Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1897-09-24

Is believed the action of the UnitedStates Will
greatly facilitate a solutioniof the ministerial
crisis and that there will be reorganization
of the conservatives under Gen, Azcarraga,
the premier, and Don Franisco Silvella, the
leader of the dissident conservatives.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20-United States Minis
ter woodford has reported to the state dapart'
ment the fact that he had conference with
the Duke of Tetuan yesterday in Madrid. AL
though no information respecting the nature
of the report can be obtained at the state de-
partment the impression is gained that MS
representations were simply preliminary in
nature and intended to prepare the founda-
tion upon which to base his full case and that
these were well received.
LONDON, Sept. 21.-A despatch to the Stand
ard from san Sebastian says:
1.-THE government will take Its time TO reply
to United states Minister Woodford, and Will
probably lay the case before the European
powers in the shape of an exhaustive exposi-
tion of the whole matter. But last year the
foreign Office ascertained that the sympathies
of the powers were not likely to go beyond
platonic censure of the conduct OF the United
states Much anxiety is noticeable in court
and official circles"
At this writing.very little is actually
known as to what has really been said or
done. But it is very probable that our
government is moving in the direction of
peace in Cuba. The administration has
apparently come to the conclusion that
Spain cannot subiugate the Cubans, and
should not be much longer permitted to
devastate the fair island. 1t is equally
certain that the American people are in
full sympathy with any proper course by
our government in the interests of the
! Cubans. The independence of the
queen of the Antilles will mean it annex
alton to the United States in the near
! future "a union of great and obvious ad-
vantages to both parties. On the other
hand, it is not probable that that General
WoOdford has made so imperative and
sudden a demand on Spain as the above
dispatches seem to indicate. Such de-
mand might mean war; and a war with
Spain, with all the entangements that
might grow out of it, Is not desirable
enterprise, nor one lightly to be entered
upon. The following later dispatch con-
firms this view:
wAsH1NGToN, sept. 20 1t can be stated in
reference to the Paris publication purporting
to give the substance of Gen, Woodfords
/ communication to the Duke of Tetuan yester-
day, that there has been misapprehension on
the part of the Temps correspondent on sew
eral important points, notably in respect to
an ultimatum and the setting of time limit
for the conc fusion of the war. instead of ii x
/ ing the end of October next as the date for
the termination of the war, that particular
date was mentioned the time when the
Spanish court would return to Madrid from
san Sebastian, and when, consequently, II
might be in order to return an answer to
the latest representations of the United States
government through Mr.. Woodford.
1t is declared at the state department that
while Mr.. Woodford did, according to the
original idea of his instruction, set out the
deep interest the United states had in wit
Messing a cessation of the deplorable conflict
in Cuba, he did not deliver himself of an ulti
matum, but simply made statement of oul
deep interest in settlement of the Cubar
war as IA reasonable explanation for inter
vention IN any manner at this time. Mr.
Woodford's telegram regarding his confer
ences with the Duke OF Tetuan IS now befor'
President Mckinley.