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SHE YIELDS A POINT.
Spain Permits Reconcentrados tt
Return to Their Homes.
VIII Also Aid Them with SUPPLE,
and work-Tbis Ii Among the
Demands Made by Pres
ident Mckinley.

general reported the pacifcation OF th'
eastern provinces so far advanced thar
IL had been decided 10 rescind the re.
concentrate order in these provinces
and allow all subjects Of this decree e
return to their homes in the country
| To aid in the reestablishing OF the re
! concentrates upon their farms the
cablegram states the government will
! grant them the protection OF the Span
ish military forces augmented by 10.
! cal relief committees 10 look after their
immediate needs. Economic kitchens.
Ii says, are TO be established TO support
| the reconcentrados while waiting for
their first crops TO mature, and they are
u be furnished farming implements
and seeds by the government. To sup
ply them with ready money, such OF
them as are able will be given employ
ment upon public works, and II is as
serted by the authorities that these
measures will result in the speedy re-
Mobilization OF the rural communities
ia the western provinces.
This cablegram was not made pub
lie till more than an hour after mid
night, and no official comment upon its
significance could be secured.
Terms offered Spain.
Madrid, March 81. 4:3O p. ma cab
met council was held Wednesday aft
ernoon TO considerable American pro-
posals. Another Will be held to-day at
noon, presided over by the queen regent,
and at four o'clock to-day there will be
a final conference between United
States Minister Woodford. Senior Sa-
gasta, the premier, Senior Gullon, the
| foreign minister, and Senior Moret, the
minister for the colonies. The propo-
sition which Spain will answer covers
two points only, and its publication will
be n revelation to some of those abroad
who have been denouncing American
! aggressive attitude. II is as follows:
Spain TO proclaim Immediately an
armistice in Cuba, 10 last until Octo-
Der, during which interval the United
States will use It's good offices with the
! insurgents 10 make this temporary
peace permanent; and. second, Spnin
TO do her best toward relieving suffer
| ing and starvation on the island, with
America to be allowed 10 assist in this
work.
/ At the cabinet council Senior Capde-
| pom, minister OF the interior. explained
the results OF the elections and Senor
Moret read a series Of important docu-
ments relative 10 the situation of the
rcconccnirados in Cuba and the results
&C the efforts hitherto made for their
| relief.
In view OF these documents Senior
Moret proposed and the council ap-
proved an open credit Of 100000 pese-
tas, to be placed at the disposition Of
! Gen. Blanco by cable 10 be used in sue
coring necessitous reconcentrados and
/ e facilitate means of work for those
willing 20 return 10 their holdings with
the supply OF needful advances TO en-
able them TO till the ground.
The documents read by Senior Moret
tended 10 show that the healthy recon
centrados who were DESTROYS OF work
ing could find sufficient labor IN the
fields, but that those who had lost their
| implements or the small amount OF cap
| ital necessary TO sustain them forthrcc
months while waiting for the product
\ Of their husbandry needed some kind
/ OF administrative organization more
complex than the simple distribution
Of foods by commission. This inten-
ton appeared also from the fact that
many heads OF families had emigrated.
seeking work in the towns OF Mexico
and leaving abandoned wives and chill
dren, who remained without resources,
there being large numbers OF children
whose future must inspire the liveliest
sympathy.
| III Pals says four warships have been
obtained by Spain In France and that
/ negotiations are pending for the pur-
chase OF several torpedo boats in Great
britain. The Pals also says that orders
have been issued 10 mobilize all the
| Spanish warships and the torpedo boat
Halcon Is TO sail Immediately from
Carthagena for Cadiz, where second
torpedo squadron is being prepared.
Military engineers. according 10 the
Pals are starting for the Canary islands
and the Balenric islands are being forti-
fed. Two regiments, according to the
Pals, are going TO the Canary islands 10
strengthen the Spanish garrison there.
Harrison Called East.
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