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Spanish 4s opened at 2 points lower than yester- day’s closing price, the rumor of g possi default being add2d to the ir Other international securities went down in sympathy. : the Wabi | Report of the Senate Investigating is [THE MAINE DISASTER Committee. GEN. LEE'S IMPORTANT TESTIMONY He Thinks the Ship Was Blown Up By Spanish Officers. OTHER EVIDENCE The testimony tcken before the Senate ccmmittee on foreign relations in connec- tion with the investigation into the rela- tions between“the United States and Cuba Was made public today. It constitutes o beok of wbout 650 pages, and includes not only the testimony taken since the disaster to the Maine, but also much that was taken before, and running back for a year or more. The statement which contains the great- est current interest is that made by Consul General Lee on the 12th instant. In this statement, General Lee said that he was informed on very good authority that the Spaniards had placed two rows of torpe- oes just at the mouth of the Havana har- ber by Morro Castle within the past two months, or subsequent to the Maine dis- aster, and that the switchboard is in a rcom in the castle. He said, however, that he had no information of the placing of any torpedoes before the Maine was de- stroyed, and none in regard to the pur- chase abroad by the Spanish authorities. “Have you any reason to suppose that the harbor was mined at all before the blowing up of the Maine?" asked Senator Frye. : “No, sir; I had no reason to suspect any- thing of the sort up to that time.” He then went on to.say that General Weyler’s letter to Santos Guzman had led him to believe that mines might have been placed there previous to the Maine incident, and he said that this supposition was strength- ened by a telegram from General Weyler, of which he had cognizance. Upon the whole he thought the Weyler letter (the Laine letter) was a correct copy of a genu> ine letter. The telegram to which he re- ferred was addressed to Eva Canel, a noted Spanish woman, and an admirer of Wey- ler’s, and to Senor Guzman, and it reads as follows: “Grave circumstances cause me to ask you to destroy the last letter of February 18." Generai Lee said that this telegram had never before been published, and he found In it a strong confirmatory evidence of the genuineness of the Weyier letter. Responsibility for the Maine. With reference to the responsibility for the destruction of the Maine General Lee said: “I am satisfied the exp!osion was rom the outside. I cabled the State Department a few days after the board assembled that it was almost certain that the explosion was from the exterior. I have always had an idea about the Maine that, of course, it was not blown up by any private indi- vidual or by any private citizen, but it was blown up by some of the officers who had charge of the mines and electrical wires and torpedoes in the arsenal there, who thoroughly understood their business, for it was done remarkably well. -“I do not think General Blanco, the pres- ent cagtain and governor general of the Island of Cuba, had anything to do with it. I do not think he had any knowledge of it. I saw him just shortly after the oc- currence. I was sitting in my room at the hotel and from the balcony of the hotel 1 could hear this. I heard the explosion and saw a great column of fire go up in the air. A few moments after ascertaining that it was the Maine I went right down to the palace and I asked for General Blanco. He came in directly by himself. He had just heard it and was crying; tears were coming out of his eyes. He seemed to re- gret it as much as anybody I saw in Ha- vana; but I think it came from some of the subaltern officers who had been there un- der Weyler, and who were probably anti- Blanco anyhow, and who had full know!- edge of the business.” General Lee said that he had seen a copy of a telegram from Admiral Mantevotia, dated in Havana prior to the explosion of the Maine, to the Spanish commission in Londen, asking the commission to “hurry up the electrical cables.” “Whether that referred to wire for sub- marine mines or torpedoes I do not know,” he continueé. “I tried to ascertain if any of the wire or electrical cables had arrived here, but they came on Spanish ships, and I could not find out.” General Lee said that this testimony in regard to Manterolla, and also that with reference to the Weyler telegram, had been fufnished to the court of inquiry which in- vestigated the Maine disaster, but had not been sent to Congress nor published be- cause of a request of his made to the State Department not to make them public; “as I was afraid the Spanish papers there would republish it and they would prob- ably kill the man that gave it to me.” Continuing his testimony, Gen. Lee sald that ten rinutes after the explosion he was at the palace tatking to Gen. Blanco, end that the latter gave him an order for a boat to take him out into the harbor. Senator Mergan asked !f when he got to the water's edge he saw any lights burn- "No Electric Lights Went out. the lights might have gone out by the shock, no other electric lights went out.” Gen. Lee aiso said