Items of Interest March 9, 1899 Issue

Items of Interest

Information is received from Madrid that Senor Sagasta has handed the resignation of the ministry to the Queen Regent.

The administration at Washington learned of the resignation with interest, but with entire serenity, since it has no apprehension that it will prevent the ratification of the treaty of peace, or interfere in any way with American interests.

The Queen Regent is designated in the treaty itself as the person to ratify it, without reference to the Cortes or any other Spanish authority, and it was understood by our commissioners at Paris, when that provision was inserted in the treaty, that the Cortes had already, in approving the protocol signed by Judge Day and Ambassador Cambon, conferred upon the Queen Regent plenary power to sign any treaty that might be negotiated, and the understanding here is that the action of the Spanish ministry in asking the passage of a bill for the cession of the Philippines was equivalent to asking a vote of confidence.

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