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And Yesterday Premier Sagasta Was
Notified the Writer Was Persona
Non Grata at Washington.
DE LONE NOT COMMUNICATIVE
AUTHENTICITY OF THE EPISTLE
HOWEVER. IS NOT DENIED.
The Incident Likely to Cause an Ex-
Cause Renewal of War Talk.
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Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Events of grave
consequence were crowded into the record
which was made to-day in Washington.
Minister Dupuy De LONE resigned to avoid
being sent home in disgrace for writing a
letter containing insulting references to
President Mckinley, and he will return to
Spain to find himself the hero of the popu-
lace. Never was there quicker action in a
diplomatic way than this. De LONE was
interviewed late last night by several corre-
thorship of the offensive letter which was
published in nearly all Of the leading news
papers of the land this morning. To some
he declared that the letter was q forgery,
and to others he refused to say anything.
1t appears, however, that no sooner had he
learned that the discriminating epistle was
in the hands of his enemy, the Junto, than
he sat down and cabled his resignation to
Madrid. When the State Department to-
day made an official inquiry of him about
the letter and received a. reply admitting
its authorship De LONE was in reality u
private citizen of Spain temporarily So
journing in the American capital. The De
LONE incident is therefore officially closed,
although this government will undoubtedly
hear from him again. IT is anticipated here
that he will return to Spain, join fortunes
with his friend Weyler and do his best to
involve Spain and the United States in war.
That is what conservatives in Washington
fear will be the case and what the Cuban
sympathizers hope will occur.
The two inhammatory speeches which
were made in the Senate to-day by Senators
Cannon and Mason are regarded as most
strained situation. These speeches, which
were full of denunciations and insult to
Spain, were apparently delivered for Span
ish consumption quite as much as for the
benefit of the American audience. They
may be the match 10 touch off the powder
magazine at Madrid and cause the explosion
which the friends of peace have been fear
ing and which they have been trying to
guard against. Coming as they do stimuli
taneously with the news of De Lomes COM
pulsory resignation, there is no telling what
the effect on the excitable Spanish popula-
ton may be. Jingo feeling is already
pitched high in Spain, and the occurrences
of to-day in America are well calculated
to excite the population into uncomfortable
frenzy.
The administration awaits news from
Spain with undisguised anxiety. The care
full and conservative policy which the Presi-
dent has been pursuing for months may
have been made unavaiing by the Washing
ton happenings of to-day. This fear is up
permost in the minds of the friends of the
administration.
Senator Cannon's speech is regarded as
being especially dangerous. He seemed de-
termined to irritate the Spanish and to fur
nish them proof of what they have been
charging and what this government has
been officially denying, namely. that the Gu
ban synpathizers i'm the United States are
and have been the backbone of the insurrec-
ton and were furnishing the patriots i'm the
field with all their arms and ammunition
and other military supplies. He dwelt on
this point strongly and in such a way as
to leave no doubt as to his purpose. 1t was
this part of his speech which brought SEN
ator Hale to his feet with rather lame
and scattering statement intended to neu-
tralize the sting and poison in the Utah
senator's remarks.
The American capital has not been in such
a CULVER of excitement for long time as
it is tonight. There is a general feeling
that trouble will follow the events of the
day. These anticipations may not be real
lied, but thoughtful people cannot blind
themselves to the fact that danger
ously near collision with Spain, and that,
forced into hostilities by the inhammatory
utterances of the jingoes in Congress and
by the incident which caused the sensa-
tional withdrawal from Washington of the
Spanish minister The Cuban agents in
America are in state of ecstatic happi-
ness They had rather lift De LONE out of
Washington than to hear of the slaughter
of ten thousand Spanish soldiers in battle.
They look on 1t as greater triumph ana