No Trouble With Spain

Washington, Peb. 12.- The president has been called upon to resist strong pressure from many of Ms best frieada and counselofs, who have urged him to avail himseif of De Lome's confession of Spanish duplicity and deceit, and of Spanish failure in Cuba, as an excuse for earlier intervention in Cuban affairs than he had been flguring on. This pressure has been at times very urgent. The president has been obliged upon more than one occasion since the publication oí the De Lome letter to confidentially inform his personal fnends that nothing which was contained in that epistle gave to the administration any information or light upon the Cuban situation that it did not already possess, and that there was nothing in the letter that necessitated or called for a change in the administration's policy. It had been understood all along that De Lome's principal mission was to gain time for Spain to carry out its Cuban policy, and to remove i' causes for friction at end of th line, and to dissipate any cause of irritation which might arise. There was no disposition to inquire into the details of De Lome's motives or af hls official conduct, it being taken for granted that he was serving his country to the very best of his ability, and nothing has occurred to change the administration's opinión of him in that respect.