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Show LCC'8 TESTIMONY, lleatruetlon of Iba Stale. I'mteabtedty Una III Hjaalali Agenrlea. Washington, April 13. Consul (leu-eral (leu-eral Leo waa before tho senate committee com-mittee on foreign relations for an hour yesterday, lie talked freely with the committee In regard to the condition In Cuba, and especially with reference to tho destruction of the Maine. He said that In hla opinion liters was no room to doubt that the deatructlon of the veaael waa duo toHpaitlsli agencies, "Do you mean tho Hpanlsli authorities authori-ties In Cuba?" he waa asked by a member mem-ber of the committee, "I mean the Hpanlsli ofHclaIa,"lie replied, re-plied, "but not Genera! Illanco. I think aome of the ofllclala wcro cognisant cogni-sant of the plana to destroy the vessel, but I don't believe that the captain general was." (lenera! Leo said lie had no Itnowl edge of the report that a mine had been discovered by a direr under the Montgomery while that vessel lay In the harbor at Havana, The consul general did not arrive at the capltol until A o'clock, lie canto In a street car and was not rccognlreil by the one or two hundred people who had congregated on the outside of tho building to see him, but In the cor-rlJors cor-rlJors at the rntratice of the room of the committee on foreign rclillona he waa recognlied and given a hearty hiudclapplng. lie responded with a bow and smile and hastened Into the committee room. |