The herald., 1898-06-03
DECLINES TO INTERVENE AT
PRESENT
POWERS ALSO APPEALED TO
Austria Only Willing to Act, and She
Insists That Other Nations
Must Join
Special to Tho Herald.

. regent of Spain Announcing a victory .
. at Santiago. AS a result of this COM .
munication the pope conferred for
three hours with Cardinal Rampolla, .
discussing the opportunity of taking .
new steps to prevent the continue .
. ton of the war. The pope sent tel
. egram to the queen praying her to be
contented with the success obtained, .
. and to abandon the idea of continuing .
the war to the extreme, which would
. not profit Spain. The pope seriously .
. fears some Spanish success, which .
. would not only prolong the war, but .
entail other complications. The pope .
. has made no representations to Wash .
. ington. He considers that it would .
. be useless to do SO until something .
. has been accepted at Madrid. .
Castillo's Instructions
LONDON, June 2.-(By Associated Press.)
The Madrid correspondent of the Morning
Post says:
Senior Leon y Castillo, the Spanish Am
bassador to France, al his recent con-
ferences with the Queen Regent and Senior
Sagasta, was officially charged to ask TIE
powers to intervene to obtain peace on
such terms as would protect the amour
propre of Spain.
1.-THE Ambassador will urge for a reason
for such intervention the danger of loss
of trade to the powers themselves in the
event Of the continuance of the war. Poll
teal and diplomatic circles in Madrid be-
leve that Castillo will succeed"
The Vienna correspondent of the Daily
Mail says:
Spain has addressed another appeal to
the powers to intervene in the war, and
Austria is prepared to accede, but only in
conjunction with other powers.
Castelar's Article
MADRID, June 2, 6 p m.-The article
signed by Senior CASTELAR,, the Republican
leader, recently printed in the Petite Re-
vue International and reproduced in sew
era Spanish papers, which are being pros
ecuted for doing so, monopolizes public
attention.
A majority of the newspapers condemn
Senior Castelars remarks, but the eXtrem-
list organs defend them.
The Conservative Epoca declares Senior
Castelar, has expressed this opinion in
conversation during the past two months
and the Epoca believes he aims at group
ing around him the scattered Republican
elements. The ministerial Correo doubts
the authorship of the article, believing it
improbable that Senior Casetlar has for
gotten himself in a manner so contrary to
his culture and love of the fatherland."
General Weyler's organ, the Nacional,
and the Republican Pals warmly defend
Senior CASTELAR,, while the Carlist Correo
Espanola attacks the government. 1t says:
During the past eighty years the Lib
erals have seen three women on the throne
and they have grossly expelled the first
two and sullied their memory"
The Heraldo hopes the government will
refrain from Exposing the glorious old
age of Senior Castelar, to, the: vexations of
puerile prosecution"
The Money Question
NEW YORK, June "A dispatch to the
World from Madrid says:
Spain is fast drifting to a forced paper
currency.
The run upon the Bank of Spain has
assumed such proportions that people form
In long lines hours before the offices open
In Madrid and the provincial branches.
The bank gives small notes in exchange
for 1000 or 900 peseta notes, only exchang
ing for silver pesetas or dollars the Is,
80 or 100 peseta notes.
The government has vainly tried to stop
the run by prohibiting the exporting of
silver, promising to coin millions Of pesetas
daily, which 1t cannot do until 1t increases
the machinery of the mint.
Every retail store, market and tobacco
stall rejects the notes and the money
changers charge five per cent discount.
The Bank Of Spain has 500, 900, 900 in silver
to meet the s26OOO,0 900 in notes in circula-
ton. Tax collectors were much slower this
spring than heretofore, and the new taxes
are expected to produce so little that the
government has decided to raise money
by negotiating loans in France, pledging
the principal monopolies the Ministers
of War, of Marine and of the Colonies
having declared that it is absolutely neces-
sary to have s27,0OO,0 O0 monthly.
Santiago Reports
MADRID, June al p.m.-The report
that the Spanish troop ship Alfonso XIII.
had been captured by an American aux
iliary cruiser is without foundation. 1t is
announced officially the the Alfonso XIII.
is now landing her cargo of provisions at
Porto Rico.
The captain-general of Porto Rico cables
that the question of subsistence has raised
no difficulty in the island several vessels
have entered the ports with provisions.
Senior Polo de Bernabe, formerly Spanish
minister to the United States has been ap-
pointed under secretary in the foreign
office.
A Victory Claimed
LONDON. June 2-The Madrid corre-
spondent of the Standard says:
The Madrid papers are much elated over
another repulse suffered by the American
fleets. According to official advices the
forts and batteries at Santiago de Cuba
were unchanged and not single Spanard
was killed or wounded and not a single
shell struck the Spanish cruiser Cristobal
Colon.
The Heraldo regrets that the Spanish
feet was not sent to the Philippines instead
of Cuba.
At today's (Thursdays) cabinet council.
the queen regent presiding Duke Amodo-
var de Rio, foreign minister, reported that
all tho cables were working in the Antilles.
A dispatch was read asserting that Ad-
Sairal Cervera was still at Santiago.
As the result Of the Spanish outgivings