Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-11-03
Evidences of a Firm Determination
to Break Off Peace Negotiations
II Insisted Upon Are
IT,. =fs- Apparent.

whole group. The president has not
yet formally decided the question of
compensation for the debt. The Amer
lean commissioners have been much i'm
pressed, it is said, with the Spanish the
DRY that the debt of $4O,O0O,OO0 on the
Philippines is legitimate one, con-
tracted and expended for the govern
ment of the islands, and that as the
United States proposes to abstract the
security it should assume the debt. St.
The president, it is believed, is I'M
willing to assume any Spanish obliga-
tons, but might consent to the pay
ment in bulk of the $40, 100000 as an
equitable compensation to the bond
holders for the loss of their security.
If the United States proposed to erect
the islands into an independent gov
eminent, it would not touch the debt
question, but as it proposes to amalga-
mate the territory and administer the
custom houses for it's own benefit, the
administration is disposed at least to
consider the question of indemnity.
The present plan is to pay the money
in gold to Spain, requiring from that
country some sort of guarantee that the
money will be applied to the payment
of the Philippine debt. By this deal
Spain will lose all security for it's Gu
ban debt of hundreds of millions, and
will lose Cuba, Puerto Rico and the
Philippines, besides the cost of the war,
and in return will receive only the
amount of the 1896 debt on the Philip
pines, which is $40,0oo,000 in round
numbers. The United States will lose
the cost of the war and the $4O,OoO,00O
for the Philippines, but will gain
Puerto Rico. the Philippines and Guam.
The situation now is that the presi-
dent has moved forward to the position
of extreme expansion. That is settled.
He will at least discuss the Philippine
debt, which he would not do in regard
to Cuban bonds, but he has left the
way open to refuse all cash payments
after all, and this is the only point now
to be settled by the commissioners.
Cabinet Holds Sunday Session.
Washington, Oct. 31.-There: are
hints of grave complications in Paris.
Color is given to these suspicious of
impending trouble by an extraordinary
meeting of the cabinet. It is said by Of
fcials that the cabinet merely discussed
their annual reports. This, however, is
not a good excuse for the gathering.
The reports could have waited day or
So and not compel the advisers of the
president to visit the white house on
the evening Of the Sabbath to discuss
merely routine affairs. The people who
deprecate the alarmist idea point to the
fact that Secretary of State Hay did not
attend the cabinet meeting, to which
answer is promptly made that probably
Mr.. Hay was too busy attending to the
messages coming from the French cap
ital and signed by Judge Day.
Plainly stated, it is said here that
Spain is about to bolt. She has swal-
lowed the Cuba-Puerto Rico dose with
many grimaces, but will not take the
Philippine medicine Her peace COM
missioners prefer to resign rather than
surrender that island empire-certain-
ly not without a large cash considera-
tion-much larger than the $4O,0OO,O10
of bonds which the president is ready
to assume. Private advices from Paris
say that as soon as the American de-
mands for the Philippines are formally
made the Spaniards will shrug their
shoulders, point to the protocol, and as
sert that America is overstepping its
rights. They may wait day or so to
determine whether America will yield,
and, seeing no signs of surrender, either
resign their positions or return boldly
to Madrid. Such contingency might
have serious results. The army and
navy of the United States might again
be needed to bring Sagasta to his
Spain's Latest Bluff.
london, Oct. 31.-A dispatch to the
Central !: News from Madrid by way of
Bay onne says thatSenor Montero Rios.
president of the Spanish peace commits
sion, has formed the government that
it's impossible to agree with the Amer
lean delegates and that.itis, therefore,
useless to continue the discussion.
tss qssfssEss Hermit Slain q
Springfield, Mass, Oct. 31.-Isaac Stet-
son, a hermit, was found dead il the
woods near his home in the vicinity Of
Wahconah Falls, having been probably
murdered. An autopsy showed that
Stetson. had been shot down and that
death wasqinstantnneous. Stetsen was
known tqi have had; con siderab bic money
inShis hut, but there was nothing to in
dicate that the place had been rifed.
Robbery was probably the motive for
the murder, if rnnrder3it is.