The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-23

washing ton, June 1.-THE understand
ing that opaln would regard with favor
/ a. .ltvrIie. e.,nal cJh4rnlsa.On 20 ADJUST
pending claims, brings out the fact mat
on FEBRUARY Ii, lo54. Secretary Gresham
submitted - SPAN me drlIL OF Il treaty
providing Tor sucn Il commission. inns
OIIer OF a treaty was never Withdrawn,
ana is now before Tie Spanish auJhori-
tleS, so that II they regarG sUch a pan
Win favor, there apleesfS 10 be nothing
IN the way of an agreement.
SUBMITTED lsy Gresham.
Article IF the draft submitted by MIR.
Gresham IS as follows:
mere shall oe APPOINTED d commission
consisting or three menJers, one OF whom
snail be nalneu Dy me preSIqenL OF the
United states. one by her MAJESTY the
Queen rgenJ u SpaMA and the tnrd Dy ma
president OF the UMled States ana her
I1%.e~ty, Lie queen Feet, cO--sOiuL y. aud
IN case the thlrd commissioner shall not
nave peeh 50 named within a period of
three months from the date of examtna-
uCn or rdJlncatIOn or his convention. mat
the Lhlrd commissioner Sisdt be named
10 SAID commissioners snail he referred
all claims yet remaining unsettled. which,
prior to The late of exchange OF rar1nca-
gons OF TINS convention. shall have been
olpIonatlcdliy presented 10y either gov
ernment or behalf OF its corporations
companies or Individual citizens or sub
Jects to the old government. arising out
OF rights denied, or wrongs committed
since the 18th day of February. 1854 to the
person or property of citizens or sub
Jects of the government presenting the
clalm not IN the service of the enemies
of the other government. or voluntarily
giving them aid and comfort
tUVlded, mat no clam shall be with
IN the competence OF the commission
which is based upon the refusal of the
United States to pay interest (either by
way or damages for loss of use of prop
efty or delay IN payment on claims
known as East Florida claims belongings,
10 or derived from persons who were
never spanish subjects, or who. subse-
10 W~.Er 1T.
East Florida claims arose, ceased to be
Spanish subjects.
And provided. further. that no claim
against the United States based upon
the emancipation or loss of slaves since
the 18th day of April 1861, shall be within
the competence of the commission.
The claim OF Antonio Maxine Mora
against Spain having been already set
tied. shall not be within the competence
Of the commission"
The subsequent articles provide that
the commission shall meet in Washing
ton, complete its work within six months
ETC. a clause is added that Spain shall
ing at Madrid in 1887. This sum repre-
sentS allowance made by Spain in 1887 to
six United States citizens.
What it Contemplated.
In Offering this treaty, Gresham wrote:
I herewith enclose a draft Of a conven-
ton which the president is willing to
have executed on his behalf for submits
sion TO the Senate, whose consent, as the
Spanish government of course under
STANDS, IS necessary 1t COntemplateS a
commission TO which shall be referred all
unsettled claims on the part of citizens
or either country against the government
or the other which has arisen and have
been automatically presented since the
date of the last general claims conven-
ton between the two countries, to-wit:
That OF February IL, 1884. This covers
the case of claims based upon the failure
or refusal of this government to pay in
terest to Spanish subjects on account Of
uvrfC
course, is not concerned in the failure or
refusal of this government to pay inter-
ests TO its own citizens on such awards
II also covers the claims OF Spanish sub
jects against this government growing
out of our civil war. 1t likewise includes
all claims, except that of Mora, growing
out of the embargo of the estates Of
American citizens in Cuba, which were
not disposed of by the arbitrator and
umpire appointed under the agreement
concluded at Madrid, February II and u.
1871, between the Spanish minister of
state, Senior CristinO Martos. and the
minister plenipotentiary of the United
States, General Daniel z. Sickels.
As to the excepted Mora claim, Mr..
Gresham said:
while it must be distinctly understood.
as SO often heretofore declared, that pay
ment of MOra'S claim can in no way be
made dependent on the conclusion of the
proposed convention, yet it is sincerely
cortes in regard TO said payment may
be removed
Where They Are At.
Senior Moret, the Spanish minister of
foreign affairs. in acknowledging the
draft of the treaty, said it would receive
due consideration. He also pointed out
that it should be ratified by the United
States Senate, although he denied 10 the
Spanish cOrteS the right of passing on the
Mora claim as agreed to by the Spanish
executive authorities. The negotiations
on the treaty never proceeded further
and are now pending.