The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-09-21
Mr.. WOODF0RD'S PLEA
UNITED STATES FEELS WORRIED
OVER THE WARS DELAY.
TETUAN RESENTS "PRETENSIONS"
No Reply to United States Until Court Return
From Its Summer Outing Meanwhile
Sensation is Being Cooked Up
by Election Jingoists.

by Election Jingoists.
| Paris, Sept. 2.0-A dispatch from San
Sebastian to the Temps, of this city, says
that in his interview yesterday with the
Duke of Tetuan, the Spanish Minister
for Foreign Affairs, the United States
Minister to Spain, General Stewart l..
Woodford, did not present any claim for
indemnity, but confined the interview to
a moderate phrase in the statement of
the great injuries commerce and industry
had suffered in the United States through
the prolongation of the Cuban war.
! General Woodford is said to have ad-
ded that Secretary Sherman had desired
him to declare to the Spanish govern
ment that it was evidently impossible for
Spain to end the rebellion in a reasonable
time, and further that if the war was
continued Cuba would be devastated and
of no utility to Spain or to the Cubans.
| In conclusion, the United States minis
ter is reported to have insisted courteous
ly but firmly upon the necessity of termi-
mating the war, declaring that il it was
not Terminated by the end of October the
United States would feel justified in TAX
ing measure to secure the independence
of Cuba.
The Duke of Tetuan, still according to
the dispatch of the Temps, while protest
ing against alleged American 'preten-
sions," said he would reply officially to
the United States minister when the
Spanish court returns to Madrid.
GREAT SECRECY MAINTAINED.
Madrid, Sept. 20.-In official circles
here the greatest secrecy is maintained
Regarding the United States ult:matum.
which is looked upon as bound to cause
a great sensation in Europe, and to have
the greatest consequences for Spain.
While not intending it. it is believed the
action of the United States has greatly
facilitated solution of the ministerial
crisis, and that there will be a reorgani-
zation of the Conservatives under Gen.
Azcarraga, the Premier, and Don Fran
cisco Silvella, the leader of the dissident
Conservatives.
NOT AN ULTIMATUM.
Washington, ID. c., Sept. 20.-It can be
stated, in reference to the Paris publ:ca-
ton purporting to give the substance of
Gen. WOOdford's communication to the
Duke of Tetuan yesterday, that there
has been a misapprehension on several
important points, notably in respect to an
lultimatum and the setting of a time limit
| for the conclusion of the war; Instead of
fixing the end of October as the date for
the termination of the war, that particu-
lar date was mentioned as the time when
the Spanish court would return to Mad
rid from San Sebastian and when, conse-
lquently, it might be in order to return an
answer to the latest presentation of the
| United States government through Mr..
| Woodford. 1t is declared at the State De-
partment that while Mr.. Woodford did,
according to the original idea of his in
lstructions, set out the deep interest the
United States had in witnessing a cessa-
! ton Of the deplorable conflict in Cuba,
he did not deliver himself Of an ultima
tum, but simply ma 'e statement of our
deep interest in a settlement of the Gu
ban war as a reasonable explanation for
intervening in any manner at this time.
Mr.. WocdfOrd's telegram regarding his
conference with the Duke 1f Tetuan is
now before President Mckinley.
TO CALL IN THE POWERS, Oh!
London, Sept. 21.-A dispatch to the
Standard from San Sebastian says:
"The government VIII take its time in
reply to United States Minister Wood
ford and will probably lay the case be-
fore the European powers in the shape of
an exhaustive exposition of the whole
matter, but last night the foreign office
ascertained that the sympathies of the
powers were not likely to go beyond pla-
tonic censure of the conduct of the United
States. Much anxiety is noticeable in
court and official circles"