Mr. Day to Mr. Woodford.
Washington, April 4, 1898.
We have received to-day from the Spanish minister a copy of the manifesto of the autonomy government. It is not armistice. It proves to be an appeal by the autonomy government of Cuba urging the insurgents to lay down their arms and to join with the autonomy party in building up the new scheme of home rule. It is simply an invitation to the insurgents to submit, in which event the autonomy government, likewise suspending hostilities, is prepared to consider what expansion if any of the decreed home-rule scheme is needed or practicable. It need scarcely be pointed out that this is a very different thing from an offered armistice. The President’s message will go in Wednesday afternoon.