The Portland daily press., 1898-02-12
Will NOT PURSUE DE- LONE
President Shows Little Personal
Concern In Matter.
THE DIPLOMATIC INCIDENT NOW
CONSIDERED CLOSED.


Minister Woodford's Full Report Has Not
Yet Been Received But There Is No
Apprehension That 1t Will Contain
Anything to Change Situation.
Washington, February 1.-THE personal
| incident growing out of the publication
of Senior Dupuy de Lome's letter to Senor
Canalejas may be regarded as settled.
| This has been brought about by the short
cablegraIn sent by Minister Woodford
| from Madrid in which he stated that the
minister had resigned and his resignation
had been accepted before he (Woodfordl
presented the request Of the United States
that he be recalled.
:. The officials here feel an interest in
learning the details of the happenings in
Madrid yes: erday, and are whiting for
Mr.. Woodford's promised full report. But
unless this should contain some statement
that is not now expected there is no dis.
position on the part of the government to
protraot the closing of this unpleasant in
cident, and it is not expected that any
thing in tie nature of demand for an
apology will be mado.
If graceful disclaimer should come
that will be taken in the spirit In which
| it is made, otherwise the matter will be
dropped and the relations between the
state department and the Spanish lega-
ton will run only more smoothly through
the medium of Senior de Bose, the first
secretary and now charge affairs. 1t
can be said for the President that he
shows little personal concern in the
matter, as 1t stands, and is not disposed
to pursue Mr.. de LONE in any personal
spirit, and with this spirit in the head of
the administration, the end OF the affair
may be said to have been reached.
DU BOSC PRESENTS CREDENTIALS.
Spanish Minister'S Temporary Successor
Duly Installed.
Washington, February 11-As the repre-
sentative of Spain Senior Don Juan du
Bose called at noon today at the state de-
partment and presented in writing the
notification of the Spanish government
that the resignation Of Senior Enriques
Dupuy de LONE had been accepted and
that Senior du Bose was authorized to
represent his government as charge
affairs ad interim. The notification
was purely formal, giving the facts of the
transfer without mention of the incident
leading up to 1T.
Having assumed his duties, Mr.. du Bose
took occasion to pay call OF respect 10
the state department. authorities. He was
not accompanied by Senior de LONE, who
with this official act, becomes a private
citizen of Spain, temporarily sojourning
in this country. The incident is regarded
az closed SO far as Spain is concerned.
Senior de LONE received a representative
of the Associated Press at the legation
this morning. He was IN the legation
office at the desk he has SO long occupied.
Mr.. de LONE preserved that outward calm
which has marked him during other
critical stages of the Spanish Cuban con-
test. Near him was map of his estate
near Valencia, Spain, which he had been
looking over in anticipation Of soon re
turning to 1t.
"This will be the last time I will see
you as minister Of Spain,'' said he, "for
am about to turn over to Mr.. du Bose
all the affairs of the legation. He will be
the official representative and l will be
private citizen. In my private capacity,
will be glad to see you any time during
the brief time that l remain
The late minister referred to his plans.
He said he expected to leave Washington
as soon as possible. 1t would take, he
thought, one or two days to wind up the
routine affairs Of the office, personal and
official, in which he has been concerned.
After leaving this country the future
plans of Mr.. de LONE are not fixed Per-
sonally, he would prefer not to go to
Madrid and unless the government COM
mands him to go to the Capital, he
probably will visit some other place and
then go to his estate near Valencia.
Further than referring to his plans, Senior
de LONE would not talk for publication
and would not go into the recent incident.
Senior du Bose, the new representative
of Spain, was seen at the legation office.
He looks mora like an Englishman than
build, with no Spanish trace in his ac-
cent. His mother was ON English woman
and he was trained at Oxford. For the
present he asked to be excused from dis
cussing Spanish affairs.
Inquiry at the state department., how
ever. develops that the department is not
yet formally prepared to admit that the
having accepted the change and Mr.. de
LONE having been dropped from his
official position, what now remains for
the departments is to await the fuller re-
port promised by Minister Woodford.
At the cabinet meeting today, the
President briefly gave summary of the
correspondence that has taken place up to
this moment respecting the retirement Of
Mr.. de LONE and remarked that it would
be necessary to await this report. The
matter was not discussed in any phase
after this explanation of its status blythe
President.
Assistant Secretary Day also made the
same statement when asked if the incident
could be regarded as closed so far as our
government was concerned.
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