The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-01
|AMERICA'SDEM
Spain Informed Of United States Atti.
tudc Anent the Philippines.
WILL RETAIN ENTIRE GROUP.
Spanish Commissioners We're Not Sur.
prised When So Informed.
WILL NOT ASSUME THE ENTIRE DEBT.
Willing to Assume What Are Designated as
the Pacific Expenditures"
NO DEFINITE AMOUNT is YET AGREED UPON
Probable that = lump sun. VIII he
Paid for Light Houses. Barracks
and school buildings.
, A f.
Spanish Commissioners We're Not Sur.
prised When So Informed.
WILL NOT ASSUME THE ENTIRE DEBT
Willing to Assume What Are Designated as
the Pacific Expenditures"
NO DEFINITE AMOUNT is YET AGREED UPON

Especial Cable Dispatch to the Now York Hss.
aid and The Houston Post Copy rixhted
i 1893. by James Gordon DennettJ
Paris, October 81. The Ameri.
can commissioners have demanded
the eession of the whole Of the
Philippines.
| Paris. October Sl.---The American peace
commissioners issued portfolio containing
orders and memorandum and left their
HEADQUARTERS in the Continental hotel for
| the meeting with the Spanish commission
ors at the foreign office shortly before .
| o'clock this evening. The president of the
Spanish commission Senior Montero Rios.
whose health was at one time so precarious
| as to threaten an indefinite adjournment
of tho sessions of thu commission. has re-
covered to the extent of enabling him to
attend today's meeting. He arrived at the
foreign office In close carriage with his
reached the meeting Mace.
Shortly after 2 o'clock the ten commits
table ON which, in 1888 BENJAMIN Franklin
and his colleagues signed the treaty of in
dependence of the United States.
The Americans were removing their
wraps when the Spaniards entered the
ante chamber and polite and cordial greet
ings werc EXCHANGED as the two groups
passed through the grand salon where a
buffet was spread ana entered the confer
ence chamber In which, before leaving.
the Spaniardu would learn the attitude
OF the United States towards the Philip
pines. The Spanish commissioners took
their accustomed places mt the historic
table. the afternoon light full in their
faces. while the Americans ranged them
selves opposite with their backs to the
light and with the Interpreter standing at
the end OF the table.
-,
Secretary Moore. upon the reuacst OF
Judge Day. passed to Mr.. Ferguson. the
interpreter. the formulated demands of the
United States regarding the Philippines.
v hich were read to tho Spaniards in their
own tongue. by n rapId rendering from the
English In which they were written. Al
though the Spanish commissioners did not
betray auxipty their attention to the RAM
,.. No.. ,,.., tho, ~, n.,a,,.a, 81,
'pE was heon. NY 'AAu unti''paAe" 'ha'
The unioed States would take over the
islands, but the terms and the details Of the
transfer had all along been n ruhiect ~
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Specuiao'ol.
The reading disclosed the fact that the
United States government had determtned
10 nossess for itself certain territorv and
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pA.S VI iahu oouh"'n w anu 'y'hs "ithih
such parallels OF latitu1e and longitude as
mark the limits of the Philippi1s archi
nelae, The Irn,toa s,,to, a. ~, nv.
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pose assuming 'he fhiilppine debt OF w.
sible to Spain for q sum OF money equal
70 The actual expenditures by Spain In the
Philippines for the advantage of the is
lands and for the good OF Their people, for
permanent betterments and for improve
ments. both physical and mental.
The reading OF the paper shows that the
United States will reimburse Spain to the
extent OF her "pacific expenditures, !" made
liz the archipelago. This phrase pacific
expenditures" Ia employed to dsferentiate
the expenditures by Spain In combating
insurrection IN the Philippines, Tue ono
II felt by the American commissioners to