The Wichita tribune., 1898-08-06
SPA|NIS DELAY 70 Be SHORT
Our Terms Of Peace Have Been
Technically Agreed To.
NOT QUITE CLEAR TO SPAIN.
The Enemy's Questions Considered Sin
cere and Proper by the Administration
M. Cambon Realizes That There r.
No Further Chance for Haggling.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.-The United
States government is now waiting to
hear again from Spain, and this time
it is expected the al yer will be final
The President has firmly declined the
earnest appeal Of the French ambassss-
dor to modify Americas demands, ex-
cept in slight and comparatively uns
important respects. There is no doubt
that the peace negotiations are pro
crossing to the entire satisfaction Of
the President and the members Of the
cabinet.
The conference yesterday afternoon
at the VIII ite house, in which the
President, NJ. Cambon and Secretary
Day participated, was devoted almost
entirely to @ discussion Of details
which are regarded by the President
rs unimportant, and hence theS re-
quests of the French ambassador, for
the most part, will be acceded to- One
of these was that the commission to
be appointed to settle the terms
OF peace shall meet outside Of the
United States and preferably in
France. The Madrid government,
through NJ Cambon, propounded
number Of questions as to the time
when Spain would be expected to evac-
uate Cuba and the territory to be
ceded to the United States. and as to
what provision would be made by the
United States to protect the interests
of the Spanish subjects. M. Cambon
was informed upon all of these points
presumably to his satisfaction.
NOT QUITE CLEAR TO SPAIN.
There is one point however, which
the Spanish authorities, judging from
their communication to their repre- SEN
tative here. fail to fully comprehend
and Secretary Days call upon the am
bassador last night was for the pur-
pose, principally, Of making perfectly
clear this one point, which was that
the evacuation of Cuba, Porto
Rico and y one of the Ladrone
islands. t. be- selected by the
Uni, I. - : :.
;s.1.ndeka, is in the CITY ! -
dition precedent % all peace negotia-
tions, and that not until these terms
had been fully complied with would
this government consent to entertain
any peace propositions whatever.
1t was midnight before the conces
sions of the President regarding the
meeting place Of the peace commits
sioners were communicated to the
Madrid authorities, SO that allowing
for the difference in time it was i'm
,,1rc,11a ~ ho roan;vaI
this morning However, it is an
nounced that the delay will
not be long, probably at most not
more than day or two and
that the answer, when it comes,
will be found to be an unconditional
acceptance of the terms as they now
stand. There does not seem to be oc-
casion for further prolonged consider
alton in Madrid before making this
reply, irasmuch as the propositions
that confront the Spanish cabinet are
practically the same as those with
which they dealt at the prolonged
meetings last Sunday and Monday.
The French ambassador was not dis
appointed at the result of his meeting
with the President. He realized that
the Spanish plea for an abatement of
the conditions would be useless 50 far
as they touched the vital points of the
demand. But the ambassador felt that
it was his duty, regardless Of his per-
sonal convictions, to lay the plea Of
the Spanish government before the
President and that is what yesterdays
meeting amounted to.
Something has been said about an
effort upon the part Of the Spanish h
government to secure some guarantee
from the government that the lives
and property of Spanish citizens
in conquered territory shall be
cared for. The idea of the ad-
ministration is that no such pledge
or guarantee is necessary. Assuming
sovereignty over conquered terri
tory and exercising it either through
civil administration, as will be the
case with Porto Rico in the end, or
through military governorsh p, as will
be the case in Cuba for an indefinite
time, the United States assumes a
strict obligation to prote"t the lives,
interests and property al, civ,zens
of all neutral nations, and it must be
remembered that when treaty Of
peace is signed the citizens Of Spain,
now en- emies, will fall in that category.