Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — THE SPANISH VIEW. [ARTICLE]

THE SPANISH VIEW.

Cabinet Officers and Gen. Woodford Are Pleased with Tone of Message. Madrid, April 13. —Senor Sagasta, the premier, on leaving the palace after his daily visit to the queen regent, informed the newspaper representatives that the government was waiting for the full text of President McKinley’s message before acting on its contents. He said also that he considered the message, so far as it was known to him, not hostile in tone toward Spain, and that he would continue desirous of peace, for obtaining which the armistice in Cuba afforded the means. While the message of the president fs much criticised by the general public and by a portion of the press as provocative, it is known that the members of the government and Gen. Woodford do not consider it so, but are confident of a permanent peace. El Gorreo, the official organ, gives its first impressions since the reception of the cabled extracts of President McKinley’s message. It says: “President McKinley's insistence on the right, of American Interference in Cuba is little agreeable to Spain,while his complaints against the prolongation of the war appear to partial minds steeped in bitter irony in view of America’s insistence in causing the prolongation.” London, April 13. —The Vienna correspondent of the Dally Chronicle says: “The cabinet has commenced official negotiations with Spain, suggesting that the future relations between Cuba and the Spanish government be based upon the model of Canada and England.”