Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-27


TREMELY DELICArE-TTIE SUB
JExyT NOT DISCUSSED YESTER-
DAY.
Paris. October 26.-TEe American
Peace commissioners held session OF
several hours duration to-day prior to
the joint session of the two commits
sions. which opened at four O'Clock
this afternoon.
The Americans fully realize that they
are approaching the discussion OF the
chief question entrusted to them, name
ly the future of the Philippine islands.
and it may be taken for granted that
they are well prepared to make the
matter up if it is preached today by
the Spaniards.
The joint meeting of the commits
sionerS lasted an hour and five minutes
and was adjourned until tomorrow.
Both the Spanish and the American
Commissioners were more retlcent after
this session than ever before.
The Americans fully appreciate not
only their own serious responsibilities
but also the delicate position OF their
Spanish colleagues. to the burden OF
whose duties here is now added the
critical political situation at Madrid,
which may compel the President Of
The Spanish Commission (whO is also
President of the Spanish Senate), Sen
pr MonItero Rios, to leave Paris.
The Madrid correspondent Of the Temps
!n confirming the report that Premier
Sagasta and the Queen Regent have pre-
rallied upon the minister of war, Gen.
Correa, to indefinitely postpone his resig-
nation pending the conclusion of the
peace negotiations, says that they repre-
sented to the general that his withdrawal
might entail not only the fall of the
cabinet, but cause the resignation of GER
tain members of the Spanish commission
including Senior Montero Rios, and there
by gravely compromise the issue of the
peace negotiations. The net result is
that an open crisis seems to have been
avoided until the conclusion of the treaty
of peace. In any case this has done away
with the necessity for an ad interim gov
eminent which was lately suggested as
likely to be the only solution of the pres
ent difficulties.
AS the peace negotiations are now near
ing the discussion of the Philippine ques-
ton, the Americans feel that no stage
considerate treatment.
1t may not be stated tonight with GER
! tainty that the Cuban question has re-
ceived its last consideration by the Amer
leans, nor have the Spaniards accepted
as ultimate the United States refusal to
assume any portion of the Cuban debt.
1t may, however be affirmed that the
Philippine question was not reached to-
1ox y,,t = he licn cad ct
rows session, which will be the first oc-
CASTOR during these negotiations of a joint
session of the commission being held on
succeeding days, which fact is in some
degree significant.
The morning papers here treat of the
fall of the French cabinet and the scenes
in the Chamber Of Deputies yesterday al
most to the exclusion of general news.
All of them, however, dwell briefly on
the Spanish crisis or the split in the
Liberal party of Spain, without, how
ever, direct reference to the Paris peace
commission, except in the case of a new
paper, La Volante. which, in a Madrid
article dealing with the internal situation
in Spain, sums up as follows:
Whatever may be said, one way or the
other regarding the situation. one thing
is apparent, that the moment is badly
chosen for a ministerial crisis.
when dreadful caamities threaten
Spain from the outside and the moment
when her destinies are being decided by
the Paris conference and at the moment
when her flag is crushed at Porto Rico,
the Liberal party is in a state of chaos
and disagreement, and in the face of
American pretensons, which are daily
becoming more arrogant, Spain finds her
self with a ministry without authority.
Never has she needed more imperatively
a strong government, one more watchful
or awake to outside questions Instead
of this, miserable internal quarrels are
distracting the attention of those who
now ought to have no other preoccupa-
tons than the salvation of their coun-
try"
LONDON October 27.-The Paris cor
respondent of the Times says:
At to-day's wednesdays sitting the
Spanish peace commissioners presented
a new ounter-memorandum declaring
their readiness, Professionally, to accept
an article of a preliminary treaty stlp-
ulating that Spain shall relinquish all
rights to sovereignty in Cuba without
formulating any other claim" and to
leave in suspense all remaining ques-
tons, especially the Philippines.
The Americans asked until tomorrow
Thursday TO reply to this new men,
orandum. This is regarded as a favora-
bic sign, being slight relaxation of the
rigidity the Americans have hitherto
shown. They are perhaps aware that the
Cuban and even the Spanish bondhold-
ers are becoming alarmed at the strange
turn of the financial side of the discus
sion in which Spain. The United States ard
Cuba, with extraordinary unanimity and
carelessness, all repudiate the Cuban debt
The Madrid correspondent Of the Stand
ard telegraphing Tuesday by way OF the
frontier says: ''Senor Montero Rios
(president of the Spanish peace commits
sion) now offers no hope of obtaining any
thing from the Americans for tbs Cuban
debt He even says that Spain must as
sent to the American views in this matter
before the conference can proceed to set
tie the Porto Rican and Philippine ques-
tons
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