The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 20, 1896, Page 1

/ A ] aq 1 ! Pl -A.niiq + } uaxe: u Jeded StY. A (s] VOLUME LXXXI.—NO. 2 0. 20, 1896—THIRTY PAGES. S -FIVE CENTS. SPAINES WRATHRUL Excitement Over the News * That Uncle Sam May Interfere. DEFIANCE OF THE PEO- PLE EXPRESSED. But They May Ee Assured That Cleveland Will Nct Recog- nize the Cubans. : 6 SICRETARY OLNEY INTIMATES A PRCBABLE VETO. Siys That the Power of According Bellizerent Rights Kests Solely With the Chief Exacutive. MADRID, Srars, Dec. 19.—The excite- ment in this city and elsewhere in Spain caused by the receipt of the news of the action of the Foreign Relations Commit- tee of the American Senate, in deciding to report in favor of the independence of Cuba, is inte A wave of popuiarin- dignation has swept over the whole coun- try and bitter feeling against tiie United States has been greatly intensified. There is no denying the fact that popu- lar feeling is in favor of boldly defying the United States and notifying the American Government that Cuba will be retained by Spain if it takes her last dol- lar and last man to uphold her sover- eignty. In the cafes and railway public } laces the situation is excitedly discussed, and everywhere the determination is ex- pressed to uphold the Government to the last exiremity in maintaining its rights. Dispatches from other cities show the prevalence of a feverish feeling among the | populace and itis the consensus of opinion | that it would take very little tv provoke | trouble against the Government should it show any signs ot weakening. | The Government itself, while deprecat. | the action of the committee, main- 4 dignified attitude, and though some uneasiness was at first expressed, this has been allayed by the receipts of | .dispatehes containing Secretary of State Olneyr’s statement that no matter what on Cocngress may take on the Cameron lution, the recognition of the inde- pen ‘ence of Cuba rests entirely with the executive. Itis stated that Spain has notified the American Government that it Is willing to go ‘far to meet the view of the United States regarding administrative reforms in the Spanish West Indies. Iu will, it is said, concede at an early date autonomy to Puerto Rico on hnes laid down last yvear. When the sityation warrants such action reforms will be inaugurated there that will prove satisfactory to all con- .cerned. These will incluae administrative au- tonomy, such measures of political and economical autonomy as will be com- patible with the interests of the crown, and a change in the tariff laws that will conduce to the extension of the trade of theiclang with the United States and to commercial relations. Of course, the Government will not fora moment consider any question involv- ing the abandonment of the islana, and it can be emphatically stated that it would not dare todo so. The temper of the ‘peo- ple is fairly aroused and any Government, conservative or liberal, would be signing its own deatb-warrant should it even sug- gest the end.nz of Spanish rule in Cuba. Efforts have been made to obtain . authoritative statements from some of the Ministers as to the situation, but they decline at present to express any views on the subject. It can be stated, however, that in political circies no idea of war growine out of the Cuban resolution is entertained, and it is believed that the professions of friendship made by Presi- aent Cleveland and Mr. Olney, through Hannis Taylor, the American Minister here, are thoroughly satisfactory. An important factor is the Cortes, which at present is not in session. Tt is thought that body might be compelled by popuiar clamor, were it in session, to take some action that woald result in the overthrow of the Government; but as it does not meet for several months all danger from that source is eliminated. Even should the Government resign and be succeeded by a liberal Cabinet there could be no change in the Spanish attitude toward Cuba, for upon the least sign of its giving way to the dictation of the United States ihe populace and the army would upset it. Senor Canovas del Castillo, the Prime Minister, has always believed that the (uban matter would not cause war with tne United States, and he also Dbelieves that the ranting of American and Span- i hJingoes will fall on deaf ears when the commansense of the people of jboth coun- tries has had time to reassert itself. Buu Le will maintain all the prerogauves of sovereignty in Cuba and will not yield to threats no maiter whence tne source. Every precaution has’ been taken to guard against any outbreak of the people, and it is hoped that the excitement and ind gnation that have been aroused will subsiae without it being necessary to call upon the military to suppress disorders. The students at the universities are being closely watched, and any attempt at a demonstration on their part will be se- verely repressed. All the newspapers here express the most intense indignation pecause of the nnwarranted interference of the, United States with the rights of Spain. Some of {hem deelare that no Government would dare to Base a settlement of the Cuban The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Corner of Kearny and Washington Streets. _Ca_liforn{a Laying the Cornerstone of the