Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — SPAIN GETS TERMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SPAIN GETS TERMS.

THE CONDITIONS UPON WHICH , M'KINLEY WILL END WAR. Cnba to Be Free, United Statee to Hold Manila and Adjacent TerritoryDemands Porto Klco and Coalins Stntion in Ladrones. Dons Mast Get Oat. Washington special: Spain on , received the reply of President SjcKinley to the note asking on what terms the United States would open negotiations to end the war. At the end of a long interview with the President at the White House Saturday afternoon, the French ambassador, M. Cambon, acting in behalf of the Spanish Government, transmitted to Dake Almodovar de Rio, the Spanish minister of foreign affairs at

Madrid, the text of a communication embodying the answer of the United States. A cabinet meeting lasting three hours, at which the final touches were put to the American answer, was held earlier in the day. The visit of the French ambassador had consumed quite as long a period. The following is an official statement given out by authority of the President as to the terms of peace offered by the United States: “In order to remove any misapprehension in regard to the negotiations as to peace between the United States and Spain it is deemed proper to say that the terms offered by the United States to Spain in the note handed to the French ambassador Saturday last are in substance as follows* “The President does not now put forward any claim for pecuniary indemnity, but requires the relinquishment of all claims of sovereignty over or title to the island of Cuba, as well as the immediate evacuation by Spain of the island; the cession to the United States and the immediate evacuation of Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies; and the like cession of an island in the.Ladrones. “TBb United States will occupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition and government of the Philippines. “If these terms are accepted by Spain in their entirety, commissioners will be named by the United States to meet commissioners on the part of Spain for the purpose of concluding a treaty of peace on the basis above indicated.” CUBANS MAY CAUSB TROUBLE. English Press Discusses the Situation at Santiago. The London newspapers comment oh the relations between the Cubans and Americans in Santiago, and ore sarcastic at the expense of the former for unanieffacing themselves in the presence of hard work and Mauser ballets, and then haughtily consuming American rations with patriotic zeal. The Standard foresees the possibility of a serious quarrel, the American being compelled to forcibly suppress the patriots whom they went to protect. It says that enthusiasts in the United States might have been less sympathetic With the chivalrous Cuban If they had seen him amid his native scrub in his native repugnance to soap and the law of decent living. Cubanß are like the Cretans, one of the oppressed nationalities that it is easier to love at a distance. The Daily News anticipates that the Americans will be compelled for a considerable time to keep a substantial army in Cuba. MANY NATIVES JOIN MILES), Porto Ricans Would Enlist with Americana to Fight Against Spain. Advices from Gen. Miles say that thonmsh&i'jot overjoyed Port* Ridgfts offered to joinijis drmy in the figMxgqtnst Spain. Pfativa* brought he§f cattle and othfr tupptia* |0 tb* army mtjk gave evidences of tfee greatest joy at the presence of'the invaders. , . • • . Paymaster* Are Appointed. . Fifteen additional paymasters have been appointed by the War Department to bo assigned to duty In Santiago.

LIEUT. COL. J. H. DORST. He carried Shafter's demand for surrender of Santiago to the Spanish lines.