Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-11-21
Blue DAY FOR SPAIN.
An Ultimatun TO Be Delivered
This Afternoon.
MUST YIELD THE PHILIPPINES.
If g Refusal Is Made, Then She Must
Suffer the Loss of the Islands without
Amy Compensation and More Territory
Also-Cuba May Figure Again.


commissioners were notified that the
United States commissioners would be
ready to meet them this afternoon.
Unless the Spaniards have an adequate
reason for further delay, the two COM
missions will join in the most import
ant meeting thus far held.
The American commissioners, in a
written communication, will declare
that the third article of the protocol re-
garding the Philippines is capable of
only one fair construction, that no arbi-
tration is needed to elucidate its terms
and that the United States cannot
admit any other power to figure here
purely as lexicologist. They will main
tain that the two commissions are
charged TO determine whether Spain or
the United States shall in future own
the Philippines.
This will be accompanied by the clear
declaration that the United States will
possess the Philippines.
Following this declaration the
American commissioners will lay be-
fore the Spaniards two alternatives:
First-Io accept a sum of money
from the United States, and to cede
and eyacuate the Philippines.
Second-To lose the Philippines to
the United states by conquest with the
possibility of other territorial losses to
indemnify the United States for the ad-
ded expense Of conquest.
This communication may not be
formally designated as an ultimatum,
but it will lack naught of the conclus-
iyeness indicated by that word This
will be SO plain that the Spanish COM
missioners will scarcely haggle for
money on the first alternative nor cher
ish any doubt of American action under
the second, should the first be declined.
No one here, except the American
commissioners, knows how much will
be rendered Spain as the cheapest and
most humane way of settling the diff
Guilty. She Is exceedingly anxious to
escape the Philippine debt, and possibly
the sum to be offered may be deter
mined by an analysis OF that debt, which
consists of 1000, 900 in bonds, on
which she realized $36, 000,0 00 Of the
latter amount she is believed to have
expended some $10,000,000 or 81, 000,-
600 in fighting the United States and
part in attempting to quell the Philip
pine instruction. A reasonable guess
900, though it may fall below that
The Cuban question may come up
again today. The American commits
sioners had thought the discussion on
that point finished, but the Spanish
commissioners are reported to have de-
clared last week that the mortgages inn
posed by Spain on the Cuban as well as
on the Philippine revenues, must not
be impaired or questioned. This would
compel the American commissioners
soon-and probably today-to demand
whether Spain means to repudiate the
plain compact of the protocol to relin-
quish sovereignty over and title to
Cuba.
About three weeks ago SPANS COM
missioners accepted the Cuban article
in the protocol without conditions, save
that its embodiment in the treaty should
depend only on an agreement here on
all the articles in the protocol. Recent
~, however, SPANS representatives
have said that the Cuban matter had
been only temporarily passed and was
still in allegiance.