Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-08-03
PEACE PROPOSALS.

Spain, it Is reported, has accepted the
principle OF the American peace condl-
tons. A reply to the United States is
said to have been forwarded from Mad
rid. Some details remain to be fixed
and it is expected that Premier Sagasta
will continue negotiations for time in
he hope of being able to claim q diplo-
matte victory. The few reservations
which Spain is said to have made in
her acceptance can be easily arranged.
The London Standards Madrid cor
respondent says: The governments re-
ply to the American terms was forward
ed Monday evening, through NJ. Cam
Don, French ambassador at Washing
ton, and there is strong prospect that
peace will be concluded. 1t is not to
ne supposed that the United States will
object to representations being made on
the Philippines question and upon some
pecunary claims in the West Indies,
which were mooted by the United
States. On all the remaining main is
sues Spain shows disposition to assent
to the American demands. The geuer-
al impression is that both governments
are disposed to put an end to the war
AS honorably as possible for Spain,
which would have been easier had the
United States not imposed such hard
conditions with regard 10 the Philip,
pines.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Chronicle says: Spain, it is
said, has accepted the American terms,
with unimportant reservations, and the
peace prelminaries will be signed be-
fore Saturday.
a special cablegram to a New York
evening paper from Madrid says: The
peace conditions set forth by President
Mckinley were discussed at length to-
day by Minister Sagasta and his cabi-
net, and at the conclusion it was an
nounced officially that the terms of the
United States would be accepted.
There are one or two amendments in
the proposition of the United States
which Spain will ask to have made
and if this is done peace will be declar.
ed at once.
A dispatch from Madrid says: The
Spanish reply to President McKinley's
note was positively forwarded to Wash
ington late Monday night. SPANS on
" objections to President McKinley's
terms are confined to minor matters,
like the coaling stations in the Philip
pines. the settlement of American cit-
zens' claims in the West Indies and the
Cuban debts.
A short time before mid night Secre-
tarv Alger, as he left the White House
after conference with the President,
said the administration had received
no official information that the Madrid
government had accepted the terms of
peace proposed by the United States.
But, unofIicially. the President had
been informed that the Spanish Minis
ter had acceded to the terms OF this
country for cessation of war. The un-
official advices have reached the Presi-
dent in the form not only OF press dis
patches, but OF private dispatches from
confidential agents of the United States
government.
In the event of SPANS acceptance OF
the terms proposed by this country, the
first step probably will be toward an
agreement to close active hostilities,
pending the drafting of a treaty peace
along the lines of the accepted terms.
According to precedents ordinarily re-
garded, an armistice would be pro-
claimed and, in the circumstar Gas, this
would mean the practical close of the
war.
After the proclamation of an armis-
tice the next step would be the desig-
nation by the President of the commits
sioners to represent the United States
in the conduct OF the final negotiations
for peace. According to the best &C.
cepted precedents this commission
would meet upon neutral ground. 1t
has been suggested that the commits
sion may assemble in Paris, but as yet
that is conjecture.
Pending the conclusion of the work OF
the commission the probabilities are
that the armies of both Spain and the
United States will be kept in the field,
their relative positions remaining un-
changed during the diplomatic nego.
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