The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-14
UNITED STATES AND SPAIN
CONSUL-GEN. LEE TELEGRAPHS
 HOME GOVERNMENT,

Says All Is Very Quiet in Hayana--War- ships Taking on Coal at Key West and Being Held in Readiness to Proceed to Sea-Madrid Governme ent Refuses to Give Out Any Information.
 Washington, Jan. 13.-Late this after noon the first news of the day came to the state department from United States Consul General Lee who tele- graphed that everything was very quiet in Havana to-day and that there was no cause for apprehension or trou- ble. Orders have been sent to the Mar blehead to proceed to Navassa to inves- tigate conditions among the laborers there, thus disposing of rumors that she would be ordered to Cuba.
 Key West, Fla, Jan. 13.-The war ships have been taking on coal and provisions to-day and are being held in readiness to proceed to sea should oc- casion require. The accident which happened on board the Marblehead yes- terday when four men were injured is now being investigated
 Madrid, Jan. i3.-The government ad mits the receipt of news from Cuba, but declines to give out anything.
 Private advices from Havana received here to-day assert that shouts of Viva Don Carlos; Viva Weyler" have been raised under the very windows of Gen. eral Blanco.
 Havana, Jan. 19-There is no foun- dation whatever for the rumor that Consul General Lee met with violence during the disturbance last Wednesday or to-day After the uproad last eve ming he walked about freely in Central Park and in front of the Hotel In- glaterra To-day he has been attending to official business as usual and when this dispatch is sent he Is dining at the Hotel Inglaterra.
 About noon to-day crowd gathered in front of the offices of Fl Diaro de La Marina shouting "death to Diario." General Arolas used the regular troops to restore order and to compel the dis persing of the crowd, which kept up continuous shouting on the streets near Central Park. These people accuse this paper of being responsible for all the attacks made upon army officers and Spanish residents in the islands They say that La Discussion and El Recon centrad receive their cue from Fl Diario.
 A man selling Fl Dfario was shot in the arm. All classes commend the authorities for avoiding unnecessary force or violence in the use of the sol diers and the police. Last night at the palace, General Blanco and the auton- omist cabinet were joined by the civil governor of Havana, the colonels and chiefs of the volunteers and other prom inent politicians. Senor Congosto, the secretary general remained at his of flee until o'clock this morning. About 10 o'clock last night several shots were heard back of Albisu theater. It is be- lieved they were intended to cause an alarm.
 New York, Jan. 13.-In compliance with request made by William A. Me Dowell. chairman of the organization committee of the Cuban league in this city, Hannis Taylor, former United States minister to Spain has written a letter from Mobile in which in part he says: s'The Cuban patriots have so completely broken the military power of their oppressors that the independence of the islands in the near future is now hardly problematical
 "The empty sham of autonomy by which the Sagasta ministry has at tempted to disarm a triumphal host in the very hour of victory has failed of it's purpose. By the resolute craftsmanship of General Gomez, the effort to corrupt his followers has been put aside as a poor comedy. And thus has perished the last pretext seized upon by the gov- ernmsnt at washington as an excuse for the criminal, cruel, shortsighted policy through which it is now aiding and abetting Spain in the prolongation of a scene of death and desolation that is shocking the civilized world large portion of the people of Cuba are now either starving to death of dying of dis ease at our very doors and Spain is pre- pairing to send more soldiers to Cuba who are to renew the horrors of war. And still the present tirnid and irreso- 1ute administration by it's non-action is doing all it can to prolong the situa- tion.
 Spain has hurled in vain against the insurgent host over 100000 men and has expended in vain over $300, ,000, 900, re- sources twice as great as those employ ed by Great Britain in our entire Rev. olutionary war. Spains military pow CT in Cuba is nearly at an end, while the army under General Gomez is in pos session of nearly the entire western DOT tion of the island In the present des- perate state of the cause of Spain there can be no doubt that the moral passage of the belligerency resolution would give to the insurgents courage and would so strengthen their hands that by the beginning of summer Gu ban Independence could be justly recog- nized."