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Show PnESIDBNT'8 ULTIMATUM. trill Allow la hnl a Few llnnra In Com-pi Com-pi with lla llemaaili. Wathlngton. April o "The nltl-matam," nltl-matam," aald on niehilier of the cabinet cab-inet after the meeting, "hat been agreed upon In tubttanec, but ha not yet been formally drawn up It preparation prep-aration hat lon entruttrd to Attttt ant .Secretary Day of the atnte depart-ment depart-ment It will be aent to H pa In today and will reach Madrid In tit evening, ths difference In time between till country and Spain Wing about alx hour. I think yon areufn In aaylng that Mpnln will be given forty-eight hour, that la, until I'rldar evening, to auhmlt hor reply III aeeordnnco with the terina of the resolution, tho prealdent will demand thatNpoln thsll evaeuatn the lalaud The demand for IhU will l flat-footed and abaolute, and no tentative or half-way reply will aatltfy the president: nor will any compromise that contemplate tho withdrawal of Hpaln'a triHip from tho lalatid ami the ubepient re-ettab llahnirnt of HHinlab control nr tha raiting of the Spanlth flag over the roan try be accepted by the administration adminis-tration I'oaslbly It luij lie auggctted that the matter baa been referred to the eorles, which meet today, for It comlderHtlon. and Ihl might be In-ktriimrtitil In-ktriimrtitil In postponing fur a brief time the puttlug liitoeirect of the con-greattonol con-greattonol resolution, but tho president presi-dent I disposed nut to hriMik any further fur-ther delay III only fnlrthat In n great crisis like this reasonable tlina shall be given." |