The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-20
WILL MEET FRIDAY.
The Spanish Commissioners Asked a
REINFORCEMENT of the Session.
AMERICANS CONTINUOUSLY AGREED.
Spaiu Is Expected TO Plainly State
Her Intentions.
MUST OBEY THE PR0TOC o..
No More IFS" "Auds" and "Buts"
About Evacuating Cuba.
THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT VEL b
Diplomatic TricLcry and Efforts Ia
secure Foreign sympathy
Arc FruitIcss,
THE UNITED STATES WILL NOT YIELD

Paris, October 19-The Spanish peace
commission was unable to meet the Ameri-
can peace commission arranged for today
and the next meeting OF the two commits
sions has been fixed for Friday next.
Judge Day president of the American COM
mission, received a communication this
morning from Senior Montero Rios, presi-
that advlces expected but not received from
Madrid made 1t necessary for himself and
his colleagues TO request postponement
OF any further conferences until Friday
next. A courteous reply was returned by
Secretary Moore. in behalf Of the Ameri-
can commissioners, granting an extension
OF the time of the next meeting as re-
quested.
ence for two days is not in itself an I'M
pontant request, the delay by the Span
iards at this juncturc is something more
than significant. The game of diplomacy
now progressing here has reached stage
which makes It necessary that the next
move be made by the Spanish commission
ers. They are confronted by the plain fact
of their protocol agreement to reinquish
and evacuate Cuba without IFS" or "ands"
or butts"
1t has become clear here that the Span
lards cherished the hope that they could
Internationally covenant TO follow given
path and ultimately wander elsewhere and
do less or more than named in the pro,o-
col compact The American commission
ers. however, have firmly adhered to the
boundary lines already mutually estab-
lished and within which they insist the
Spanards as we'll as themselves shall duly
proceed.
1t is not too much to say that Spain has
now more light than ever before on The In
tegrity and steadfastness in word and pur-
pose Of the United States. Nor is it wide
of the fact to say that the Span ards are
now approaching that the United States
did not make war on Spain to acquire Cuba
as conquest prize.
or this the spaniards may not yet be
wholly convinced but the firm refusal OF
Judge Day and his colleagues to assume the
Cuban s.e1, because the United States Will
not take over the sovereignty has wdened
Spanish perceptions and has unquestionably
fastened their convictions. While Il maJ
in sense be true that the feeling that the
American pledges und American perform
ances are co-equa terms, the Spaniardi
are now practically on the threshold o.
properly lighted negotiations When SPAR
approached these negotiations she was
confronted by a wall OF fast ogreemen
which she however. reg.N-d poss. bic L
| break or puncture al the point OF CASTELAR,
diplomacy Thus sne poised ana has
launched against the protocol structure Of
seeming solldlty the keen lances Of mel
Nuesse Tney have fallen broken at he.
feet The wall OF American purpose an
mutual compact has proved not only APP
Parent, but real and now SPANS commits
| sioners give pause 10 Their attack on Tho
I Cuban angle and ask tlDc to assure them
! selves OF their previous mistudgment ant
also TO reform their lines or arrange new
| ones.
THIS assigned reason FOR today's reques'
for delay is believed TO have been 10 Al
| low an interchange Of communications wits
| Madrid and to formulate final attitude OF
| the Cuban matter This attitude OF tn
| Spauiards 10 be developed on Friday viii
| he watched with no little Interest. Thei
! alternatives are few. but pregnant. The!
| NAV accede TO the American attitude them
selves and assume the Cuban debt and g
| forward 10 consider the next protocol P1in
| of Porto Rico and the choice by the u1its'
| States OF an island in The Ladrone group
or they may at this juncture formally as
| for arbitration or as an extremity. whicl
is not likely. may retire from further nego
| tiations.
The tone during the last four days OF tn.