The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-01

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adds:
',rhe Government has heretofore not
received such a proposition, but expects
TO do So
THE CUSHING PROTOCOL.
Washington, Nov. 30.-The protocol of
1877 which the Spanish Government has
notified her commissioners not to revive
is the celebrated Gushing protocol which
has been Il source of much correspond
ence between the two Governments and
was invoked by this Government a num-
ber of times prior to the outbreak of hos
tihties. The protocol was framed with
special reference to the outbreaks in
Cuba against Spain, and now that she
has lost nearly all of her colonies and
especially those near our soil has not its
former Importance to the United States
Its aim was to guarantee our citizens
protection against summary and secret
legal proceedings. Its first clause which
is fairly descriptive of the whole protocol
provided that no citizen of the United
States residing in Spain or her island
possessions. charged with treason. con-
spiracy against the Government or any
other crime shall be subject to trial by
any exceptional tribunal unless captured
with arms in hand. but instead shall be
tried exclusively by the ordinary legal
jurisdiction.
NO PHILIPPINES FOR HOAR.
Worcester. Mass, Nov 30-Senator
Hoar announced himself today as posi-
lively opposed TO the acquisition of the
Philippines by the United States. In a
communication to the Gazette he says:
Spain has very little sovereignty n
the Philippines TO sell Just now: and
| do not think the people of the United
States are in the market 10 buy SOW
ereignty. or that the Constitution has
conferred on anybody the right to buy
any such commodity. The Constitu-
ton was framed upon the theory that
sovereignty is not salable article. The
people of the United tSates have con-
ferred upon nobody the power TO make
such purchases i'll their behalf"
AGUINALDO'S PRICE on FRIARS
Madrid. Nov. 30.-The Government
has received an important dispatch from
the Philippine Islands in which it is
stated that Aguinaldo. the insurgcnt
leader. demands n million and half
of dollars for the release of the impris-
oned Friars.
RIGOROUS AGAINST CARLISTS.
Bordeaux. Nov. 30.--Advices received
here from Bilbao. Spain, refer to the
rigorous anti-Carlist precautions taken
in that district The converts. it ap-
pears. are particularly watched. Por-
traits OF Don Carlos and Don Jaime,
his son. have been widely distributed
n small band of Carlists have appear.
ed near Alcaide, in the Province of Cas-
tellon de la Plana, and is being pursued
by gendarmes.
A WIFE FOR DON JAIME.
Madrid, Nov. 30-It is asserted here
that marriage has been arranged be-
tween Don Jaime, son of the Spanish
pretender, Don Carlos, and Bayarian
Princess.
CARLISM THE GREAT DANGER
London. Nov. 30.--The Biarritz cor.
respondent of the Daily Mail says:
'Senor Sagasta, who has hitherto been
sceptical on the point. now admits that
Carism is the greatest existing danger
to Spain. The authorities are serious
y alarmed at the Indications of an i'm
minent rising. The Carlist plans have
been elaborately devised, even to the ex
tent of appointing Il governor of Mad
rid"
The Madrid correspondent of the Daily
Mail says:
Lieutenant General Correa, Minister
of War, declares that the Government
has 10000 troops i'll readiness to take
the field in the event of Carlist rising
and will soon have 100000 available
He says, however, he does not believe
that the Carlists intend to move yet.
-Four hundred guns which were be
ing smuggled have been seized i'll a
pasquc village.
Don Carlos in his forthcoming mani
festo, will make strong appeal to the
army. The Carlssts disagree among them.
selves as to the advisability Of an immc.
date movement"
The Rome correspondent of the Daily
Mail says the Pope has been so much
impressed by the alarm expressed by the
Papal Nuncio at Madrid, ut the possibil-
| ity of civil war that, with the consent
of the Queen Regent and with view OF
avoiding bl0odshed. he has opened nego.
| tiations with Don Carlos, proposing that
Don Jaime, the pretenders son, should