The age-herald., 1898-02-15
SENIOR BERNABE SUCCEEDS DE LONE And the Letter Incident Is Con- sidered Settled. DE LONE SAILS WEDNESDAY New Minister Is a Son of Vice Ad-
 miral Polo, WHO ONCE REPRESENTED SPAIN The Dauntess Sails For Cuba With
 Supplies. ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH THE MAIL 
 Directed to the Battleship Maine Thought to Have Caused the Sending of the Cushing to Havana-Cipher
 = Dispatch Still Secret.
The DauntIess Sails For Cuba With
 Supplies.
ALLEGED TAMPERING WITH THE MAIL


 of honor and a strict idea of justice the state department has taken steps to place in the@hands of Senor Cana,ejas, to whom the letter was addressed, the epistle writ ten by Senor Dupuy DeLome which led to the resignation of the minister. The trans action is explained in the following brief statement given. out tonight by the state departments:
 "Recognzing that the legal ownership of the DeLome letter Is in MT. Canalejas' hands, and his agent and attorney, MT. Carlisle having presented proper authority. to receive the same, the letter was deliv- cred to him today"
 Carlisle Gets the Letter
 As explained in this statement, MT. Car lisle was fully authorized to apply for and receive the Ietter, having the cabled au- thorization from Senor Canalejas. In the view of the state department the letter was a stolen document and in that. like any other piece of property, 1t should, upon application, be delivered to its right ful owner. There was no other course iett open, for in the United States as in all other countries having code of laws, letter becomes the sole property of the person to whom 1t is addressed fmmeunateiy it starts on its way from the sender. Even the latter cannot obtain possession or It
  the limit of his powers legally being in certain cases to stop the delivery of the paper. This letter has besides already completely served all of the uses Tor which 1t might have been applied by our government and there are in existence fac sslnile copies of the papers that are so surely authenticated as to leave no legal doubt of their currency.
 The Closing Chapter.
 There now remains only the closing chap fer of the incident to be written, for the end is already in sight. Notwthstanding all that has been said in the press apout demands on Spain for apologies or retrac- tions of the disagreeable things said py senor Dupuy DeLome in his letter, 1t can be positively stated that at on time since the publication of the letter has the state department taken any such course. ln- stead, it has relied entirely upon the sense of propriety of the Spanish government to do all that was proper and needful to wipe out the unpleasant impression produced by these statements, and 1t can now De said that this course has been fully justi- fled and that the Spanish cabinet, now pe- ing aware of the full text of the letter, IS expected within a day or two to make such disclaimer of the letter as IS required py the circumstances
 Tonight the state department received nficial notice from Madrid of the selection of Senor Louis Polo Bernabe as United States minister to succeed Senor Dupuy DeLome.,
 nied reports tlleging that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee consul general at Cuba, has rendered his resignation. m,
 The officials of the state department still maintain their reticence as to the con tents of the cablegram from Minister Woodford received last Saturday night. It may be said that all statements so far made as to the nature of this dispatch are speculative. The message was not oe- ciphered until well along in the afternoon yesterday, and then IL passeo o,sn. lneo ene hands of Secretary Day and the president in turn who have been the only persons in Washington save the employe wno un- raveled the ciphor to see the oispatch up to this time No answer has been maae as yet to MT. woodford's message and 1t is by no means certain that an answer will be required.
 Calls on the State Department.
 sensr DuBose, the Spanish charge d'af- fairs. was one of the early callers at the state department and this naturally led to conieotures that his visit was in connection with the DeLome incident. It is stated positively, however. that the incident was not referred to, but the call had to do with other pending Spanish affairs Everytnlng relating to the DeLome letter thus far had taken place at Madrid through Minister Woodford. In some well informed quarters it was believed that any formal disavoWal' of Spain would be deferred until a new min ister was commissioned, one of his first du- ties being to make proper amends and re- establish cordial relations on all pending questions. Owing to the presence in Wash ington of Duke d'Adces, late Spanish min- ister to Mexico, now on leave, it was felt that he would be named as minister in or der that speedy adjustment might be ef- fected. In other official quarters the view was entertained that Epains disavowal would be prompt and would be made in the form of an official statement by the minis ter for foreign affairs, Senor Gullon, ex- pressing regret at the incident.
 Another Spanish Caller.
 Calderon Carlisle counselor for the Span fsh legation, was another caller at the state department today.
 Senor DeLome intends sailing from New Work Wednesday for Liverpool He has not been commanded to go to Madrid.
 There was a rumor that Mir. Calderon Carlisles call had relation to prosecutions for the theft of the DeLome letter. but it was stated later by those frequently con versant with the facts that no move toward the prosecution of those connected with the