The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-08-13


net council which was set for 10
o'clock this morning, says an Associ-
ated Press dispatch Sunday from Ma
drid, it will be impossible to know &C.
curately the text of SPANS answer to
the American peace terms.
From q well informed source it is
learned, however, that while the an
swer does not discuss the four bases
which the United States makes an es-
sontial preliminary to peace and which
Spain accepts without reservation, it
points out that in order to avoid the
definite negotiations being in any way
complicated by incidents of the war, it
is expedient to agree beforehand to
suspension of hostilities.
1t is reported that Duke Almodavar
de Rio, the minister of foreign affairs,
and Monsignor Merry del Val, Span
ish ambassador to the Vatican, will be
selected to represent Spain in the ne
gotiations. The newspapers make no
comment on the situation, owing to
the strictness Of the censorship.
1890 p.m.-Senor Sagasta, the pre-
mier, has just concluded his confer
ence with the Queen Regent. Her
majesty approves the generel lines of
the reply of Spain as to peace terms,
which Senior Sagasta explained to her.
The reason for DOstpOniuQ the cabi-
net council until 6 o'clock this even
ing is that the note is not fully drawn
up. The government believes that
the United States will accept Spain's
answer, which will certainly reach the
White House by Tuesday. As con-
sequence of the United States accept
ing the reply, hostilities will immedi-
ately afterwards be suspended.
As the reply to the American terms
was only submitted to the queen re-
gent today, all the reports of her ap-
prOyal yesterday of the American de-
mands are necessarily without founda-
ton.
Top. m.-The cabinet council termi-
mated after having completely ap-
proved the reply to the United States, |
which, it is said, accepts the American
conditions.
Tho reply will be telegraphed to
Senior Leon y Castillo, the Spanish
ambassador to France, tonight, so
that NJ. Cambon, the French ambas-
sador at Washington, will receive it to-
morrow.
The government is fully convinced
that the note will be satisfactory to the
Washington government, and that o
suspension of hostilities will be its
immediate consequence.
THE TERMS ACCEPTED.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Times, telographing Sunday,
says: "
'Today all the best authorities
ngreo that the government has decided
to accept the American conditions.
The American reply to SPANS request s
for explanations reached Madrid Fri |
day evening. The text has not been +
livulged, bat 1t is known that 1t r
brought little consolation.
president Mckinley turned deaf =
oar tg the suggestion that Porto Rico
might be left to Spain and compensa-
lion sought elsewhere.
Regarding the Philippines, the /
'eply was not altogether satisfactory, !
)ut it was Of such a nature that there /
vas no longer any necessity for post L
'oning decision on the main Dues a
ion. f
Meantime Senior Sagasta's exten. {
Two consultations seemed to leave no {
loubt that the nation wants peace. 1 C
10 not mean to say that all declared "
his in plain language. On the con- d
rary, there was O deal of reticence, fl
'ome persons had more or less tt
learly expressed the idea that the Il
est men in the country would patri- b
tically forget, for the moment, all n
and party considerations. and e.
ordially and disinterestedly endeayor
D assist the government in its diff.
ulties.
This idea, however, if it were ever " "
eriously entertained, was not rea- 81 :,
zed. Perhaps one or two acted in ~
his spirit, but in most cases the cloyen "
Dot of the politician peeps out occas- F..
'nally under the flowing robes of the q,
atriot Some only half concealed IN IN
leir suspicious that Senior Sagasta, in w
rofessing to consult the matter SER &c &c
usly in great crisis of the national ~ ~
STORY, was in reality playing the part " "
an old parliamentary hand and abso- W. W.
tely laying traps for his political n Ds
yals. 81
eff the suspicion had any real foun-
'tion Sagasta must be consummate
tor, for in all the interviews he spoke We
18th apparent frankness and SINGER ws
and personal disinterestedness A.
at might have disarmod all but the ~
'rdenod politicians. on
Even when it was suggested that in,
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