The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-16

All RiShts OVer Cubn anu the lmmedt-
 ate Discussion of Any Other Reason-
 able Proposals the United States May
 Make-Premier sagasta Admits That
 His Government Has Endea sored to
 Ascertain the Disposition of the wash-
 tngton Cabinet.
 London, July 16.-The Madrid corre- spondent of the Daily Telegraph says: The government has finally decided to open peace negotiations without delay, proposing as a basis the remuneration of all rights over Cuba and the immediate discussion of any other reasonable pro- posals the United States may make.
 Informal negotiations for peace are continuing. The government, it is re- ported has received to-day long dis patch in cipher containing the exact situation of affairs. The queen regent has had three interviews with General Correa, minister of war, and has per suaded him to cease his opposition to peace. Pressing dispatches in the same sense have been sent to Captain Gen eral Blanco. One of the chief reasons which has driven the government to- ward peace is fear that the Ameri- cans may get a firm footing in Porto Rico.
 The Gibraltar correspondent of the Daily news says: Spain cannot continue to struggle, yet peace will be the signal for revolution and European interven- tion. The government, through Fl Epo- ca. advocates direct peace negotiations with the United States.
 The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Chronicle says: learn on relia- ble authority that the Austrian court was informed to-day that Spain was prepared to cede Cuba and to pay in- dennity, but not to abandon Porto Ri- co. Senor Sagasta trusts to be able to | retain the Philippines as a Spanish pos | session, the powers preferrlng the isl | ands to remain in Spanish rather than 1 in American hands. All the dispatches | from Madrid to the London morning | papers agree that Captain General | Blanco and his staff are now willing to let the decision rest with the home gov ernment as regards peace or war. | A dispatch to the Times from it's | Madrid correspondent contains the fol- l lowing: Regarding the prospects of 1 peace, Senor Sagasta, interviewed by a | representative of Fl Correspondence Militara, is represented as saying: It is certain, most certain, that the govern ment has endeavored to ascertain ex- | tra officially the disposition of the l Washington cabinet respecting a pacific | solution, but for the moment I can say i absolutely nothing, because the enemy i might wrongly suppose that we desired | peace at any price and accordingly | show himself rnore exacting. I have read the proposals cabled to Fl Impar- cial, which are supposed to have been l communicated by President Mckinley to M. Cambon the French ambassador at Washington. These conditions are so hard that I considered them mad missible. The government has news of other proposals that are much more ac- ceptable.
 In reply to a question as to whether he intended to remain in office to con- clude peace, Senor Sagasta said that | such was his intention, and he added respecting the ministerial crisis, this statement: q can affirm categorically that it does not formally exist and that there is no danger of it's arising so cas- | fly as the press indicates"
 Paris. July 15.-The Temps this after