The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-08-20

Madrid. Aug. LIT is rumored that the
government will instruct the Cuban COM
missioners to present a strong case for
! the recognition of Spanish claims for COM
pensation for the cession of public works
| in Cuba the compensation to take the
form of saddling upon Cuba the bulk of
the Cuban debt existing in 1895. The pa
pers advocate the strengthening of Ceuta
and Andalusian ports in anticipation of
Anglo-RuSSian eventualitleS.
| Inc government has resolved to insist
{ that the capituation of Manila after the
signing of the protocol shall have no effect
| in the peace negotiations unfavorable to
! Spain. In any event the government
! HOLDS that the capitulation having been
signed by the commander of the Manila
forces does not entail the surrender of the
/ whole of the Philippines.
All the indications are that the peace
| negotiations VIII be prolonged. The oD-
| position factions are redoubling the aSita-
| lion for convOking the cOrteS and II is
said that Senior SagaSta begins to hesi-
| tate although he shares the opinion of
/ Duke Almedovar de Rio, the foreign min
| lister, as to the Inconvenience involved IN
| a meeting of the cOrteS in series OF de-
| bates during the peace terms. 1t is sup
posed the cOrtes will meet after the cleo
! ton to the councils general about the
middle of September.
SAGASTA ON THE SITUATION.
| FL Liberal publishes remarks made by
Senior Sagasta on the diplomatic and
political situation, quoting the premier as
/ follows:
| state of things is neither peace nor war,
! but merely q suspension of hoSulitieS. An
armistice would have allowed us to
| diSpel better the obScurlty or the SlCud-
| ton: but the United States declined To
our making a step further in advance
/ The questions TO be solved are numer-
| Gus and complex. What we have done
first is to lay down certain bases on which
each minister may make any observation
| which study Of the subject suggests
These will continue TO be treated IN the
, daily cabinet councils. it being held that
the bases in question are the fundamental
instructions for the guidance OF the Vari-
Gus commissions in the forthcoming ne
gotiations, TO be supplemented and recu-
! fed subsequently by telegraph.
In Cuba, besides evacuation, there are
many other problems. Spain may
abandon her sovereignty over the great
Antilles; but there will remain the ques-
ton of edifices and all our property. There
| are cases, too. before the tribunals affect
ing the interests Of Spaniards. Where and
I wnen viii these be decided? In Havana,
where a large number of criminals have
been condemned by the Spanish tribunals,
| there are other questions for which We
have to fix basis of discussion and
| agreement regarding the Philippines Be
sides these and other problems of greater
Importance, there is preliminary queS-
| ton 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
| great attention. but we are still awaiting
| the information demanded from General
Jaudenez. which has not yet reached US,
on account of the difficulties of cOmmu-
nication between Manila and HongkOng."
These remarks have all the appearance
| Of being authentic, as they are in accord
with information from other sources and
in hn rYnO a 81 a < rGrrl
/ style.
The public is still anxious for an ex-
PLANTATION of Governor General Augusta
mysterious disappearance from Manila.
but its curiosity is not likely to be sat
| isfied for some time, the government de-
Ginning to say anything.
COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED.
The cabinet council tonight decided to
appoint General Gonzales Parade, second
! IN command in Cuba; Rear Admiral Luis
! Pastor Landero, who succeeded Admiral
I Navarro, the Spanish commander in Gu
ban waters, and Marquis de MontorO,
minister of finance in the insular cabinet,
/ as the commission OF evacuation for Cuba
The Porto Rican commission has not
yet been appointed, the government
awaiting an expression OF views of Cover
nor General Macias, but it rs been de-
cided that Admiral Valiaoino shall be one
OF the commissioners.
/ the peace commissioners have not been
made. but it is expected the composition
of the commission mas been decided upon,
though the names of it's members will not
he published yet, as the government is
resolved to take advantage of the delay
granted by the protocol, in order to avoid
ca binet crisis.
London, Aug. 20.-The Daily Mails cor
respondent in Madrid gives the gist of an
interview with senior Sagasta, similar 10
| that published in Ell Liberal, adding that
the peace commission will arrange for the
| treaties by which Spanish goods will OBJ
tain advantages in Cuba and Porto Rico
I in exchange for similar advantages given
the Americans in the Philippines.
A LONDON PROPHECY.
London Aug. 2O-The Spectator. in It's
issue this week. prOphesies that America
| will retain all the Spanish possessions
she has captured. and thinks that pres
sure from the Cuban lOyaliStS will force
the commission TO stipulate that Cuba
shall be governed by the United States
| Tor 20 years.
The Spectator ADDS: America will find
| herself at the end of the year in the be-
| ginning of an oversee tropical empire.
Long may she rule it in the interests of
! humanity and justice. While it is so
! ruled England Will never begrudge her
her possessions, nor their expansion into
a domain as great as our own"
FOREIGN COMMENT.