Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-23
DEPORTATION AROUCES CUBA
Gomez Action in Regard TO News
paper Men Causes Discussion.
SONS TO CONTINUE NEWSPAPER
Young ViIIRverdes, American born,
VIII Attack the Government
spanish Coony Divided on
the Matter,


HAVANA. Aug 1.-THE deportation &c
Spain Sunday night Of Jose Maria villa
verde. managing editor of the conserva i've
organ. cuba. and his nephew, Manuel Va.
laverde, a member OF the staff Of the
cuba, has created intense excitement
throughout the island and everywhere Isl
the universal topic Of conversation. 4
Administration newspapers stoutly de4
fend the action of President Gomez In or
dering the deportation OF the men, whde
the openly hostile papers, such as lei Ola
and Cuba, denounce Il as an outrage OF tue
rights Of foreigners resident in cuba. b
Mundo declares the only thing to be re-
GREETED about the incident is that the WI
laverdes are Sp8niards as between span
iards and Cubans there should exist the
wsrmest ties of racial affection.
Supporters of the administration cite IN
support of the action OF President Come
a resolution at an International conference
held at Hamburg in 1894, to which II is al
legged, all the powers subscribed, declaring
1t the absolute right Of auy ruler summai'
lily to deport a foreigner whose conduct
shall be considered detrimental to the in
tercst of "a country. They also point out
as a precedent the deportation of Jose
Pennino Barbato, an Italian Adventures
charged with sediton, by order of the late
President Palma.
The opponents Of the administIatio de
clare there is nothing analogous in the cas-
of Pennino and the Villaverdes, the eide
Vinaverde having been highly esteemed
resident of Cuba for nearly fifty years
while Pennilo came here from New York
where he was refused permission to lane
on the ground that he was a militant an
Z WaUatla IN
mediately he landed in Cuba began a cam
paign of sedition against the government
Spanish Minister waiting.
The Spanish minister is standing aloo
from the controversy. lie says he ha
made no representations to his home gov
eminent, desiring first to ascertain all tn
facts and also to decide whether the Cubai
government is acting within its interna
tional rights.
A few minutes before the departure
the Spanish steamer Alfonso xii on which
the Vnlaverdcs were deported, Genera
Freyre Andrade, former secretary of thu
interior, and Antonio Gonzales Lanuza, tn
conservative leader of the house, applied
for writs Of habeas corpus on behalf Of tn
men, but these were denied on the groun'
that the application failed to give thu
names OF the persons who arrested thu
Villaverdes. Secret police stormcd tn
Villaverde home and took the men OF
board the Alfonso XIII.
The younger Nillavcrde. according to tn. ,
advice of counsel, on the arrival Of th,I
steamer at the first Spanish port, whcr,i
there is a Cuban consul, will appeal ttI
the consul as a Cuban citizen for pro
lection. The sons Of the elder Villaverde
who are Cuban born, TO-DAY announced thcii
intention to continue the publication of tn,
Cuba and resolutely to pursue the policy
of their father, who has persstently at
tackled the government.
The Spanish colony is divided in sentimcn
over the affair. The Spanish casino, thu
principal club of the Spaniards and o
which Jose Vilaverde is a former vice
president and honorary member, decide
today that II was inexpedent to TAX,
cognzance of the deportations in advanc,
of action by the Spanish minister. The i'm
preston seems to prevail that the ad
ministration only proceeded with the de
portaton of the Villaverdes after havinI
sounded the Spanish minister.