Show THECARLJSTS STOODaNQ N SHOW Overwhelming Sagasta Victory Vic-tory For the Cortes THREATENING NOTE FROM WASHINGTON I I I Senor Gullon Says a Rupture Can Now Hardly Be Avoided I I Latest Intelligence From This Country Coun-try Has Inspired a Great PatriStic Movement Throughout Spain Wageearners Will Give Up a Days Pay to Establish a Fund For Warships Elections In Havana Ha-vana QuietSpanish Comment I i Madrid March27 The elections for I the popular branch of the cortes have passed off on the whole quietly The j indications are that the government ot I I j Senor Sagasta will have an enormous t I I majority estimated at SOO of the 42 seats in the congress Disorders are apprehended at Bilboa where the polling caused great excitement excite-ment The military judge at Bilboa issued a warrant for the arrest of thcee Socialist municipal councilors One of them was taken into custody but the other two escaped ELECTION IN HAVANA Havana March 27 Election day Inl Havana has been more quiet than I many election days in New York ch1i I I cago and other large American cities II The iroxernment took admirable precautions pre-cautions n the nature cf a police j guard which proved effective There j was a good deal of apprehension among some of the Americans owing i to the distribution of a threatening circular i i I cir-cular but it was recognized that this 1t i ret I emanated from irresponsible quarters I I j I and its threats were disregarded by j all except the very nervous x It is too soon to give the result of the I elections but clams are made that the government ticket including 20 autonomists i i auton-omists ate conservatives had been Oct t elected The vote in the city has been very light I RUPTURE UNAVOIDABLE I I Berlin March 27 The Madrid correspondent corre-spondent of the Frankfort Zeitung says I Senor Gallon thaminfster of foreign rafTsir has inform < rwne that an extremely ex-tremely threatening nntehns arrived l irom Washington regarding the cessation ifg ar i tion of war in Cuba He added No 1 matter how one leganls the affair a i i rupture can now hardly I be avoided FOREIGN MEDIATION Senor Gullon the minister of foreign affairs still talks hopefully but in very reserved terms regarding thej recent I re-cent exchange of views with European governments Dinlomacy is most active ac-tive all the ambassadors are receiving lone communications from their respective re-spective governments The newspapers newspa-pers attach the greatest importance to this phase of the question so much so that interest in the elections is most lacking I Rumor persistently points to Russia as the most like mediator Senor Sagasta is said to be busy with a diplomatic di-plomatic document either a note to the American government or a circular to the powers v SPANISH PATRIOTISM Madrid March 7The latest intelligence I intel-ligence from the United States has occasioned oc-casioned a great patriotic movement throughout Spain A large number of persons have announced their intention I to give up a days pay for services In order to raise a fund to purchasa a warship A committee over which the bishop of Madrid will preside has been I organized to receive subscriptions made SpeciaUtheatrical performances are announced the receipts of which are to be devoted to this purpose IGNORANT SUTLER ill I The Duke of Veragua who knows President McKinley personally is reported re-ported as saying President I McKinley does not si inspire me with confidence He I thinks himself the first statesman in the world He is proud and vain and his great vanity makes him believe himself a Napoleon when in reality lie is an Ignorant sutler It is reported that the Conservatives intend to propose that the troops In the interior of Cuba should withdraw to the coast until the autonomists and seperatists arrive at an agreement but it is not expected that the cortes will entertain such a proposal The situation in Cuba is declared today to-day 4o be much improved WONT DISCUSS IT El Liberal referring to dispatches from Washington attributing to President Pres-ident McKinley a decision to propose that Spain should free Cuba for an indemnity says I The government may answer what it pleases but the Spanish people as a I whole will not deign to discuss this proposal Spain will go to war in fulfilling ful-filling her duty not for ephemeral glories glor-ies or the desire of conquest We may emerge vanquished which is somewhat some-what doubtful but we will never come out dishonored 1 EI Imparcial says It is indispensable indispens-able to get ready all the elements we possess for a naval fight and It Is I I urgent that the fleet should go to Cuba SPAINS ADVANTAGE I j The United States will maintain the advantage if they can play seven ironclads I iron-clads in front of the Vizcaya and the Almirante Oquendo but when our two I I ships actually have to fight this disadvantage I I I advantage will disappear before the j skill and courage of our sailors I I The semiofficial El Glob6 says At I I a time when the duration of the war In Cuba is being minimized by means of autonomy the United States throws I down the mask which hid their ambition ambi-tion In whose name are they going to establish intervention and In theVause of what save that of revolutionary I bandits If the United States will put a light to the powder they have been heaping up so long this Is an inopportune I inoppor-tune time to do so El Liberal ridicules the Idea of the I United States having any real Idea of I going to war Pointing to the defensive I defen-sive preparations reported in the American i Amer-ican press obsolete monitors being sent to protect Norfolk New York Boston Port Royal Charleston and Savannah I Sa-vannah throwing up earthworks at Fort Jefferson and arming them with longrange guns making arrangements I with the railway companies for the prompt conveyance of troops to threatened I threat-ened points etc preparations which El Liberal characterizes as childish it says All this looks much more as though I America expected war to be declared against her than that sheds about to declare it against Spain In political circles all sorts of rumors are afloat as to Spain having formed a powerful alliance The truth as to this if there be any truth In it at all is at present known to that only which maintains an imperturbable reserve WHAT WOODFORD SAID Words Uttered By Our Minister at Fridays Conference Madrid March 27El Liberal commenting com-menting upon the long conference on I Friday between Senor Gullon the foreign for-eign minister and United States Min fster Woodford says Tho behavior of the United States minister could not be more significant He scarcely brought himself to listen and uttered a few words of excuse for the attitude of his government El Epoca prints in Spanish and English Eng-lish the following full authorized statement by United States Minister Woodford My official position forbids my saying