Arizona republican., 1897-12-08
Cuban ReyalStS Satisfied Eith
 the Tone of tho Document
AUTONOMISTS ARE PLEASED
All Believe There is Nothing in
 It for Separatists
French Newspapers Look at 1t Vari- ously-It is Described as C0ncili- atory, Ambiguous and It Holds Out No Hope to Spain.

Havana, Dec. 7.-El Diario de la Marina, commenting on President Nc Kinley's message to congress, says: "It contains impressive declarations calculated to strengthen, were that necessary, the Spanish cause in the island of Cuba. It will dishearten the separatists. According to the solemn statements of the American chief magistrate to the American congress there is no reason that will justify American intervention in the Cuban question. This undoubted fact is con- firmed by the executive of the Amerj- can union.
 Spain in any event will repal any demonstration looking to the iner- vention of a foreign state in the af United States shall never under any consideration take even an indirect part in the settlement of our ra-t:cllar concerns
 Fl Paris, the organ of the autono- mists, thinks the message very favor. able to the interests of Cuba and be- lieves the attitude President Mckinley has assumed will "calm the fn:y of partisans of independence"
 A FRENCH VIEW. Paris, Dec. 7.-The Republique Fran caise today says the tone of President McKinley's message to congress is inf h1yf rf ambiguity" The Journal Des Dsba S regards the message as little reas- surance to Spain, who has the worlds | sympathies.'
 TAYLOR'S CRITICISM 1 Mobile, Ala, Dec. 7.-ExlMinister to Spain Hon. Hannis Taylor gives i Press has requested me to express my views as to that part of the president s message which relates to the Cuban ! question. Putting aside the irrele- want matter by which it is encumbered i the substance of only the rec m mendation made by the executive to congress upon this subject is that the government cannot venture to do any thing to put an end to the inhuman strife which during the last three years has reduced the island to desert, be- cause there is prospect of settle | ment between the contestants upon the basis of the so-called plan of amton- omy lately put forth by the Sagasta ministry.
 "I believe congress should firmly and scornfully reject such policy ol
 irresolution and non-aetion, because
 the assumption upon which it is
 founded is an empty illusion. The | vital question at issue has no. beer
 touched by the revolutionary effogt
 of Sagasta to end the war by means ot crafty, incomplete provision that
 carries with 1t no constitutional guar
 anty whatever. All who are familiar
 with the Spanish law know that z
 valid grant of an autonomy with the
 colonial system that 1t involves, no
 only repeals all existing laws on tha
 subject, but also transfers the cont O
 of a large part of the national rev
 enues of Spain to the colonial legis lature. It cannot be done excsp- b! an act passed by both houses of tn,
 cortes and approved by the Quee: regent.
 ''The effort just made to secure tha
 result by mere royal decree, unsup l ported by parliamentary action, ha.
 before been justly described by Ro
 nero Robledo, the late minister o justice, as purely revolutionary pro
 ceeding in defiance of the constitu
 ton, but even if Sagasta's plan pos sesses constitutional validity a ca-efu inspection of it's artful terms must re veal the fact that, like the pretentiou i sham put forth by Canovas, it con
 tains two cardinal provisions tha , would enable the home government t reduce the whole scheme at any mo ment to zero.
 "The autocrat of Cuba has eve
 been the governor general and tn
 preent plan contemplate his contin uance as such with full power t
 crush by veto any and every act of tn l colonial legislature. The primar, [ cause of the endless conflict is eco homie and the difficulty can never b ; removed until Cuba is independent C possessed of an insular parliament tha can regulate absolutely her own tar l ifs
 7 'It is generally understood that ] deliberate conspiracy to thwart tn will of the nation is to be carried GU through an appeal to the speaker 0 ] the house of representatives who
 expected to manipulate it's rules so a
 to prevent the passage of the pendin
 belligerency resolution, which the sen