Show WHAT SHAFTER SAID TO carcia invited the cuban to be present at the surrender but the insurgents wanted to be placed in control of the city shatter offended garcia by extending his lines in front of the cubans july 30 the war department part ment has received the fol lowine santiago de cuba july 29 secretary of war have the sun of saturday july in which comments are made as to my treatment of gen garcia I 1 desire to say that gen garcia was in cited by me personally to go into the city of santiaco al the time I 1 entered it but be declined upon the arounds that the spanish civil officers were left in power it was fully explained to him that those officials were to be left in power until it was convenient to chanze them for others uen garcias assistance to me has been purely voluntary on his part and he was told at the beginning that I 1 did not exercise any control over him except as be chose to give the trouble with gen garcia was that he expected bof be placed in command at this place in other words that we would turn the city over to him I 1 explained fully to him thai we were at war with spain and that the question of cuban independence could not be considered by me another grievance was that finding that several thousand spaniards marched in without opposition from gen garcia I 1 extended tny own lines in front of him and closed up the gap as I 1 saw that I 1 bad to depend on my own men for any effective invest anent of the place sinned |