The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1898-11-10
lFLATLY REFUSES TO ACCEPT ouR
PROPOSITION.
Spain Hold. That America Has No
ultimate Right. in the Philip
pines Because No Thought Of An
ne1tnE Them Was Expressed In
the Protocol Capitulation OF
Manila Was Invalid - spaniard.
Make Their First Positive Move
Against the Americans, ana It
CONSTITUTES. Their Counter Propo-
sitions.
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Paris, Nov. 6.-The Spanish commits
sloEers, IN the course of a two-hours'
session OF the peace conference yester-
Gay hatly refused to accept Mondays
proposition by the Americans to take
the entire Philippine group and to re-
amburse Spain for her sspaciic" ex-
pendltures there. This negative action
was expected. The Spanish commits.
sloners had also 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 no
ultimate rights in the Philippine is
lands and could have none save by the
consent of Spain in these negotiations
ana upon terms satisfactory to her
According to the Spanish contention
IN the formal statement the United
States entertained no thought Of an
nexlng the Philippines when the pro-
tocol was signed, or it would have
been expressed in the protocol as
clearly as the conditions regarding the
fcession of territory in the Antilles
and the Orient. M. Cambon, before
the signature of the protocol, received
from Madrid, the presentment alleged.
that the maintenance Of
Spafn's Authority
over the Philippines should not be af-
fected by the protocol, to which res
erYation the United States made at
that time no protest or objection.
This dispatch to M. 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.
ulation of Manila, having occurred af-
ther the signing Of the protocol, and
thus after the suspension of HOSTILE
ties, was invalid. With all this for a
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
was declared to have made and held
as prisoners the Spanish troops at
1Aetd1A" IL f4VAdl1OAa Ol
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 the 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 a precedent in the discussion Of the
Philippines, regarding cession of
which the Spanish commissioners held
the protocol to make 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
presentment 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
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