Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-08-12
TERMS OF PROTOCOL
Official Statement of Contents Made
Public So Soon As Document
Was Signed
TWO COMMISSIONS CREATED
Peace Commission Will Meet in Paris
Military Commission Will Settle De-
tails Of Evacuation Of Cuba
and Puerto Rico.

Washington. Aug. 12.-The offica
statement for press publication setting
out the provisions of the peace protoco
was approved at the cabinet session to
day. 1t was prepared by Secretary Day
the purpose being to make it public i'm
mediately after the required signatures
have been affixed to the protocol. II
does not give the text of the document
but details the main points. The pro
tocol in general is a reiteraton of the
terse note given Spain, with very little
difference in the language of those
terms, though with considerable supple
mentary paragraphs of an administra-
tive nature. The note. as handed to
Ambassador Cambon, called for the i'm
mediate evacuation of Cuba and Puerto
Rico, while the protocol leaves the time
of evacuation to be fixed by a joint mill
tary commission of the United States
and Spain.
The position of the protocol, supple
mentarv to what is embodied in the
note, relates principally to the manner
of the execution of its provisions.
The protocol provides for two com
missions, the first, a peace commission,
which will meet in Paris; the second, a
military commission, which will meet
in Havana province within Is days.
The military commission will be created
Immediately on the signing of the pro-
tocol Its duties will be of great i'm
portance. 1t will settle the details of
the evacuation of Spanish armies from
the West Indies and decide all questions
relative to the removal of all submarine
mines, the immediate REIMBURSEMENT to
the United States of the great fortresscs
at Havana, San Juan, and other points,
city itself.
Provisions of the Protocol.
The protocol provides:
Spain will relinquish all claim of
sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
puerto Rico and other Spanish
islands in the West Indies, and an island
in the LadrOnes, to be selected by the
United States shall be ceded to the lat
ter.
3.-The United States will occupy and
hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila,
pending the conclusion of the treaty of
peace. which shall determine the con-
trol, disposition and government of the
Philippines.
4.-Cuba. Puerto Rico and other
Spanish islands in the West Indies shall
be Immediately evacuated, and the com
missioners to be appointed within ten
days, shall, within 30 days from the
signing of the protocol, meet at Havana
and San Juan respectively, to arrange
and execute the details of evacuation.
5.-The United States and Spain will
each appoint not more than five com
missioners to negotiate and conclude a
treaty of peace. The commissioners are
to meet at Paris not later than the 1st
of October.
Con- the signing of the protocol hos
tiities will be suspended and a notice to
that effect will be given so soon as pos
pible by each government to the com
manders OF its military and naval forces.
The above is the official statement of
the protocols contents, as prepared and
given to the press by Secretary Day.
The protocol was signed at 4:23 p. III. by
Secretary Day, representing the United
States, and M. Cambon, the French am
bassador, representing the Spanish gov
ernment.