SPUN. 



Prance. The main ' Ys proposal was 



md a penal colony where dangerous an 

 ists, to whom no count rv will an\ : nger afford 



f asylum, shall U- detained f">r life. 

 Gen. Axcarraga announced that the < 

 would continue the | H .|iry of .s, -f.. i < a novas, and 

 reposed full confidence in the conduct of 

 r in Cub.. Iniidiiuiitnrx. Aft- 



arrival of Stow 



.;- to the 

 vela and 



uld aban- 

 1 ulia. S-fti.r Saga-! a f n -aw in the dm-ioji- 



n speedy advent to power and 



the a- "f hi* scheme of Cuban autonomy. 



- was precipitated by the a<-> of the 



i. v uting > ftor Ili- 



uster of Finance, for having 

 pnssDssiiin nf Thf trrasiirr of the church of l.ueh. 



>gh the archbishop 'had forbidden t 

 niunirati.in. The other member- of the Cabinet 

 Upheld their colleague and appealed to the I 

 although the bishop had acted in accordance with 

 the canon law and within his right-, (o-n. A 

 raga made a final attempt to concentrate all sec- 

 .-Conservatives, but he could not induce 

 SeftorSilvela to co-operate with R. micro Uoblcdo. 

 whom he had denounced as a corruptions, nor t" 

 countenance Gt - pr-H-eedin--. K\< ; 



had risen tO OT nt.. and the stcad\ 



in tie f""d stuffs, owing to the growing 



depreciation of the md paper curr- 



further increaM-d the |*>pu)ar feel - t he 



ministry Commercial i ! alarmed at the 



of the Bank of S|iain. which hail now an 

 lote circulation. The instructions of the 



\ an minister aixl the financial and mili- 

 tary rt rait - of the (iovernment rendered a change 

 in "the Cuban policy advisable, but the min 

 could not agree on any new policy. The ministry 

 had a meeting on Sept 29 to di-cu the removal 



-ykr as a possible mean- of prolonging Us ex- 

 istence. The conference -ulted in no de- 

 cision on tin- point, and no other solution h, 

 been presented, the minister- found it necessary to 

 resign. The Queen Regent a<,epied their re- 

 tions at once, and <>n (.-t.4Senor Sagasta formed 

 a Litieral ministry as follow-: Pre-ident of the 

 Cbwi- ' SaWta; Minister ..f Koreign Af- 

 lairs. Pio Gullon : Minister of Jnsti /..-ml: 

 er of the C.lonien,S. Moret y Prendergast ; 

 Minister of the Interior. F. ELOasaepon; Minister 

 r. Gen. M llear- 

 Admiral lU-rmejo : Minister of Finance. Lopez 

 Puigwrrer: Minister of Public Work-. Comn. 

 and Agriculture, Count Xiqucna. At the first 

 . - bet ' < abac reforms 

 drawn up by Seflor Moret on the ba-si- of autonomy 

 wai r-ptl in priiicinle. and on Oct. ! an order 

 for th. nv-mll of Gen. \N eyh-r wa- adoiitefl and was 

 imm .-ned by i 

 Stud Ramon Blanco WM chosen as WevlerV 

 eassor. It ma decided to send out another 20,000 



r.ler to promcnte the cani|*ign ag 

 the inwrsjenta w long as it might be neoeasftry. but 

 tbere wa to U- n , -mplete alteration in th- system 

 of w.rfar . nt c.mp 



of the abune of American citi/. -n-hip by Cubans 

 who u it a a shield for revolutionary art 



r Canovan had "-ubmitted 



to the Government nt Washington soon after tlie 

 advent of the >' administration a draft of 



a naturalization n that was the outcome 



of a discussion previously carrier] on with Secretary 



y. and was in general *^,pe almost identical 

 with the treaty subsisting bet w. en the I 

 States and Ecuador. It was pr..{-^d that if a 



naturalized Oft ws his residence in th.- 



Ktrth \\ith. MM the intention of re- 

 turning to the country when- In- ua- mil urali/ed. 

 ill be held r.-umed the obligations 



of his original citizenship, and that a n -ul, -nee of 

 >rar> m h Mall, in tb 



of rebut- ;m in. 



I'RAXKDEH MATEO HAOAKTA. PRIME MIMKTKR OF SPAIN. 



tcntion to -tay there and shall annul his naturali- 

 zation. The I'liiled St;i H not 

 prepared to settle the i|iiestion of nalurali/.at ion at 

 this inop|ortune moment, when the Cuban que*- 

 ti<.n called for ., 'tleinent. Tin- note pn- 

 d by Gen. Woodford before the iv-j^nation "f 

 the Conservative Government was couched in cour- 



and friendly terms, irivini: repented assurances 

 that the President of t he I' li ited State- de-ii'.-d oiily 

 peaCG and amity between the two nation^: but. on 

 the other hand, it gave a distinct warning that 

 American interests were sulTei n the 



insurrection, that the altitude of neutrality could 

 not IN- indefinitely prolonged, and that, if tramjuil- 

 lity was n. ;i-hed. the in-ur . 



would be formally rerogni/ed as belligerents. It 



went further than this, ami in the form of 

 amiable expre*^ -d will toward Spait. 



gested that the time had conn- for a coinpp 



'.tending part ic^. and made on tin- 

 part of the President a tender of ......1 office- with 



a view to bringing about thi- result, hinting omi- 

 nously that if Spain should decline tin- offer ..f 



tl-le intervention !. :it will ha 



i. r how American interests are t 

 teeted. Tin n<.te. which was presented on Sej 



: upon the Spanish (iovernment to formulate. 

 lM-for- the cml of finite proposal- by 



which the tender of mediation could be made effect- 

 ive. .. v assurances that the war 

 would lc brought to a speedy end. 



The Sagasta (iovernment In-fore answ 

 American note publi-lied its programme of Cuban 

 reforms, and then asked that time be given to test 



:Tcct of the system of autonomy in pacifying 

 Cuba. Th n of foreign int'ervcntion oon- 



tained in the Woodford note prodiu-e<l a fierce out- 



