The San Francisco call., 1898-08-13

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.-With a simplicity in keeping with republican institutions the war which has ragged :; betFEeen Spain and the United States for: a period of three months and twen- ty:two days was unostentatiously ter ilfFated at g minutes past o'clock tn ,. sfternooa. when Secretary i1ssssstot thc:United States, and M Cambon, for ~S5ain.. in the presence of President Me J2jnley, signed protocol which will f6i.in- the basis of definite treaty Of :: paace.'
 s':Tha closing chapter of events that led .lp to the signature of the protocol ant:tEe cessation of hostilities was full of interest. There were runners in the -eaIlr morning that overnight the :French Embassy had received the long . expected final instructions from Ma drid... but these, upon inquiry, proved . groundless, as it was not until 12:S0 ~.o:ciock that the note began to come /. from Madrid in small lots. The State :: >TepaFtment was soon advised of the
 fact that the message was under trans mission. but as it was evident that 1t would be long and that its reception '' would occupy much time the Secretary of State left the State Department for his luncheon.
 :. At 2:45 o'clock Secretary Thiebaut of -: fhe French Embassy appeared at the . State Department to inform Secretary . Day that the Ambassador was in full >p6ssession of the note, was fully em- :.powered to sign the protocol for Spain end only awaited the pleasure of the :: State Department He intimated that = The Ambassador would be pleased to
 have the final ceremony conducted in fne presence of President Mckinley
 where the negotiations were begun T;eaving the secretary of the embassy
 i+ his own office Secretary Day made
 a. short visit to the White House lC
 learn the Presidents wishes ln the mat
 fer: The latter immediately consented :. to accept the suggestion and M Ihle haul hastened to inform his prlnclpa :: That the. President would receive nm d
 the White House at o'clock.
 Al the appointed hour driving ram storm prevailed, obliging all the partle :, Tn: resort to carriages for transporta :: ft3o.*+o the White House. SecretaT1 ,1av came first, with large portIoll' . ,,jneler* his arm, inclosing copies or Ih :: :1rotocol. of the proclamation to be IS .s,1ed by the President stopping hostih lies and some other necessary papers = He was accompanied by Assistant sec .:reta;ryc Moore, Second Assistant Secre . farv Adee and Third Assistant Secre " taTv CridIer. They went immediatei!
 info the Cabinet room where the Presi :. :dent sat in waiting. He had invited t
 ba present the assistant secretaries Pruden and Cortleyou, and Lieutenan :. Colonel Montgomery. When Embassa
 dor Cambon reached the White Hous
 1t: was just 3:55 o'clock, five minutes Il
 advance of the appointed hour.
 : The rain was still violent and th' . F,mbassador abandoned his usual GUS tom of alighting at the outer gates O
 the executive grounds. He was driver
 finder the porte cochere, passing
 through a cordon of newspaper men be : fore he and Secretary Thiebaut wer'
 :1ishered inside. They went directly t the library adjoining the Cabinet room
 ori the upper floor. At 4:05 they wer' arnounced to the waiting party in thu .-cabfnet room and were ushered int'
 their presence.
 After an exchange of diplomati' co,irtesies. without unnecessary loss O
 +i,,,a Assistant Secretary of State Grid Ter nn the part of the United States ord First Secretary Thiebaut, on th'
 mart of Spain, retired to a window where there was critical formal ex
 xatnation of the protocol. This inspec
 +ion had all the outward formalitiei
 d,,a document of this importance. l was nrepared in duplicate at the Stat
 I,enartnent. one copy to be retained
 by.+ba Tinted States Government ant the other to be the property of Spain