The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-21
RECALL OF GENERAL LEE
Trying to Convince the Public 1t
Was Not Requested.
ROASTING THE MINISTRY
A Foreign War Would Start Anarchy in
Spain-The Carlists Preparing for
an Uprising A Threat
From France.

| Correspondence of the Associated Press.
Madrid. March 20.-The Madrid pa
pers. with few exceptions. have. during
| the past few days, been trying to
convince the public that there was
never any question of Gen. Fitzhugh
Lees recall from Havana. The facts in
the case, however. are exactly as
cabled to the associated press.
Senor Sagasta. in conversation with
General Woodford. did suggest that
friendship and good will between the
two countries would be promoted were
General Lee to be recalled and, after
consulting his government, General
woodford did inform the premier that
such a step could not be considered.
Nothing would have been known of the
affair had IL not been that someone in
| the Spanish foreign office confided the
information to the official news agency
of Spain. the Frabra agency. The fact
| that this agency received II and that
the censor allowed IL to be telegraphed
| by them abroad is, to those familiar
| with methods in Madrid. conclusive
| evidence that ii was correct. IL was
only when the effect this news pro-
| duced in America was cabled back
| here, and after there was fall on the
| bourse. that there was any question of
denying the authenticity.
The Globo. the Spanish ministerial
organ. in a leading article to-day, says
| IL can only mislead those who are
| ignorant of the traditional sensitive
ness of the stock exchange. adding that
| neither the government nor public
! opinion should pay greater attention to
the phenomenon than ii merits.
The present blow" it continues.
comes from Paris. and is due to two
absurd rumors: namely. that the
! n
! remove General Lee at the request OF
| the Spanish government, and that no
! lesser person than his holiness. Pope
Leo Kill, has through his secretary or
state. committed himself to a favorable
statement with regard to the Cuban
| insurgents. The first has no basis.
whatever. the government having
neither officially nor indirectly sug-
| gested Lees removal: the latter. we
opine. arises from Cardinal Cascan-
mars pastoral. But IT is well known
that the said pastoral has not been
well received at Rome"
The Imparcial refers to the General
Lee rumor and to the government
denial of the truth as accounting for
the fall i'm prices. 1t declines 10 decide
on which side the truth really lies.
Commenting on the tranquility of the
government and especially on Sagasta.
| however, il says: We presume the
which discounts in the minds of the
people the panic reigning in financial
| circles But" IL adds, IF they have
not. what frightful responsibility
lies upon them. We do not wish to ad-
nit IL. nor even to think Of II. for II
| the day should come when war Is inevi-
table and the present government tran
| GULLY turns out to be neglectful and
| wanting foresight, then the foreign
question will be as nothing compared
to the home one started in our midst.
| AS we have already pointed out. the
most dangerous thing which can hap
| pen is that the nation should imagine
the government is neglecting either the
defense of our honor or our interests.
| For that will leave the road open for
some ambitious man who has a name
or a political party of some strength"
With respect to the affair of General
Lee, the Pals says: 1T is quite clear
the government is determined to live
as divorced as possible from public
opinion. and IL carries this plan with
| a consistency worthy OF better
| cause. At the very moment that the
| whole of 6pain-or rather the whole of
Europe-is rejoicing at the rumors of
complaints addressed by the Spanish
| government To that of the United
! States. our minister of state labors to
| prove that no such complaints have
ever been made and that the govern
| ment has not even incidentally occu-
pied itself with the affairs. The people
doubt the truth OF these statements.
| We do not. We prefer to credit them.
rather than suspect what must other
wise have happened. that the govern
ment made the complaint. but in face
/ of the insolent refusal of the Yankees
to make satisfaction, had not the cour-
age to abide by them. Nevertheless,
the rumors. we must admit. look true
A n l....-
ticity, and those VINO do not are OF the
opinion that they ought to be true"
The Pals says General Lee may now
I quietly continue plotting in his Ha-
vana consulate"
Referring to the slump" In Spanish
! As, the Liberal characterizes as absurd
the action attributed to the pope. His
lofty prudence is recognized all the
! world over" Nor does IL credit the
Lee rumor with being the real cause of
| the fall. The real origin" IL says. lis
to be found in the prominent state of
alarm under which the Spanish and
! European people have lived for some
! time in the tension of mind. in the
cloud of suspicion with which they are
surrounded: in the feverish excitement
which leads them to take precaution
| against a rupture and in the angry
/ restlessness which pervades all un-
known dangers. Step by step. almost
! unconsciously, We and they have
reached a state of armed peace. not
less ominous and probably more de-
moralizing than actual war. While
things continue i'm this position we may
at each step expect similar falls with
out the necessity of concrete fact
bringing them about. Undoubtedly our
relations with the United States are
daily accommodating themselves to the
strict dictates Of prudence and dill
I hat nj a
believe that the nation can. without
suffering irredeemable loss put up for a
few months more with this anguishing
indecision and enerNatlua UnUvr-
taintyg"
The Liberal is Of the opinion that the
clouds continue 10 gather. IL adds: "A