Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-07-12
SAGASTA is IN CONTEMPT
his Ministers fear FOR Their Personal Safely
Resignation Nay Be Accepted.
SPAIN TALKS OF TREATING DIRECT



World from London says;
Frances now foreign minister N.
pclcaHac. has notified the Spanish ann
hnsaador az Paris. senior Leon Castillo,
that the French government ia ready TO
tender the good offices or the French
ambasaador at Washington IN opening
negotiations Tor peace u tho Madrid
government Will permit ., 10 DO ~.
The proposition. nrst suggested BY
Austria ana France. u interoosaion At
Washington by a.. british Ambassador.
has been abandoned Premier sngnata
Informed The European powers through
Ambassador Castillo that ihr home dlf.
ncultIoH Of the Spanish ministry would
hr likely 90 be- grnyely Increased n
Great brItain'u aid were Invoked be-
cause 81 the hatred OF England porvad-
Ing spain.
u Ia expected IN diplomatic and min
ist,rIll circles here that peace norotia-
lions win be- opened through the French
Ambassador nt Washington
The saraHtl ministry IL now regard.
ed with contempt throughout Europe.
Il being notorious that ~ members arc
members arr only deferred from suing
Tor peace Ly fear of their personal safe
~.
SPAIN PREFERS TO NEGOTIATE
DIRECT
London. July IA Vienna dispatch
10 the Chronicle says;
1t IL aeml.otilciaiy announced that
the Ambassadors Of the powers at Mad
rio have expressed 60 Premier Ragnata
desire that peace Negotiations should
BE- opensd, II IL stated that In spite u
oinriul doninla desire Tor peace nrnc-
tiruliy prevails In al classes Of spain.
but the government n afraid that the
revolutionary parties might take nd
vantage II the government should open
uU ufUHfH lf.HuH
The Madrid correspondent ~ the Mail
tcIfErHunhH.
THE current In favor Of peace Il run
ming stronger today
''rhe government will negotiate with
out the Intervention ~ any foreign
power. Tho foreign diplomats observe
that the tendency In Madrid iH 20 rN-
cludr the powers altogether from the
negotiations"
The prrmlor'a resignation was expect
ed before peace negotiations opened 90
HH 90 leave the crown free e. consult
with the leading statesmen.
should Spgnstn'a resignation be ac-
ccpird EFFORTS win be- made 20 form a
military cabinet. whose acts would In
splro greater confidence in the army
THESE TERMS UNSATISFACTORY.
Madrid. July rs o. m.-Tho posi-
hIiiiy of peace with the United states
a being widely discussed IN the news
papers and by the public. The cun-
sentative papers dHclnrc Spain II pre-
pared 10 accept peace providing u i'm
plies only the loss NJ cuba. iiut, they
assert. Spain would prefer war 9 Tout
rance N the United states should claim
Porto Rlgo. tho Philippines or any i'm
msnse Indemnity which would be- i'm
possible for Spain tn pay.
Tho Correspondence asserts thntGen.
Corrcn. the minister Tor war. does not
disagree with tho other cabinet minia-
teri ~ seriously ns r. generally sup
cuban situation II h possible he win no
longer oppose peace, provided the con-
ditluna arr not too nnornuH
The public connects The recent con-
ference between Duke Almo1lvnr de
rio. the Spanish minister FOR foreign
analrs.und thcFronch ambassador here.
81 pntsuotre with the report that the
French ambassador No Washington. VI.
Cnmbnn has been instructed tn aRcrr-
tain the llrhtest conditions upon which
penco lH nhtaiulhle,
SITUATION At WASHINGTON.
Washington. July i2-Tho discussion
~ a possible peace settlement con-
tlnued today although IL was lacking
IN any tangible basis, HH officials. sov-
vernmcnt and diplomatic. continued 20
say that mo- ovrrturos FROM Spain ur
any quarter had been made. The
dispatch from Madrid detailing the
looked upon as q "fevlrr.' II u SAID
that mo- such proposition has gone from
this government The alleged terms
spnnlsh evacuation ~ Cuhu and Porto
Rlcn. $40 900 90 wur Indemnity and
retention NJ tho Philippines until tho
Indemnity ls paid-are In general limo
with the conjecture uiluHt here Tor
some tlmo, hut officials ncvri hnSf
given this conjecture any endorsements.
and IN the Madrid dispatch iH iit f.i-
ward na "f'tlor." n Inns NOT proved
successful In INDUCING the authorities
10 disclose thtir position on th'se
terms. as whole or separately. EWh
one ~ the propositions Involves gen
ernl policy. aud 10 iH doubtful whether
any such general policy has been con-
siderrd toward outside possessions,
sryerHlly or together
Tho spnnlsn cabinet crisis II looked
upon by officials here ar likely 90 bring
nbout "a direct issue ON which spain
yyUi rur for peace nr continue che war
90 thp bitter end Tho retiring premier,
gualrtu. has been for war Now th1t
he rptIrcs the queen regent must mako
choice between % premier and @ CABLE
net more radical than SugnHtu iur war
on elise a cabinet tur peace. The idea
OF officials here is that the middle
ground occupied by Saglsta II no long
O. al ~
the next few days viii bee radical either
Tor peace or war. n Tor peace, tho
NEGOTIATIONS are expected tu tgfv form
very soon. n Tor war then the peace
viii Doe summarlly disposed
OF. aud MT tho same time there VIII Ds
a stubborn Spanish resistance.