The evening times., 1898-10-10
RUN0RS OF EVIL PLOTS
Charges Of Improper Iuflu-
ences in the Peace Board.
SCHEMES OF CAPITALISTS
a Ring Said to Have Been Formed
to Buy Philippine BOnds-Spanish
Financfers Aiming to Secure the
Annexation Of .i Cubr to the Ameri-
can government

New York, Oct. 1t-A especial dispatch
to the Journal fron Paris intimates the
possibility of a scandal growing sout Of
the peace negotiations ip Paris watch will
eclipse that connected with the misman-
agement of the war. The joint sessions
of the Commission are not only absolutely
secret, but. the Journal correspondents
telegraphs, the same secrecy is observed
in the separate meetings of the American
Commissioners.
Already a vast financial conspiracy, or
series of conspiracies," )" the despatch says.
has been Matched in the bosom of this
elaborately contrived mystery. Not only
is the American public to be kept in utter
ignorance OF what the United States will
propose to Spain as a basis of peace in
order that the pending congressional e &C.
tions may not be affected, but a few
choice spirits have apparently been let
into the secret of the situation so rigldly
guarded from the public.
I'm consequence ring has been formed
to buy Philippine bonds, and the market
is being secured for them. l discovered
two days ago that powerful friends OF
ers had received inside information tnat
the United States would insist upon an
nexing the whole archipelago and would
assume responsibility for the Philippine
debt. although the interest on the bonds
might be reduced from per cent 10 or
even per cent / know that communlca-
tions on the subject of these bonds had
been passing between. Paris and Madfld-
In order to test the situation ! tried 10
buy some Philippine bonds in Madrid
through French agents.
II at once discovered that powerful
movement was on foot to gather up the
Philippine bonds. This is one OF the most
suggestive results of former Secretary
Days scheme of secrecy. Under It's shel-
ter gigantic combinations seem TO be
forming sinister enterprises that would
be impossible were the air and sunlight
of publicity let into the main features
of negotiations. The situation is curious
ly like that which existed i'll washington
when two senators arranged the sugar
schedule of the tariff in secret session,
while their friends made millions OF DOL
lars in the stock market on the basis-oi
private information. / cannot yet ascer-
tain how far there may be Wall Street
end to this ugly intrigue, but there GER
tainly is a Madrid Bourse end to 1t. No
wonder there is a strong, almost irresisti-
BILE. pressure on the Commissioners TO
keen such valuable secre,s from the gen
eral public.
..The blackest element of the situation
is the masterful craft which is now be-
ing employed to defeat the principal OBJ
ject of the war by suppressing the Gu
ban republic which has gallantly fought
for three years in the field for liberty
and anexing the island TO the United
States.
This scheme of national dishonor is
being pressed, by gigantic combination
of Spanish capitalists. backed by the
Spanish government and aided by the
very Americans who tried to prevent the
war and sympathized with Spain In ner
merciless campaign OF murder In Cuba,
Spaniards and their American accom-
plices know that annexation to the United
States means an enormous and immedi-
ate rise in the value of Cuban proper
ty, which would notftaker place under ma
tive rule. 30
'.They have even secret hopes that with
annexation the United States might guar
antee some fraction of the immense Gu
ban debt.
But in this they win surely be dis
appointed for ! know of a certainty that
every American Commissioner is deter
mined to resist every responsibility, d.
rect or indirect, for the so-called Cuban
debt-a debt which in reality has moth
ing to do with Cuba or its people. but is
properly chargeable, to the royal treas
ury at Madrid. Every effort will be made
to induce the United States to annex Gu
ba, or in some way to prevent the people
of Cuba from ruling the island. 1t is
said that Whitelaw Reid is strongly OPP
posed 10 any idea of a permanent Cuban
republic. and the Spaniards claim that
he will side with them in their efforts to
persuade the United States to violate its
public pledges of honor by stamping out
the Cuban republic by annexing the ISL
and or Egyptianizing it