| Show LEE HAS RESIGNED I That Is the Latest from Our Consul General at Havana ills ClUMIHtAM TO lilt OLXEY Ito Sitcrelnry lion nr lUqncslcil Win lo Ititnaii ul UN 1 oft tar Hie Hint IMcg NEW Yom Feb 311 dispatch to Woyld he World from Washington says Kllibugh Lee consul general Ills United Btntesat Havan ban resigned builla Loon requested to remain al his poet for a lima at least Too following cablogtam was ro celved at the state department HAVANA Feb S3 boorelary ol 13tateMy resignation milieu per I I steamer t Secretary Olney replied to till almost al-most Immediately urging Over Leo to withhold lilt rtslgnailou until Something Some-thing could bo done and declaring that I bid retirement Ibis time ana In Bucb a manner would cents untold trout 10 l Alter tending his dispatch Htcretsrv Olur uutiled over to tile White Huue with Use latl telegram la bin pocket and talked over the situ fallen with President Cleveland for nearly an bour before the office meoi I belt ol tile cabinet arrived attend the regular rueetlnir The Proal lent fully approved of Mr OluByn action In requesting Uen Leo to withdraw reilKnallou lor tile present 1ho matter was not laid before the cabinet SAYS lie WILL RESIGN HAVANA Feb 3Tbo Associated Press correspondent taw Jen Lee lull evening lor the fourth time today Thomas G Alvord correspondent Ibe Now York World was present at tUo lime Uen Leo wan Interviewed den Lee was rtaerved until shown cablegrams explaining the dispatches received In New VorS relative to his reported resignation lie then laid I will resign If not sustained by the tlate department Until now I have nU received au answer The question at issue wall not tire death of Hull but related to Charles Franklin Scott who was thirty days Incommunicado I asked that Is a be placed a oIllImutnal old aIm a-Im C dhately Boot Is I already cora muiilcaJo and the q u es I lose baa lost Us Improco NEW Yom Feb jVA I dispatch to thoH a raid irvm Uavaua Cuba Says Consul General Leo cabled bit testis nation to Secretary of Slate Olney on Bamrday night Ills written resigca liDO will a letter giving bit reason lor lilvlcg up the offlce will reach Washington Wash-ington by the first mall Irom this port III la underitood that the secretory ol State It ready to accept Ueneral Laos resignation at Doe but that I rieildenl Cleveland It unwilling to have tbe coniul Ueneral leavo Havana How The resignation waa tendered because the administration did not sea III to oduroe the oOblul generals recommendations re-commendations for what be believed liscewsary to be done to Ioleot Amrt Call citizens Cuba No Instructions bn been received by General Leo Im tile state dprlw1 since fIb resignation was cabled |