Hall of Justice, at the ° provocation from the Unitea States. Nev- | theless, they add, the Government is re- solved to repress hostile agitation against | the United States or its representatives in " Spain. ‘ i The Imparcial accuses the Government | of lack of foresight and declares that Spain isdetermined to make every sacri- fice, however great, to maintain her sov- ereignty in the West Indies, but she will. not tolerate acts calculated to bring her into disrepute. The Correspondencia de Espana de- scribes the committee’s act as untimely | and insulting. | El Liberal advises the Government to | use expedition in recovering at Washing- | ion the time lost in Cuba, inasmuch as | Spain’s future is at stake. Prime Minister Canovas del Castillo had along conference to-day with the Duke of Tetuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Admiral Bergnerer, Minister of Marine. The subject of their de- liberations had not been ‘divulged officially, but it is rumored that they considered the question of shortly intro- ducing political and administrative re- formsin Cuba and Porto Rico. The grant- ing of such reforms at present would probably result in a reconstruction of the Cabinet, o el s INSPIRED BY CLEVELAND. Sccretary Olney Scys the President Will Veto the Cuban Resolution. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 19.—Bécre- tary Olney, being asked his opinion as to the nature and eff:ct of the proposed reso- Jution recognizirg the indep>ndence of Cuba, said to ‘the United Associated Presses reporter: “I have no objection to stating my own views of the resolution respecting the Yn- dependence of the so-called Republic of Cuba which is reported will be lain before the Senate on Monday. Indeed, as there are likely to be serious misapprehensions recarding such resolution, both in this country and abroad, and such appiehen- sions may have injurious results of a grave character, it is perhaps my duty to point out that the.resolution, if passed by ihe Senate, can probably be regarded only as an expression of opposition by the emi- nent gentilemen who vote for it in the Senate, and if passed by the House of Representatives can only be regarded as another expression of opposition by the eminent gentlemen who vote for it in the House. “The power to recognize the so-called Republic of Cuba as an independent State rests exclusively with the Executive. A resolution on the subject. by the Senate or by the House, or by- both bodies, or by one, whether concurrent or, ioint, is in- operative and is only advice of great weight voluntarily tendered regarding his constitutional functions. The opera- tion and effect of the proposed resolution, therefore, even “1f passed by both houses of Congress by a two-thirds vote, are per- fectly plain. “It may raise expectations in some quarters which can never be realized. It may inflame popular passions both in tnis country and clsewhere, may thus put in peril the lives and property of American citizens traveling abroad, and will cer- tainly obstruct, and perhaps defeat, the best efforts of this Government to afford such due protection. But, except iu these ‘ways, and unless the advice embodied in the resolution shall lead the Executive to revise conclusions already reported and officially declared, the resolution will be without effect and will leave unaltered the attitude of this Government toward the two contending parties in Cuba.” Thig carefully preparel and emphatic question “on: granting autonomy to the island in view of the strong popular oppo- sition to the granting of any reforms while the rebellion is in progres:. They, therefore, contend that the Gov- ernment will be compelled to maintsin a announcement by Secretary Olney of the opposition to the Cuban recognition reso- lution of Senator Cameron is accepted as the action of President Cieveland. It is considered as probable that when Captain TLamberton and Dr. O'Reilly made their day they were instructéd to convey to Sec- retary Olney the President's approval of his proposed announcement. It is regarded by many Senators asa step in advance in diplomatic history for the Presicent thus to assert that he and not Congress 1s the judge of when cxecu- tive action should be taken in the matter of recognition of a new government. Nevertheless the precedents seem to sustain Secretary Olney’s position. When President Monroe, 1n 1816, recognized the inderendence of Southern Spanish American colonies he did so without Con- gressional action, but previousiy sent out three commissioners in a United States war vessel “to visit the several colonies, inquire into the condition of things in respect to the probability of endurance of successful hostilities and then report.”’ These commissioners were not nomi- nated by the Senate, though that body was in session when they sailed, but went exclusively on the President’s nomina- tion. On the report thus presented Presi- dent Monroe recognizea all these former Spanish colonies as inaependent states, Mr. Monroe on this occasion said: “‘As soon as the movement assumes such a consistent form as to make the success of the provinces possible the rights to which | they were entitled by the law of nations as equal parties to a civil war have been extended to them.” Reviewing this declaration the Supreme Court of the United States said, in the case of “Ford vs. Suget,” in an opiniod rendered by Justics Harlan: “But this rule breaks down in several places. The probability is a creature of the mind, something merely subjective, and ought not to enter into a definition of what a nation ought to do. Again, the success does not depend on steadiness and consistency of form only, but on relative strength of parties. If you make a probability of success the criterion of - right -in the - case, you have to weigh other circumstances before being able to judge which is more prob- able—success or defeat. Would you, if you conceded beiligerent rights, with- draw the concession whenever success ceased to be probable? And still further, such-provinces in revolv are not entitled by law of uations to rights as equal par- ties to a civil war. They have properly no rights, and the concession of belliger- ency is not made on their account, but on account ot considerations of policy on the part of the state itself which declares them such, or on the ground of humamty._ *‘Precedents are to bedrawn chiefly from mcdern times. The revolt of tne Low Countries. was hardly au analogous case, for they were' states having their specisl charters, not connected with Spain, ex- cept so far as the King of SBpain was their suzerain. In our Revolutionary War, precedent was not all on one side. Great Britain stoutly declared Paul Jones to:be ! a pirate, because he was a British subject under command from revolting colonies, and-Denmark agreed to this. In the South American revolutions the concessions of belligerent rights were .given freely by neutrals, most freely by the United States, and as for proclamations, our Government went so far as to issue one in 1838 “for the prevention of unlawful in- terference in the civil war in Canada,” where no civil or military organiza® tion bad been set up. The - true time for issuing such a declara- tion, if it 1s best to issme it at all, is when a revolt has its organized government prepared for war on either element or. both or when some action involving the intention or fact of war has been pérformed by one or both of the parties. Here are two facts, the one political and the other pertaining to the acts of a political body. The fact of war is either a declaration of war or something implying It, like a proclamation or block- de, or, it may be actual contest.” Secretary Olney’s statement determined attitude in the face of the | special trip to Georgetown, 8. C., yester- | ceived in the House of Repre:enwuves without any manifestation of surprise. A few members thought that the Secretary’s | announcement raised a grave constitu- tional, question, and Pczrson of North Carolma commented on its “tone of in- fallibility,” which, in his judgment, was not justified by the first articie of the con- stitution. - . Moody of Massachusetts thought that the consideration of the abstract auestion which the Secretary’s statement raises is likely to obscure the question of the Cuban independence. Livingston of Georgia strongly dissent- ed from the President's position, and thought if he maintains he may make himself liable to impeachment. Generally speaking, however, the secre- tary’s position was regarded as.clarifying the atmosphere and throwing a fresh ob- stacle in the path of Congress to inter- pose in the struggle between Spain and her colony. A careful canvass of the House disclosed the fact that a good many members have no clear conception of the relative powers of the President and Con- gress, and were unwilling to discuss has- tily that phase of the interview. The House is plainly not in abelligerent mood. What it wouid do if the Senate resolution came squarely before it can only be conjectured. It is reasonable to assume that it would pass it after a more or less vigorous debate, but it is equally clear that the House at present has little interest in the Cuban question and that the sentiment respecting the insurgents has radically chapged since the last session. There is more than a reasonable doubt whether the Foreign Affairs Committee would report the resolution favorably. To-day as yesterday members of the com- mittee were reticent in their speculation as to what they might do, but there is a probability that a majority would set their faces against any action which might embarrass President Cleveland or prove a handicap to the incoming admin- istration, ¥ The administration men in the House do not propose to go' contrary to the President’s views, while .the Republican leaders are not.disposed to adopt any course which might be distasteful to the President-elect. Dingley of Maine expressed .the belief that ordinarily isiterference of Congress in state affairs only produced mischief. Turner of Georgia maintains Olney’s opinion, and says that the business of the country requires rest from agitation and excitement, and this is the view that meany Democrats and Republicans share with him. Various considerations influence the members, the larger number thinking the question should not be leftfor the new ad- ministration ‘to sett'e, while others fear that the probability of war would seriously disturb existing conditions at the very moment that manufacturers are antici- pating a revival of better times from the