The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-12-06
FRYE LEFT IN DISGUST
STATUS OF SpANIARDS IN THE
LOST COLONIES.
sPANIARDS RESIGNED TO THE INEVITABLE
Striving With their Accustomed Shfewdness 10
Save as Much from Wreck as Posi-
BILE. Spanish Flag Given Ad
vanlages in The indies.


Paris, Dee 5.zThc American com
miSsionerS held long conference this
morning. beginning at 10 o'clock and
only had brief recesses for lunch before
going to the Foreign Office to meet the
Spanish commissioners at o'clock p.
m. The Americans, apparently, had
changed the form, if not the substance,
of some of their demands. as Il result
of their deliberations during the past
three days.
The joint commission was in session
for over four hours Much of the dis
cussion concerned details as to the guar
anteeing of the rights of Spanish citi-
zens in the coded colonies.
The debate was occasionally energetic
and the Spaniards on emerging APP
peared to be detected.
Secretary Ojeda. of the Spanish com
mission, when questioned after the
meeting MS to the progress made, an
swered excitedly:
Il am almost mad. / cannot talk.
We are making progress"
The American commissioners declined
TO say anything further than that the
progress made was satisfactory.
The Spanish commissioners have re-
ceived authority to bind their Govern
ment on certain matters, but there are
vet important questions on which their
instructions are unsatisfactory, and it
is likely that many of the details in
volved in the change of sovereignty i'll
the Spanish colonies will be left for
settlement in the regular diplomatic pro
cess when relations between the two
Governments are resumed.
The history Of the document which
will certify the passing of the oldest
colonial power in the world, and the adj
vent of the newest was epitomiZed by
Judge Day this evening in Il single sem
tence
IA peace treaty can contain anything
which the victors put in il"
The Americans had listened for hours
with their customary patience TO the
technicalities invoked by the Spaniards
with their customary shrewdneSs and
perSistency against every proposal
making for the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of their
empire. Senator Frye. whose. mcOn-
cealed contempt for diplomatic quib-
blings excites the establishment of the
punctilious CastiIians, had stalked home,
his patience exhausted. The burden of
the Spanish arguments was that mat
tiers outside the bare cesSion and eyacu-
alton of the conquered territories, which
the Americans proposed to cover by the
treaty. were beyond the legitimate and
customary scope of peace treaty. Fin
ally Judge Day summarized the Ameri-
can position in the foregoing memOra-
BILE utterance. 1t was given and taken
in good spirit and from that moment the
proceedings were entirely friendly.
The session accomplished much.
Eight open questions were canvaSsed,
seven being practically settled without
noteworthy friction.
The commissioners decline to say what
conclusion was reached but the bargain
for coaling station in the Carolines
was not cemented. and. according to
present prospects, it is likely to fail
The Americans do not regard it as a
prize which they can demand as one of
the natural fruits of the war. The re-
suit of this policy may be the leaving
of many details involved in the change
of sovereignty over the various posses
sions to settlement by the regular diplo-
matte processes when normal relations
between the two Governments have been
resumed.
The Spanish commissioners insisted
ut the previous meeting that the settle
ment of the status of the Spaniards who
remain in the colonies was Il problem 50
closely akin to cession that it could not
he logically separated from the latter,
but should be considered next to the
question of cession and. before such mat
tiers us coaling stations and religious toll
Grafton The American commissioners,
as foreshadowed by the correspondent
of the Associated Press, were cOncilia-
tory to-day on the order of procedure
as to the status of Spaniards remaining
in the lost colonies.
The Americans had already promised
to guarantee the return of Spanish
prisoners in the hands of the Fiipinos
To-day Senior Montero Rios proposed
that the United States should pay the
expenses of shipping them to Spain.
The Americans thought the request UNI
reasonable and a good deal of time was
consumed in discussing the question.
Another problem entailing long debate
was the disposition to be made of the
Spanish munitions of war in Il number
; of military posts outside Of Manila
which the Americans have not captured
The Spanish commissioners contended
that Spain should be permitted to ship
such munitions home, but finally waived
their bubble.
They appear resigned to the inevitable
and now SEEM to trealize that their
best policy is to save as much from the
wreck as their keeness is raising tech
nicalities can secure for them.
The question of the status of the
Spaniards in fhe West Indies and the
PHILIPPINES who wish to remain there
was nearly settled, as well as certain
commercial questions involving tbs
rights of shipping under the Spanish
flag, which will be given advantages.
Constipation prevents the body from
Kidding itself of waste matter. De
Wits Little Early Risers will remove