The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-22
DEFY OUR WARSH|PS
Leaders Of Cuban Insurgents Say
American Vessels Cannot
Come to the Bush"
PEACE OUTLOOK is DARK.
President RoossveIt's ENJOYS Believed
10 Have Abandoned Hope of Finding
Ground For Compromise = United
States Biuejaokets at cienfuegos
Fired Upon-Rebsis Near Havana.

Havana, Sept 22.-Peace for Cuba,
unless accomplished through American
Intervention, seems to be farther away
than when Secretary Of War Taft and
Assistant Secretary Of State Bacon be-
gan negotiations to harmonic the op-
posing factions.
The arrival here Of the United States
battleships Louisiana, Virginia and
New Jersey and the cruisers Cleveland
and Tacoma in addition to the Des
MoiAes and the Denver, has had little
effect on the insurgents In the field,
ana when the leaders of the revolution
were apprised OF the big squadron now
In Cuban waters they greeted the in
formation with Spanish expressions to
the effect that ''they cannot come to the
BUSH"
Captain Albert r. Couden, command
ing the battleship Louisiana, is now in
command of all the naval forces at Ha-
vana.
Moderates Offer to Yield.
At meeting of the executive com
mittee of the Moderate party 1t was
voted unanimously to accept whatever
disposition of the controversy Messrs.
Taft and Bacon may decide upon in
the hope that such a concession would
induce the rebels to lay down their
arms. The latter have not responded.
The mediators have sifted the griev-
ances Of the Liberals and define them
as demand by the insurrectionists for
new general elections and an absolute
rejection Of those demands on the part
Of the government.
Messrs. Taft and Bacon have prac
ticaliy abandoned hope Of finding a
middle ground and fear that decision
in favor of either side would result in
no more than temporary tranquility for
the island It Is their belief that Amer
loan occupation is the only way to end
the civil warfare, and 1t is not denied
that Intervention must be followed by
American sovereignty.
Our Biuejackets Fired Upon.
A dispatch from Cienfuegos says
that bluejackets from the American
gunboat Marietta, who were garrison
ing the Soledad sugar estate, have been
fired on by rebels The Americans re-
turned the fire, and the rebels fed.
The Cleveland has been ordered to
proceed at once to Cienfuegos to take
the place Of the Dixie.
The rumor Is abroad that President
Palma, the members of his cabinet and
ako+ + s,I o<n..c oln
ed last December will resign. thus con-
cediag practically all that the insur
gents have been contending for and
opening a way for the settlement OF
the difficulty without American inter-
vention. President Palma declined to
er members of the government stoutly
denied the rumor.
The American peace emissaries will
hear what the commanders of the in
surgent forces in the field have to say.
Some of these are coming from Santa
Clara, Pinar del Rio and Havana prov
inces.
A demonstration has been made by
armed revolutionists within a mile Of
the scene of the peace conferences.
General Acosta, with 300 insurgents,
encamped at La Lisa. west of Minis
ter Morgan's villa at Marianao. The
object of the insurgents In coming so
close was to show Secretary Taft how
completely Havana Is in their grasp.
Pino Guerra, with $500 men, 1000
of whom are unarmed, with 500 extra
horses, has crossed the line of the prov
ince Of Havana, camping at Caimito,
twenty miles from Havana