The Portland daily press., 1898-03-21
Y MORNING, MARCH 81. 1898.
The latest total reported to Mr.. Klopsch
Is 205, 900 necessitious cases.

AAO ldt6bU tOUhl T6pOfUo0 W MI. hIOpoSa
is 205, 900 necessitious cases.
Ii the government will sanction the ar
rangement, large building in the sub
urb of Guanabacoa, where the Alfonso
All. regiment is now quartered Will De
rented by the relief committee. Several
hundred reconcentrados have just been ses
to work oultivatingI ten acres Of ground
surrounding the building, in this way
contributing to their own support.
The plan is experimental and II sue
cessful Is capable OF extensive develop
ment elsewhere.
Consul General Lee today visited the
graves of the victims of the Maine dlsas-
ter in the cemetery. The ground has been
leyeled preparatory to sodding ana orna-
Gen. Lee will soon erect a fence enclosing
all the graves with gateway. The
question of suitable monument has not
yet been raised.
AS result Of the action Of the central
committee of the conservative party in
Havana in urging all that are willing to
take part in the coming elections, the
local committee of conservatives in
Cienfugos, composed of prominent men
has resigned in a body.
The Maine's steam launch was raised
today from the wreck by the contractors.
The latest official advices from General
Pando's forces tell of On unimportant
ssktrnlish with the rebels in the province
of Puerto Principe.
FLOTILLA CAUSED TROUBLE.
London, March 2l.-The increase in the
severity OF the press censorship says the
Madrid correspondent of the Times is cue
to storm of contradictory reports raised
by the detention of the torpedo dotilla at
the Canaries and for the future it is in
tended to prohibit all kilograms relating
to the flotilla or the general naval
preparations.
Il SPAIN AS AN ALLY.
= Washington, March 19.-Gen. James
Longstreet, speaking OF the Spanish
question, said: 'sIt is safe to say that
peaceful means and honorable alike to
both nations, giving each greater strength
and high standing among the enlightened
nations of the earth.
\ 'sIt appears that Spain has offered lib
eral government to the insurgent element
of Cubans-all that the disturbing parties
of the island have been contending for.
May not the United States, by aiding in
Spain's plans to establish liberal self
government on the island, quiet the fill
clustering feeling among our own people,
and at the same time give notice to the
iiseontented and ambitious insurgents
that we prefer Cuba to be in posses
sion of the mother country; that we pre-
fer to protect her in her rights; that as
nm ally she Will give us strength; as an
enemy she may injure us.
sssIn this honorable way. in this peace
ful way, may not the United States,
Spain and the suffering people of the is.
land Join hands to bring the war to a
speedy close, avert threatened rupture
between our own government and that of
Spain, bring smiling peace and plenty
back to the desolated pearl of the
Antilles, and happiness to her wretched
people and thus In the united strength of
peace and friendly alliance, march for
ward to greater achievements and more
powerful commercial conquest in the Goth
century than have been dreamed of for the
l9ths's
" CALLED TO WASHINGTON.
Portsmouth. Va, March 20.-Capt.
Faro uhar is in Washington in response
to q hasty summons from Secretary Long.
who iesires to consult him with reference
to repairs to naval vessels to be sent
to the Portsmouth yard under urgency
orders and the conversion OF passenger
and freight steamers into cruisers
: Yard officials expect greatly increased
activity z as the result OF this visit, and
in corresponding degrec have lost
confidence in a peaceful settlement
with Spain.
Repairs to the monitor Puritan were
finished today, and she will take on am
munition tonight, preparatory to NOV
ing out to sea Monday, it Is believed, II
her full complement of men arrives in