Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-04-15

...,-ords the United States The Span
nortion are principally the mer-
,,,rs shop-keepers. and all this agl-
.,t4rn is affecting very much their
tr.inoss. 4 great many OF them,
whilst they give expression Of great
-orsIiv are really anneXationists, be-
..e they think it is the only way out
". The trouble and they would much
,.stor annexation to the United States
Ell Cuhan republic, As to the Cuban
o.~ AZ The population, they are gener-
all for free Cuba.
HE condition Of the recOncentrados
.-r In Inc country is just as bad as in
General Weylers day. 1t has been re-
-..yef 4 good deal by supplies from the
7aMad states. but that has ceased now.
t4.eral Blanco published a prccla-
marion resembling General Weylers
Iando. as they call it there, but it has
r no practical effect, for in the first
-.aee these people have no place to
,r.h 10 &c, the houses have been
ao-red down, there is nothing but
--a hare land there, and it takes them
rr8 months before they can raise the
fr5 crop. In the next place, they are
as~q.d to go out from the lines of the
tevas because the rowing bands OF
Spanish guerillas, as they are called
v9uld kin them. So they stick right
tn qt the edges Of towns. just as they
It'd with nothing 10 eat except what
-aer can get from charity. The Span
lsa have nothing TO give.
senator Lodge asked What does
+ris cessation of hostilities spoken Of
within General Lee responded: Moth
ag practically nCthing-tne armistice
AMOUNTS TO NOTHING"
III response to an inquiry from SEN
aror Frye as to his reasons for saying
fiat the insurgents a0uld pay no at
raatiOn TO the armisCice, General Lee
said.
Because every attempt so far to
make terms or TO make peace or TO buy
HE insurgents or their leaders has met
vuh failure; and Whatever may be
Said about old General Gomez he is
tn my humble opinion fighting that
war in the only way it can be done
scattering his troops out-because to
concentrate would be to starve, having
no c0mmissary train and no way 10
get supplies They come in sometimes
f0r the purpose Of making some little
raid where he thinks iC viii do some
hing bur he has given orders, so |
have always been informed, not to
fight. not to become engaged, not to
lose their cartridges: and sometimes
when he gets into fight each man is
ordered not to fire more than two cart
ridges When General Weyler was
there he went out after him sometimes
and they would move up a column and
Fire and sometimes flank the column,
and the Spanish soldiers would deploy
and throw out skirmishers, and the
Cubans, like Indians, would scatter
9uL Then the Spanish troops would
nunrermarch and 90 back to town,
three men killed and ten or twelve
Wounded
Senator Mills: How much provis-
ians have they in store for the army
ITcw long can they maintain their
forces there without bringing in more
grovisions?'
General Lee replied: They are liv-
iag there almost from hand to mouth,
the Spaniards and the citizens in the
own of Havana also. Everything that
the town of Havana has received in the
lasl four or five or six months has
bel from the United States
anator Mills: Can they get no
Subsistence from the island?"
Consul General Lee: Nothing more
THAN FROM THIS FLOOR
Gndicaringl The way the insurgents
do is this They have little patches of
sweet potatoes-everythin grows
there very abundantly in a short time
and Irish potatoes anu fruits. They
drive their pigs and cattle into the
valleys and hillsides and they use
those and scatter GuG That is the rea-
son they scatter out The insurgents
plant crops in many parts of the ISL
and
Speaking about an armistice, they
have not been interfered with much
since General Blanco came there
@lth the exception Of the campaign
CT General PandO in the eastern part
81 the Island there have been very
rev military operations inaugurated
oy -he Spanish. So it has been prac-
ically a sort of truce for time-the
insurgents, because they did not want
Jo fight, and because it was against
orders to fight"
suppose Havana were bIockaded, y
sald senator Mills, $50 that no provis-
IONS could go in, would the people
there have any way to get any?"
None whatever" responded Cen
era Lae. The town would surrender
h Short While"
General Lee said that all but about
9H1 spaniards OF the population Of
0oa Which is about 1900 600, we're
CHbans
General Lee said that he had ex-
PENDED all but about $4,000 of the $50
appropriated for the relief Of
american citizens in Cuba
senator Morgan asked if it was a
mater al actual necessity TO feed them,
Y which General Lee replied: They
.e practically in the condition of all
e.ie other inhabitants of the island
l4eE mad very little to work at There
We're NOT many sugar plantations in
operation nor tobacco places,
mp THEY WE'RE SUFFERING
-Ae everybody else"
senator Cullom asked if the Spanish
MJ got any of the supplies sent by
-F nlted States NO, sir, said Gen
Ai Lees occasionally they might
lay soften little here and there.
senator Frye asked various ques-
-9Hs IA regard to the physical condi-