say-ing anything about the diplomatic duties f du-ties entrusted to my care The president presi-dent desires peace between Spain and the United States and peace in Cuba Ever since I was accredited I have worked by his direction and under his guidance for peace and I shall so work so long as I am accredited I have been a soldier and know the horrors of war and today as always I pray that peace may continue between the land of Columbus and the land oft of-t Washington London March 7The Madrid correspondent cor-respondent of the Standard says I am able to state that the following is the real course of the negotiations During the past week on Wednesday United States Minister Woodford had an official interview with the minister of foreign affairs and the colonies Se nors Gullon and Morel at the private residence of the former It lasted two hours General Woodford left with an official note explaining fully the views and intentions of the American government govern-ment In this document no specific intimation intima-tion was made nor any date fixed but I it was clearly and firmly stated that the United States government could not longer withhold from congress the correspondence and consular reports which not only put In full light the distress of the rural population of Cuba the inadequate relief and the i persistence of disaffection but also I showed that the new colonial policy I and other efforts of Spain had not produced the results that would justify I holding out the prospect of early pacification paci-fication I Consequently the American note I lays stress upon the fact that con tln I gencies are now fast approaching for the action which was foreshadowed In I a presidential message and diplomatic correspondence so frequently and clearly clear-ly during the last three years The American note and the language of General Woodford in his conference with Senor Gullon leave no doubt that I it is the intention of the Washington I government to act very soon beginning with the communication of the above document and the Maine report to congress con-gress and sending relief officially to the distressed Cubans On Friday contniues the Madrid correspondent of the Standard General Gen-eral Woodford had by appointment another olliclal interview with Senor Gullon in which he received the official of-ficial reply of the Spanish government I to the American memorandum of March 23 The Spanish reply couched in firm language says that the Spanish government gov-ernment cannot agree with the conclusions conclu-sions the American government has drawn from inaccurate information that does not tally with the recent activity ac-tivity and progress of the military operations op-erations in Cuba and the visible popularity popu-larity and progress of th < 5 new colonial institutions which have been loyally accepted and are supported by even the old adversaries of home rule in the I colonv Spain the reply continues cannot can-not natural admit the interference which is foreshadowed in the American II note and deprecates the sending of official of-ficial relief and war vessels to Cuba as being the very elements that have retarded the pacification of the colony col-ony Spain reminds the American government gov-ernment of all the concessions she has made to preserve peaceful relations and to conciliate the United States the past proof being her willingness to submit the conflicting commission reports re-ports as to the Maine to arbitration In conclusion the Spanish reply shows that the government believes it has reached the extreme limit of concessions con-cessions compatible with the honor and dignity cf Spain and will not admit ad-mit encroachments on her rights of sovereignty in the west The matter now rests with the president and both governments evidently consider the Maine affair a mere incident in the more important issues about to be raised by the conduct of the United States SPANISH PRESS COMMENT Spain Resolved to Defend Her National Na-tional Right and Honor Madrid March 7La Correspond encia I do Espana says it understands the government naIS occupied with certain I cer-tain new factors in the situation which it believes may givj a more favorable turn to events La Corrpo says the government is calm in the consciousness of having done Its duty and Is satisfied The foreign press has recognized this and also the rirmness with whIch Spain is resolved to defend I her national right and honor El Correo adds God knows If matters are becoming worse which Is possible but the provocation is notorious and scandalous and if onerous results are proposed to us the country en masse faithful to its traditions will repel them The Epoca says that Spain Is trying to prevent considering it u calamity and has freely made important concessions such as autonomy Spain the paper continues con-tinues has not lost for a single moment her calm consideration but she cannot consent to the perpetual Intervention of Americans and the American government Ei HeralJo declares that without the intervention of the United States the Cuban insurrection would have been reduced re-duced to mere brigandage If the revolt continues says EI Heraldo Is because the rebels see in America the hope of an III starred tomorrow to-morrow for Spain and while this hope f ti wTIrlalt exists the Insurrection will maintain sufficient suf-ficient strength blowly to consume our blood and money War with the United States represents the solution of the problem which we must examine with tranquil minds La Naccional says it awaits calmly the approaching donouement IT IS UNCORROBORATED Report Expressing Emperor Williams Wil-liams Opinion of Maine Explosion London March 27 Count De Rascon the Spanish ambassador to Great Britain paid a visit to the foreign oiiice at a late hour yesterday and remained three quarters of an hour No credence whatever Is given in well informed circles to the Sunday specials of Berlin correspondents alleging an interview in-terview with the United States ambassador ambas-sador Mr White at Berlin in the course of which Mr White Is made to say that Emperor William had expressed a belief thf hp ittalor n q rtroP rom 11 a g outside and that the German Admiral Knorr with members of the naval committee com-mittee had studied at theemperors direction I di-rection a number of exhaustive reports cabled from Havana and had reached the conclusion that i was duo to the overheating over-heating of the Maines coal bunkers a I view Ambassador White l was said to share I What Spain Declines t Do Berlin March 2The Madrid correspondent I corre-spondent of the Berliner Taseblatt says Spain will not only refuse to allow I i American interference in assisting the suffering Cubans but will decline to pay Indemnity unless It Is shown unmistakably unmis-takably that the Spanish authorities were responsible for the Maine explosion I President demands these two things war Is unavoidable |