adoption of a new tariff policy. Many members who deprecate any ac- tion on the part of Congress which might be construed by Spain as an unfriendly act would doubtless be driven by the force of popular will at home to support the Senate resoiutieh and do not, for that reason, wish to be quoted. ‘The intima- tion privately given 1s that their influence will be quietly exerted to pigeonhole the resolution until the session is too far ad- vanced to make its adoption advisable. S AHIPS OF NWAR READY. Soon a_ Most Powerful Flest Wil Carry the Stars and Stripes. & BROOKLYN, N. Y., Dec. 19. stated that hurry orders have.been re- ceived from *the Navy, Department at ‘Washington that all repairs on ships be- ing overbauled must be completed in time to aflow the ships to'sail by January 1. L ‘ram Katandio, the Marblehead, the bat- It was, have been spent here within the last few |itselt and General Calixto Garcia for their months preparing the warships for action. ‘The vessels now at the yard undergoing repairs, include the cruiser Columbis, the tleship Massachusetts, the cruisér Mont- gomery, the monitor Terror and the bat- tieship Texas. a2 The flagship New York, which has been undergoing repairs at the navy-yard - for the past two weeks, came out of the dry dock this morning and steamed down to | the Tompkinsvil e rendezvous. Here she will take on coal and ammunition and with the Maine will sail south Monday. The other vessels here will follow as soon as their repairs are’' completed, and the Montgomery is said to be the next one to follow during the latter part of the week. The objective point of the flzet will be Hampton Roads, where the entire squadron, with the exception of those ships on duty at Key West, will be gathered under Admiral Bunce’s flag by the first of the year. The fleet will be the largest and most powerful aggregation of warships ever collected un- der the stars and stripes. SRS = STICKS 10 HIS STORYX. Dr.. Zertucha Repeats the Alleged Cir- cumastances of Maceo’s Death. HAVANA, Cuss, Dec. 19.—Dr. Zor. tucha, through whose treachery, it is claimed, Maceo met his death, is in Ha- vana. In aninterview to-day he explained his relatiops with the rebel leader. He said that a great friend hip exjsted be- tween them and tuat Maceo had great confidence in him. Dr. Zertucha denied the statements that Maceo had received from the province of Pinar del Rio a communication sént from Spain by General Weyler, asking him to treat for peace. He also denied that he had any communication with Chief of Po- lice Labarrara. ' His friendship with Colonel Tort was oid and private. He re- pudiated 'the charges made against him by Serranos, adding that he never wasin Serranos’ camp, and that he knew him formerly as a friend of the bandit Garcia. He repeated the storv already cabled’ about Maceo crossing around the end of the trocha by sea in front of Mariel, and said the officers who accompaniea him were: Brigadiers Perico Diaz and Jose Miro, Colonels Alberto Nodarse and Gor- don—the last named being an American— Majors Alfredo Justiz, Piedra Penalver and, Ramon Ahumada, Captain San Vanell; Lieutenant Francisco Gomez and himself as surgeon, besides the negro ; orderlies. Mac2o was on horseback, with his machete unsheathed, when he was struck by a bujlet from a Mauser rifle. As he fell Dr. Zertucha rushed to his assistance, but he dropped to the ground dead. Another bullet struck him in the stomach before he reached the ground. = All the members of the staff who were around Maceo at the time were more or less seriously woufided. Colonel Nodarse and Major Gastiz diea later from the effect of their wounds. Lientenant Gomez was also wounded in thearm. His wound was attended to and his arm vplaced in a sling. He tried to as- sist Zprtucha to carry Maceo's body, but was again struck by a bullet and knocked down. He then wrote the note that was afterwsrd found on his body aund con- cinaed by stabbing himself with his own Knife, not Maceo’s, as some reports have stated. Dr. Zertucha declared that after the rebels had carried Maceo’s body off the field a statement was drawn up which was signed by all the leaders who had ‘taken part in the engagémeni explaining the manrer in which he had met his _death. ‘Dr. Zertucha intends 1o go to actions in connection with the insurree- tion. He thinks that Maceo’s body was buried near Govea. : Pedro Gonzalez Moyla will be shot to- morrow at Mutanzas for the erime of re- bellion. - General Rey, with 2000 infantry, 300 cavalry and two pieces of artillery, while escorting a convoy to Bavamo, had six en- gagements near Peralejo with a number of united rebel parties under the com- mand of Calixto Garcia. The rebels lost thirty five killed and a large number wounded. One wounded rebel was cup-| tured. The Spanish loss was three of- ficers and sixteen privates killed and three officers. and one hundred privates wounded. Pl il DEPEND UPON CLEVELAND, Spanish Officials Say the “Jingo’’ Reso- Iution Will Not Go Throwah. LONDON, Exg., Dec. 19.