The herald., 1897-01-14

ling to grant the insurgents. 1t pro-
Vices for capitUlation and pardon of the
| insurgents, for whom General Gomez is
| expected to sign the treaty. There are
to be three parties to the agreement The
United States represents the insurgents.
There are still some minor details to be
arranged and these may occupy ten days
more. By the end of January the terms
will be complete They will then be
laid before congress in a special MESA ge
from President Cleveland. Simultane-
ously they will be promulgated in Mad
rid and in Havana. The provisional
draft of the new terms was embodied III
lengthy communicated address 20
Senior de LONE from Premier Canovas.
This was brought by Senor Pablo Roll
ary Guardsta, who arrived here from
Madrid on Monday
1t included not only the amendments
to- the reform law of 1885 professionally
stated) that Spain is now willing to
grant but also a draft of a treaty be-
tween Spain and the insurgents in which
the reforms are to go into effect. The
first draft of the proposed treaty of capit-
ulation reads as follows:
Article 1.-The political organization
and administrative reforms contained in
the reform law of March 2S. 1895, with all
| the amendments agreed to between the
| United States and the legal representa-
tives of the Cuban revolutionists and the
government of Spain shall be immedi-
ately established in Cuba.
Article II-Free pardon for all the po-
litical offenses committed from 1868 to
date, and freedom for those who are
under indictment from the Spanish
army, regardless of nationality this
clause being extended to include all
those who have taken part directly or
indirectly in the revolutionary move
ment.
Article III-No individual who by
virtue of this capitulation shall submit.
to and remain under the authority of the
Spanish government shall be compelled
to render any military service before
peace is established over the whole ter
ritory.
Article IV-Every individual who by
virtue of this capitulation may wish to
depart from the island shall be permit
ted to Go So and the Spanish govern
;neipt shall provide him with the means
therefor without passing through any
town or settlement if he desires.
Article V-The capitulation of each
force shall take place in an unnhabited
SPOT where beforehand the arms and
munitions of war shall be deposited.
Article Win order to further the dc-
ceptance by the insurgents of the other
departments of these articles of capitu-
lation the commander n-chief of the
Spanish army shall furnish them free
transportation by land and sea, over all
the lines withir his control, to the CEN
trail department..
Article VII-This compact with the
legal representatives of the Cuban in
surgents shall be deemed to have been
made with all in rebellion against the
authority of the Spanish crown who
may accept its conditions.
It is the expectation that General Go
maz, with a committee of other Cuban
leaders, will meet the representative Of
Spain at a time and place yet to be ap-
pointed. and sign this treaty. Its terms
are similar to those of the capitulation
treaty of Zanjon at the close of the ten
years war.
While the details of the amendments
offered to the reform edict of March,
1895. cannot be definitely stated mas
much as they are still open to change
and modification, 1t can be safely as
serted that the concessions which Gen
eral Gomez demanded through Senator
Sagasta have received marked consid-
Grafton.
The points which remain unsettled re-
fer to the insurgents and their immedi-
ate acceptance of the peace treaty.
While it is limited at the Spanish lega-
ton and substantially corroborated at
the state department that General Go
mez has promised to lay down his arms
in the event of the United States be-
coming in a moral sense guarantor of
these conditions a preliminary under
standing between the insurgents and
the United States is not definitely set
tied.
Spain clings to her old position of die
tating her own terms and absolutely
forming her own policy. Nevertheless
she has been forced by the complicated
circumstances of the case to acknowl-
edge the United States as party to the
Cuban war and in submitting to her the
treaty she provides to make with her
rebellious subjects, she also acknowl-
edges tacitly the position of the United
states as mediator and as guarantor
of the observance of the treaty terms.
MYSTERIOUS ARREST.
NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-Gen. Carlos
Roloff. secretary of war of the Cuban
republic, was arrested tonight and
locked up in Ludlow-street JAIL The
utmost secrecy was observed, and the
officers of the jail would not tell what
the charge was.
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