Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1898 — RESENT RELIEF PLANS [ARTICLE]

RESENT RELIEF PLANS

Spaniards Will Interpret Their Execution ns Intervention. The Madrid Impnreial says tlint if the proposition Attributed to the United States to send a warship with relief for the reoonoontrado* next week proves true, Spain will interpret the act as one of intervention which would he intolerable. The Madrid correspondent of the London Standard says that the following is the substance of Spain's reply to the uote presented by Minister Woodford: "The Spanish reply, which Is couched in firm language, stated that tlx? Government cannot agree to the conclusions the American Government lias drawn from inaccurate information that doer not tally with the recent activity and progress of military operations in Cuba, and the visible popularity and progress of the new colonial institutions, which have been loy-

ally n<'cop*,«d and supported, by even old :ui versa r it** of homo rule. Spain cannot, naturally, fVlmit the interference which is foreshadowed in the American note, and deprecates ftio sending of oftlcial relief and war veivisdst to Cuba ns being the very elements that have retarded the progress of the Spanish '•ale in the island. “Spain remits the United States of all the eoncessionf f-hc has made to preserve cordial relation* <*nd conciliate America, the last proof beibg her willingness to submit the contlictinA' commission reports to arbitration. In conclusion, the Spanish reply shows that the Government believes that it has reached fie extreme limit of concessions compatible rith the honor and dignity of Spain, and •All not,admit encroachments on her rigklN of sovereignty in the West Indies."