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Show LEE'S RECALL linQUBSTCD, Tho Itial I rnmplly n,l I frtnly Ilcnlod ' by the I'retkleel. Wnihlngton, March 7The Spanlth Huatlna derelope,! two new phate to- I day, when It became known that the HpnnUli government had formally re requeiteil the recall ot Contul (lcnernl Lee nth It pott nt Havana to which . requett the L'nlleil State had courteously courte-ously but firmly refuted to comply, alto al-to that the Spanith government hnd uggetted the Impropriety of tending relief upplle to the Cubnn rcconcen trmlot on the crulter Montgomery nml the gunboat Nathvllle, to which nug-geatloa nug-geatloa the Unlleil Statu had alto antwered In the negative Thilrt Intimation ot these atcpt came m h brief and explicit cablegram from Mnlrld I'rlor to IU receipt however, how-ever, the authorities hero had Wen fully convertant with the facta, although al-though no Intimation hnd Wen allowed allow-ed to get to the publlo on cither ub-JecL ub-JecL The dltcloturrt from Madrid left no further ground for reticence In Wnihlngton, and aftur a conference III tho While Home Wtwcen tho pretldent, pretl-dent, AitltUnt Secretary liny nnd Secretary Sec-retary Long ot the navy department, the following authorized ttatcincnt wa hande I to the Aatoelaled I'reat by Judge Day at comprltlng everything that wa to ho tnld by tho adinlnlatrn-tlon adinlnlatrn-tlon on the nubject "Tho pretldent will not contldcr tho recall of (leueral Lrc lie haa borne himself throughout thl crltl with Judgment, fidelity nnd courngo, to tho proldcut a entire tatltfnctlon "A to the tupplle for the relict ot tho Cubnn people all arrangement hnve Wen innde lomrry ncontlgnmcnt from Key Wot by one of the naval vessels whichever may lw mott adapt- cd fur the purpote, to Matanxa aud Sngu " The ground on which OencrnI Ico' rrenll wn asked I not ofllclklly ills- 1 closed It It known, however, Hint I the Spnnlth government hn chnfTol for Borne time over (leneral Io'h pre- I ence In llavnnn, although thl hnd never tnken tho form of a definite pro- I teat prior t the present time It W- ' gan to attumc a moro kerlout aapect hortly nfter tho arrival of the Malno at llnvann At that time (lcnernl Leo escorted Caplalu SlgtWe -on hit ronnd 'of ofllclnl call. Thete wero inailo with due formality, but the Spanish olllelnl took o (Ten so when the call I were restrict 1 tollHiieml lllanoo. Admiral Ad-miral Mnnteroln and the ropreacntn-ttvc ropreacntn-ttvc of thn mllltiry arm of Spain' ervlce, nnd did nat Include I'rcmler finite and hi associate of the auto-nomtt auto-nomtt cabinet, who represented tho new civil reglmr which Spain It seeking seek-ing to enforce. The matter enme to 1 tho ntteiitlon of Senor Dupuy de Lome thoSwnlsh mlnlaler at Uaahlngton, and, although there were no protetta, tho altuatlou doubtless reached tho atnte department, at suitable amend wero mndo by laptnln slgtWc'n calling call-ing on Dr Con got to, the civil accrc- , tary, Premier tlnlrci and hit nttnel-nt. nttnel-nt. There wn Ilk Irritation over n i dinner given by Contul (ieneral Lee to tho onioer. ot the Mnlno 1 he Hit of gueft on thnt occasion I said to hnvo omitted ome of the Suiiilh nnvnl ofllccr, nud to hnve Included quite conspicuously, the tinme of u nnmWr j ot American iiewtpnper corrctpond- I cntt, who were regarded by tho Spanish Span-ish official at Havana a nntngouUtlo to them Thl wa also brought to the attention ot the ofllclnl, but wa not made tho bail for any notion, but rattier of uiiolllclal Spanish irlllilsin of (Kncral Ieagenrat mnlu of procedure |