The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-31
SPAIN STANDS FIRM.
Notifies Gen. Woodford That Maine
Report Will Not BE Accepted, NOR 8
Will Intervention BE Tolerated.

London, March 2S.--The Madrid cor
respondent of the Standard says: II
am able to state that the following is
the real course of the negotiations:
During the past week, on Wednesday,
United States Minister Woodford had
an official interview with the ministers
of foreign affairs and the colonies,
Seniors Gullon and Moret, at the private
residence Of the former. 1t lasted two
hours. Gen. Woodford left with them
an official note explaining fully the
views and intentions of the American
government. In this document no COM
minatory intimation was made nor any
date fixed, but it was clearly and firmly
stated that the United States govern
nlent could not longer withhold from
congress the correspondence and con-
sular reports, which not only put in full
light the condition of the distressed
rural population of Cuba, the made
quate relief and the persistence of dis
affection, but also showed that the new
colonial policy and other efforts of
Spain had not produced the results that
would justify holding out the prospect
OF early pacification. Consequently
the American note lays stress upon the
fact that contingencies arc now fast
approaching for the action which was
fol eshadowed in presidential messages
and diplomatic correspondence so fire.
quently and clearly during the last
three years. The American note and
the language of Gen. Woodford in his
conference with Senior Gullon leave no
doubt that it is the intention of the
Washington government to act very
soon, beginning with the communica-
ton Of the above document and the
Maine report to congress and sending
relief officially to the distressed Gu
bans"
ION Friday" continues the cor
respondent, Gen. Woodford had by
appointment another official interview
with Senior Gullon, in which he received
the official reply of the Spanish govern
ment to the American memorandum of
March %. The Spanish reply, couched
IN firm language, says that the Spanish
government cannot agree with. the con-
illusions the American government has
drawn from inaccurate information,
that does not tally with the recent
activity and progress of the military
operations in Cuba, and the visible pop-
ularity and progress of the new colonial
institutions, which have been loyalty
accepted and are supported by even the
old adversaries of hcme rule in the
colony.
''Spain,'' the reply continues, "cannot
naturally admit the interference which
is foreshadowed in the American note,
and deprecates the sending of official
relief and war vessels to Cuba, as being
the very elements that have retarded
the pacification of the colony. Spain re-
minds the American government of all
the concessions she has made to pre-
serve peaceful relations and to concil-
tic the United States, the last proof be-
ing her willingness to submit the con-
f)icting commission reports as to the
Maine to arbitration.
I'm conclusion, the Spanish reply
shows that the government believes it
has reached the extreme limit of con-
cessions compatible with the honor and
dignity of Spain, and will not admit
Entertainments on her rights of sover-
eighty in the west:
1.-The matter now rests with the pres
ident and both governments evidently
consider the Maine affair mere Incl
dent in the more important issues about
to be raised by the conduct of the
United States"
Chicago, March 2s.-The Times-Her-
aid says: Important news from
Madrid, reported to be of nature not
encouraging to the peaceful solution
Of the Cuban question, caused Presi-
dent Mckinley to call special meeting
IF the ca binet. One of those present said
it was believed that within a few hours
Spain would make a proposal to the
United States which the government at
Madrid hoped would solve the problem
without war. At the same time it was
intimated that Spain persisted in her
determination not to grant freedom to
Cuba. If this latter should prove true
it is believed in Washington that the
crisis cannot much longer be postponed
Dispatches from Madrid indicate that
the Sagasta ministry is yielding to the
jingoes in Spain, hence the ominous