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Delays Spain's Accept
ance Of Our Terms.
IN THE PARIS EMBASSY
Quibbling Over the Cession
of Territory Consent of
the Cortes Required.
PEACE OUTLOOK BOoMS PRICES
The London Market Responds
sharply--Shafter Cables
Explanation of That
Round Robin.

WASHINGTON, Aug. s, 1S9S.-Spain's s
answer to the demands of the United
States is now on the way to Washington,
hut It is coming with slowness almost
painful in view of the earnest desire to
know whether the acceptance is complete
or qualified. The reply has not reached
here during the early hours of the day.
The French Ambassador and staff await
ed it until late hour last night and then
concluded that it would be here today.
There are no less than 1--WE translations-
four of them cipher, IN the Transmission
between Madrid and Washington. After
the SPANISH Cabinet meeting last night,
the response was reduced to the Spanish
cipher ana then sent to the Spanish Am
bassador at Paris, Senior Leon Castillo, by
whom it was to be deciphered and trans
lated into French, after which Senor Cas-
tillo would deliver it to the French For
eign Office, to be reduced to the French ci-
pher for transmission to the French Am
bassador here. These moves, including
work on the cipher code, calls by Castillo
on the Foreign Office at Paris, and time
reqE.red for cabling, will take, 1t is cal
culated, some eight or ten hours. Under
the circumstances the impression pre-
vailed in all official quarters up to midday
that the response would not be
placed in the hands of the President until
quite late today, at best, and more likely
not before tomorrow.
The impression is growing in official
quarters that the Spanish answer, while
in the nature of a concession of the
American demand, is not a brief and
a.
tion or condition. There is no direct
official advice on this point. but
all the press advices from Madrid
indicate that the response is a document
of considerable length, prepared with la
borious care. and that it has several fea-
lures which may not appear in the condi-
tions presented by the United States.
Whether an acceptance of the character
will be regarded by the authorities here
as sufficiently responsive to the American
demands, is matter exciting much con-
lecture today. In some quarters it is be-
ing urged that so long as Spain accepts
the essential principle required by the
United States the disposition here
will be to deal with the defeated
enemy in generous spirit on minor
details It is probable that this will be
the view presented by the French Ambas-
sador in case the Spanish reply is not a
simple, categorical acceptance of the
American terms. On the other hand, IT
is believed that a response which opens up
diplomatic controversy and give the con-
ditions much broader scope than as
originally framed at Washington, may
not meet with much approval here. For
instance, the Madrid advices seem to i'm
ply that the answer is based on an i'm
mediate cessation of hostilities, but the
view among officials here is that hostili-
ties will not cease on the submission of
a conditional response, but that they vii
progress steadily until the American con-
dftions progress entirely beyond the stage
OF possible diplomatic complication over
details.
There is a strong disposition in some in
fiuential quarters to have hostilities con-
tinue until the actual evacuation of Cuba
and Porto Rico begins by the embarkation
of Spanish troops. 1t is probable that the
Spanish reply will be in the hand of the
Government in time for consideration at
the regular Cabinet meeting tomorrow
morning. when the sufIiciency or INSULT
cheney of the response can be determined.
Secretaries Alger and Long and Attor-
ney General Griggs were in conference
with President Mckinley for and hour,
ending at half-past twelve. At the
conclusion of the conference it
was announced that the official
notification of Spain's acceptance of our
terms had not yet been received. The
Presidents expectation is that he will
receive the formal acceptance early to-
morrow. The delay is accounted for by
the time required in translating the
cipher In its several stages via Paris.