The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-11-02
SUMMARY Of PEACE
COMMISSIONS WORK.
SENIOR MoNTERo RIOS rs
I'LL.
q Dispatch to london Says
Spain Will Insist on a
MaNEY CONSIDERATION FOR
THE PHILIPPINES. :,

Paris. Oct. 80 -Senor Montero
Rios, president of the Spanish peace
commission, is ILL., This causes some
doubt this evening as to whether
shere will be joint session of the
commissioners to morrow. If ne is
unable to attend it is unlikely that
the Spaniards would consent to enter
conference to take up the Philip
pine islands question for final consld.
seration
There is q strong impression which
has been growing here recently. that
! The Spanish, upon receiving definite
assurances of the American determi
nation to take the entire Philippine
group, would quit the conference,
and all negotiations are modified oy
the attitude of the Spanish newspa
pers arriving here to day
These are found to have wheeled
into line with the Epoca of October
27sh, which demanded that the Span
len commissioners should sign a
treaty in Paris no matter how one
r6us the conditions imposed by the
Americans.
Nevertheless, despite this attitude
of the Madrid press, and despite the
denial given on Friday last to the
correspondent of the Associated
Press by Spanish commissioner
who denied that the Spaniards had
any intertion of Withdrawing. the
Americans here will not be surprised
il one or more of the Spanish COM
mlssiioners resign aud practically
close the negotiations.
Il is believed here to night, on the
eve of taking up the main question,
that the Spanish commissioners are
NOT likely to scquiesce here in any
treaty that the Americans would
sign.
In the Philippine discussion two
wearisome questions a.e likely to be
raised early by the Spanish. Tie
frst Is on the protocol phrase, "coa-
troll, disposition and government OF
the archipelago, the Spaniards doubt.
less holding that the word ''disposi-
tionv does not involve possession.
sbough they know that possession"
was originally written in the protocol
and changed 70 "disposition'' on M.
Gambon's insistence in behalf of
Spanish ssensibilisies.
Collateral to this is second con-
sention, possibly to be merged with
the FIRST, that when the protocol was
sigaed there was an exterior moral
understanding between NJ. Cambon
and Judge Day that neither the pro
tecoP nor it's terms should, in the
treaty negotiations, involve Spanish
sovereignty in the Philippine archi'
pelago
On this point Judge Day, through
the Associated Press, mas already
pointedIy denied the existence of an
actual, constructive or implied un.
derssanding outside of the protocol,
either verbally or in correspondence,
and this denial is supported by the
French yellow book
IA Cambon. however, hae given
The matter some significance by omit
ting 70 deny the report, although the
alleged existence of a secret under.
standing, exterior to the protocol,
was FIRST printed in the Paris papers
and reitersted directly and by in'
ference
SPAIN WANTS SOME MONEY.
London, Oct 3l.-Tke Madrid
correspondent of the Standard says !:
..yhere is much anxiety in Madrid as
to the result of Mondays joint sit
sing Of the peace commission lnas
much as Spain accepted the Cuban
articles of the protocol only on con
dition of a subsequent agreement be
ing arrived at on the Philippine ques
ton she will strenuously resist any
Infringement. of her rights in the
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