The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-22
DELIGHTFUL De LONE
The Spanish Minister'S Hith-
erto Suppressed Letter.
DIPLOMATIC DARLING
MR.. OLNEY'S INTERVENTION is
POLITELY DECLINED.
MEETS oLNEv ON OWN GROUND
Unnecessary, as Your Excellency Re.
marks and in View Of so Correct
and so Friendly an Attitude, to
Discuss Intervention.

and 50 Friendly an Attitude, to
Discuss Intervention.
Washington May 21.-The full cores
pondence between the United States and
Spain relative to Secretary Olney's' offer
of mediation on the Cuban question, is
gradually coming to light. Mr.. Olney's
letter was made public during Senator
Foraker's recent speech with a brief ex-
tract from the Spanish Minister'S reply.
To-day the full reply of Minister Du
Puy De LONE became available. 1t is
as follows:
Legation Of Spain, in Washington.
Washington, June 4, 1896.
s'Mr. Secretary / had the honor to
inform your excellency some time ago,
l lost no time in communicating to the
Minister of State of his Majesty, the
King Of Spain, the text of the note that
your excellency was pleased to address
to me, under date of the 4th Of April
last, in regard to the events that are
taking place in the island of Cuba.
''In his answer, dated May 22nd last.
the Duke Of Tetuan tells me that the inn
portance of the communication, he re-
ferred to, has led the government Of his
Majesty to examine it with the greatest
care and to postpone an answer until
such time as its own views ON the COM
plicated and delicate Cuban question
should be officially made public.
''The minister Of State adds that
since the extensive and liberal purposes
of Spain towards Cuba have been laid
before the Cortes by the august lips Of
his Majesty, in the speech from the
throne, the previous voluntary decis-
ions of the Spanish government in the
matter may serve, as they are now
serving, as the basis Of a reply to your
excellency's note.
ssThe government of his Majesty ap-
preciates to it's full value the noble frank
ness with which that of the United
States has informed it of the very def
mite opinion it has formed in regard to
the legal impossibility of granting the
recognition of belligerency to the Cuban
insurgents.
'Indeed, those who are now fighting
in Cuba against the integrity of the
fltherland possess no qualifications en-
the consideration, of the other countries;
they do not, as your excellency expresses
it, possess any civil government, estab-
lished and organized, with known seat
and administration of defined territory
and they have not succeeded in perma-
nently occupying any town, much less
any city, large or small.
''Your excellency declares, in the note
to which / am now replying, with great
legal acumen and spontaneously, that it
is impossible for the Cuban insurgents
to perform the functions of regular
government with its own frontier and
much less to exercise the rights and full
fill the obligations that are incumbent ON
all the members of the family of nations.
Moreover, their systematic campaign of
destruction against all the industries of
the island and the means by which they
are worked would, Of itself, be sufficient
to keep them without the pale of the
universally recognized rules of interna-
tional law.
''His Majesty"s government has read
with no less qualification the explicit and
spontaneous declarations to the effect
that the government Of he United States
seeks no advantage in connection with
the Cuban question, it's only wish being
that the lawful sovereignty of Spain be
maintained and even strengthened,
through the submission Of the rebels.
which, as your excellency states in your
note, is Of paramount necessity to the
,SpaDish government, for the maintc-
nance Of its authority and it's honor.
"While expressing the high gratifca-
ton with which his Majesty's govern
ment took note Of the emphatic state
nlents which your excellency was pleased
to make in your note Of the 18th Of April,
with regard to the sovereignty Of Spain
and the determination of the United
States not to do anything derOgatory to
it. and acknowledging with pleasure all
the weight they carry, the Duke of Tet-
uan says that nothing else was to be ex-
pected of the lofty sense of right cherish
ed by the government of the United
States.
1T is unnecessary, as your eXcellency
remarks, and in view of so correct and sc
friendly an attitude to discuss the hypth
esis of intervention as it would be utter
ly inconsistent with the above views.
1.-The government Of his Majesty, the
King of Spain, fully concurs in the Opin
ion that your excellency has pleased tC
express, in regard to the future of the
island in the event, which cannot and
shall not be, Of the insurrectiOn in its
triumph.
"There can be no greater accuracy OF
judgment than that displayed by your ex-
cellency when, as you said with great
reason, such termination Of the conflict
would be looked upon with the most SER
ious misgivings even by the most enthu-
siastic advocate Of popular government;
because as remarked by your excellency
with the Heterogeneous combination of
races that exist there, the disappearance
of Spain would be the disappearance OF
the only bond of union which can keep
them in balance, and an unavoidable