The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1898-11-18
RttUSE TO CEOE ISLANDS
SPANS PEACE COMMISSION
Frs REJECT OUR DEMANDS.
Deciare That Americans Go Beyond
hhe Terms of the Protocol
by Present Action.

SeskSjiSios NJ IL COuISc Ol d Two hours
session of the peace commission today,
a1atly refused to accept Mondays prop
eosition by the Americans to take the
-eentire Philippine group and to reim-
.burse Spain for her 'pacifc expendit-
'Iures'' there.
This negative action was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also
II number Of positive declarations which
1illed some thirty-seven sheets of a
typewriter presentment.
In this statement the Spaniards held
THAT the United States had no ultimate
rights in the Philippine islands and
rcouId have none save by the consent of
Spain in the negotiations and upon
terms satisfactory to her.
According to the Spanish contention
an the formal statement the United
Estates entertained no thought of annex
ing the Philippines when the protocol
was signed, or it would have been ex-
pressed in the protocol clearly as the
conditions regarding the cessio nof ter
aritory in the Antilles and the orient.
NJ. Cambon, before the signature of
aLLc pIoLotol, 1CCSlfSu IloIl III
Sahe presentment alleged-a cable mes
sage clearly setting forth that the
maintenance Of Spain's authority over
Che Philippines should not be affected
by the protocol, to which reservation
rthe United States made at that time no
lprotest or objection.
This dispatch to M. Cambon, as the
.sS,.D -s 1.l, 11o;~o1l %@Jo1y ~ 1o1sol o1c0
che view that the United States had no
valid basis for claims in the archipel-
ago.
It was further held today by Senior
Rios and his colleagues that the cap
DeIInooo 5u!Aeu ,'BHugW 20 %uo!lgInl!
after the signature Of the protocol and
thus after the suspension of hostilities,
was invalid.
DEMAND MONEY BACK.
With all this for a. groundwork, the
%GSpaniaEds y made, their first positive
anave against the Americans and it con-
sstituted their counter proposition. They
charged upon. the United States a
wrongful appropriation Of public mon
+,eys belonging to Spain by the Selling
~oA SIlc lL !uuIlCos MdIikFa, anu !IilGy
formally demanded the return of these
moneys, in the sum of nearly 81, 900, 900.
On the same premises the United
States was today declared to hace made
and held as prisoners the Spanish
rfroops at Manila in violation of inter
national law, because done after the
suspension Of hostilities under the pro-
k-zt "A ~ ~lo~-, ,,~1 +l1% tho
sby the imprisonment of Spanish troops
!: at Manila the United States had pre-
:, vented Spain from quelling the insur-
'Srection and had thus contributed to the
violence against Spain after the cessa-
elton Of hostilities.
Today's Spanish presentment also cit
sed the refusal Of the Americans to con-
slider the Cuban debt, on the ground
III that it was not sanctioned in the proto-
col, and demanded an adherence to this
as a. precedent in the discussion of the
Philippines, regarding he cession of
which the Spanish commissioners held
the protocol to make 10 mention.
SPANISH ARGUMENTS.
In support Of these assertions, ar
Do guments and demands the Spanish pre-
-ssentment invokes Spain's record in the
correspondence by mail and telegraph,
'Vbut 1t is not known officially whether
rsthe ,Hpaniards produced the message
.ssaid to have been sent by Madrid to NJ.
~.Cambon at the time the protocol was
: signed, in which it was affirmed today
Spain reserved her Philippine over
eighty.
The p~resentment was read by Inter
prefer Ferguson, being rendered from
1.-The Spanish, in which it was written,
unto English. At the close Of the read
sing 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.
This evening the Spaniards affect to
believe thai the Americans had planned
to develop the spirit Of their Philippines
demands before the American elections,
but they decline to say whether they
expect easier terms after the election.
pPatriotic. But Suggestive.
Prof. Wilson, Of Edinburgh Univer-
-sity, has recently been appointed an
honorable physician to her majesty, the
] queen. On the morning Of his appoint
/, ment he informed his pupils Of the
i honor he had received by means of a