The San Francisco call., 1898-12-14
OUTLINE IF
 PEACE TREATY
 IS OBTAINED Important Provisions of Articles. CONCESSIONS TO COMMERCE SPANIARDS GIVEN FAIR TREAT MENT IN THE COLONIES. It Is Specified That the Treaty Must Be Ratified Within Six Months
 in Order to Be
 Binding.
CONCESSIONS TO COMMERCE
SPANIARDS GIVEN FAIR TREAT MENT IN THE COLONIES.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Dec. 13.-Extraordinary pre- cautions are maintained by both the Peace commissions to preserve secrecy as to the contents of the treaty. Each commission has two copies, but even the commission attaches are not per mitted to peruse the documents. The correspondent of the Associated Press. however, has obtained from a source usually reliable the following outline of the treaty:
 Article l provides for the relinQuish- ment of Cuba.
 Article provides for the cession of Porto Rico.
 Article provides for the cession of the Philippines for $2O,0OO,0o0 as com pensatiGn.
 Article 4 embraces the plans for the cession of the Philippines, including the return of Spanish prisoners in the hands of the Tagallos.
 Article deals with the cession of barracks, war materials, arms, stores, buildings and all property pertaining to the Spanish administration in the Phil ippines.
 Article is a renunciation by both nations of their respective claims against each other and the citizens of
 
 each other.
 Article ' grants to Spanish trade and shipping in the Philippines the same treatment as American trade and ship ping for period of ten years.
 Article provides for the release of all prisoners of war held by Spain and of all prisoners held by her for political offenses committed in the colonies ac- Quired by the United States.
 Article g guarantees the legal rights of Spaniards remaining in Cuba.
 Article 10 establishes religious free dom in the Philippines and guarantees to all churches equal rights.
 Article Il provides for the compost tion of courts and other tribunals in Porto Rico and Cuba.
 Article F provides for the administra- tiCn of justice in Porto Rico and Cuba.
 Article 13 provides for the continu ance of five years of Spanish copy rights in the ceded territories. giving Spanish books admittance free of duty.
 Article 14 provides for the establish ment of consulates by Spain in the ceded territories
 Article 15 grants to Spanish com meroe in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines the same treatment as to Americans for ten years, Spanish shipping to be treated as coasting yes SelS.
 Article Is stipulates that the obliga- tiOnS of the United States to spanish citizens and property in Cuba shall terminate with the withdrawal of the United States authorities from the is- land.
 Article r provides that the treaty must be ratified within six months from the date of the signing by the re- spective governments in order to be binding.
 By tomorrow the United States Peace Commissioners will call upon President Faure and M. Delcasse, the Foreign Minister, to thank them for the hospitality of the French nation and to make their formal farewells.
 MADRID, Dec. 13.-It Is asserted here that the Premier, Senor Sagasta, will obtain a royal decree dissolving the Chambers before the ratification of the peace treaty.
 Secretary Correa has announced that Senor Sagasta, before asking the Cortes to ratify the treaty, will confer with Senor Montero Rios, president of the Spanish Peace Commission, and 1t is further asserted that, owing to the ex- istence of opposition to the treaty, the United .otates Senate will not con-