Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-07-23
PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
sAGAsTA sAYs PRELIMINARY
STAGE HAS BEEN ENTERED.
PEACE HONORABLE TO SPANISH ARMY
senior Ganaxo, Spanish Minister of
Public Instruction, Says IL VIII
step Yet, Though.

LONDON, July 23.--The Madrid CORE
spondent Of the Daily Mail says:
'ssnor sagasta told a representative OF
lei Impartial to-day friday that the
government had already entered upon
the preliminary stage Of peace negotia-
lions. General Polavieja has arrived, and
Will have an audience with the Queen Re-
gent Tomorrow"
PEACE SOON TO COME.
MADRID. July 22.-s P. M.-The Minis
ter OF Public Instruction, Senior Gamazo,
Is authority for the statement army
peace. honorable to the Spanish army,
will shortly be concluded
In an interview In the correspondence
Militar. organ of the army, Senior CANA
30 is quoted as saying:
THE suspension of constitutional IL
berty cannot be agreeable 70 the press.
because 1t abrogates freedom, and pre-
vents the publication of news, which
costs much. But, at this moment. what
IAN the government do but check the
hostile campaigns waged against II? l.
Was the first TO beg the Cabinet TO treat
;ret my action. i will say from my seat
IN Parliament that / am convinced did
4 real service TO my country.
THE GOVERNMENTS INTENTIONS.
AT the same time. l can give you
news which will please the press. The
= suspension OF the Constitution will not
last long, for several reasons One OF
!hem is the calmness displayed by the
IL 10 - for n
conceal the intentions of the government,
which are TO conclude an honorable
peace. which will, in the first place. sat
sfy the aspirations of the army. After
that, II Senior Sagasta should think fit,
he will ask the Queen Regent IL she still
aas confidence in her present advisers"
PRESS ANXIOUS FOR FREEDOM.
The directors of the leading newspapers
waited upon Senior Sagasta late this a.
iernoonA and urged him TO abolish the
existing state of siege and censorship.
NEGOTIATIONS AT PARIS 90
PARIS, July 22.-The Matin to-day pub
lishes . paragraph saying thai while
nothing definite is known. 1t is rumored
that Senior Leon Castillo (the Spanish
Ambassador at Paris has been instructed
10 approach General Horace Porter Qhe
united etates AinDdssduor 70 ridnCc)
with the view Of opening secret peace ne
gotiations."
General Porter. the American Ambassa-
dor, said 10 representative of tho Asso-
ciated Press: "You can deny in the most
emphatic manner that any peace negotia-
tions have been opened up to the present
moment. / cannot conceive what origi-
mated the Mathis statement"
M REAL STEP VET
LONDON, July 2s.--rhe Madrid special
dispatches this morning to the Times,
Daily News, and Standard agree that no
real step has been taken toward peace.
and. moreover. that the idea that the
cap!tuiatlon of Santiago was preliminary
to peace must be abandoned.
CONFIDENCE IN POLAvIEJA.
LONDON. July 2S--A special dispatch
from Madrid says
1.-THE arrival of General Polavieja has
Increased the persistent talk of a Cabinet
crisis. The Queen Regent is credited with
exclaimlng Thank Godr when she knew
he was coming.
"Opinions differ as 10 whether a semi
military Cabinet would make for peace
or for n continuance OF the war; but all
are agreed that IL would at any rate put
an end to the present invertebrate policy.
Certainly considerable confidence Is
felt in General Polavieja at the present
difficult Junciure.
wATsoN's DELAY.
1.-The belief Is current ia Madrid that |
the delay In Commodore Watson's start |
ing Is due 10 desire 10 give General!
Polaviejs time TO form Cabinet ana sue |
for peace"