New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-13
SPAIN REMATNS SILENT.
SENIOR DE LoME's WORDS NOT YET DIS
ANOWED
THE ADMINISTRATION STILL AWAITING FULLER
INFORMATION FROM MINISTER

lsY TELEGRAPH 70 THE rRrBUwE.I

lBY TELEGRAPH 70 THE TR1BUEE.l
Washington. Feb. 12-Minister Woodfords
continuing failure to forward TO the State De-
parment the details Of his interview Of Thurs
day last with Sehor Gullon. the Spanish Secre-
tary for Foreign Affairs. still operates to post
pone the definite termination of the international
episode in which Senior Dupuy DE Lomes mis-
carried letter has for three or four days played
the motive part AS Judge Day the Assistant
Secretary of State. said yesterday and repeated
to-day. this Government is simply waiting for
Minister Woodford's next cable dispatch TO de-
termne whether or not the De LONE incident
may be considered absolutely closed. If, as the
authorities here confidently expect, the Ameri-
can Minister at Madrid transmits IL his fuller
report some phrases Of regret on the part OF the
Spanish Cabinet that such statements those
Of Sehor De LONE had ever come to light, and
OF dsavowal of official respons bty for the eX-
diplomats indiscretions, 10 further diplomatic
correspondence will grow out Of the publication
Of the Canaejas letter on Wednesday last That
a proper expression OF regret will come from
Madrid one in higher official circles here now
permits himself to doubt
At the State Department some curiosity has
neturally been excited by the apparent ieth1rgy
ot Minister Woodford in transmitting the in
formation SO eagerly awaited for the last two
days. The State Department has had occasion
in at least two previous instances to become
impatient over General Woodford's dilatorincss
In informing this Government Of important
events in Madrid. He has never promptly
given the Department all the information II
awaited at various critical periods. he fact
being attributable by officials TO his unwilling
ness to use the cable freely on account Of the
expense involved we'll as the necessity oi
translating everything into cipher.
ts,,c, ~ 81
Cured when sagasta accepted the responsi-
bility Of government The Provisional Conserva-
tive Cabinet which continued in control after
the death of Canovas res gned almost immedi-
atelv upon the delivery OF General WOodfords
first note. expressing the Presidents desire fos
reace in Cuba and for Weyler's recall. While
the American Minister promptly announced the
Ministry's fall and gave his opinion as TO what
caused it, the important fact that the llDeral
leader. who had always stood for autonomy ana
for freer relations with the United states had
consented to become Premier was not ofhciaHY
rnoy, - the state Department for two whole
days after the newspapers here had an
nounced II. ,,.
later in October when the Sagasta Cabinet
made its voluminous reply, the American Lesa-
tion in Madrid took three whole days ana rlsH'S
10 make a translation. 10 reduce the sNhopS'S'
form the important features and begih 10 cap'e
&, and II was not until hours afterward uldt
the complete synopsis reached the state De
nar;ment This occurred when the treslaen'
was mapping out his annual Message 10 ~ ~
yrees and was impatient for a summary or the
TepIv and when the sensational newspapers VI
The country were filed with contrdplctoIE
statements and there was unusual excltenhen,
Tf General Woodford had promptly dlspatchea
a few sentences giving the purport or the oocu-
ment and followed this at once win the PiIH-
cpaI features of the reply no fault Al 'nal "ine
would have been found