Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — SPAIN IS SORRY. [ARTICLE]

SPAIN IS SORRY.

Officially Disavows Responsibility for the De Lome Letter. The De Lome note has been officially disavowed by the Spanish Government and the incident is now regarded in Washington as closed. In the royal decree accepting the resignation of De Lome it is stated it leaves hint “without employment, with the emoluments due him,” the customary flattering phrased being omitted. The State Department gave out on abstract of a note sent by the Spanish Government to Minister Woodford at Madrid. Part of this abstract is here given: The Spanish ministry, in accepting the resignation of a functionary whose servlet's they have lieen using and valuing up to that time, leaves it perfectly well established that they do not share, and rather, on the contrary, disauthorize the criticisms tending to offend or censure the chief of n friendly state, although such criticisms had been written within the field of friendship and hod reached publicity by artful nnd criminal menus. As to the paragraph concerning the desirability of negotiations of commercial relations, if even for effect, nnd the importance of using n representative for the purpose stated in Senor Dupuy de Lome's letter, the Government expresses concern tlmt in the light of its conduct, long after the writing of the letter, nnd In view of Iho unanswerable testimony of simultaneous nud subsequent facts, any doubt should exist thnt the Spanish Government lias given proof of its real desire and of its innermost convictions with rcs|w>ct to the new commercial system and the projected treaty of commerce. The Spanish Government does not now consider it necessary to lay stress upon or demonstrate anew the truth and sincerity of its purpose nnd the unstained good faitli of its intentions. A pnrty of French miners nnd aeronauts have started by steamer for Canada, on route to the Klondike. They bring with them which they will use for crossing over difficult passes, provided with drug ropes at the end of which will be n steel shovel to dredge snow or cnrlli to enable them to sail nenr the ground. The sheriff of Dougins County, Mont., where the lynching of Adam Über recently occurred, was indicted for willful neglect of duly in not taking steps to prevent the illegnl execution, and his trial 1 get for Feb. 15.