Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-26
PEACE is EASY.
High Spanish Official Thinks
Quarrel Easily Settled.
The Colonial Government Will Confer
With ENJOYS Of Gen. Gomez.
Spanilrds Claim to Have Kept Americans from
Landing at Bahia Honda.

Madrid, July 25.-The correspondent
here of The Associated Press has had
an interesting conversation with a per-
son occupying a high position in the
Queen Regents household. and whose
duties bring him in daily intimate rela-
tons with Her Majesty He said the
quarrel between Spain and the United
States was much easier of adjustment
than generally believed.
The Queen Regent, he continued.
naturally endeavored to avoid war and.
naturally, ALSO she desires an honor
able peace. She is quite alive to th.
force of public opinion and holds strict
ly to the constitutional laws of the M
ton. 1t is an error to suppose the
Queen Regent is under the pressure of
regardless of public opinion when it is
in consonance with the true interests
Of the Spanish people.
The official referred to then added al
important statement: THE presen.
government will not initiate peace. but
modified cabinet, headed by Senior
Gainazo minister of public instruction.
will conclude the negotiations and then
retire, and Gen. Polavieja, with a com
binatio including Senior Silvela and
Gen. Campos, viii reorganize the cab
met.
Everybody considers Spain should
treat direct with the Americans. whose
practical good sense will prevail over
Sprcad-eaglism
According to dispatch from Cadiz
to the impartial of this city, advices
from Tangier say the foreign minister
of Morocco declares that if the Ameri-
cans enter Moroccan ports they will be
notified to leave within "A hours, and.
it is added. if they refuse to do so.
Morocco will place herself under the
protection of the powers.
The peace probabilities are anxiousIy
canvasscd at Tangier since the arrival
there of the United States consul and
the belief increases that the United
States does not intend to deprive Spain
of anything but the Antilles.
1t is announced, tonight, that COM
plete tranquility prevails throughout
Spain.
The Cuban colonial government, it
is also announced, will confer with the
representatives of Maxine Gomez, and
it is believed that the conference may
result in the insurgents espousing the
Spanish cause.
The Duke of Almodovar, Spain's foreign
minister, is conducting peace negotiations
very cautiously and with the utmost Sc
crecy. as it is all-important to keep the
Spanish people in the dark about it until
decisive is done.
The government expects that the pre-
limnary parleying now going on through
the Spanish ambassadors at Paris, vi
emma Berlin, st. Petersburg and Rome
will crystalline into a definite proposal to
the United States within a very few days.
Upon the success or failure of this ne
Sotiation will depend whether Sagasta
shall remain in office with a reconstructed
cabinet or make way for Gen. Polavieja.
Aside from the Duke of Almodovar, the
only persons nMadrid who are acquaint-
ed with the negotiations are Premier Sa-
gasta, who knows all the points; Public
W orks Minister Gamazo, who is informed
on some Of them: and one secretary of
the foreign office who puts the dispatches
into cipher and transmits them.
The governments CHIEF aim is to avoid
paying an indemnity of any sort, and to
retain the Philippines without conditions
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