—In an inter- view with a representative of the United Associated Presses upon the subject of the resolution of the Foreign Relations Com- mittee of the United States Senate recog- nizing the independence of Cuba, a high official of the Spanish Embassy says: “The resolution is apparently an action on the part of the jingo party in America. Spanish officials cannot believe that it will pass Congress, bugif it does, surely President Cleveland, judging from his policy, will exercise his right to veto. T'here is no parallel between the repellion in Cuba and Spain’s recognition of the Confederate States of America as belliger- ents.’” : In reply to a question as to what action Spain would be likely to take in the event of the adoption of the resolutiou by the UNDER THE GLORY OF AMERICA'S FLAG Thus Was Laid the Corner- stone of-the Hall of Justice. GREAT MASONIC PARADE Grand Master W. T. Lucas Presided at the Cere- monies. SUPERVISORS HIGHLY HONORED A Description of the Affair in Its Various Phase:—Attorney Shed- burne’s Sp:ech. Under the glory of the American flag, with the breezes that passed over Wash- ington-square Park kissing its folds into proud undulation, with the glad rays of a December sun shining down and giving light and warmth to the scene, a vast as- semblage of representative cit:zens stood by yesterday and witnessed a spectacle that means much for this City in general and more for Kearny street, that historic retail shopping thoroughfare that wel- comes as a prodigal son the restoration of a great part of its old-time prestige. The occasion was the laying of the cor nerstone of the Hall of Justice, the new municipal building to be erected on the site at the intersection of Kearny and ‘Washington streets, where formerly stood the old City Hall,with all the associations so sacred to the memories of patriarchal City officials. The ceremony was con- ducted in accordance with the beautiful and impressive ritual of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of ‘the State of California. At 1:30 p. M. the procession was formed at the Masonic Temple, on Post and Montgomery streets, A mounted squad of eight policemen under Corporal Shannon had been sent by Chief Crowley to act as escort for the parade in honor of its rela- tion to the Police Department. This squad _took its place at the head of the proces- sion. The place of honor was accorded to Cali- fornia Commandery as the oldest organi- zation of Masons in the State. Itwas pre- _ceded by Bennett’s band and followed by QOakland Commandery. Then in order came Cassasa’s band, .Golden Gate Commandery, the Royal Aroh Masons, the Masonic Veteran As- sociation, Roncovieri’s band, the Master Masone, the Grand Consistory, the Grand Lod ge uand City cfficials. The parade was marshalea by Grand Marshal and Past Grand Ma ster J. B. Stevens. Past Grand Master Ladd of Orientai Lodge acted as assistant. At the Masonic Temple to preserve order and keep the crowds back twenty men under Sergeant Oonovan Lad been sent by Captain Splllane. They did their duty well. Captain Witiman had fifty men at the scene of the ceremony, under charge of Sergeants Wollweber and Cook. Two patrolmen were also kKept at each corner along the line of march, which was ground the corner from Poststreetto Mar- ket, thence to Kearny and along that thoroughfare to Merchant street, then down Merchant and into the vacant lot which is the site of the new building, At the corner of Kearny and Merchant NEW TO-DAY. -United States Senate ana House, the offi- cial of the embassy said it would be im- possible for him to anticipate the action of the Government at Madrid. Baron de Courcel, the French Embassa- dor, was seen by the reporter as he was leaving theoffice. The Embassador begged to be excused from expressing any opinion upon the subject of relations between Spain and the United States. Both United States Embassador Bayard and the Italian Euwbassador, General Ferroro, are out of town, and in their absence the officials of their respective embassies decline to talk on the subject. MO DANGER OF WAR. English Jowrnals Do Not Think the Cubans Will Be Recognized. 5 LONDON, Exa., Dec. 19.—The Evening News says Lttle doubt can exist as to what would be the answer of a strong na- tion to recognition by the United States of the belligerent rights of the Cuban rebels. Spain, though weak, is high- spirited, and will doubtless view such a course as taken with intent to provoke a quarrel. The News' article concludes: ‘‘We have hope in the firm attitude of President Cleveland and sober American feeling and that any action of America will not be taken in such a way as to incur reproach, but it has stirred instead of healing strife.” 2 The Sun thinks that the fate of the colonial empire and ‘also the present mon- archy of Spain will be decided within the next year, it being difficult to see how Spain can do otherwise than declare war against the United Statesin the event of recognition of Cuba’s independence by the American Government. Spain; the vaper says, has only herseif 10 blame through the drastic methods she has adopted in Cuba. In conclusion the Sun expresses the opinion that henceforth | America must. be seriously considered in the settlement of international questions affecting the .interests or sentiments of Spain and take up his residence in the town of Ziscaha. . 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The Globe thinks that, despite the ac- tion of the United States Senate’s com- Continucd on Fourth Page. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.