The age-herald., 1898-10-22
SPAIN FILLED
 WITH GLOOM COnSequencesOf the War Just Be- coming To Be Realized RIOS SkILLFUL STRATEGY I To Minimize the Result Failed
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  AME1 EMS HAVE NOT TDIVULGED Their Demands in Regard to the Phil ippines, and Sagasta is Yet in the Dark in Regard to 
AMEl EMS HAVE NOT DIvULGED
Their Demands in Regard to the Phil ippines, and Sagasta is Yet in the Dark in Regard to
 the Matter.

London. October 22.-The Madr.d corre- spondent of the Standard says:
 The displeasure and disappointment felt in official circles at the failure of the skill full strategy of Senor Montero Rios with Senor Segasta and Duke Almodovar de Rio to minimize the consequences of the war, are keen and profound.
 "Senor Rios foresaw that all depended upon inducing the American commissioners to admit the Spanish views of the protocol. He used the incidents of the evacuation commissions in Cuba and Porto Rico to sound the opinions of the Americans and he tried to ascertain their views regard ing the Philippines by renewing the Span- ish protest against Americas veto of Spains proposal to send war vessels to reinforce the Spanish commanders holding out at various ports and by asking for the liberation of Aguinaldo's prisoners.
 'Then both commissions offered written suggestions as to defnitive trade. Senor Rios drew up a strong case in reply to the American proposals. The American com- missioners, perceiv.ng what Spain was driving at distinctly and courteously put 1t upon record that President Mckinley had only consented to suspend hostilites after Spain had solemnly accepted the ir- reducible basis for a peace treaty clearly laid down in the protocol in order to avoid misunderstanding.
 Sovereignty in Cuba
 Outlining the discussion regarding sover- eighty in Cuba, the correspondent says:
 "The American commissioners made the point that they had not insisted upon in- demnities to Americans for damages from the war, and Spanards were assured of protection in Cuba during the protectorate that would last until parliament and gov- ernment were established, which might ne- gotiate with Spain concerning the effects.
 "When Senor Rios asked for delay in or- der to prove that much of the Cuban debt was contracted before 1895 and devoted to public works in Cuba the Americans in- voked decrees to show that stocks were issued from 1887 to 1890 were exclusively to cover war expenditures.
 Spain is fighting hard because future budgets and her finances generally depend upon being relieved of much of the possible Cuban debt. It is an unpleasant prospect to be compelled to tell the cortes that Spain ton of seven-eighths of a debt of S0,0O0.Oo0 pounds and of 100, 900 900 pounds spent In fighting rebellion and the United States.
 United States Unbending
 ''The drift of the negotiations greatly in- crease the difficulties of the regency, be- cause the United States are equally un- bending in their demands for more speedy evacuation of Cuba than the naval and although Senor Sagasta is anxious to bring home the soldiers in order to stop expense.
 But the government is not anxious be- cause the Americans have not shown their office has grounds for supposing that the United States will not follow Dewey's cau- tious advice and the opinions of high naval authorities in America, which are decidedly yond naval stations for military and finan- cial returns. So the hints that Spain would be glad to retain the Philippines, conceding religious toleration and undertaking not to chance to bid, indicate that somehow Spain once more seems to expect continental as- sistance."
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