The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-20
NEITHER PEACE NOR WAR
Sagasta Sees Many Complex
Problems for Solution.
SPAIN'S INTEREST IN CUBA
According to the Spanish Premier the
Surrender of Manila Has No Legal
Efficacy. Coming After the Sls-
pension OF Hostilities.

Madrid. Aug. 19.-The cabinet coun-
ell tonight decided to appoint General
Gonzales Parade. second in command
in Cuba; Rear Admiral Luis Pastor
Landero. who succeeded Admiral Nav
varro. the Spanish commander in Gu
ban waters, and Marquis de Montoro.
minister Of finance in the insular cabi-
net. as the committee of evacuation for
Cuba.
The Porto Rican commission has not
yet been appointed, the government
awaiting an expression Of the views of
Governor General Macias. but 1t has
been decided that Admiral Nallaoino
shall be one of the commissioners.
The peace. commissioners have not
been made up, but 1t is expected the
composition of the committee has been
decided upon, though the names of it's
members will not be published yet, as
the government is resolved to take ad-
vantage of the delay granted by the
protocol in order to avoid a cabinet
crisis.
FL Liberal publishes remarks made by
Senior Sagasta on the diplomatic and
political situation, quoting the premier
as follows:
From a legal pont Of view the pres
ent state of things is neither peace nor
wal, bul merely Il SUSPENSION OF 0OStlll-
ties An armistice should have been al
lowed us to dispel better the obscurity
Of the situation, but the United States
objected to our making a step further i'm
advance.
THE questions to be solved are nu-
merous and complex. What we have
done first is to lay down certain bases
on which each minister may make any
observation which study on the subject
suggests. These will continue To be
treated in the daily cabinet councils
IL being held that the bases in question
are the fundamental instructions for
the guidance of the various commits
sions in the forthcoming negotiations.
TO be supplemented and rectihed subse-
quently by telegraph.
I'm Cuba, besides evacuation. there
are many other problems. Spain may
abandon her sovereignty over the
Greater Antilles, but there will remain
the question of edifices and all our
property. There are laws, too, before
the tribunal affecting the interests of
Spaniards. Where-and when will these
be decided? In Havana. where a large
number of criminals have been con-
demned by the Spanish tribunals, what
is to be done with them?
"Then. there are other questions for
which we have to fix basis of discus
sion and agreement regarding the Phil
ippines. Besides these and other prob
lens of greater importance there is n
preliminary question to be discussed.
According To international law, a sus-
pension of hostilities has been signed
and the surrender of Manila ought to
have no legal efficacy. How will that
principle be understood by the United
States? This causes us much anxiety
and we give it much attention, but we
are still awaiting the demanded COM
munication from General Jaudenez.
which has not vet reached us on aC-
count of the difficulties of communlca-
tion between Manila and Hong Kong"
These remarks have all the appear
ance of being authentic. as they are i'm
accord with information from other
sources and in harmony with Senor
Sagasta's usual style.