The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-08-09
1T IS APPROVED.
The Cabinet Council Agrees to the
Peace Terms of the United States.
The Spanish Government Believes That the
Note Will Be Satisfactory to the Wash
ington Government and That Hos
tiIities VIII Be Suspended.

MADRID, Aug. S.-The cabinet coun-
3, ell terminated after having complete
ly approved the reply to the United
States which, it is said, accepts the
American conditions.
The reply was telegraphed to Senior
Ceon Y Castillo, the Spanish ambassa-
dor to France, Saturday night, so that
NJ. Camb bon, the French AMBASSADOR at
Washington, will receive it Monday.
The government is fully convinced
that the note will be satisfactory to
the Washington government, and that
suspension of hostilities will be its
immediate consequence.
Senior Sagasta, the premier, has just
concluded his conference with the
queen regent. Her majesty approves
the general lines of the reply of Spain
to Americas peace terms which Senior
Sagasta explained to her.
The reason for postponing the cabi-
net council until o'clock Sunday
! evening was that the note was not yet
fully drawn up The government be-
leves that the United States will ac-
cept SPANS answer, which will GER
tainly reach the white house by Tues
day. As a consequence of the United
States accepting the reply, hostilities
will Immediately afterwards be sus-
pended.
As the reply to the American terms
was only submitted to the queen re-
gent Sunday, all the reports of her APP
proval Saturday of the American de.
mands are necessarily without founda-
ton.
MADRID, Aug S.-According to the
most reliable sources of information
the Spanish note is couched in digni.
fed language. 1t asserts that Spain
bows to the force of circumstances,
having done nothing to provoke the
war, into which she has been unwiIl-
ingly led in the defense of her rights
and territory.
1t expresses a willingness to appoint
delegates to meet the American COM
mission to discuss a regime for the
Philippines
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.-Although as
yet without official con firmation of the
report from Paris that the Spanish
government has decided to accept the
as essential to the negotiation of a
treaty of peace the officials here are
proceeding under the conviction that
9the end has come and are giving atten-
ton to the steps to be taken next In
view of the delay in coming to this
conclusion the idea was beginning to
prevail that the Spanish government
was about to enter plea in abate-
ment and that the answer would again
be inconclusive. In this case the
president was disposed to deal firmly
with the issue; to give notice that our
proposals were Withdrawn, and to let
it be understood that when Spain
again sued for peace the con
ditions would be more severe
than those first laid down. If the
Spanish answer should embody an eff
fort to secure any material change in
the conditions it will meet with prompt
rejection. Some reference has beer
made in the dispatches of British
newspapers to desire on the part Of
the Spanish government to include il
the preliminary agreement a clause
eXempting it from liability fol
the Cuban debt The formal state
II -.
States notes given out from the white
house made no reference to this SUI
ject and it can not be known as yet
whether or not the full text show!
anything more. But presuming tina
no reference whatever is made to th'
Cuban debt, it is possible the subjec
may be regarded as one that should bt
treated by the peace commissioners
who are to meet later to for the treaty
which, Of course, will embody
many details that are left un
touched in the main proposition
though cabinet officers have author
lied the statement that no par
of the Cuban or Porto Rican debt
would be assumed by the Unitet
States. Based upon the Associated
Press reports of the progress bein;
made at Madrid toward returning tn
answer of Spain it was calculated b,
the department officials that the for
NAL note could not be delivered to tn
president before Monday, and tina
was also the belief of the French am
baSsadOr.
Attack by Sea on San Juan Reported.
WASHINGTON, Aug. Sat midnigh
AN unofficial report was current tina
the bombardment of San Juan ha
commanded and that a mart of Gen