The San Francisco call., 1898-04-26
M em Orandum Submitted by SenOr GullOn to
 Europe.
Claims That Reforms Were Actually Commenced on
 the Island of Cuba.
Asserts That Cubans Can Never Govern Themselves, and Cites
 Olney as Auth ority.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, April 26.-The Times this morning publishes Spains memoran- dunn to the powers, dated April IS, and signed by Senor Gullon, the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs. The mem- orandum begins by recording the moral and material aid the Cuban rebels have received from the United States" in filibustering expeditions and the operations of the junta. It men tions Spain's repeated and persistent denials to the allegations of cruelty to- ward the Cubans and lays great stress upon President Cleveland's dispatch of December r, 1896, to the effect that peace would be possible if Spain gave sufficient autonomy to Cuba. The memorandum contends that in the face of the new liberal constitution granted Cuba, which has already borne fruit, " it is difficult to understand why Presi- dent Mckinley in his message of De- cember 6, 1897, and General Woodford, in the note of December IS, 1897, should still doubt Spain's loyalty.
 The document then speaks at some length of the Maine accident, and as- sertS that the Americans, under the pretext of the extra a-territoriality of the vessel, never allowed Spanish au- thorities to visit the wreck for pur- poses of investigation; and it most Solemnly asserts the absolute inno- cence of Spain's officials and of Span ish subjects, generally.
 The fairness and loyalty of Spain are then shown by a reference to the equitable treatment which American filibusters, more especially those of the Competitor, have received a the hands of Spain, and in order to show N.,-A ft1l1 l been the attitude of the Spanish Gov~ ernment the memorandum enume- rates the four clauses of the Spanish proposals. These are:
 First-An offer to submit. all questions arising from the Maine affair to arbitra- tion.
 Second-An order to Governor Blanco to retire into the western provinces and to apply 3,000,00 pesetas for the relief of the agricultural population, with an accept lief for Cuban sufferers by the United States, provided such relief were sent in merchant vessels.
 Third-The cooperation of the Cuban Parliament in formulating the extent of the powers to be reserved for the central Government.
 Fourth-In view of the Cuban Parlia- ment not meeting before May f, the proclamation of an immediate armistice
 The memorandum proceeds to declare that the United States has not accepted these IdT-TedcElnS concessions ana that the good offices of the Pope have been equally unavailing. It asserts that the Maine accident was used by political parties in America as a means of "hurl- ing most gratuitous and intolerable call umnies at the Spanish Government, {" and yet, the document says, MT. Olney, in an official note dated April i, 1896, to the Spanish Minister in Washington, expressed very serious apprehensions lest the only existing bond of union in Cuba should disappear in the event of Spain withdrawing from that island.
 MT. Olney-as the memorandum ar gues-feared at that time that a war of races would ensue, all the more san guinary in proportion to the experi- ence and discipline acquired during the insurrection and that two republics would at once be formed, one white and the other black, the upshot being that one of the two would swallow the other.
 The grave view thus taken by Mir. Olney of the future of Cuba, freed from Spain's rule, is then enlarged upon and inevitable racial wars are foreshadow- ed which are certain to wreck the eX- istence of Cuba as a state should Spain be deprived of sovereignty over the isl- and. Thus being convinced, as Spain is, that right and equality are on her side, she will not and cannot surrender her sovereignty in Cuba.