The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-03-07

dividually In the protest against the
Montgomery and Nashville, Judge Day
conferred with Secretary Long, who in
turn called in Captain Growninshield,
chief of the bureau of navigation.
There appears to be no reason why
change should be made in the plan for
sending these ships on the relief mis-
sion. and without attaching significance
to the request of the Spanish govern
ment the answer was made that the
plans for the trip were completed and
that the stay of the ships would be
brief and of the most pacific character.
In responding to the request for Gen
eral Lees recall the president does not
appear to have deemed the subject open
to such discussion as would require the
views of his cabinet associates, and
after a brief exchange between the
White House and the state department,
the negative answer was dispatched to
Minister Woodford. One phase of the
incident that tends to show the firm
stand taken by the administration is
the expedition with which the action
was accomplished. Such a matter or
dinarily is laid before the cabinet, the
views of all it's members personally
given, and the fullest opportunity af-
forded for discussion But in this case,
the Associated Press bulletin furnished
to some members of the cabinet was
the first information that General Lees
service was open to question. Before
the cabinet meeting no hint or COM
plant of any kind relating to General
Lee had been made
BASIS FOR SPANS REQUEST.
The ground on which General Lees
recall was asked is not officially dis
closed. 1t is known, however, that
the Spanish government has chafed
ence in Havana, although this had
never taken the form of a definite pro-
test prior to the present time. It be-
gan to assume a more serious aspect
shortly after the arrival of the Maine
at Havana. AT that time General Lee
escorted Captain Sigsbee on his round
of official calls. These We're made with
due formality, but the Spanish officials
took offense when the calls were re-
stricted to General Blanco, Admiral
Manterola and the representatives of
the military arm of SPANS service, and
did not include Premier GaIvez and his
associates of the autonomist cabinet,
who represented the new civil regime
which Spain is seeking to enforce The
matter came to the attention of Senior
Dupuy de LONE, the Spanish minister
at Washington, and. although there
were no protests, the situation doubt
less reached the state department, as
suitable amends We're made by Captain
Sigsbee's calling on DR.. Congosto the
civil secretary; Premier Galvez and his
associates. There was like irritation
over a dinner given by Consul General
Lee to the officers of the Maine The
list of guests on that occasion is said
to have omitted some of the Spanish
naval officers, and to have included,
quite conSpicuously, the names of
number of American newspaper CORE
spondentS, who were regarded by the
Spanish officials at Havana as antago-
nistic to them. This was also brought
to the attention of the officials, but was
not made the basis for any action but
rather of unofficial Spanish criticism of
General Lees general mode of pro-
cedure
COMPLETE SURPRISE.
Within recent days it has been under
stood by officials here that the feeling
against General Lee has been smoothed
over, and the request for his recall was
for that reason in the nature of a COM
plete surprise. There IRE circumstances
which clearly disclose the grounds for
the recall, although it is not known
that Spain has made any exact spec
ification of complaint. Since the Maine
disaster, a report has been circulated
that General Lee held the personal
opinion that the explosion was due to
external causes. No official report of
this character was ever sent to Wash
ington so far as is known, but the
mere circulation Of the report at Ma
drid, attributing such views to General
Lee, has been the source of much feel
ing in Spanish official circles. The press
dispatches from Madrid also disclose
that General Lee is held accountable
at the Spanish capital for the project
of the purchase of Cuba by the United
States from Spain, as well as for a
general sentiment of sympathy toward
the insurgents. The suggestion of I'm
parcial, leading government organ.
that the next session of the cortes will
consider the case of General Lee shows
the strong influences which induced the
Sagasta cabinet to ask his recall.
DE LONE AND LEE.
In this connection. the fact is noted
that Senior DuDuy de LONE is due in
Spain at this time. His enforced retire
ment on a demand by the United States
is felt to have awakened a counter SEN
timent at Madrid, which finds express
sion against Consul General Lee. There
is little doubt also that such advice as
Senior Dupuy de LONE would give to
the government or to the press in pub
lie in Madrid would not be conducive
toward the retention of General Lee
There is little doubt, however, that the
main cause of SPANS action is the
sympathies General Lee has shown for
the Cuban sufferers. 1t is known that
his active and open sympathy with the
people who have suffered so greatly
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