The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-06-19
SPANIARDS WANT PEACE
SOCIETIES AND NEWSPAPERS
SAY WAR MEANS ANARCHY
Spain Losing Her POssessiOns and
Internal Resources and Doomed
to Complete Ruin If HOstllities
Are COntinued-August Said to
Have Resigned Leadership Mt
Manila.

MADRID, June 1S.-A manifesto.
signed by thirty-five associations and
eighteen local newspapers, has been
issued. 1t says the present evils are
due to the existing regime, which is
nothing but government Of disorder
and neglect" After recalling the fact
that the Spanish monarchs have lost
possession after possession, it says:
''The United States government is
guilty of unjustifiable aggression, but,
If the war is prolonged, Spain will be
completely ruined. A painful amputa-
ton is a hundredfold preferable to a
terrible and disastrous war, and any
transaction eventually made will not
be more honorable after the country is
ruined, the blood of her valued SOL
diers shed and starvation has ravaged
majority of the workingmens
homes"
The manifesto then depicts the griev-
Gus internal situation, and says:
Spain asks immediate peace, despite
the opposition of those who desire the
utter destruction of the country, in or
der to impose their denomination upon
its ruin. The sooner peace is conclud-
ed, the more advantageous it will be.
1t is the duty of everybody to endeavor
to force the government to obtain
peace"
The document concludes by predict
ing, unless a speedy peace is secured,
complete internal collapse which will
enguf economic prosperity and polit-
ical organisms and launch the country
into a state Of anarchy or arbitrary
despotism.
GARDEN DENOUNCEs AMERI-
In the senate today the Marquis Car
dieE Denounced "the American breaches
Of International law"
In the chamber Of deputies Senor
Salmeron, the Republican leader, ask
ed the government to institute an in
Qulry to more positively contradict the
reports that bodies of American ma
rines, killed at Guantanamo, had been
mutilated by Spanish troops.
The minister of the interior, Senior
Capdepon, replied that the reports were
base calumnies and an inquiry was un-
necessary.
Senor Salmeron gave notice that he
would interpolate the government con-
corning the expulsion from Canada of
Lieut.. Carranza, late Spanish naval
attache in Washington, and Senior du
Bose, former Spanish charge d'affaires
at Washington, and requested that the
documents relating thereto be given to
the chamber.
AUGUSTUS RESIGNATION RE-
PORTED.
1t is said here this afternoon, that
Capt. Gen. August has resigned the
military leadership at Manila to the
Spanish general commanding there, so
that the capitulatien of that place may
be signed by the latter, and thus haT-.
less Importance in the eyes of the ma
tives than if signed by the captain gen.
eral Of the Philippine islands.
The news that the Spanish fleet has
been sighted off Gibraltar has caused
a feeling Of grSat sat- isfact'on here.
CAMARA FOR PHILIPPINES.
It Is believed here tonight that Ad-
miral Camara's fleet is going to Ma
Mia, and that this may prevent the
dispatch of American troops there and
at least postpone the loss of the Phil
ippine islands.
Advices from Cuba say Gen. Linares
is confident the rainy season will hand
leap the Americans, and he expresses
the belief that the latter will unite with
the Cubans and march along the base
of the mountains, where are roads lead
ing to Santiago de Cuba, while the
American fleet will attack the fortifica-
tions at the entrance of the bay.
STORIES OF YELLOW FEVER.
According to private telegrams re-
ceived here from Cuba yellow fever is
raging among the American marines
camped near the entrance to Guam
tanamo bay and several cases of the
disease are reported to have occurred on
ships of the squadron. The telegram
describes the heat as terrible and saws
the swampy condition Of the ground
has prevented thus far the carrying on
Of military operations in the vicinity
of Santiago.
CAPT. AUNON INSPECTING.
CARTHEGENA, June 1S.-Capt. Au-
non, the minister Of marine, arrived
here today on board the torpedo boat
destroyer Giralda. Capt Aunon in
spected the-iropc1ad Topan+o