The San Francisco call., 1898-10-20
YET
 SEEKING DELAY Americans Grant Them Further Time. CLEVER GAME OF OMACY DoNs BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT UNCLE SAM IS FIRM. Going Behind the Protocol Not Per mitted in the Negotiations
 for the Treaty of
 Peace.
CLEVER GAME OF DIPLOMACY
DONS BEGIN TO REALIZE THAT
 UNCLE SAM IS FIRM.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS. Oct. 19.-The Spanish Com session to-day, and the next session of
 the two commissions has been fixed for Friday next.
 Judge Day, president of the American Commission, received communication
 this morning from Senor Rios, presi-
 dent of the Spanish Commission, say ing that advices expected, but not re- ceived, from Madrid made it necessary
 for himself and his colleagues to re-
 quest a poStponement of any further conferences until Friday next. A cour- teous reply was returned by Secretary
 Moore in behalf of the American Con-
 missioner, granting an extension of
 the time for the next meeting was re-
 Quested.
 While the deferring of any one con- ference for two days is in itself not an
 important request, the delay by the Spaniards at this juncture is something
 more than significant. The game of diplomacy now progressing here has reached a stage which makes 1t neces- sary that the next move be made by the Spanish Commissioners. They are confronted by the plain fact of their
 protocol agreement to relinQuish and evacuate Cuba without ifs, |" "ands" or
 'buts" It has become clear here that
 the Spaniards cherished the hope that they could be made to follow given path and ultimately wander elsewhere and do less or more than named in the protocol compact. The American Com missioners, however, have firmly ad- hered to the boundary lines already mutually established and within which they insist the Spaniards. as we'll as l themselves, shall duly proceed. It is not too much to say that Spain now has more light than ever before
 on the integrity and steadfastness in
 word and in purpose of the United States. Nor is it wide of fact to say
 that the Spaniards are now initially
 appreciating that the United States did not make war on Spain to acquire Cuba
 as a conquest prize.
 1 Of this the Spaniards may not yet be
 wholly convinced. but the firm refusal | of Judge Day and his colleagues to as- sume the Cuban debt, because the United States would not take over the
 sovereignty, has widened Spanish per captions and has unquestionably has, tened their convictions, wherefore 1t
 may, in sense, be true that, having for the first time a feeling that Amert- can pledges and American performance are coequal terms, the Spaniards are now practically on the threshold Of properly lighted negotiations
 The Americans yesterday held a brief
 session, having no reference to the ne-
 gotiations, and the brevity of these meetings and other indications warrant
 the deduction that the American atti- | tude is we'll formed, and that the com
 mission is thoroughly advised on all l the points and features which 1t Is
 possible to foresee in subsequent con- l ferences.
 | The amount of information acquired
 by the Americans since their arrival 1 here Is large They have examined old
 residents of the Philippine Islands and l the information from this and other l coTrces Is yaluab ble,