The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31
sENT 10 NIADRID.

patches were correct in ali essential
particulars.
SENT TO MADRID.
Immediately following the long con-
ference. the French ambassador and NJ.
Thiebaut returned To the French en-
bassay and then began the hard work
of reducing TO cipher the American
peace conditions, together with the re-
suits Of the conference, and transmit
ting the same to Madrid. The ambas-
sador was smiling and apparently well
pleased with the result of the confer
ence. All the staff of the embassy were
engaged on the cipher work, as it was
long and intricate process. Allowing
the difference for the time between
Washington and Madrid, the terms
could not reach the Spanish capital be-
fore midnight tonight. and would not
get before the spanish ministry before
noon tomorrow.
FINAL AND ABSOLUTE.
The American reply distinctly gives
warning that the proposition as 10 sur
render all sovereignty in the West In
dian waters and the selection OF an
island in the Ladrones is beyond any
discussion whatever As to the Phil
ippines, the reply saws in substance
that as further indemnity to the United
States for its expense, the United States
Will hold the city Of Manila, its bay
and harbOr, pending the determination
OF the culture goVerninent~of the whole
island or Of the group. One island of
the IladrOne group is to be coded to the
United States, this government to make
its selection later. In demanding the
surrender of Spanish sovereignty in all
our nearby waters the reply diplomat
ically avoids making any pledges as to
what is TO he done by this government
as 80 Cuba
The deferment of final disposition of
the Philippine problem Was based on
substantially the following grounds:
l. That the United States has nc sat
isfact0ry knowledge of existing condi-
tons there.
? Nothing is known Of what obliga-
tons We're incurred as between the
United States forces and the Philippine
insurgents.
5. The present definite attitude of the
insurgents is unknown.
4 The extent TO which Aguinaldo
controls the islands of the Philippine
group is unknown.
;. incident to the foregoing it is not
known what would have TO be done by
this government in subjugating the in
surgeat forces. the Spanish and the ma
lives.
The general principle underlying the
Philippine arrangement is understood
to be the development of the sober sec |
ond thought of the American people as /
TO the disposition of the Philippines, !
uncloUded by the clash of war and IN !
affected by momentary lust for terri !
tcrial acquisition.
A NAVAL STATION.
OF course. it is understood that no /
matter what form the Philippines ar 1
rangement takes, the United states Is 4
10 acquire a naval station there, for II I
fe arr,raar-Cfngd that the original MAN 10 D
acquire a coaling station has been /
broadened into a demand for SaVal .
staten. The argument that brought /
about this change was the representa- /
ton OF the naval war board that o--e /
of the most pressing needs OF United .
States vessels in Asiatic waters was 4
good dry dock and some machine shops, /
where the repairs that We're always /
required by the complex WarShlpS OF /
today can be effected. Il MAS also (
pointed cut that under strict appEca- 4
tiCn Of neutrality laws, as urged by 4
some writer's, the United States might
be prevented in time Of war from ta---
ing its own coal from its own coating
station. though the same rule cannot
be applied to q naval station, which
would be held under an entirely differ
ent tenure.
The maintenance of naval station
would require more territory than
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dock yard at Cavite has fixed the eyes
of the naval board upon that place as
one ready for cur occupancy. \ naval
station involves some resident DoDu-a-
ton 10 supply the necessary labor, and
some agylculturai land is required to
maintain this population, the extent of
the territory depending entirely upon
the size of the station and its import
ance.
Some of the naval officers are urging,
ana their representations have been
given weight that the whole of the
island Of LuZon is not too great an
aXpamse to support properly such sta
ton as the United States VIII require.
They point also to the difficulty that
would be encountered in defending a
station which does not occupy the
whole Of the island upon which II IS 10
.ated. on the other hand, it Is pointed
,ut that there are several hundred
thousand semi b2rbarous inhabitants OF
-uZon. whose government would
llhige the United States TO keep con-
siderable military and naval force al
ways on and about the island without
proper recompense.