The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-04-02
spain's Limit of Concession.

as the limit Of concession which Mad
rid will grant. If there is to be anoth-
er move the Spanish government looks
to the United States to make it. This
is at least the situation as it presents
itself to those best informed in Wash
ington. OF course it cannot be foretold
what Madrid will do in the stress of
circumstances within the next two
days, but those best able to judge do
not expect any further move from
Madrid, as they say that Spain has
reached the limit of her concessions.
The Spanish minister has naturally
been center in the exciting incidents
of to-day. He is fully conscious of the
gravity of the situation, and while still
expressing hope for peace, speaks to
his friends of the eventualities which
may come. To one of them he said
to-day that he could not believe that
two nations made up. of calm and SEN
sible people would rush into untold
horrors of war. He added that it would
be a wicked and cruel crime for this
result to be precipitated The staff of
the legation is working day and night
and the lights in the legation office
We're burning until o'clock this morn
ing, while the secretaries and attaches
were reducing dispatches to cipher for
transmission to Madrid. The minister
superintendents this work personally.
The Pope.
Late this evening a Madrid bulletin
was received stating that the pope
was seeking to exercise pacific inf1u-
ences by inducing both Spain and the
insurgents to accept an armistice in
Cuba. If this be true, the pope has
not given any instructions in inform
alton along this line to Manager Mar
tinelli, the papel delegate at Washing
ton. The latter has taken no step to-
ward mediation. 1t has been reported
that one of the archbishops of the
Catholic church in the course of an
informal conversation with high off,
cials here suggested the mediation of
the pope. This, however, was unoff1-
cial and no authorized proposition of
any character has come from Rome.
Furthermore, there is little reason to
believe that the administration would
receive with favor any proposition of
this character from a foreign source.
In congress the situation was little
changed from the tension of the past
two days. While the senate was in Sc
cret session there was a great deal of
war talk. The subject under debate,
the acquisition of the Danish West IN
dies, served as text for the discus
sion. On the house side the members
gathered in groups and talked of the
war, for they seemed to have the i'm
preston that such an outcome was in
evitable. The foreign relations COM
mittee of the senate or it's sub-commit-
tee was in session nearly all day con-
sidering the Maine disaster as a part
of the Cuban question, as well as the
reply of Spain, which had been fur
nished the committee early in the day.
Nothing of Importance was accom-
plished at the capitol, but the senti-
ment showed plainly that if the pres
ident's message is for intervention he
will receive hearty support. There is
a disposition in some quarters of con-
gress to merely recognize the independ-
ence of Cuba. The recommendation of
the president will carry great weight.
If the president should simply report
that diplomacy is at an end and leave
the determination of the future course
with congress it is probable that i'm
mediate intervention will be recon-
Jnended