| Show I 4 F I I It I I rm g I 1 11 gM I I 41 I I I R k I i I 1 1k 1 Between Maine InqniFjand Aulon 4 1 1 I I omy There is Great Suspense Iri 111 I 1 PROGRESS OF MAINE SEARCH 1 I i I I I I it i r I Disaster Was Not the Result of LacV of Discipline I Disci-pline on the Ship I I AUTONOMY CONFESSED A FAILURE I 11t I iI I i I i free ill cuncoan tho lb I Terythlng I I It It Spanish 1 g I IUIIol 1 > rllug icrpttilng I 1 I 1 2 New York Feb 23 A dlt patch to the f I Tribune from Havana lajs 11 i r Patience is I necessary on the t part of I the people ot the United Slates In the I I a Maine Investigation Notwithstanding I vexations delays real progress Is I being I i made by the divers The decision regarding I 0 < deeelon I i carding the cause of the disaster ultimately I t ul-timately rests on their work Captain I Sampsons raval board bas been able 1 ar to gain the fullest Information showing 411 that nn accident through lack of discipline I ri cipline was Impossible This branch of I I the Inquiry brings out what was well i T understood that the officers and crew I I t I 11 of the Maine were under the strictest 11 I J discipline because although on the sur face the visit of the Maine was friendly I f ri friend-ly Captain SIb had tan proper a I a precautions against hostile actions C The work of clearing out the bodies P under the hatch proceeds The sights there are pitiable almost I all bejond tho endurance of th divers I i accustomed as they are to such experiences ep Its ences The condition in which the Il I 0 bodies l are found show sOW8 that the men sleeping In the bunks must have been 1 I driven against the beams overhead I overbea il with terrific force In many Instance I or p the bodies are beyond the possibility of 1 recognition i 11I I The board has not yet directed the II examination of the hull plates While I the divers examinations show that f lit t dler exminaton low some of the smaller magazines may a have exploded the fact that the main il 11 tenInch magazine was not exploded I ro I seems to have been sm conclusively estads Rallied I il The story of the finding of 0 ten J Inch copper cylinder was corrcct I The Spanish authorities adhere t the I i 1 ± story of a tire In the ship and I 1 0 11 ad an explosion I 1 ex-plosion afterwards The result of the I r th divers I work Is conclusively against I 6 that theory Though their reports are 1 i carefully guarded It Is I known that l what they have found in the Interior 4 of the wreck has demolished the theory t of fire before the explosion try I In the uncertainty of tho relations wllh the United males the Importance I < Impruco of ill a recent action of the autonomist party Is I oveilooked Its central com I mlllee has formally approved the i i plan which Is I n confeslon of tho fail ore of the present scheme of autonomy I and an offer to the Insurgents to < oler Inalrenl con cede everything except the withdrawal of the Spanish flag Us significance i i lies In the fact that Senor Oovin u I member of the autonomist cabinet was IV a leading spirit In the meeting and of to fered the resolutions for treating with I the Insurgents which Include a series pr srle of propositions outlined by Others two I I a weeks ago when the radical autonomist I I rt autono-mist party was formed These cover everything hut Independence cove I I in fh nutonomls have no Author I ed Ity to represent Spain In the negotla I it I neln lions and give n guaranty that Spain would Yield the coneoons offered V I I As The IUtons are In one sense on I i I 2 1 answer to the complaint from itradria frm Matrll ou that the autonomist cabinet was doing i i I i t t nothing 10 bring the Insurgents to I recognition 1 negotiations ar eve ih Pr actually opened with the Insurgents 1 Covln and the radical autonnots I I I proposition I will be rejected i il The Intranelltcanls are still hostile ft I = the government Among them the 14 A f Maine Inquiry Is I adding to the anti I I anl American feeling The authorities tpt eln T autorlle pro I fess ability lo hold I In check I I I i oft |
