The cruel death of the unfortunate Dr. Ruiz in Cuba has aroused and
alarmed the government into looking more closely after our citizens there.
For one reason or another, Mr. Olney chose to disbelieve the stories from
Cuba, and tried to throw discredit on General Lee, declaring that his
action in the Ruiz matter had been hasty and unwarranted, and that things
were not so bad in Cuba as he stated them to be.
Mr. Cleveland and the Senate refused to be satisfied with this statement,
and demanded that all the papers relating to our citizens who are
imprisoned in Cuba should be laid before them.
At the same time, Senator Morgan offered a joint resolution, demanding the
immediate release of General Julio Sanguily.
General Sanguily, who was a famous Cuban general in the previous war
against Spain, has been many months in Cuban prisons, and was at one time
condemned to penal servitude at the Spanish settlement in South Africa.
Through the representations of our government a new trial was secured for
him, and he was finally set free.
The manner of freeing him was very Spanish. Word was sent to him that if
he would declare himself guilty of treason against Spain he would be given
his liberty.
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