The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-08-12
FOR SPANISH GOVERNMENT.
American and Spanish Delegates to
Meet in Paris.
THE PHILIPPINES PROBLEM
Impression Prevails That the Powers Will
Not Regard Their Disposal So Passively
as They Have the Disposition of Cuba
and Porto Rico-First Condition of Pro-
tocol is an Armistice,

Madrid, Aug. 12.-The government
has received the protocol and the cab
met council rose at 9:40 D. M, having
approved it. The government has
wired NJ. Cambon, empowering him to
sign the preliminarles of peace.
Yesterday was automatically one of
| the busiest since the outbreak of the
war. There have been no fewer than
three cabinet councils, in addition to
| various diplomatic conferences. Though
the text of the protocol was not re-
ceived until the evening was well ad-
vanced the government had been made
fully acquainted with its contents
through Paris.
The matter was practically settled at
the cabinet meeting yesterday after
noon, and the receipt of the actual doc
ument, therefore, only required a meet
ing of the cabinet for a formal ac-
ceptance. Ministers adhere to the
statement that the protocol contains
no modification of the original terms
but only new suggestions.
They expect it will be signed at
Washington today and that a suspen-
sion of hostilities will be announced
Duke Almedovar de Rio, minister of
ent of the Associated Press that the me-
gotlatiOns for the peace treaty will
take place in Paris, but he says the
commissioners have not yet been ap-
pointed.
The press now considers peace a fore
gone conclusion and echoes the general
impatience to see a termination of hos
tilities and to know the program for
ice OF
believed either Senor Moret or Duke
Almodovar de Rio Will preside. 1t is
believed that the negotiations will ex-
tend into the second half of September.
London, Aug. 12-The Madrid cor
respondent of The Daily Mail says:
"Fne cabinet yesterday considered the
protocol, which arrived yesterday
morning. President Mckinley accepts
the Spanish reply, with slight formal
notifications.
THE first condition Of the protocol
is an armistice. This will be declared
Immediately. The conditions are the
same as those proposed by President
Mckinley. Senior Sagasta has cabled
NJ. Cambon an authorization to sign
the protocol. to which step the queen
regent has already given assent
THE cabinet council last night also
discussed the instructions to be given
the Spanish commissioners for the ne
gotiation of peace. The question Of
the Philippines viii be the chief point
for consideration, and on this the precise
intentions of the American government
are not known.
THE impression prevails here, how
ever, that the powers will not regard
the problem of the Philippines with the
same passivlty as they showed towards
Cuba and Porto Rico. The American
and Spanish delegates will meet i'm
mediately in Paris the cabinet at
Washington urging expedition"
The Madrid correspondent of The
Daily Chronicle. telegraphing last
night, says; 1T is generally believed
that President McKinley's reply has
been received. but nothing has been
disclosed officially. The minister of
war; COrrea, declares that It will
be a difficult problem to dispose
of the repatriated soldiers, since
there is no room for them in the bar
racks.
''The pope has authorized the Spanish
government to reduce temporarily the
salaries of the clergy, in view of
Spain's necessities"
The Madrid correspondent of The |
Times says: THE preliminary negotia- |
tions are advancing steadily, though !
perhaps not so quickly as could be !
wished, The short reply from Wash |
ington to the last Spanish note, which
reached Madrid yesterday, must be re-
garded as merely a fOrerunner of a
more detailed communication that may
be expected In the next few days. 1t
says the president will take into con-
sideration all the points raised in the |
last Spanish note, and will embody |
the conditions as a whole in a formal |
document, the text of which will be tel |
egraphed to Madrid for acceptance with !
the least delay possible Until this !
latter communication is received II will !
be impossible to say whether the
cortes will be assembled at once or only
at the close of the negotiations.