The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-10
No Essential Notification Of Original
Demands Are Granted.
THE FORMAL ORDER is ISSUED
Relieving General shaftsr.. Conmaaa of
Du,y at santiago and Providing
For Their Immediate Re-
turn TO the Camp ON
Long IaInnd.


Is expected the answer viii be final
Firmly. but courteously. the presi-I
dent has declined the earnest appeal
of the French ambassador to modify
the United States demands, except in
slight and comparatively unimportant
respects.
There is no doubt the peace negotia-
Gons are progressing to the entire sat
tsfactlon OF the president and the
members of the cabinet.
A statement was made by a high
Official of the administration, who ex-
pressed the belief that within q very
short tine there wopid be complete
cessation of hostiIities. The confer
ence Wednesday at the White House
In which the president, NJ. Garnbon
and Secretary Day participated. was
devoted almost entirely to discussion
of details, which are regarded by the
the requests OF the French ambassador
for the most part Will be acceded to.
One of these was that the commits
of peace shall meet outside of the
United States, and preferably in
France.
The president sees no material OBJ
lection to granting this request, and
1t is said to be practically settled that
the conferences will be held In Paris.
Several Questions Asked
The Madrid government, through NJ.
Cambon. propounded a number of
questions as to the time when Spain
would be expected to evacuate Cuba
and the territory to be ceded the Unit
ed States, and as to what provision
would be made by the United States
to protect the interests OF Spanish sub
Jects In these islands while the eYacu
alton was in progress.
Cambon was informed upon all of
these points, presumably to his satis-
faction.
There is one point, however, which
the Spanish authorities, Judging from
their communication to their repre-
sentative here. fail fully to compre-
hend. and Secretary Days call upon
the ambassador was for the purpose
principally of making perfectly clear
this one point. which was that the
evacuation of Cuba. Porto Rico and
one of the Ladrone islands, to be Sc
lected by the United States. and the
permanent cessation to this govern
ment of all of these islands, except Gu
ba, was made a condition precedent
to all peace Negotiations and that not
until these terms had been fully COM
piled with would this government con-
sent to entertain any peace PROPOSE
tions whatever.
This very important condition does
not. 1t is said. seem to be fully com
pretended by the Madrid authorities,
and 1t waA with the view of setting the
ambassador straight upon this point
that Secretary Day made his call upon
NJ. Cambnn Thursday night.
The question upon which the Span
fish government have so far asked for
by the administration as perfectly
legitimate and proper, and up to this
time nothing has occurred to bring
in question the sincerity of their mo-
tIves.
Under these circumstances It IS the
purpose of the president to deal with
them in a spirit OF perfect fairness.
and to make the road to peace as
smooth for them as the rights and dig
nifty of this government win permit.
and TO this end unimportant conees
sions will be readily granted.
a MIdnIght concessiou.
It was midnight before the conces-
sion of the president regarding the
meeting place of the peace commits
sioners was communicated TO the Mad
rid authorities. so that allowing for
the difference in time it was impossi-
BILE for an answer to have been receIv-
ed yet.
However, it is not expected that the
delay will not be long. probably at
most not more than a day OF two, and
that the answer when it comes Will be
found to be an unconditional accept
ance of the terms as they now stand.
There-does not seem to be occasion
for further prolonged consideration in
Madrid before making this reply. In
asmuch as the propositions that con-
front the Spanish cabinet are prac-
tfcaIly the same as those which they
dealt with at the prolonged meetings
last Sunday and Monday
The French ambassador was not dis
appointed in the result of his meeting
with the president. He realized that
the Spanish plea for an abatement of
the conditions would be useless so far
as il touched the vital points of the
demand He undoubtedly had reached
that conviction at the second inter
view, when the president In going over
WIN him th0 terms he proposed as =
basis for peace, had impressed strongly
upon him the determination of our
government not to indulge haggIins
for advantage not to be equipped with
two sets OF terms. maximum and min
fmum conditions; but to lay down at
once the propositions that the United
States deemed to be fair and just as q
basis for peace and having done So
to adhere to them nr1nfy SO far as all
matters OF principle were concerned
But the French ambassador felt that
If was his duty, regardless of his per-
sonaI convictions, to lay the plea Of
the Spanish government before the
president, and that Is what Wednes-
days meeting amounted to. Nov, with
the Spanish government assured that