA.
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 13-The Span
| ish Minister, Senior Dupuy De LONE.
received dispatch from Secretary
| General Congosto under date of noon
| yesterday, from Havana 1t said:
Your excellency can affirm that the
| tumult of yesterday has had so little
| Importance that not shot was fired
and there is no knowledge that any,
| body has been wounded or hurt. The
agitation was confined to one quarter
| Of the city"
This followed closely on a disnatcb
from the same authority filed at IA
vana, about 8 o'clock this morning. II
said:
| Complete calm. The city has recoy-
cred its normal condition"
| The Spanish Minister had been kept
constantly advised of every develop
ment within the last twenty four hours
at Havana, and he summed up his adj
vices this afternoon by saying that they
show the uprising to have been a riot
pure and simple; that order has been
| completely restored, and that the an
| thorities have an ample force to afford
every protection: that the tumult was
confined to Spanish and Cuban resi-
dents. and that no indignity was put up-
| on an American interest or citizens
public or private.
| The official advices began arriving
about midnight, and have come unin-
| terruptedly since then. The early ones
We're in cipher, and it took some hours
to decipher them. They told the story
of the disturbance fully, and in the main
corroborated the press dispatches. They
made it clear, 1t is stated at the lega-
ton, that the demonstration was an un-
organized riot, the participators being
gathered up from the streets without
arms or ammunition. 1t began when a
| few crmy officers mobbed the Recon
centrados" newspaper establishment
| that paper being so lukewarm toward
autonomy that it was suspected of hay
/ ing insurgent tendencies. Later. as the
people were leaving the shops at the
close of the days work, and the streets
were filed with home goers, the demon
stration was begun again by an attack
on the establishments of La Discus
SION and the "Diaro De La Marina. y
The dispatches state that small
group raised a cry against autonomy
some few gave vivas for General Wey-
Ter. while some scattered shouts were
directed against General Blanco. In the
main. however. vivas were for Spain
and the army. The mounted police were
brought into use and dispersed the
groups so that order was restored, and
the city was tranquil by midnight
During this excitement United States