The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-11-11

Paris, Nov. 5.-The Spanish commits
sioEers, i'll the course Of Il two-hOurs'
session of the peace conference yester-
day fatty refused to accept Mondays
proposition by the Americans to take
the entire Philippine group and to re-
imburse Spain for her pacific" ex-
penditures there. This negative action
was expected. The Spanish commits
sioners had also a number of positive
declarations which filled some thirty
seven sheets of typewriter present
ment. In this statement the SDaniards
held that the United States had 10
ultimate rights in the Philippine is
lands and could have none save by the
consent of Spain in these negotiations
and upon terms satisfactory to her.
According to the Spanish contention
in the formal statement the United
States entertained no thought of an
ncxing the Philippines when the pro-
tocol was signed, OF it would have
been expressed in the protocol as
clearly as the conditions regarding the
cession of territory in the Antilles
and the Orient. NJ. Cambon. before
the signature of the protocol. received
from Madrid, the prcsentment alleged,
Il cable message clearly setting forth
that the maintenance of
Spain's Authority
over the Philippines should not be af-
fected by the protocol. to which res
ervation the United States made at
that time no protest or objection.
This dispatch to NJ. Cambon. as the
Spaniards claimed, embodied also the
view that the United States had no
valid basis for claims in the archipel-
ago. 1t was further held by Senior
Rios and his colleagues that the capt.
ulaticn of Manila, having occurred af-
thcr the signing of the protocol, and
thus after the suspension of HOSTILE
ties, was invalid. With all this for Il
groundwork the Spaniards made their
first positive move against the Ameri-
cans, and it constituted their counter
proposition. They charged upon the
United States a wrongful appropria-
ton Of public moneys belonging to
Spain by selling the tariff duties at
Manila. and they formally demanded
the return Of these moneys, in the
sum of nearly million dollars. On
the same premises the United States
wac declared to have nIade ana held
eo l'AbSOhSAS SuC slI
Manila in violation of international
law, because done after the suspension
Of hostilities under the protocol.
A Further Charge
was that by the imprisonment of the
Spanish troops at Manila the United
States had prevented Spain from quell-
ing the insurrection and had thus con-
tributed to the violence against Spain
after the cessation of hostilities The
Spanish presentment also cited tie re-
fusal of the Americans to consider the
Cuban debt, on the ground that it
was not sanctioned in the protocol,
and demanded an adherence to this
as Il precedent in the discussion of the
Philippines. regarding Il cesson of
which the Spanish commissioners held
the protocol to mako no mention. In
support Of these assertions. arguments
and demands the Spanish presentment
invokeS Spain's record in the CORE
spondence by mail and telegraph. The
prescntment was read by Interpreter
Ferguson. being rendered from the
Spanish, in which it was written, into
English. At the close of the reading
the Americans said they wished to
have the Spanish statement rendered
into written English for more careful
consideration and an adjournment
was taken to Tuesday.