The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-04-12
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picions of its members were definite
Had these received assurances that tn
Spanish authorities could be depende
on TO cooperate in the investigation
valuable evidence might have bee
placed in the hands of the latter. Blu
with Spain stubbornly holding to tn
theory of accident, the only effect o
placing in their hands evidence as t,
! the probable identity of the conspira
tors would have been its destruction. S,
General Lee continued his inquiries OF
independent lines. The result was t,
show the fallacy of some of the clews
but not of all
Perhaps General Lee would not fee
justified in making stronger assertion
officially than could the board abou
the identity of the conspirators, yet h,
uncovered enough to satisfy him tina
fanatic could not have fixed the min,
which blew up the Maine in Havana
harbor or have fired it. When Nava
Attache SObral gave out in Washington
an official statement that no mines haC
been laid in Havana harbor, evidence
that this was a mistake was quickly
accumulated at the consulate, before
the board had established that fac
] to its own satisfaction. Whether some
! of the junior officers who were sta
toned at the arsenal under Weyler were
directly implicated in the plot may be
a matter of Individual opinion, rather
/ than of demonstrated evidence.
! On one point information is definite
! General Lee believes the letter of Jan
uary last, attributed to General Wey-
/ Ter, in which Weyler speaks boastfully
of having prepared Havana harbor SC
that Yankee ships could be destroyed
is genuine. Whether he has seen the
original is not known, but his opinion
that such letter was written by Wey-
Ter is clear. Since the Maine disaster
is expected to be a feature of the gen.
eral Cuban case, instead of a more in
cident, the consul generals presence in
Washington may be useful in supple
menting with later details the informa-
ton gathered by the court of inquiry.
General Lees personal opinion was in
dictated when the Fern was leaving
Havana harbor Saturday night, and he
pledged those on board with him a
silent toast to the memory of the Off
GERS and men of the Maine blown up
by a Spanish mine" His was the first
eye to catch sight of a cannon on a
Spenish gunboat which was leveled di-
rectly al the Fern and kept aimed for
several minutes. 1t meant for jest, it
was an ill-timed jest, indeed.
INSULTED LEE.
The number of people who lined the
waters edge on either the city or the
Cabanas side did not exceed few hun
dred. Nevertheless, their boots and
whistles and calls of "Fuera, Fuera,"
which is Spanish for Get out" could
not be construed as indicating a heal
thy sentiment toward Americans. Cen
eral Lees only comment was to call
the attention of his voyage companions
to the Spanish flag flying over Moro
Castle and to tell them that when they
returned they would see another flag
there.
Captain General Blanco's refusal to
see General Lee when the latter called
at the palace on Saturday 10 say good
bye was an ostentatious affront. Blan-
co was transacting business and see
ing various persons, but sent word
begging to be excused on the grounds
of illness. Secretary General Congosto
was openly insulting.
In the harbor, when the vessels Eve
lyn and Olivette went out, loaded with
Americans, there were some evidences
of i'll feeling, which were stronger when
the coast survey steamer Bache fol-
lowed in their wake; but the browning
exhibition was when the Fern, with
General Lee and his party left. The
catcalls and boots and whistles did not
come alone from the Dopulace lining
the shore; thev also came from the
Spanish gunboats and from the SOL
diers at La Fuersta fort and at Ca
banas.
The Spanish authorities have a sus-
picion that General Lee is going to
Washington with the original of the
writer's letter about the mines in the
harbor, as well as a full plan of the
mines.
Havana itself for some time to come
promises to be the most isolated COM
in the world. Probably, if
there is no outbreak-and none is prob
able at personal---very. little news of
what is happening may be transmitted
to the outside world. Nothing is per-
mitted to be known of what is going
on in either Madrid or Washington till |
General Blanco is ready to have II
known. The contents of President Nc /
Kinley's message and the subsequent |
action of congress will probably be |
withheld for a, week. The authorities |
have already reached the point not !
only of indicating what the papers shall |
publish, but also of furnishing copy for |
them The effort to break the effect of |
General Lees absence by a false state
ment that it is of a temporary nature |
and due to personal and family reasons
will not be credited. By this time
in Havana knows that the
American flag is down from the con-
sulate officials have left, that their af-
fairs are in charge of the British con-
cul and there has been an exodus of
Next they will learn that all finan-
,ial houses having connections with
houses in the United States will do no
'urther business while the present
strained international relations contin-
lie, and the vessels plying between
American and Cuban ports have sus-
pended their voyages. The effect of
his will soon be felt in the scarcity of
provisions. 1t was anticipated on Sat
lrday afternoon, when dealers all over
he city began raising prices. In these
circumstances, even the Spanish CLASSES
n Havana may have sober reason of
election as to the meaning of war with
he United States.
The answer of the Cubans to the pro-
,osal of an armistice will be by large
lumber of them joining the insurgents
n the field.
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