The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1898-03-14

Havana via Key West. March 1I-Ai-
though Havana is comparatively qule' Oh
The surface. the feeling here Is uneasy.
The atmosphere is charged with vague
hints. and everyone prays for QUICK
end TO the sessions OF the court "l IN
quiry.
Each dav the anti-American sentiment
increases. Scurrilous pamphlets d'iecied
against American citizens and written ny
Spaniards are circulated freely among
the volunteers.
The government is allowing the local
press 10 assume a more belligereur tcne
daily. The censor whom gen. Btdnco
keeps 10 cut Just such things out OF the
local press is unable to preEent Ne.Ied
threats and abuse of Americans G2ily IN
the local columns. though he does cut
out reans and reams Of highly intamma-
tory matter. The censor waste basket
is fun of red penciled matter wrttca Tor
The Havana press.
our Navy is especially attacked. Even
La Lucha Havanas brightest daily. lnu-
mates that our ships are poor and our
discipline poorer The lower classes
thought the little lighthouse tender Fern
was a regular battleship. and now jhHt
the Montgomery iS here, they are sure
the cruiser must be the biggest lighting
vessel left in our fleet OF course sueh
ignorant ideas are not shared by The
government. but il would not be govern
menT officials who would XIII Americans
i'm a riot.
The Carieo. a conservative paper. prints
"a Warning TO Spain 10 be on the alert.
for President Mckinley is securing Eng
lands promise Of non-interi,reuce an
Americas cuban policy War Is con-
Sidered certain.
Taken together with the recent attacks
ON Captain Sigsbee. the Maines officers.
the American Navy and Americans in
general these belligerent expressions are
very significant.
Tb,. report Of the Court Of Inquiry viii.
il is now certain. be met by Spain with
the adverse report Of the Spanish court.
and a demand for an international nVes-
tigatiOn.
The mass Of the testimony sworn to be-
fore the American court has been all one
way. one by one the hypotheses OF the
most conservative members as TO a pos
sblc inside initial cause of the eNplo-
sion have been absolutely refuted by the
laborS of the divers. and the proofs Of
their findings have been reasoned out
graphically and clearly on paper by eN-
pert constructors, also OF the Navy.
There h. no possibility of miSconsuulng
their report if il is not modified in obe-
diencc to hints from Washington. If that
report comes out in fun, without modih-
cation il will remain with the American
ueaplc To say whether any foreign power
or powers shall decide whether our own
Investigations are correct. and whether
the officers and men of our Navy are
honest and capable.
Spain has decided upon policy lookinl
toward the demanding of more time. II
regard 10 the starving people i'm Cuba.
The Spanish court of inquiry expects Z
take more than "A month 10 finish inves
tigating th, wreck. Its men work only
about TWO hours d day. The American
court Of Inquiry has all the evidence j
needs.
Spain viii do anything 10 gain time
10 give autonomy and the starving recon
centradoS longer time 10 die to put on
the day Of reckoning with America as
long as possible The Spanish govern
meut expects to delay the work Of itl
divers and the operations of its court OF
inquiry until April. and then to bring uI
points the answers to which would re-
0uirr further investigation 10y an Amerl
can board. The season would then be tor
unhealthy FOR our men 10 work or ON
ships TO stay here longer than "a few days
at a time. Then when the two commits
sions report diyerSely. Spain, as has beer
said. win demand an international boar,
of conservative sloWncss.
on Thursday last. The Times printeD
in it, Havana dispatches a statement &
the effect that the policy of delay out
lined above would i'm all probabilities D.
adopted by The Spanish government. !
careful investigation. however. Of tn
sentiment in Congress shows that thi
Government will not consent to ALLOW
any arbitration. Some Of the most con
SatvatiNy statesmen in Washington hav
already put themselves on record in IN
columns Of this paper. as being Opposes
10 any such insult to the American COur