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been directed against the United States

been directed against the United States
or American citizens.
The Cabinet discussion showed that
the President, while decided not to send
warshdp to Cuba at present, does pur-
pose keeping one or more vessels within
a reasonable distance of Havana, so
that one of our ships may reach there
within six hours, in the event Of a
sudden call for. its presence from Gen
eral Lee.
PERFECT CALM AT HAVANA.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Perfect
calm prevails in Havana, according to
dispatches received by Senior De LONE,
the Spanish Minister, last night and
this morning. One Of these dispatches,
filed at l o'clock this morning by Sec.
rotary General Congosto, says:
THE tumult has not been continued.
Calm is preserved throughout the city.
l believe that the normal condition will
be perfectly established. Fortunately,
there is not a single casualty that we
have to regret
The Minister has received a number
of minor dispatches, all indicating an
absence of disturbance, and that no
apprehension is felt by the authorities.
He has given directions that every de-
velopment be communicated to him,
and in view of this fact does not credit
a report that there was another out
break yesterday, saying that any such
outbreak would have been commune
Gated to him, and that the report doubt
less rose either from a delayed cable
gram, based on the outbreak previously
reported, or else that there was some
minor disturbance Of such a trivial
character that it did not get to the at
tention of the officials of the Cuban
Government.
Later in the day Senior De LONE re-
ceived a cablegram dated Havana, 10
a. M, stating that perfect tranquility
prevailed at that hour, and that no fur
Their trouble was expected.
PRESS CENSORSHIP
HAVANA, Jan. IA decree has
been published prohibiting the publica-
ton in daily newspapers of cable dis
patches without previous censorship
and twelve hours notice of their receipt.
In addition in future the Postoffice here
will detain national and foreign news
papers not having been previously CEN
sored- Violators of the law are warned
under military jurisdiction.
Another edict will be published short
ly forbidding gathering in groups of
more than four persons either in the
streets or in the stores.
A. Molina, the chief of staff of the in
sUrgent General Malta Rodriguez, has,
it is announced. surrendered to the
Spanish authorities.
General Parade has issued mani
will m n
everything possible to bring about
peace in the district of Sancti Spiritus,
province of Santa Clara.
1t is announced from Spanish sources
that Lieutenant Colonel Tigon of the
insurgent army has been killed.
TAYLOR FAvORS RECOGNITION
OF BELLIGERENCY.
NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-The Chairman
of the Organizing Committee of the Gu
ban-American League makes public a
letter from Hannis Taylor, former
United States Minister to Spain, in
which he says:
I'm every city of the United States
a Cuban-American League should be
instantly formed, whose primary pur-
pose should be to arouse public opin-
ion to demand the instant passage of
the Senate's belligerency resolution,
now pending in the House of Repre-
sentatives. When that demand is OPP
posed by the WORKOUT technical pre-
text that the insurgents are not entit-
led to such action until they have first
established a complete de facto Gov
eminent, the answer should be prompt
ly made that the law of nations de-
mands no such thing; that the resolu-
ton in question need only recognize the
fact that there is now in Cuba a state
of war.
''Who can deny the truth of that as
sertion, when he remembers that Spain
has hurled in vain against the insur-
gent host over 200, 600 men and has ex-
pended in vain over $500, 900, 900. At the
end of three years SPANS military
power in Cuba is nearly at an end,
while the army under Gomez is in
actual possession of nearly the entire
eastern portion of the island. And yet,
in the face of these facts, the House or
Representatives, muzzled by the pres
ent administration, refuses to recog-
nize the incontestible fact that state
Of war actually exists in Cuba to-day.
That refusal is now prolonging unnec-
essarily the present conflict, and those
who are responsible for it should be
held to account for the useless sacrifice
of human life thus brought about. In
the present desolate state of the cause
of Spain there can be no doubt that the
moral support that the passage Of the
belligerency resolution would give to
the insurgents would SO strengthen
their hands that by the beginning of
summer Cuban independence could be
justly recognized"
The Cuban-American League has sent
out a circular requesting the Mayor of
every city in the United States and the
Sheriff or ranking officer in every coun-
ty to at once appoint committee In
every ward. in the city and each town.
ship OF the county to organize local
branch of the Cuban-American League
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