decrees of November, 1897, but without
impairment in any wise of the
constitutional powers of the Madrid Government, Teen Girl free which to that end would
grant an armistice, if solicited by the insurgents, for such time as the
general in chief might Teen Girl free see fit to fix. How and with what scope of
discretionary powers the insular parliament was expected to set about the
"preparation" of peace did not appear. If it were to be by negotiation Teen Girl free with
the insurgents, the issue seemed to rest on the one side with a body chosen
by a fraction of the electors in the districts under Teen Girl free Spanish control, and
on the other with Teen Girl free the insurgent Teen Girl free population holding the Teen Girl free interior country,
unrepresented in the so-called parliament and defiant at the suggestion of
suing for peace.
Grieved and disappointed at this barren outcome of my sincere endeavors to
reach a Teen Girl free practicable solution, I felt it my duty to remit the whole question
to the Congress. In the message of Teen Girl free April 11, 1898, I announced that with
this last Teen Girl free overture in the direction of immediate Teen Girl free peace in Cuba and Teen Girl free its
Teen Girl free disappointing reception by
Spain the effort of the Executive was brought to
an
end. I again reviewed the alternative courses of action which had been
Teen Girl free proposed, concluding that the only one consonant with Teen Girl free international policy
and compatible with our firm-set historical traditions was intervention as
a neutral
to stop the war and check the hopeless sacrifice Teen Girl free of life, even
though that resort Teen Girl free involved "hostile constraint