Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-05-25
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To KEY WEST
Concentrate Within Striking
Distance of the Island
of Cuba
NEGRO REVOLUTION CROWS
State Department Doesn't Con-
template Intervention, But
Takes Precautions.

(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexicap>
Washington, D. c., May 25.-Sena-
tor Bacon of Georgia. declaring in
the Senate today that the President
would have no authority of law for
sending an armed force into Cuba, ill.,
troduced resolution, which passed,
instructing the committee on Cuban
relations to suggest legislation auth
orizing intervention there Inder the
conditions provided for in the So
called Platt amendment. This
anne ndment, which applied to an old
law, governs the United States
course toward Cuba.
Negroes Attack Ell SiIo
Santiago, Cuba, May PA strong
band of armed and mounted negroes
this morning attacked the plantation
OF Ell Silo about fifteen miles from
this city, and carried off all the
horses, provisions and other plunder
The government is dispatching troops
from here to Guantanamo Steamers
have ben chartered for the purpose,
Oh account Of the complete Interrupt
tion of the railroad.
A strong force of insurgents is at
tacking the Santa Lucia Sugar planta.
ton near Gibara, on the north coast
of the province of Oriente. The plan
tation is American property. No gov
f11rr1 n1t hnro in n
vicinity, but the employees are making
a successful resistance.
Guards for American Plantations.
Some of today's dispatches seem to
point to me need of dispatching ma
rines TO various plantations and
American properties in the island to
act as guards, but as yet no detach-
ments have been ordered out of the
naval reservation at Guantanamo I'm
til the arrival of the cruiser Prairie
about Monday with the battalion of
marines and the gunboats Paducah
and Nashville, probably late today,
there is not much of any American
| force to be used, as only one company
of marines, comprising about 100 men
| is kept at the naval station,
Stevedore Strike.
There is no possibility of an agree
ment being reached between the
striking Cuban stevedores ond the
! steamship lines, according to state de-
! , I,yin
i days truce ends at midnight and the
stevedores announce they will walk
/ out at that time.
This will furnish a serious compli
cation to Cuba's troubles. Importa-
tion of food supplies will be stopped,
which in turn has the serious effect of
cutting off customs receipts at time
when the island republic needs them
most
Government Makes Peace Overtures.
Havana. Cuba, May 25.--it was be-
ernment is trying to open neso.iatlo0S
with the negro rebels for the purpose
of arranging terms of peace The
terms, it is said, will be based on an
amnesty promise to the rebels.
Great Atlantic Fleet Rendezvous.
Out of the mass of conflicting re-
ports that have come to the state and
war departments as to the actual sit
uation in Cuba the conc usion was
! drawn today that a crisis impends in
the island and that this is Sufficient
to justify full preparations for the
protection of American interests.
Therefore word was passed to the
navy to hold itself subject for call
and early this afternoon two divisions
OF the great Atlantic Fleet were unde'
orders to rendezvous at New York
and Hampton Roads.