The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-10
BOWS TO THE INEVITABLE.
Americas Terms Accepted and the War
is Practically Ended.

is Practically Ended.
\ dispatch from Madrid says the
Spanish Cabinet approved Saturday
evening the basis of tie reply to the
peace conditions proposed by the United
States. Duke Almadovar dc Rio, the
minister Of foreign affairs, is charged
with revising the reply, which will be
read aud approved at the cabinet coun-
Gil tomorrow morning. 1t is stated on
good authority that the Spanish reply
will give no occasion for a further re-
sponsc from the United States.
\ Madrid special to the New lork
Journal says: The queen regent has
approved the reply Of the Spanish GOV
erument to the United States accepting
the conditions laid down by the latter
under which peace Will be concluded,
The Madrid correspondent OF the
London Sunday Times says; SPAN $
answer will accept all the American
terms. except that regarding the Cuban
debt. The government will fight this
point on the ground that in all other
cession of territory by one nation to
another the coded territory has carried
with it its debt or proportion belonging
to the nation by which it was ceded.
..Senor Sayasta. in comforting with
politicians and generals. follows the eX-
ample of Senior Castelar, in 1913. His
objects are two-fold-to divide the re-
sponsibility for the decision and to
avoid the convocation OF the cortes.
The news from Porto Rico is re-
ceiyed with great disappointment in
Madrid. The Spaniards are disguSted
with the welcome the natives have
given the Americans and the news that
the volunteers have thrown down their
arms. The general opinion is that it is
not worth while to risk lives and spend
millions for the sake OF territories
which are worse than disloyal to the
mother country. 1t is assumed that
there will beno internal trouble over the
evacuation of the West Indies. The
war has cost $350. 600, 900.
The Madrid correspondent of the
Daily Mail. telegraphing Sunday, says:
THE answer Of the Spanish government
declares that Spain cannot discuss the
American proposals, but only accept
them, because they are imposed on her
by force. Only few unessential
changes in the American demands were
asked for and it is not expected that
President Mckinley will refuse them.
"A commission composed Of Spani-
ards and Americans will decide the
question of the Cuban debt, the dates
and manner of evacuating Cuba and
Porto Rico, and the protection OF Span
iards and Spanish interests in these
places. The commissioners will also
decide whether Spain is to be allowed
to withdraw her artillery and the re-
mainder of her arms and ammunition
from the colonies, while the question Of
the Philippines will be settled by the
same body. A treaty will be signed sub
ject to approval by the cortes, which
will be convoked at once.
''The cabinet council tonight will
appoint Spanish commissioners to meet
the Americans to arrange as to the fu-
ture Of the Philippines and other de-
tails.
According to the most reliable sour
ces of information the Spanish note is
couched in digniied language. 1t as
serts that Spain bows to the force OF
circumstances. having done nothing to
provoke the war: into which she has
been unwillingly led, in the defence OF
her rights and territory. 1t expresses
willingness to appoint delegates to
meet the American commissioners to
discuss regime for the Philippines.
1t is understood that both Senior Sagas-
ia and Duke Almodovar de Rio, the
foreign minister, told the queen regent
that they felt deeply the painful duty
circumstances imposed upon them.
4 dispatch from Madrid says: ''El
impartial proposes a new solution for
the settlement of the Cuban debt. 1t
takes it for granted that the United
States cannot be asked to assume the
burden of about $4,000, 900 pounds
(s16O, 900, ,0o0) Of the debt existing when
the rebellion began in 1895, and the go
100000 pounds $3.50, ,0OO,O spent
since, and it suggests that Spain should
undertake to pay interest and redemp-
ton on the Cuban debt until the new
West Indian republicis is in a position to
do so, which FL Parcial believes, Cuba
could soon do, when its vast natural re-
sources were developed undera an Amer
lean protectorate.