Show GBXEHAL CAMPOS TALKS Considers tIe Spanish Government Justified in llemovlnpr Him and Denies That Gen Weylcr is Cruel NEW YORK March 5A special to the World from Madrid says = Marshal Campos was seen by the World correspondent The general who had just got out of bed was looking look-ing remarkably well He began the conversation con-versation himself asking in a frank soldierly energetic manner that your correspondent give prominence to these points First he said I deny that there is any foundation fr the reports of cruelties in General Weylers past history j his-tory He was simply a field officer in the last Cuban insurrection carrying out like all others the orders of his I chief Count Balmaseda who had ordered or-dered reprisals because the insurgents had committed atrocities People ought not to be alarmed at the terrifying proclamations of Weyler threatening penalties that are practically impossible of execution and only intended to o executon ald quell the spirit of disaffection So far nobody no-body has been shot or executed Second I have no grudge against the Canovas government I was per ifectly justified in recalling me after the failure of > military and faiure my mltary political plans and I admit I was no longer in touch with the colonial conservatives Third I believe the war is likely to last a couple of years but despite the staying powers of the insurgents i is impossible for them to succeed alone even if they do wear out the armies and resources of Spain by desultory guerrilla warfare favored by the climatic matic conditions of the country Fourth as regards the colonial Furth a reforms re-forms which before I went to Cuba I thought to be carried out because it is political to fulfill promises and which at first I believed might have frst beIeved helped to stop the developments of the insurrection insurrec-tion together with my own conciliatory concilia-tory policy As I was only a general in command of the forces I could not take the initiative if I received no instructions in-structions from the home government Soon njoreover circumstances led me to see that even the colonial parties and some autonomists in Cuba < themselves doubted the expediency of the reforms I think it is now rather late to attempt such palliatives and the sword must first crush the insurrection before home rule is possible Fifth Cubans attach much importance import-ance to administrative economical re forms which are easier to propose than to accomplish Sixth I decline to declne offer an opinion on the advisability of meeting them half way before recognition of belligerency belliger-ency which admit would embolden these insurgents and increase the difficulties dif culties Military Commission of Inquiry NEW YORK March GA special to the World from Washington says it is possible possi-ble that President Cleveland will send a military commission to Cuba to report on the condition of affairs there In this connection it is announced that General e Gner Wesley Merritt commander of the department de-partment of the Missouri a id several other high olHcials of the army have been sU enly summoned to Washington The World says it could pot be positively learned last night that their mission ha any reference to Cuba but It is known the president has implicit confidence in General Gen-eral Merrltt and that he would be quite I likely character to name indicated him for a position of the f i J |