that he had not felt the shock of the explosion at his hotel. “Have you heard since the explosion of the Maine any expression by Spanish offi- cers in relation to it, indicating their pleas- ure at the fact?” asked Senator Frye. Gen. L2e responded: three days afterward from various persons who came in that there was a good deal of rejoicing among some of the- officers. All reports I got said they were drinking champagne, quite a thing to do, in honor of the event, and in different portions of the city offieers were making merry. I at- tribute it to the fact that what they con- sidePed almost an enemy’s battle ship had been blown up, and it was that much in their favor.” He said that he had not heard any threats of or allusions to the de- strgction of the Maine previous to the ex- Piosion. Senator Lodge asked if he had heard of an attempt on the Montgomery. “I heard,” there was something of that sort one evening; Lut I believe upon investigation it was found that it did not amount to anything.” : The following colloquy between Senator Foraker and Gen. Lee brought out ‘some further opinions of the general in regard to the destruction of the Maine: Senator Foraker—You think that no novice could have destroyed the Maine? Consul General Lee.—Oh, no, man who did that work was an officer thor- oughly acquainted with explosives of all sorts, and who knew all about it. It was very well done. 2 Senator Foraker.—A man who had expert knowledge, necessarily? Consul General L2e.—Yes, sir. Senator Clark.—And who must have had knowledge of the location of the torpedo? Consul General Lee.—Y2s. I never have been certain that the submarine explosive was placed there prior to the entrance of the Maine into the harbor. It might have been done afterward. The Maine was an- chored to a buoy by some little chain. A vessel swinging around that way some- times gets at various places all around the circle. with the bow next to the buoy and tHese boats plying about the harbor all the tim2, anybody could go pretty well'in front of her on a dark night and drop one of these sub- marine mines of-5u0 pounds. They have fingers, as it were, and as the boat goes around it would touch makes contact and explodes the mine, That might have been done after the Maine got in there and not be discovered. One or two men rowing quietly in a boat could drop it off the stern of the boat on a dark night, though Sigsbe2 had his patrols out. A boat would not have been,noticed because boats go there always to u late hour of the night. ‘The harbor is full of these little boats. A mine weighs about 500 pounds, and I sup- pose it would tak two or three men—one man to. row and probably three or four to handle the mine. In reply to a question from Senator Gray, General Lee said that the Spanish popula- tion is not especially hostile toward the United States, his 1anguage being as fol- lows: 4 - “I do not think they are now. They were. But the Spanish portion are principally the merchants, commission merchants, shop- keepers, and all this agitation Ys affecting very much their business. A great many of them, whilst they give expression to great loyalty, are really annexationists, because they think it is the only way out of the trouble, and they would much prefer an- nexation to the United States to a Cuban republic, would be made against them in some way, and would rather trust to the United States than to the Cubans.’? Senator Gray—How as to the Cuban part of the population? fe! 4 Consul General Lee—They are generally all for free Cuba. Senator Cullom—What !s the condition of the reconcentrados out in the country? Consul General Lee—Just as bad as in General Weyler’s day. It has been relieved @ good deal by supplies from the United States, but that has ceased now. ‘The chairman—How about the Spaniards? Consul General Lee—General Blanco pub- lished a proclamation rescinding General Weyler’s bando, as they call it there, but it has had no practical effect, for in the first place these people have no place to which to go; the houses have been burned down; there is nothing but the bare land there, and it takes them two months before they can raise the first crop. In the next place they are afraid to gu out from the Mines of the towns, because the roving bands of Spanish guerrillas, as they are callled, would kill them. right in at the edges of towns just like they did, with nothing to eat, except what they can get from charity. nothing to give. ~ , Senator Lodge asked: What does this cessation of hostilities spoken of in the last few days amount to? to which Gen. Lee responded, Ncthing; practically noth- ing—the armistice amounts to nothing. Senator Daniel—Do you know the condi- tions of it? Consul General Lee—I saw Gen. Blan- co's prcclamation, which said the queen regent, at the request of his holiness, the pope, had issued an armistice; but that is not worth the paper it is written on, be- cause a truce or armistice between two contending’ forces requires the consent of both before it ean be of any practical ef- fect, and it will not nave the consent of the insurgents. Senator Lodge—What offer did he make to the insurgents? Consul General Lec—This occurred just about the