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Show Vi li.l I'ulo wiik itrrulti'tl. New Yi rk, IS The hWif man's Jo-n iuii this morning, in a long article, I the truth of which it vouched for, I gives whut it claims is the history of how Admiral Polo came to be relieved! :of the Spanish ministry at Washing-I Washing-I ton. It i-ayi, that, early in April last, i the Admiral rcct ived a dispatch from jhis govi rnnient Hinting the tmp ire'--Mng of the Carlii-t innurrection ind the CuUm reoellion without foieign heip to be a recogni.td im- , po.-il'iiity, and that, as the Emperor of (iermany had made Spaid at once u tiers honorable and acecplable,itwii3 ilesirable that Spain know what position posi-tion the American government would take in the event of the cession of i'orto Kie'o to tjermany. The same courier brought the Admiral a nolo explaining that the German government govern-ment would aec to it that a proposed pro-posed loan to the Serrano government, govern-ment, ollercd i(i London, should be a success and would, itself, J'urnish the necessary funds, the totjil amount having been agreed on; a'so that the German government would establish a llect of cruisers on the Spanish coast to aid the Spanish fleet; also that the German government would recognize Serrano s dictatorship on its present basis, and use its utmost influence to have other governments recognize ii; and the Spanish government govern-ment agreed to cede to Germany by a provisional title but one that may Income popular the eJsland of Porto, liieo, in whole or iu part. Admiral, Polo lost no lime in reopening reopen-ing communication with tiie Minister of State, and said tho proposed bargain bar-gain with Germany was unpatriotic; that it Hioirked him; and that he ollercd his resignation as Spanish , mini-tor to Washington. The -Madrid Dictatorship forthwith replied that the Carlist insurrection was every day making immense progress, and every possible means must be used to crush it. "Your excellency," said the minister "has exaggerated your scruples. Our Government has accepted ac-cepted the offers of the German Cabinet, because they in no way injure in-jure the national sentiment. INo German Ger-man foot will tread the sacred soil of Spain proper. It is not an intervention interven-tion but only police survey, done by 'Germany in concert with the marine !of the country. As to Porto liieo, I that is only a, pledge for the fulfill-, fulfill-, ment of agreements by tne two gov-leriiments.'' gov-leriiments.'' Polo answered: "1 have had the weakness to be badly counseled, coun-seled, as I was to put rav name at once to an act that has been condemned con-demned at home and abroad." The Admiral refers to the mutually disagreeable dis-agreeable bargain of protocol about the Virfiiiius. "I am fully determined determin-ed for the future," he says, "if I can, to influence the minister here to tako into consideration only what my heart tells mc for the welfare wel-fare and grandeur of Spain. Yottr excellency, then, cannot be surprised sur-prised at my formal refusal to give my name to cither of the two acta that 1 condemn. The abandonment, even for a time, of our island Porto Kico, or the debasement of our navy, J, as a navy oll'ieor, refuse to have any part in, an act that makes our noble otriccrs aud our bravo sailors auxiliaries of a German police." Tht response to this was the recall of 1 olo. The Journal says it. has possession of much more documentary evidence. |