The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-12-09
The PEACE TREATY.
The Commissioners at Paris Have
Practically Accomplished One.
THE EIGHT ARTICLES IT ENBODIES.
Judge Day Instructed 20 Hasten the Con-
elusIon and TO Limit the Treaty TO Pre-
tOc0l Points, Leaving Other Matters
20 BE Settled Afterwards

tOoOl Points, Leaving Other Matters
20 BE Settled Afterwards.
Paris, Dee THE treaty Of Paris is
practically an accomplished fact. Yes
terday's session disposed Of the essen
tial features Of the treaty, which viii
be embodied in the following eight
articles:
F'irst-The customary preface OF treaties, in
the nature OF an expression Of amity and Of
nope Tor perpetual peace
seoond-The REIMBURSEMENT by Spain Of her
sovereignty over Cuba
Third-The withdrawal OF the Spanish troops
FOurth-The REIMBURSEMENT By Spain Of her
sovereignty over Porto Rico
F'ifth-Spain's cessiOn OF the Philippines
Sixth-The withdrawal OF the Spanish troops
there
Seventh-Payment By the United States OF
E2lOJO,O0O for the Philippines
Eighth-The provision for the open door"
commercial policy in the Philippines
The rough draft Of the treaty, which
may be considerably changed, covers
the proposals 1t makes a long dOcu-
ment which Senator Davis, of the
United States peace comm ssiOn, says
Will be found to be one Of the most in
teresting papers Of its character ever
written So completely are the de-
tails Of the evacuation Of the Philip
pines stipulated that a commission
such as arranged for the Spanish with
drawal from the West Indies will be
unnecessary
Among the questions not yet settled,
however, are the cOaling station and
religious freedom in the Carolines, the
Spanish commission not having replied
to the American offer. The Americans
have agreed to transport the Spanish
prisoners home, including the gar
risOn and sailors at Manila, captured
by Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt,
as we'll as the soldiers and civilians
held by the FilipinOs, whose return
the Americans have guaranteed. As
compensation Spain promises to iber-
ate all Cuban, Porto Rican and Philip
pine political prisoners.
Spanish soldiers electing to remain
in the colonies may do so, but it is
more a matter of economy for the
Americans to return the others as they
must be fed as long as they are kept
and Spain is unable to bear the ex-
pense of the repatriation. Also the
Americans have rejected Spain's re-
quest for free shipping for ten years
in Cuba and Porto Rican waters, they
having given the Spanish commits
siOners such poor consolation as the
latter may derive from the permission
TO re-apply when the diplomatic rela-
tiOns have been renewed, for shipping
concessions under the reciprocity
scheme of the Dingley law, for which
Senior Dupuy De LONE was negOtiat-
ing in Washington when the war broke
out.
There are still under discussion eight
secondary subjects which the Spanish
commissioners preached last week, in
Guiding the status of patents and copy
rights. The American commissioners
Yesterday handed to Senior Montero
Rios a written reply covering these
questions There will probably be no
Joint session to-day as the Spaniards
desire time to consider this document.
INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGE DAY.
Washington, Dec THE adviees
from Paris to the effect that it might
be reasonably presumed that the peace
commissioners will be ready to sign a
treaty of peace within a day or two
are fully confirmed here. 1t is learned
that the presidents instructions to
Judge Day were to hasten the con-
clusiOn and, to that end, the Amer
lean commissioners have been
authorized to limit the treaty closely
to protocol points, leaving other mat
tiers, such as the acquisition of cable
stations and naval stations, to be dealt
with hereafter. As such separation of
the points is entirely In line with the
expressed desire of the Spanish com
missioners, there appears to be no
reason, now that an agreement has
been reached as to all of the protocol
points, why those should not be i'm
mediately reduced to the form in which
1t is desired they should appear in a
treaty, and be at once signed by the
commissioners In this case it is
possible that the treaty Of peace may
be submitted to congress even be-
fore the Christmas recess It is
believed that it will make toward a
speedy ratification to cOnfne the treaty
to the points of the protocol. AS to
the other points which our commits
sioners were instructed to negotiate
upon, they may or may not be disposed
Of at Paris by the present commission
ers. but the indications now are that
they viii be left TO adjustment in the
future by the ordinary methods Of d.
plOmacv, the Spanish government be-
ing under no cOmpulsiOn whatever
save such as may be exercised by the
Spanish who NAV suffer from the lack
of proper treaty safeguards 20 regu-
late commerce between Spain and the
United States