The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-10

Paris, Dec. 9.-Senor Montero Rios,
president of the Spanish peace com
mission, and Senior Ojedo, secretary of
that commission, are still confined to
their beds. The illness of Senior Ojedo
delays engrossing the treaty. and it is
ooubtful whether it viii be signed be-
lore Monday. The Americans held their
usual session this morning.
The Spaniards continue making BIT
ter comments concerning President
MchlnIey'S reference to. the Maine
me SpanlardS made a last contribu-
ton in a recent assembling of the COM
missions. Senior Montero Rios then pre-
sented vigorously woTded protest in
which the Spaniards declared they had
yielded to force, but that they invoked
the conscience Of the nations against
the abuse of the rights of nations. of
winch they were the victims. The pro-
test was for the purpose of record and
consisted or an argument in support of
every concession demanded bv the
Spaniards and which the Americans re-
FUSED, some of them peremptorily and
without an opportunity of discussion.
The protest concluded: But these
concessions which we were obliged to
make touch us less than the insult
which has been inflicted on our nation
by PRESIDENT Mckinley in his message
We again protest against the accusa-
ton hurled against US in regard to the
Maine, and We intend to again submit
the matter to an international tribunal
composed Of England, France and Ger
many, to determine who shall bear the
responsibility of the catastrophe"
DETAILS OF THE TREATY.
A correspondent of the Associated
Press approached Senior Garnica of the
Spanish commission for further details
of the treaty. He said:
The fact that you represent all the
American and English papers is really
a reason why 1 should say nothing. But
what you show me as having been ca
bled is substantially correct The ex-
act number of articles is still undeter-
mined 1t depends upon how Secreta-
rleS Ojedo and Moore divide the treaty..
1t may be twelve or twenty articles.
The Americans are to pay the indem-
nifty within three months of the ratffi-
cation. We shall appoint consuls in
Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippine
islands without delay. The Cuban
consul viii be accredited to the powers
that be
Asked why the Spaniards refused to
grant the United States q coaling sta
ton in the Carolines, Senior Garnica
said;
THE Americans could hardly expect
that we should agree to discuss matters
outside OF the protocol, after the les
SONS We have had from them on this
urpoint When We wished to discuss the
Cuban debt they absolutely refused to
consider it. and then they ask US for
whatever they want.
Que 81 toupe (what cheek)i Yet the
Cuban. debt remains an important ques-
ton for settlement"
Ia regard To- The Standards final nrO-
test on the subject of the Maine, Senior
Garnica remarked: THAT protest now
becomes history. as it is embodied in
the protocol. We do not wish to Ee-
main under an imputation which would
perpetuate animOsity and hatred
against US and which would be a source
of constant irritation in Spain. It is
neither loyal nor just that this thing
should hang over the reputation of
Spain. We cannot submit to it. 1t
must be cleared up, in justice to our
selves There are many other causes
to bring hatred between the two ma
tons without the addition of such a
one as this.
LAS to the future relations of the two
countries. that is one of the things
history alone can determine. Many
nations which have been deadly enc
mics are speedily reconciled."
Senior Garnica was questioned as to