The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-27
No Recent Developments That War
rant Any Change in the Instruc-
tiOns Given Judge Day.
SPANIARDS MAY SEEK DELAY
BUT THE AMERICANS WILL TRY TO
HASTEN NEGOTIATIONS.
Important Dispatches Received by the
President and Cabinet at Phila-
deIphia Last Night.

PARIS, Oct. 26.-The United States and
Spanish peace commissioners held another
joint session this afternoon, beginning at
o'clock and lasting until 5:O5 when AN ad-
journment was taken till Tomorrow The
members of both commissions were reticent
concerning to-days proceedings. The Amer
leans fully realize that they are approach
ing the discussion of the chief question in
trusted to them-namely, the future of the
Philippine islands-and it may be taken for
granted that they are well prepared to take
the matter up when it is broached by the
Spaniards The Americans not only fully
appreciate their own serious responsible
ties, but also the delicate position of their
Spanish colleagues, to the burden of whose
duties here is now added the critical po-
litical situation at Madrid, which may COM
pei the president of the Spanish commits
sion (who is also president of the Spanish
Senate), Senor Mor.tero Rios. to leave
Paris
The Madrid correspondent of the Temps,
in confirming the report that Premier Sa-
gasta and the Queen Regent have prevailed
upon the minister of war; General Correa,
to indefinitely postpone his resignation,
pending the conclusion of the peace nego-
tiations, says that they represented to the
not only the fall of the Cabinet, but cause
the resignation of certain members of the
Spanish commission. including Senor Mon
tero Rios. and thereby gravey compromise
the issue of the peace negotiations. The cor
respondent of the Times adds: s"rhe net
result is that an open crisis seems to have
been avoided until the conclusion of the
treaty of peace. In any case, this has done
away with the necessity for an ad interim
government, which was lately suggested as
likely to be the only solution of the present
difficulties"
The morning papers dwell on the Spanish
crisis or the split in the Liberal party of
Spain, without, however, direct reference
to the Paris peace commission, except in
the case of a new paper, La Volante, which,
in Madrid article dealing with the inter-
nal situation in Spain, sums up as follows
Whatever may be said, one way or the
other, regarding the situation, one thing is
apparent-that the moment is badly chosen
for a ministerial crisis. When dreadful
calamities threaten Spain from the outside,
and at the moment when their destinies are
being decided by the Paris conference, and
at the moment when her flag is crushed at
Porto Rico, the Liberal party is in a state
| of chaos and disagreement, and in the face
| OF American pretensiOns, which are daily
becoming more arrogant, Spain finds her
self with a Ministry without authority
| Never has she needed more imperatively a
| strong government one more watchful or
awake to outside questions, for miserable
internal quarrels are distracting the atten-
ton of those who now ought to have no
other preoccupation than the salvation of
their country"
| AS the peace negotiations here are now
nearing the discussion of the Philippine
question the Americans feel that no stage
Of the proceedings has so demanded their
| considerate Judgment. 1t may not be stated
| tonight with certainty that the Cuban
| question has received its last consideration
| by the Americans, nor have the Spaniards
| accepted as ultimate the United States re-
fusal to assume any portion of the Cuban
debt. 1t may, however, be affirmed that
the Philippines question was not reached
| to-day, but it may be discussed at to-mor-
rows session, which will be the first ses-
sion during these negotiations of the joint
commissions being held on succeeding days,
which fact is in some degree significant.