New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-04-11
rLAXco ORDERS Az ARMIsTICE.

ever meant TO bc Insisted on by the spanish
Cabinet
RLANcO ORDERS Az ARMIsTICE.
Captain-Generai Blanco cabled this after
noon from Havara to Schor Polo that suspen'
sion o- hosti,ities had been ordered. dating from
to-day. and the Spanish Minister communicated
this fact also to Judge Day. with the suggestion
that tbe Presder, be asked T. set the limit of
the armistice.
To this suggestion the answer was made al
once that the United States could not concern
itself with an Arrangement. largely military Ill
It's nature which affected only the spanish Gov
crnment and the insurgeut troops ana "ll'e
pleased to find the Sagasta cabinet In mood
10 Weld the Cubans measure or setgoVerh-
mont f,llo- and broader than any yet framed or
considered AT Madrid. the Prcsidcn' could give
~ Scnor Polo I'm return no assurances WHAT
oyer hat tho larger political and administrative
reforms now promised hal not come too late ana
were not too Inadequate in scope TO shake the
settled American conviction tina; orderly ana
stable government was to be established In Cu"a
oniv through the unconditional termination OF
spanish control
,rbst the announcement on Governor General
Rlanco's par' that hosiihuos against tAe insa:-
ron,s arc TO bc temporarily suspended should
aNffi
eidoi upon hy th. President was hardly TO he
expected : cessation ~ hostilitics declared hy
one helligsfcnt cannot b, held to bc either bind
,ne- or effective until accepted and udorsed hy
,h. o,bor AMI thcr- iS nothing 70 show that
Tho revolutionary forces Viii agree 70 the So
cs,,ed arrisfico which General Blanco has hur-
ricdly proclaimed
II Intervention In cuba Is Justified b' reason
- tho failure ~ ;he spanish authorities 10
rrosorve order. protcc, No and property and
7 srs-anteo q stable civil administration the moro
/ e,s,orsior for tho moment of active Nlrfare
/ oralrst the Insurgents cannot 10 held ~ d"har
,his ,;o,crnmcnt from carrying It's purpos" -
~, an end 10 anarch, ir cuba into immediate
! effect Now II the Administration has reached
the conclusion as q is commonly UNDERSTOOD 10
have done that thc first condition Of restored
order is tho withdrawal Of tho Spanish forces
! fror, the island. can the presentation "' any
newer schemes ~ local administration he OK
pected 10 satisfy the nNed American demand for
the complete extinction in cuba of Spanish
sovcrcignty7
ox,y ovr CHANGE ~ THE MESSAGE.
7, ,s NOT believed that the results achieved in
Tho martial resumption of negotiations to-day
viii shake the Presidents purpose TO send to
| rouprass to- morrow the message" tho transnllS-
,, ~ which was so suddenly and startlngly
nostponed from Wednesday last In one par
! uc,,;,r itq tone may he somewhat softened In
| ,,.v or the representations contained In the
ro.c nresertod hy Scnor Polo this afternoon. In
.hat rote the Spanish Minister sought to I'M
rross ON the President the injustice OF tn" inn
| ,roseinn-an almost universal ono In this coun-
try-tha. Spain had never even expressed re-
/ crct at the destruction of the Maine. Spain
| Sohor Polo insisted in to-day's communications
| had already shown officially that she dcplored
,bo disos,er I'm Havana IIarhor. and was willing
| to consider any suggcstions of reraration when
might 10 made after the question OF cupability
| bo1 h.on submitted to an impartial tribunal
Hut though this point may b" MADE clearer
/ h, tho President. 1t was not one on which the
] American case for Intervention was madc 10
turn and the vague ntimaton that Spain may
he willing TO offer this country som" irdelnnih
.,ti,n for the loss Of the Maine need scarcely
alter t.rr.ptihy the recommendations or the
message
xor are the latest representations on SPANS
mart likely 10 influence the Judgment or foennss
~ Congress which body has made up its mind
that force not diplomacy. should be empoyeu
from now on to make an end in Cuba OF Spain
discredited and exhausted RUE