The record-union., 1897-10-24
As a Result Of Negotiations About to Open
With This Country.
Claim That the Queen Regent and
the Sagasta Government Are
Sincere in Their Wish to OBJ
tain the Sympathy of the Amer
lean Government and to Con-
ciliate the Majority Of the Gu
bans.

MADRID, Oct. 23.-"El Liberal be-
lieves a rupture is possible as a result
of the negotiations which are about
to open between Spain and the United
States. and thinks Spain ought to aVolo
this rupture, so far as duty and honor
permit. but that the Government should
act in a spirit of moderation, and that
the nation will under no circumstances
authorize the denunciation Of Spanish
rights.
In conclusion lei Liberal asks for
the publicationsof the note which the
United States Minister delivered 10 the
Snanish Government, and it also asks
for a statement Of the policy the Gov
ernment intends to pursue toward the
United States.
In the special note to United states
Minister Woodford, the Government
declares that Spain has done all IN hel
power to end the war in Cupd anu
cites the many sacrifices which nave
been made by the nation, the huiIlpei
of troops sent to Cuba and the relorlne
which are to be carried out IN the
islands. which are fully described Inc
note ends with the statement thaI
..Snain will not admit the right OF any
foreien power to interfere in her al
fairs"
s.Fl Tempo publishes, with reserve
the announcement that the reply Oh the
Snanish Government to the United
states presented by General Stewart
woodford. the American Minister at
Madrid declares that if the United
States does not stop the sailing OF nil
hustering expeditions from American
norts Snain will re-establish the plan
to search vessels anchoring in CUBAN
waters.
SEEK SYMPATHY OF AMERICA.
MADRID. Oct. 23-A high diplomatic
nersonage who has special means Oh
accurately judging SPANS motives,
,-s aims thar the Queen Regent and the
agasta Government are sincere, both
in their wish to obtain the sympathy
Of the American Government ana 10
conciliate the majority of the Cubans-
especially with the whites, whom the
new policy aims to detach from the IN
surrection.
MANY obstacles may retard the real
ization of the liberal programme, the
high Diplomatic authority says.
.First-The condition of the island
taking of elections very difficult
..second-The division in the Auton-
ornist party makes its support unreh-
able lust when the Government wants
1t to be the cornerstone of the new
regime.
.'Third-The ambiguous attitude OIL
the so-called Spanish party-the con-
stitutional union, makes mischlef as
its proffered supports conditlonal IN
the Government making no large ex
tension of the electoral franchise, as
that would deprive it of the control OF
the municipal and provincial councils
and the insular assembly
.sFourth-The creating of local as
sembIy, with responsible executive, is
exceedingly unpopular in Spain and Is
connbated even by influential Liberals
and newspapers like the "Heraldo
and impartial
.sFifth-Military men share the opin-
ion of Generals Blanco, Parade, and
Pando that rigid military occupation OF
the four- western provinces of Cuba and
very active operations in the two east
ern provinces are Indispensable to
cornplete pacffication and can only pro-
duce results in few months if the
United States stop entirely sending eX-
peditions and all other assistance to
the insurgents
sSixth-Prolongation of the struggle
with its terrible drain on the Spanish
finances and embaTTassments impend-
ing to the tune of SS.000,0OO month
.oT, ton of the $4,000, 900 already spent
early this winter, will force Spain to
pledge more sources of peninsula rev.
enue to raise money to go on with pacl-
fication in Cuba.
Hence the anxiety of the court and
the Government to secure the good will
of the United States, which is shown in
the adoption of new colonial policy,
in making promises to settle the Amer
ican claims after pacification and IN
holding cut a prospect of advantages
for American trade and capital in the
Spanish West Indies.
Views on these delicate matters are
being exchanged between the two Gov
ernments with great reserve, chiefly at
Washington, as usual hitherto.
Probably nothing of them will be
placed officially on record
The prevailing opinion in court and
official circles in Madrid is that the
American Government shows a tenn
porizing and friendly disposition.
LATE GEORGE Nj. PULLMAN.
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