El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
A BOMB
!, EXPLODED.
The Cuban Junta Have Un-
earthed a Letter Written
BY MINISTER De LONE

President Mckinley Assistants Da
Cruiser Left Madrid for Havan
Today.
NEW YORK. February 9-The Gu
ban junta have unearthed letter
written by Minister De LONE to
friend in Havana in which the writer
uses very insulting Language regarding
President Mckinley. Members of the
junta guarantee that the letter was
stolen Int guarantee its genuiness.
WASHINGTON, February 9--Tbe
bomb exploded by the Cuban Junts is
the topic of the discussion in official
clined to dignity the matter by any
statement whatever. His personal
| friends have characterized the letter
as forgery: some of them declare that
| it is inconceiva ble thai diplomat of
De Lome's cunning could have commit
| ted such asgrave iudiscr, tion as to pen
such sentiments; terror would have
been graver in that it conn mmitted Spain
as we'll as the minister personally. II
is believed De LONE will take no ac-
tion whatever until an explanati is
demanded. While Secretary Sherman
intimateu this morning that the state
department was ignoring the matter,
at the same time Assis.aus Dav and
Adee have been closeted tos her.
Assistant Secretary Day, Of e e tate
+partm-nt, had a long CO 1ferenc with
the president after bis talk with Adee.
He was then closeted with Solici o.
Penfield. of the state department.. He
then made this guarded statement: 'In
the absence of any certain knowledge
that the letter as published in the
newspapers is authe ntic, the depart
mert must decline to discuss what &C.
tion, if any, it may take, or whether it
will take any action to discover it's au-
t enticy.'
Notwithstanding this diploma at c
statement there are the best of reasons
for the belief that cable was sent di-
rect from the white house to Minister
Woodford with instruction to make in
quires.
It was reported at the state depart
meut late this afternoon tn at Spain has
recalled Minister De LONE.
The torpedo boat Cushing has been
ordered to Havana with stores for the
ba ttleship Maine aud is then ordered
to return.
THE SENATE TO THE RESCUE.
WASHING February 9.-The
senate transacted routine business this
morning and at noon Senator Cannon
resolution. The galleries were packed.
Cannon said the war in Cuba had
ended. Spain was on the defensive
and mostly making pretense in order
to preserve her credit ard fasten, If
possible. upon Cuba, the enormous
debt iucurrt d by Spain in prosecuting
the war Cannon dramatically charR
ed tha the Mckinley administration
was working in the interest of Spanish
Chicago Tribune, an admin strstion
organ, to prove this charge. "Cuba
has bought her lib. rty with blood, -
Can-oa passiOuately exclaimed, land
the United States should not be q par
ty in repo ted financial sche nes"
Cannon continued to depouuce the
adm n stration in unmeasured terms
and Senator Hale then took The floor
and said an attempt was b; ing made to
make the administration plunge the
United States into var with Spain
and denounced the pending resolution
rs il rflamatOry.
Senator Mason then began red hot
sp erh in which he said he was not an
annexst onist, but was fighting for
peace in Cuba, not war. He read from
stat tistics of death and outrages furnisn-
ed by the bishop Of Havana showing
that 100000 had perished within tho
last year.
Hale denied this .pointblank. The
statement he said, was absOlutely be-
y. nd belief. ''There can be ouly cne
of two results of the Cuban war;" Ma
SOD said "Either the downfall OF Span
ish authority in Cuba or the loss of
Cuban independence. 1t is war to a
finish; a war of ext" "rminstion and peo-
pie ant it s'oppei."
"There is no vicsrious atonem~nt,n
Mason exclaimed, ''for a nations
crime. We sold women and children
to the highest bidder fer cash. The
law of comp .nsiOu went into operation
and we did not have materials enough
at the end Of the war to make head
boards for our soldiers
graves. Bankers and keepers
of bucket shops are wirin-
me today tn consider the price of wheat
and pork in my own sac. I say TO
you that with the picture of starving
women and childre n in Cuba have not
the heart 20 look at the price of pork
in Illinois," APP ause.
endeavored to gain consent for the in
PRODUCTION of resolution declaring the
letter of Minister De LONE as pub
lished this morning was an insult t.
the country a d tor this he he given his
passports, was nverru'ed.
PHILADELPHIA, February "a
Washing ton special to the Item" this
evening GAYS: est csn be stated that
Mi lister De LONE last night privately
admitted that he was the anthor of the
OminOus lett ,r.'
MADRID, February 9.-Tbe armored
cruiser Alimaute Oquiudo left Spain
for Havana to-day From Havana she
will visit several ports Of the United
States 1t is stated here that the num-
be- of Cuban in >nrgents submitting to
Spanish auth or ity has deer ased sirca
the arr val of the American warships
in the Cuban waters.
Leiter Expandi"g z his Business
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