SPAIN AND AMERICA.
WASHINGTON, February 5,
of the Spanish-Ameri-can peace treaty lacks three votes. The Democrats are resisting an explanatory resolution before the fate of the treaty is decided. [A previous cable states that President McKinley was willing that the Senate should adopt a separate resolution in connection with the peace treaty, expressing America's desire to establish stable government in the Philippines till the islands were ripe for independence.] In the Senate Mr Walcott said the Democrats were seeking to make political capital for the next Presidential electiqn. It would be unpatriotic to leave the Philippines a prey to the land hungry nations of Europe, all of whom were, hostile to America except Britain. He warmly eulogised the attitude of England. The American Government has accepted, the tender of the Campania Transatlantica of Cadiz for the conveyance of Spanish troops from the Philippines to Spain.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 30, 6 February 1899, Page 5
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