| Show WHAT WILL BE ANSWER madrid advises advices indicate unqualified acceptance of our terms but the authorities in washington are not yet in receipt of any authentic information interim the american campaign progresses washington aug 6 the answer of spain to the american terms on which peace may be restored was expected almost any moment in official circles today and brief press dispatches from madrid elating that the answer waa an acceptance increased the tension over what was looked as the culmination of the negotiations during the early baars boars ot the day the state department bad not received any information as to answer nor was there any intimation when it will come the same was true aa to the french embassy the ambassador had made no arrangement for a call at the white house or the state department and cone of the of ficera of the embassy bad conferred with the officials here since the decision of last wednesday night everything was in a condition ot waiting and expectancy the report from madrid that a cabinet council would go over the reply abia afternoon indicated that it might not be to washington until late in the day secretary day had expected to go to atlantic city this evening to join mrs day and he may even yet carry out this plan unless some official assurance reaches him from the french embassy that the reply will be forthcoming tonight A report was current during the day that the embassy received a communication muni cation at an early hour abia morning the inference being that it we reply but this it cau be elated positively is not correct for up to midday spain has riven no intimation of bet answer to any quarter in washington the spanish announcement that the spanish cabinet will go over the reply this afternoon raises a possibility of a cabinet discussion and a prolongation of the time before the answer ie submitted all the madrid reports show that premier sagasta is endeavoring to reconcile the various political coli elements and leaders as far as possible and there is a among officials here to give him time for this difficult and delicate of public and political sentiment up to the point of acceptance of the american demands this view is strengthened among officials here by the fact that all our preparations are going steadily forward the campaign in porto aico ts progressing with uninterrupted success the hands of admiral dewey and gen Merrit tare being strengthened at manila and the conditions condi tiona at santiag Santi ae so serious when the american generals united in their plat ement promptly and energetically overcome for this reason it is felt that delay is the loss of spain and that sagasta in the interest ot his own country will make the answer as epee dily as internal conditions will permit if the madrid dispatches are felly realized by acceptance ot the american terms then the authorities feel that nothing romaine but the contine of concluding the formalities of peace in some quarters ij as to abo word acceptance it ia pointed out that it alie acceptance ie simply an affirmative on all the american u term a every chance for delay or collations De is at an end but the acceptance io qualified in any way by a condition that certain privileges bo granted er anted or conceded then there ie fitall abo possibility of lurther discussion the advises advices are EO unqualified in elatine that the american terms arc accepted that there to be little chance that spain will attach any conditions to her acceptance and yet only the answer itself final unconditional and conclusive can make it clear that the last chance of controversy is removed will be little here if the culmination of the peace arrangement arinee about chainge ip the spanish cabinet not so much by a crisis aa by a concerted movement amona the leaders to institute a cabinet represent ins all elements without yielding to abo army capable of tane the responsibility before the country 0 abo acceptance of american terme |
