The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1898-12-08

forthwith closed by proposing the embodi
ment in formal protocol of the term:
in which the negotiations for peace were
TO be undertaken. The vague and mex
plicit suggestions Of the Spanish not,
| could not be accepted. the only reply be
| ing to present as virtual ultmatrm 8
| draft of the protocol embodying the pre-
else terms rendered to Spain in our note
| of July 30. with added stipulations OF
detail as to the appointment of commits
sioners to arrange for the evacuation OF
| the Spanish Antilles. On the afternoon
| of Aug. II NJ. Cambon, as the plenipoten
tiary of Spain, and the Secretary OF
| State. as the plenipOtentiary of the Uni
| ted States, signed n protocol.
Immediately upon the conclusion of the
| protocol | issued proclamation on Aug
| II. suspending hostilities on the part oi
| the United States. Aug. Is the muster
out of 100000 volunteers. or as near that
number as was found to be practicable
| was ordered. Dec. l. 1O1 .165 officers and
men had been mustered out and discharg
cd from the service; 1902 more will be
mustered out by the 10th of the month.
The military committees to superintend
the evacuation of Cuba, Porto Rico and
the adjacent islands were forthwith ap-
pointed. For Cuba. Major General Jas.
+. Wade. Rear Admiral William II.
Sampson and Major General Matthew G.
Butler; for Porto Rico, Major General
John c. Brooke, Rear Admiral Winfield
S. Schley and Brigadier General George
w. Gordon, who soon afterward met the
Spanish commissioners ut Havana and
San Juan respectively. The Porto Rcan
joint commission speedily accomplished
its task, and by Oct. Is the evacuation
of the island was completed. The United
States flag was raised over the island Mt
noon on that day. The administration
of its affairs has been Professionally in
trusted to a military governor until the
Congress shall otherwise provide. The
Cuban joint high commission has not vet
terminated its labors. Owing to the diff
culties in the way of removing the large
numbers of Spanish troops still in Cuba,
the evacuation cannot be completed be
fore the 1st of January.
Pursuant to the fifth article of the pro-
tocol. l appointed William X. Day. lately
Secretary of State; Cushman II. Davis.
William +. Frye and George Gray. Sena-
tors of the United States, and Whitelaw
Reid to be the peace commissioners on
the part of the United States. Proceeding
in due season TO Paris. they there met
on the 1st of October five commissioners
similarly appointed by Spain. The nego-
hations have made hopeful progress, so
that l trust soon to be able to lay def
mite treaty of peace before the Senate,
with review of the steps leading to its
signature.
L do not discuss at this time the govern
ment or the future of the new posses
sions which will come to us as the result
of the war with Spain. Until the Con-
gress has legislated otherwise, it will be
my duty to continue the military govern
ments which have existed since our occu-
patton and government of the people. Sc
curity i'll life and property. and encour-
agement under just and beneficent rule.
As soon as we are in possession of
Cuba and have pacified the island, it will
he necessary to give aid and direction to
its people TO form government for them
selves. This should be undertaken at the
earliest moment consistent with safety
and assured success. Until there is COM
plete tranquility in the island and sta
BILE government inaugurated military oc-
cupation will be continued.
Relations with Other Countries.
With the exception of the rupture with
Spain, the intercourse of the United
States with the great family of nations
has been marked with cordiality and the
close of the eventful year finds most of
the issues that necessarily arise in the
complex relations of sovereign states ad-
justed or presenting no serious obstacle
to a just and honorable solution by ami
cable agreement.
A long unsettled dispute as to the ex-
tended boundary between the Argentine
Republic and Chill assumed an acute
stage in the early part of the year. and
afforded to this government occasion to
express the hope that the resort TO arbi-
tration, already contemplated by existing
conventions between the parties, might
prevail despite the grave difficulties aris-
ing in its application. | am happy to say
that arrangements TO this end have been
perfected.
l have found occasion to approach the
Argentine Government with a view TO
removing differences of rate charges i'm
posed upon the cables of an American
in the transmission between
Buenos Ayres and the cities of Uruguay
and Brazil of through messages passingg
from and to the United States. Although
the matter is complicated by exclusive
by Uruguay and Brazil to
foreign companies, there is strong hope
tl:at good understanding will be reached.
In this relation l may be permitted to
express my sense of the fitness of an in
agreement whereby the inter-
change of messages over connecting ca
bles may be regulated on a fair basis of
The sympathy of the American people
has justly been offered to the ruler and
the people of Austria Hungary by reason
Of the affliction that has lately befallen
them in the assassination of the EN-
of that historic realm.
The Lattimer Affair.
On the 10th of September. 1897. con-
iict took place at Lattimer. Pa. between
4 body of striking miners and the sheriff
IF Luzerne County and his deputies, in
which twenty-five miners We're killed and
forty-four wounded, of whom ten of the
Silled and twelve of the wounded were
Austrian and Hungarian subjects. This
1eplOrable event naturally aroused the So
nent. which, on the assumption that the
Killing and wounding involved the unius-
-ifiable misuse of authority, claimed rep
,ration for the sufferers. Apart from the
investigation and the pereqnp-
DRY action of the authorities of Pennsyl-
rania. the Federal Executive took appro-
,riate steps to learn the merits of the
'ase, in order to be in a position to meet
he urgent complaint of a friendly pow
,r. The sheriff and his deputies. having
,een indicted for murder. were tried and
acquitted after prOtracted proceedings.
representative of the department of
Justice attended the trials and reported
is course fully. With all the facts in its
possession. this Government expects to
each q harmonious understanding on the
subject with that of Austria-Hungary.
United States of Central America.
In my last annual message the situation |
vas presented with respect to the diplo- |
matte representation of this Government in |
'entral America, created by the association |
f Nicaragua. Honduras and Salvador under |
he title of the Greater Republic of Central |
america, and the delegation of their inter- |
al functions to the diet thereof While the |
character of the diet was
ecognized by my predecessor and has been |
onfirmed during my administration by re- |
ewing its accredited envoy and granting |
xeuuaturs to cOnsuls commissioned under !
IS authority, that recognition was qualified |
Y the distinct understanding that the re- |
of each of the competent sover- |
ign republics toward the United States re- |
lained wholly unaffected. A convention of |
elegates framed for them n federal consti |
utiOn under the name of the U, tied States |
f Central America and provided for cen
raj federal government and legislature. |
non ratification by the constituent States, |
he 1st of November last was fixed for the /
ew system to so into operation. Within
aw weeks thereafter the plan was severely |
iuft arising