The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-12

l the rioting. It follows:
 sir: The recent disorders in this city are to be primarily attributed to a group of Spanish officers who are in- censed at an article appearing in three of the newspapers of Havana, Fl Re- centration, La Discussion and Fl Dia- rio de la Marina. The first was very pronounced against General Weyler and his methods. The Discussion had been suppressed by Weyler, but it's publication was permitted to be re- sumed by Blanco, and the last had been an ultra Spaniard organization, but had been converted by the present | authorities to autonomy It is prob able that the Spanish officials were first provoked by the denunciations to stop l it, and afterwards being supported by the mob, turned the demonstration in to an anti-autonomic affair. l send to- day an analysis of the autonomistic plan. The intense opposition to it on the part of the Spaniards arises from the fact that the first appointments of the officers to put into form it's provi- sions were made generally outside of their party in order to show the Gu pGtilS III dIltlS liiSil eNuIOliOiIly iiASe4 tuted for their benefit and protection
 "The intelligent 9paniards see no prosperity in the future, but rather other wars and more confusion, in the same old attempts to make the waters ! of commerce flow in unnatural chan nels The lower Spanish classes have 4 nothing in mind when autonomy is [ mentioned except Cuban local rule, hence their opposition.
 January 21 General Lee transmitted a copy of the decree which established the autonomy regime on the island of I Cuba.
 On January 15-22 General Lee re- ported by cable daily that all was qui- ct in Habana and that the recent riot ing had caused some delays, but that no difficulty was apprehended as to the landing of supplies
 February 4 he reported the receipt of moneys from various sections of the United States for relief purposes and the manner in which it is being dis trhuted.
 February 10 he telegraphed the state department as follows:
 Captain general returned yesterday. Met with no success of any sort. Span- iards everywhere unfriendly; rumors of coming demonstration against him here. ' think him an excellent man. but in an unfortunate position. Three serious conbats reported within a week in each insurgents victorious"
 Disease Stricken.
 The same day he sent to the state department statement of the condi- ton in the town and city of Havana made by person he had sent to those places for the purposes of inspecting the number and condition of the starv- ing. The statement covers four pages in the Havana papers and is largely a repetition of the awful tale of suffer ing which came from the other DOT tions of the island. At Molina del Sur the statement says, it is impossible fol the mayor, owing to the unhealthy conditions prevailing and want of re- sources, to relieve the miserable peo- pie, 'who die in great numbers oi starvation, fever and smallpox. There are other towns in the came condition for example, Guines, Cataline and Hadraga, whose situation could be ir some degree relieved if the country people were allowed to leave the towr freely in search of food. In some towns this is entirely prohibited 1T others they are obliged to pay a tax
 Not having anything to eat, how car they pay a tax? In every town the first thing noticed is the unhealthy condition of the men and their tota lack of physical strength"
 | BIanoo's Relief a Farce
 At Cataline de Guines the statement reports the condition of the reconcen. trados as sad and desperate. There , are, it says, mo scenes of cultivation , and the reconcentrados are not allowed to leave the town in search of work or food, even with a military pass Food is so scarce that one must wall four or five miles before finding sweet potatoes. In these districts the relic to the reconcentrados by General Elan
 co is a farce.
 The land near the town comprised 1T
 the zone for cultivation, the statemen
 says, has been rented by four Span iards, who have wealth and influence and they employ the few reconcentra dos who are able to work at thirty ol 2 forty cents per day, but nobody car ,, leave the town without pass good fol , a month and which costs twenty cents , The workmen have to leave at six ii the morning, and, not being able tt take meals with them, they are oblig ed to work until far in the evening
 without food. The women who leav, in search of vegetables are sometime, deprived of them on their way bacl 2 by guerillas. In fifteen days 200 recon
 centrados have died in Guines iron I starvation.
 , "One of the few protectors of the re \ concentrates, in fact, a heroic one, f says the statement, 'is 8 young maj named Jose Amohedo, whose fathe f and mother died attending the suffer l ing people, and he himself has givel ) up eight houses as dwelling places fo ] the reconcentrados, all the contents o 3 a grocery store which he possessed
 and now is as destitute as they are"
 Letter From Gomez.
 l On February 15 General Lee trans mitted to the department a letter witt it's translation signed by the insurgen ] commander-in-ch General Gomez f addressed to President Mckinley Gen t eral Lee says the letter was deliveret g by a messenger, who at once departe t before he saw or had any communica I'M