The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-08-10
TASK OF TRANSMITTING IT
Will Require Some Hours ant Then
It Viii Go 10 the Presic
DOCUMENT is QUIZ LENeIHY.
Impression Prevails That che Answer Is.
Not simple Acceptance Of Terms
IrapoAed ms a BASIS FOR Peace
But Guarded Statement
Of the Concession.

Washington, Aug s.-The dispatch
received at the French embassy. it is
learned. was the Spanish answer to
Americas terms of peace. 1t was in
cipher and is quite long. The embassy
stan began it's translation at once, but
it. will take sometime to complete the
work
Washington. Aug. 8.-spain's answer
to the demands OF the United States is
now on the way to Washington, but it
is coming with a slowness almost
painful in view of the earnest desire
to know whether the acceptance is
complete or qualified
The French ambassador and staff
awaited it all night. There are no less
than five translations, four of them
cipher in the transmission between
Madrid and washington.
After the Spanish cabinet meeting
Sunday the response was reduced to
the Spanish cipher and then sent to
the Spanish ambassador at Paris, Sem
or Leon Castillo, by whom it was to
be decfphered. and translated into
French, after which Senior Castillo
would deliver it to the French foreign
ONCE, to be reduced to the French
cipher for transmission to the French
ambassador here.
These moves, including work on the
cipher code, and time required for ca
bling, will take, it is calculated, some
eight hours. Under the circumstances
the impression prevailed in all official
quarters up to midday that the re-
Spouse would not be placed in the
hands of the president until quite late
Monday at best, and more likely not
before Tuesday.
The impression is growing in official
quarters that the Spanish answer,
while in the nature of concession OF
the American demand. is not brief
and simple acceptance without reser-
walton or condition,
There is no direct official advice on
this point, but all the press advices
from Madrid indicate that the response
is a document of considerable length.
prepared with laborious care, and that
it has several features which may, not
appear in the conditions presented by
the United States.
Whether the acceptance of this char
acter will be regarded by the author1-
ties here as sufficiently responsive to
the American demands is matter eX-
citing much conjecture.
In some quarters it is being urged
that so long as Spain accepts the es-
sentiaI principle required by the Unit
ed States, the disposition here will be
to deal with the defeated enemy in a
generous spirit on minor details.
1t is probable that this will be the
view presented by the French ambas-
sador. in case the Spanish reply is not
a simple, categorical acceptance of the
American terms.
On the other hand it is believed that
a response which opens up diplomatic
controversy and gives the conditions
a much broader scope than as origin
ally framed at Washington may not
meet with approval here.
For instance. the Madrid advices
seem to imply that the answer is based
on an Immediate cessation of hostili-
ties. but the view among officials here
Is that hostilities will not cease on the
submission of conditional response,
but that they will progress steadily till
the American conditions progress en-
tireIy beyond the stage of possible dip
iomatic complication over details.
There is a strong disposition in some
influential quarters to have hostilities
continue until the actual evacuation of
Cuba and Porto Rico begins by the
enbarkation of Spanish troops.
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