Show RAISING A BACKBONEs BACKBONE-s VERTEBRAE OF THE ADMINISTRATION ADMINIS-TRATION IN EVIDENCE Powerful Weak However and Un der i With a Stiffening Plaster is Consul General Lee Americans Amer-icans in Cuba Will Soon be a Good a Cattle aNew a-New York March IA Herald special spec-ial from Washington says ConsulGeneral Lee has demanded I that General Washington Scott an American under arrest in Cuba be turned over to the civil jurisprudence of the island for trial This action I was taken in accordance with instructions instruc-tions sent to the consulgeneral by Secretary Olney immediately after the former official reported that as a result I of resolutions CaptainGeneral Weyler I has ordered the release of the prisoner I from the state of Incommunicado in o Which he had been placed from the time of his arrest General Lee has been directed to press his demands that the provisions of the protocol and treaty between the United States and Spain be respected re-spected and state department officials are confident that within the next few days they will learn that Scott has been turned over to the civil courts for trial Mr De Lome still declares that Scott Is a spy but then If this charge be true state department officials point out the prisoner was arrested without with-out arms In his hand and he therefore there-fore must under the protocol and I treaty between the two governments be tried by the civil courts and not by an extraordinary tribunal I 0 The case of George Washington Aguirre who gave himself up under ia li the amnesty proclamation issued I by j General Weyler has been carefully watched by the state department although I al-though some senators claim that I has been derelict in this respect Strong representations made by General Gen-eral Lee by direction of the state department de-partment caused a reference of his case to the civil court State department officials say that it now depends upon his counsel whether he shtJl secure an early trial on the charges of rebellion pending against him Secretary Olney will reply before the expiration of his term of office to the representations made by the Spanish government in answer to the demand of this government for an Investigation of the Ruiz case I am told that the department has been informed by Minister De Lome and Minister Taylor that the Spanish I investigations show conclusively that I Dr Ruiz died from natural causes and furthermore the report Is signed by a person holding an American citizenship cit-izenship This testimony is surprising to state department officials They had ex jiected that the Spanish government would advance some testimony showing I show-ing that as the result of an investigation l investiga-tion made Dr Rulz was not murdered I nor had died from the treatment received re-ceived The action of the Spanish government I gov-ernment in securing the signature of an American to the report was of course a bold diplomatic stroke and I was done for the purpose of offsetting the findings of Dr Burgess of the American Marine hospital service stationed I sta-tioned In Havana 1 |