The Mena star., 1898-11-23
WILL S|GN THE TREAIF.
President Mckinley and His Cabi. net Confident That Spain Will
 Accept Our Terms.
sEn1R RlOS' TALK OF Y;iIgSaAWlGG.

The President of the spanish totu,ai sion's
 Attitude Assumed for Poittical Effsct--
 Prediction as to What ~tain wii Do--
 London Newspapers P.ea~.d at the
 "Open Dnor" Policy.
 Washington, Nov. 21. War with Spain will not be resumed. Spain's peace commissioners reluctantly and under protest, will sign d treaty of peace within less than a fortnight, em bodying in full ali the demands made by the United States. This is the confident belief of President Mc- kinley and the mem bers Of the cabi- net, based upon the logic of the situa- tion as well as upon official dispatches received by Secretary Hay from Judge Day, the chairman of the American commission, yesterday evening.
 Many sensational stories came from Paris yesterday morning announcing d breaking off of peace negotiations. but the authorities here showed little anxiety and calmly awaited advices from Mr. Day, which came later. The text of these dispatches has not been made public, but it is said that after Il y Rios, the head of the Spanish commits sion, was very much excited and talked of refusing to participate longer in the proceedings. His anger, however, is understood to be personal rather than official There is nothing in Judge Days cablegram, q member of the cabinet said last night, to indicate the slightest belief in his mind that the bombastic attitude of Senor Rios would result in the breaking off of ne- gotiations.
 Tn, administration has not been un- prepared for such demon stration as that which Senor Rios is reported to have made. The president has been jed to believe that the president Of the Spanish commission would, for per sonal and political reasons, take a bold stand against signing away the colonial possessions of Spain, but the administration ut the same time has been advised not to give undue weight to this attitude. It is upon the as sumption that the Spanish envoy is playing part that the president and his advisers base their prediction that a treaty will be signed; yet the fact must not be lost sight of that this is largely an assumption.
 Prediction AS to What Spain will Do.
 Paris, Nov. 22. The Spanish peace commissioners last night telegraphed to Madrid the su ubstance of the United States memorandum presented yester- day and later in the evening they were discussing it among themselves. As l 1.4a so1 h: l Spanish commissioner affirmed that he and his colleagues did not know what to do regarding the American offer. ] There is a difference of opinion among unofficial people near the commissions, but the prediction is made that Spain will decline the American offer of money; that she will refuse to cede the Philippines and will say to the United States:
 You take the archipelago because you havo l the power to do As you advance will reccde protesting against greedy aggression. l We will faithfully carry out our part of tho | pledges and leave Cuba and Porto Rico in your l hands You came here to engage in discus- l sion under the terms of the protocol but you evidently meant when drawing up that docn- ment to provide conference in which. though we differ man to man, you proposed to an- n0uHce uJ bnc proper biHlc Wudt you VIII uO. 1 whether we agree to it or object Such an at titude robs the conference of negoi iiative character and sets up the United States as | l dominant power whose first purpose is to listen, but whose ultimate determination is to do its own W ill
 Pleased at the "Open Door, Policy
 London, Nov. p. Most of the after noon papers comment upon and ex- 1 press satisfaction at the ''open door' inten tions of the United States in the Philippine islands. The Pail Mall Gar zette says:
 Whatever may happen in Porto Rico and eventually in the United States themselves, America's colonial policy in the Pacific is the '.open door" It is Q wise decision on every ground in the interests Of the prosperity Of the Philippines themselves and as securing the 1 good will Of nations really friendly to America 1 in the Pacific The community of interests of two English-speaking nations are thereby deh- niteiy assured
 Gen. BIanco'r "k~eDest sorrow"
 Madrid, Nov. 1S.-Capt. Gen. Blanco. in a letter to Senator Tinlado, says: ssrst. z. l~11x.o.< oo~r,xv of tr,u lifa ie ottr-