time I left, and I do not know. I suppos@ he just relfes upon that procla- mation. He says the various Spanish of- ficers in diffe-ent ‘ba f the island will see that it gces inte’ efréct. In response to af-induiry: fron? Senator Frye as to his readéris for sayiig that the insurgents would Day id attention to the armistice, Gen. Li = “Because every ditenipt so far to make terms or to make € or to buy the in- surgents or their ‘leadérs has met with signal. failure, and whdtever may be said about old Gen. Gomez, he is, in my humble opinion, fighting het War in the only way it can be don ‘tering his troops out— because to concentrate would be to starve, having no commissary train and no way to get supplies. They, come in sometimes for the purpose of making some little raid, where he thinks ft ill do something; but he has given orders, so I have always been informed, not to fight, not to become engaged, not to lose their. cartridges; and sometimes when he gets into a fight each man fs ordered not to fire more than two cartridges. When Gen. Weyler was there he went out after him sometimes, and they would move up a column and fire, and sometimes flank the column, and the Span- ish soldiers would deploy and throw out skirmishers, and the Cubans, like Indians, would go into the woods, valleys ord mouritain sides and scatter out and wait until the Spanish troops were gone. Then the Spanish troops would countermarch and go back to town, three men killed and ten or twelve wounded.” Senator Clarke—You think the insurgents would not acc2pt any such terms? Consul General Lee—No, sir; I do not think it would be safe for any Spanish offi- cer to go out under a flag of truce. They could not buy the insurgents. Every time they went out to buy them they (the insur- g2nts) killed them. Provisions in Havana. Senator Mills—How much provisions have they in store for the army?, How long.can they maintain their forces there without bringing in more provisions? and a piece taken off there. I do not be- lieve they have appropriated Anything of the kind. I see those things on paper al- ways. e bh Senator Frye—“You would have no con- fidence in it and would not advise us to have any coWfidence in it?” . Consul Gencral Lee—“‘Not a particle.” General Lee said, in respense to a ques tion from Senator Morgan, that there were American citizens left on the’ island, for whom there is no provision since he had left. He thought there would have to be active steps for their relfef, as they are suffering and starving t! now every day. He said he thought Miss Cla ton would have remained to take ¢ the distribution of supplies, “but, FINANCIAL. “I heard two or very Much to my surprise, she turned around and came out the same day we did. bring- ing every Red Cross.” Miss Barton had sald she thought there was going to be war, and that she had better get out. “She told me, coming back,” said Gen. Lee, “that the Red Cross policy was to go be- hind the guns and not in front of them.” Senator Frye asked: “What, in your judg- ment, is thé possibility of Spain conquer- ing the insurgents and restoring peace to the island?” Consul General Lee: “I do not think there is the slightest possibility of their doing it at all in any way.” Senator Cullom: “Provided they do not starve them all to death?” His Report to Cleveland. Consul General Lee: “The same condition of things existed when Mr. Cleveland asked me to go down there last June a year ago. I gave him a report three weeks after I got there, in which I told him there was no chance, in my opinion, of the Spaniards ever suppressing that insurrection, nor was there any chance of the insurrectionists expalling the Spanish soldiers from the island. That report is in the State Depart- ment somewhere today, and, if I had to write it over, I would not dot an “i” or cross a “‘t,” although I have been there nearly two years since then.” responded Gen. Lee, “that An Expert Did It. sir. The of the world. 929-931 D St. STORAGE. ——— clean, well-ventilated good size rooms cost at any other first-class storage warehouse in the city, and you won't get as many advantages—as good | service—if you pay double our prices—for no |! other warehouse is so well equipped as ours. We take every care—use every precaution to insureegocds stored here safe frong loss or injury. Night watchmen, instantancous 4 fire pails, are our safeguards against fire. 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They have a gcod many barrels of flour and a good deal of rice and some potatoes, but not a great irany, and a little lard; but everything that the town of Havana has received in the last four or five or six months has been from the United States by steamers from New York, New Ofleans and Tampa. Senator Mills—Can thsy get no subsist- ence from the island? ¥ Consul General Lee—Nothing more than from this floor (indicating). The way the insurgents do is this: They have little patches of sweet potatoes—sverything grows there very abundantly in a short time—and Irish potatoes and fruits. They drive their pigs and“cattle into the valleys and hillsides, and they use those and scat- ter out. That is the reason why they all scatter out. A great many are -planting. The insurgents plant crops in many ‘parts of the island. “Speaking about an armistice, they have not béen interfered wit’ much since Gen- eral Blanco came th2re:’ With the excep- tion of the campaign of General Pando in the eastern part of the.island, there have becn very few military dperations inaugu- rated by the Spanish!’ So it has bzen prac- tically a sort of tri¢e for some tims—the insurgents because tyey, did not want to fight and because it; was; against orders to fight. aa i Lodge for his opinion of the insurgent gov- ernment, Gen. Lee said: “I have never thought that the insurgents had anything except the skeleton form of a government— a movable capital. I asked them one day why they did not have some permanent capital, and I think they gave a very g00d reason. They said it would require a large force to protect it and defend it, and they could i0t afford to mass up their men there; that the capital and the government ‘offices had to move where they could be safest.” 2 General Lee said he.did not know any of the officials connected with their clvil gov- errfment. The armed force would number probably 31,000 or 32,000. The number has been up probably as high as 36,000 or 37,000 men, well armed. The ammunitiow varies. The Spanish force was possibly 55,000 or 56,000, but not drilled, not organized, nor officered well. No Hindrance to an American Army. In response to questions from Senator Daniel, General Lee said that an American army of occupation could go into the island with safety now. “I mean on account of climate and so on,” said Senator Daniel, to which General Lee responded: “On ac- count of climate and on account of every- thing else.” General Lee said that when he left Ha- vana the Spanish troops had not been paid for about nine months, nor the Spanish officers for about four months. American Security and Trust Company. Art Objects Packed, When she would swing off that way, moved unpacked, men. The Care the finger, which but preserves luster and brilliancy. Feelings of the People. summer in moth-proof cold rooms. STORAGE Trust Co., 1140 15th. Albert M. Read, Gen’l Manager. 1t and placed by careful, experienced work- - of Furs. The dry freezing air of our fur rooms not enly protects from moth, Rugs, Carpets Taken up, cleaned and stored for the Dept. Am. Security and MONEY TO LOAN IN SUMS FROM $1,000 UPWARD, AT LOWEST RATE OF INTEREST, REAL ESTATE IN THE DISTRICT. R. 0. HOLTZMAN, a jai-tt COR, 10TH AND F STS. N.W. Senator Daniel asked: “Do you think General Blanco was lacking in courtesy to you on leaving the island?” General Lee—“I went with the British consul general. I saw Dr. Congosto, the secretary to the general. I told Dr. Con- gosto that I had received instructions to leave the island and go to the United States and I called to pay my final respects, and would like to see General Blanco. He ask- ed me to sit down and said he would go and let him know. He went off and stayed Effect of a Blockade. “Suppose Havana -was blockaded,” said Senator Mills, “so that no provisions could go in, would the people there have any way to get any?” ee “None, whatever,” responded Gen. Lee. “The town would surrender in a_ short while.” on - Gen. Lee said that all,but about 300,000 Spaniards of the population of Cuba, which 1s about 1,500,000, were Cubans. fearing that discriminations N.W. CORNER 12TH AND Safe de ward. evenings frm 6 to 8. Washington Savings Bank G STS. N.W., “Are all the Cubans friendly to the in- surgents?” asked Senator Foraker. ~ “I never saw one that was not,” respond ed Gen. Lee. Gen. Lee said he had expended all but about $5,000 of the $50,000 appropriated for the relief of American citizens in Cuba. Senator Morgan asked if it was a matter of actual necessity to feed them, to which Gen. Lee replied: “They were practically in the condition of all the other inhabitants of the island. They had very little to work at. There were not many sugar planta- tions in operation nor tobacco places, and they were suffering like everybody else.” Senator Cullom asked if the Spanish army got any of the supplies sent by the United States. “No, sir,” said Gen. Lee; “occasionally they might have gotten a Ifttle here and there.” Senator Frye asked various questions in regard to the physical condition of the Spanish soldiers, and the method of pro- viding for them, of which the following are specimens, with their replies: Condition of Spanish Soldiers. Senator Frye--What is the condition of the Spanish soldiers there in the island?” Consul Gener®l Lee--“Very bad.” Senator Frye—“As to clothing and sub- sistence, how are they?” Consul Genera} Lee—“They are badly clothed and. very badly fed; not well or- ganized; not drilled. Nobody ever saw Spanish soldiers drill. Senator Frye—“If Spain has really appro- priated $600,000 for the sustenance of the reconcentrados, as it is stated, do you be- lieve that that will be given to those peo- ple and that their own soldiers will be left to starve?” Consul General Lee—“Oh, no. There will be very little of it paid to anybody.” Senator Foraker—“What will become of it?” Consul General Lee—“‘They will divide it up here and there—a piece taken off here about fifteen minutes, and came back and said the general said please excuse him, he was not well and was lying down. 1 told Dr. Congosto then to say good-bye to him, and turned around and left.” Senator Daniel—“Were there any demon- strations of ill-will toward you as you left?” Consul General Lee—When we were coming out on the steamer Saturday even- ing there was some hallooing, cat calling and whistling, and some Spanish expres- sions, ‘mean cowards, running away,’ anu | trict bonds and all iccal Railroad, so on. I think that was confined to the | "Ameriesn lower order of men, however.” 