The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-11-30
Telegraphic Notes.

WASHINGTON. Nov 25.-If Gen. Garcia and
his companions ask President Mckinley, at
the interview they expect to have within a
day or two, either to pay the Cuban troops the
$4,000, 600 claimed to be due them as arrears
Of pay, or give the so-called Cuban govern
ment official recognition, so as to enable 1T to
issue bonds upon which to secure the loan OF
$1,000, 600 for that purpose, the President will
reply that he cannot entertain either PROPOSE
ton.
He has no funds out of which he can pay
the Cuban troops or do anything else for them
except supply them with rations,a as he has been
done in many cases and it is not to be supposed
that Congress even if it were in session, would
make an appropriation for such purpose
Nor has the President any reason to- change
his opinion, based upon that OF President
Grant and deliberately stated in his annual
message of last December, that there is no Gu
~ government to recognize officially in any
Neither will the President make any
lglAlAes for turning over the island Of Cuba
to the control of Garcia and his companions if
they should ask for them
The President will doubtless counsel the
acouiescence In the provisional military gov
eminent of Cuba during the period Of pacifi-
cation, and to wait patiently until the United
States government determines what form that
stable government" which the President
has promised shall take, and how and when it
shall be set up. The President will doubtless
assure the Cubans that at the proper time the
wishes of the people of Cuba in regard to
their future government will be ascertained
WASHINGTON, Nov. % The President
and his cabinet continue confident that
Spain will J ield at Paris, although she may
mo- give her answer until Monday. Am
bassador Porter's announcement in Paris,
last night. that with week a treaty of
peace will be practically concluded between
the United States and Spain, was simply
public statement OF wbat he has been
privately representing to the State depart
ment and it accords with all the other in
formation, official and unoffi cial, that the
President has received.
1t is evident that up to today Senior Sa-
gasta had not determined whe' it would
be better policy for Spain to take the $780,
600, COO compensation or to refuse TO take it,
Oh buc RlOuuu tuhu ~ NOuIh uc w bhO
Philippine bondholders Now that it is ev-
ident tba' there will be no trouble over the
evacuation of Cuba, and that whatever
trouble occurs over the occupation of the
Philippines will be with the natives, and
not with the Spanish, the failure of nego-
tiatons at Paris would not seriously incon-
venience the administration, but, on the
contrary, might have important compensa-
tions.
II there was no treaty, there would, of
course, be no question as to the ratification
of the treaty by the S 'uate, and at the same
time there could not we'll be any congress.
.sional action respecting the islands taken
from Srain until the military occupation of
them was completed and information could
be secured about their conditions. Never
theless, the administration prefers to have a
treaty Of peace formally concluded with
Spain.
WASHINGTON, Nov. % "A special IN set
ing OF the cabinet was held at the White
House to night to consider despatch from
the peace commission in which point
had been reached" which demanded the
best terms Immediately. AS result of the
hootluR utbpdICu was StuJ 10 lnt COLL
missioners in which the President directed
them to stand firm on TIL original instru.
ment. The message from Paris contained
a new set of prop )sitions by the Spanish,
the main point of which was an offer to
exchange an island in the Carolines for one
OF the Philippines. This was refused in
short order. After the message it was
limited that one reason for rejecting the
latest offer was that the United States in
tended to buy the entire Caroline group.
HAVANA, Nov. 25.-General Jimenez
Castellano has been appointed Cap. ain Gen.
eral of Cuba in place OF Banco, resigned,
Parade, to whom the place was offered,
presented his refusal to accept.
WASHINGTON. Nov. % 1t is no longer a
secret that during the war the naval war
board and Commander r b. Bradford,
chief of the bureau of equipment Of the
navy department., strenuously urged upon
Secretary Long and the President, the seiz-
ure Of the Carolines In fact, it lie said,
that one of the monitors sent to Manila was