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lNlEElRIlllCAh ULliIlMhIIOliMlI
TO The sP IAAllARlIDls
Peremptory Demand ID Regard to
the Philippines Will Be
Made Today.
DECLARATION 10 BE EMPHATIC

DECLARATION 10 BE EMPHATIC
spain Mill BE Informed She Must
Give Up The Islands at
Our tPilce ) or
Fight.
Paris. Nov. 22.-The Spanish peace
commissioners have heen notified that
the United States commissioners will
he ready 10 treat with them in Joint
session this afternoon. Unless the
Spaniards hnre an adequate reason for
further delay the two commissions
vii join in the most important meet
ing thus far held.
The American commissioners, in Il
written communication. will declare
TINT the third article of the protocol
regarding the Philippines is capable
of only one fair construction, that no
arbitration is needed 10 elucidate its
terms, and that the United States can
hot admit any other power to figure
her purely as n %lexiconist. They will
maintain that the two commissions
are charged to determine whether
Spain rtEe United States shall in fu-
tuIe OWL the Philippines. This will
be accompanied by the clear leclara-
ton that the United States will pos
sess the Philippines. Following this
declaration, the American commission
crs will lay before the Spaniards two
alternatives:
j. 10 accept Il sum Of money from
the United States and to cede and evac-
uate the Philippines.
2. 10 lose the philippines to the
United States by conquest. with the
possibility of other territorial losses
to indemnify the United States for the
added expenditure OF conquest.
This communication may not be for
mally designated as an ultimatum,
but it will lack naught of the concur
siveness indicated by that word. This
will be so plain that tho Spanish COM
m~issioners will scarcely haggle for
more money on the first alternative,
nor cherish and doubt of American nc
ton under the second, should the first
be declined.
No one here except the American
commissioners knows how much will
pc rendered Spain as the cheapest and
most humane way OF set1ltnEsthe diffi-
Guilty. She is exceedingly anxious to
escape thesI'hilippine debt, and posi-
bly, thressum to be offered maybe de-
termiied by ansgsnalysig 81 That debt,
which-ednsfsts OF $4O,0l6,O0O in bonds,
On which she realized $50, 100000. OF
~fhellntter amount She is believed to
have expended some $4,000, 900 or SILL
100000 in fighting the United States,
and a part in the attempt to qtell the
Philippine insurrection. a reasonable
guess at the sum for tender would be
$4,000, 900, though it may fall below
that.
The Cuban question may. come up
again. The American commissioners
had thought the discussion on that
point finished, but the Spanish COM
missioners are reported to have de-
clared last week that the mortgages
imposed by Spain oil the Cuban as well
as on the Philippine revenues, must
not be impaired or questioned. This
would compel the American commits
sioners soon-and probably today-to
demand whether Spain means to repu-
diate the plain compact of the proto-
col 10 relinqnish sovereignty W and
title to Cuba. Three weeks ago the
Spanish commissioners accepted the
Cuban article in the protocol without
conditions, save that it's embodiment
in tho treaty should depend on the
agreement here on all the articles in
the protocol. Recently, however,
Spnin's representatives have said that
the Cuban article had been only tenn
porarity passed and was still in ahey-
ance.
Rnniorci Agreement.
Madrid, Nov. 22.--In political circles
it is asserted that an agreement has
been reached between the peace COM
m~issioners in Paris. The government,
it is semi-oficially announced, intends
to notify the Cuban b%ondholders that
Spain will not pay the Cuban debt,
which will not be mentioned in the
peace treaty. The government consid-
ers itself completely freed from these
entanglements, which fall upon the
nation exercising sovereignty and col
lecting taxes in Cuba.
London, Nov. 22.--The Madrid CORE
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Spain will decline indemnity for
the Philippines if the sum offered ap-
pears inadequate in the eyes of the
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