3031-160 —- Admiral Irwin’s Testimony. IF YOU ARE A HOME-SEEKER Admiral John Irwin, a torpedo expert,| CILIEVELAND PARK. appeared before the committee on the'2d| mausiaa.te 5 instant. He sald that he had been in the = = harbor of Havana as a pilot hundreds of times, and that he was chere a great deal while he was employed in laying the West India cable system, and was there much of the time during the rebellion from 1868 to i871. At that time the Spaniards were bit- terly hostile toward the Americans, and said that on one occasion the Americans, during that war, were fired on by the Span- fards in a cafe, a number of persons being killed and wounded. Asked as to his opinion, he sald it was that the destruction of the Maine was caused by the explosion of a submarine mine. “If,” he said, “the mine had been originally laid to communicate with a mag- azine on shore, and then they had changed their minds and wished to use it for a ship, it would have been a very simple op- eration to detach the cable from the shore magazine and convey the ends surrepti- tlously to the ship. Any one versed in handling, and knowing the ground, would have no difficulty, or the cable might have been tapped from any ship and the splice made. It could have been made (Continued on Eighth Page.) — ortt OHEISRELL & MeLERAN, 1008 F st. CORSON & MACARTNEY, Members of the New York Stock Exchange, 1419 F st., Glover building, of Messrs. V burgh Listed on the exchanzes of Boston ard Baltimore bought and eld. So they stick FAIR AND COLDEB TOMORROW. Northeasterly Winds, Shifting Northwesterly. The Spanish have Armistice Amounts to Nothing. ly, winds. cept the upper Mississipp! valley. ley to the middle Atlantic coast. ‘Tennessee valleys. of the Mississippi. “I did not notice that,” said Gen. Lee, “but I have made inquiries since, and have ascertained that ‘no electric lights went cut. I sent for electric light men and gas nen. Some gas jets went out in one or Awo places, caused by the shock or some- thing, but I gould not ascertain from these men that a sirgle electric ght went out. One of the electric light men whom I calied up is a friend of mine, and he sent for the man who has direet charge of the lights, who came to my office. This man said he had not heard of any such thing. I said I want to know with certainty. The man then made -an explcration of an hour or two, and returned, saying that, with the exception of one electric light near the harbor and one at another place not very: far distant, where he thought, perhaps, CASTORIA the signature You Have| CASTORIA ‘The Centaur Company, New York City. Kind |: ‘Always -Bought| INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. ~ oeeee+++-Page 13 Page 10 Page 12 tinues to rise from Helena sotthward. “Rivers—The following in the and rising—Vicksburg, * Above the danger line and 4.9; Memphis, 3.9. The “following heavy tation OF DEEDS. eokuk, 1.10. COUNTRY _ BOARD ati REMGoESRESEEREESHERHEREESEEBESENeShbobiSS coast from Eastport to Hatteras. ‘Tide Table. :35 a.m. and 9:07 p.m.; and 2:30 p.m. & EET ‘Today—Lew tide, tide, 1:55 a.m. p.m.; high tide, 3:05 a.m. and 3:40 p.m. > The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rises, 5:24 a.m.;-sun sets, P toon rises, 2;83 a.m. tomorrow. - Tomorrow—Sun rises, 5:23 a.m. The City Lights. +3 lamps all ited by 7:4 p.m.; extin- eulahiog attest am. The lighting is ae ties ETL Ww i HERE Money at5 PerCent toLoan On real ‘estate in District of Columbia.” No: Je A specialty wade of Savestment securities. Dis- trlet "| H Gas, Insurance Bell Telcphone Stock bought and sold. Forecast till 8 p.m. Friday—Eastern Penn- sylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia and Virginia, rain this evening; Friday, fair; colder Friday morn- ing; northeasterly, shifting to northwester- Weather conditions and general forecast— The pressure has fallen in all racine e ‘storm center has moved from the Ohio val- Rain has fallen during the past twenty- four hours in the middle and south Atlantic states, the Ohio, central Mississippi and The weather is now cloudy in the middle and north Atlantic states, lake regions and Ohio valley, nearly clear in the south At- Jantic and gulf states and the districts west The temperature changes have been slight, except in the northwest, where it is warmer. Rain followed by clearing weath- er by tonight 1s indicated for the middle and north Atlantic states, lower lake region and upper Ohio valley and generally fair weather in the other districts. It will be colder Friday morning in the middle At- lantic states. 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