The herald., 1898-03-19
the OFFICERS OF SPAIN
MEET TO FIX UP A co1G1rERCuAL
TREATY
II Good Chance Offers Reconciliation
Of the Cuban Insurgents Win
Be Effected

| ing in their several capacities the spanish
government and the Insular government
of Cuba. met here today. They included the
Spanish Minister. who, in this instance,
acts as the special plenipotentiary officer
les; Senior Angulo special delegate Of the
Cuban government; Senior Leonine Varela,
the Cubans control of their tariff affairs.
Havana, joint commissioner. and Senor
Cadrana, of the Cuban Finance Division,
joint commissioner.
Primarily these officials have met to
| open negotiations for commercial treat
les between the United States, Spain and
Cuba, but in view of the present condition
Of affairs, 1t is not improbable that their
| connections with all the official branches
of the Spanish and Cuban governments
will permbt their deliberations to take a
wider range.
Senior varela comes direct from Havana.
accompanied by Senior VIM Oracle. his sec
retary Senior Angulo came from Havana
some weeks ago, stopping first at New
York and arriving here last night. He is
accompanied by Nine. Angulo. Senor
Cadrana will arrive tomorrow. being now
en- route from Havana.
| In anticipation Of the meeting on Senior
Cadranas arrival, the Spanish Minister has
conferred with Commissioner Kasson,
with a view to arranging the opening OF
negotiations.
| Reciprocity propositions have been un-
der consideration by both governments for
| some time Considerable preliminary work
was accomplished by Minister Woodford
| &l4 ;etS o,,th Mt
This Is now to be carried forward and in
execution Of the autonomy plan that gives
Cubans control of their tariff affairs.
Messrs. Angulo. varela and Cadrana have
| been designated by the Cuban Cabinet to
| represent that body. Coming at this time
of emergency however. the suggestion has
been made that the Cuban Commissioners
would not confine their efforts strictly to
sented of aiding a reconciliation of the in
surgents.
| That this is in view. cannot be confirmed
| in any political quarter. but 1t is thought
that such a move would be made If there
were any promise of its success.
| Senior Anguelo. who is at the head Of the
commissioners appointed by the Cuban
cabinet. talked freely today concerning the
that his authority was confined strictly to
commercial affairs between the United
States and Cuba. The present emergency
might involve features which the Cuban
government would desire him to act upon,
but that would require further instruc-
ton. as his only present purpose was to
| deal with the commercial treaty.
Mr.. Anguelo said the Cuban people de-
| cd ra6 nnnt hoH Hod
felt that Spain was not willing to grant
real autonomy. When. however, Spain
put into force the present autonomous plan
1t was accepted by the most advanced au-
Economists in Cuba as fully meeting their
desires He and others, who had always
belonged to the radical autonomist wing,
were convinced, he said, that when the
passions of the moment passed away all
Cubans would accept autonomy as giving
them home rule in its fullest sense. The
failure Of that element to accept autonomy
was due, Mr. Anguelo said, to the passion
engendered by Weyler's policy.
AS these changes did not affect Spanish
sovereignty. he had no doubt of spain's
accepting them when they were brought
| forward in the proper form. as the Spanish
| wished for autonomy, not in mere name,
but in reality. Senior Anguelo said this
modification in the autonomy plan was
| quite lengthy and had been placed in the
| form of manifesto by the autonomist
party of Cuba.
Mr.. Anguelo stated that he had no doubt
| that the Cuban problem would be solved
without a conflict between the United
0tof nd I'm, 1ox,
tied before this time, he said, if the pres
ent agitation had not influenced those who
were about to accept autonomy and in
duced them to adopt an expectant attitude.
When asked as to the present war prepa-
rations and the prospect of a conflict be-
tween the United States and Spain, he
said: II do not believe there is to be a
conflict between the United States and
Spain over Cuba, first, since the death of
Senior Canovas, the policy has been such
that the United States can have no pre-
text or cause for resentment, neither as
nation nor as defender of the rights of the
people of the western continent in their
conflicts with the European nations, be-
cause Spain in the use of its sovereign will
and following the suggestion of the United
States government has granted to the
peOplc VI NuUd all the llDeTtleS cOmpdLlDle
with the historic rights of Spain over the
island of Cuba as recognized by all civil
lied nations, the United States included.
Secondly, because 1 cannot assume that
the wise statesmen who direct the policies
of this great nation, which represents in
an admirable manner the realization of
modern democracy, would put in jeopardy
all it's wonderful institutions by inaugural
ing without plausible cause a policy of
military adventures which is incompat-
ible with any genuine republic, inasmuch
as such a policy, even If attended by mil
itary success, would inevitably lead to the
establishment of might-which is always
an enemy of liberty-over right, which IS
now supreme. No, this nation, which, to
the admiration of the world, submitted to
the domain of right in such a grave con-
| fiict as that of the Alabama, will not gain
say its own history and rob the civilized
world by making the destinies of this great
people depend on the eventuality of an
armed conflict without any motive or pre-
| text"
Senior Anguelo and his Cuban colleagues
probably will be presented to Secretary
Sherman tomorrow, and their formal me-
gotiations will follow thereafter.
How the Brain Acts
Although the brain is perpetually active.
the whole of it is never active at one