Show THE OLIVETTE SEARCH OUTRAGE OUT-RAGE Last Monday morning The Herald In commenting on the remarks of Congressman Con-gressman Amos Cummings about the searching of a woman on board the steamer Olivette by the Spanish authorities au-thorities at Havana said Before telling what England would do he should have ascertained if the storv on which he based his big talk were true or not He assumed the very thing his resolution was intended to determine The resolution and all the high horae talk about it was based on the assumption as-sumption that the woman was subjected sub-jected to a search by Spanish soldiers The New York paper that made so much of the story had an immense cut of the proceedings showing a nude woman surrounded by several men Of course the intention of all this was to inflame public sentiment against Spain and set up another Cuban scare such I I as the country had Just orlor to the holidays The woman In the case baa I I made a statement to the New York World of what occurred She tells how a notice of expulsion was served upon her and some of her experiences as an insurgent sympathizer She says the order of exile in no way surprised her it was directed to others as well as herself She tells the story of the inspection I in-spection in these words I hurried my arrangements to lea eon e-on the morning of Feb 3 which was Wednesday and together with the others named in the order I went down Ito I-to the inspection house When ve reached this place a Spanish Span-ish officer came up to us and told me I to enter a room which he pointed out I refused to do so unless my companions were permitted to accompany me and we all went in there we were met by an inspectress who told me that she had been ordered to searcn me I I was then told to divest myself of all II my clothing and did so taking off every garment The inspectress scrutinized scru-tinized my clothing but found nothing My companions were then searched 1 After this about non wf went aboard the Olivette and while stand = I ingon the promenade deck a Spanis officer came up to me aud touching mon m-on my arm told me that I was wanted in a stateroom I looked around but I could not see the captain sa followed to the stateroom where the same inspector in-spector awaited me My companions followed me In the room and I passed the same ordeal which I had undergone wmle on shore My companions were also searched in a similar manner and my little 9 yearold brother was searched but not stripped I was only searcned twice as stated At neither search was I In any way illtreated except the humiliation of I being stripped in the presence of a strange woman She was not roul1 I but treated the matter quite indifferently indiffer-ently T suppose she had perf rme the same task many times before During the examinations the doors were securely closed and no men ivej admitted into the rooms nor could they I have seen into them After the last examination had been made and thev were satisfied I Imi no naners of any kind on my perron although I really did have papers I they left the ship One of the Spanish officers bade me j goodbye but I paid no attention to I him We arrived here on the afternoon of Feb 4 This is a true story of mv cxusion and the two searches made unon my person CLEMENCIA AR NGO This Is quite a different stiry from the one that so fired the patriotism of Congressman Amos Cummings and made him desire to have Undo Sam go right down to Cuba and demolish Moro castle this is quite different from the story that inflamed the imagination of Frederic Remington when he pictured pic-tured a nude woman being searched by Spanish soldiers Congressman Cummings should have directed his resolution to the question of the right of search It is surprising that men in whose hands the destinies of the American people are to a very large extent should fly off the handle so suddenly as Congressman Cummings did and as others do without full investigation A little sober reflection could not fail I to show them that the stories on which they act with such precipitancy are very largely the work of pure imagination I imagina-tion They should learn to make haste slowly I |