The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-11-29
PEACE IS
ASSURED.
Spain Yields to All of Our
Peacemakers' Demands
WITH A M0URNFUL PROTEST.
Spaniards Exhausted All the Re.
WITH A MOURNFUL PROTEST.
Spaniards Exhausted All the Re-
sources Of Diplomacy.
CANNOT AFFORD ANOTHER WAR
Their Commissioners, ''In Order to Avoid
Bloodshed and From Considerations Of
Humanity and Patriotism" Decided to
"Submit to the Conditions of the Con.
quering Nation, However Harsh They
NAV Be-"

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Paris. Nov. 29.-Spain has accepted
the United States offer of 500, ,OOO, 900.
and at join: session of the peace COM
missions yesterday afternoon consented
without condition to relinquish Cuba
and to cede Porto Rico Guam and the
Philippine islands
The document presenting this ac-
ceptance contained only 300 words. It
opened with a reference to the final
terms of the United States, and said
that the Spanish commissioners, after
having taken cognizance of the terms
proposed by the Americans, replied
that their government had tried to
give as equitable an answer as posi-
BILE, but that they were not prepared
to commit their government to the
acceptance of the principles embodied
in the American argument. Spain re-
jects these principles, the note con-
tinues, ''as she always has rejected
them" Basing her attitude upon the
justice of her cause, the note then says,
she still adheres to these priciples
(which she has heretofore invariably
formulated"
However, the note adds, in her de-
sire for peace she has gone so far as
to propose certain compromises, which
the Americans have always rejected
She has also attempted it is further
asserted, to have submitted to arbitra-
tion some of the material points upon
which the two governments differed.
These proposals for arbitration, it is
added, the Americans had equally re-
| jected.
These allegations, in Spain's reply,
as to attempted arbitration, refer to
her proposal to arbitrate the construc-
tion of the third article of the proto-
col, and also to submit the Spanish
colonial debt of Cuba and the Philip
pines to arbitration. The last propo-
| sition has been made in written COM
| munication. Since its presentation,
and in return for such arbitration
! Spain offered to cede the territory in
dispute. The Americans refused both
propositions for arbitration.
Spains reply yesterday, in substance,
continued by declaring that the Uni
ted States has offered, as a kind of
compensation to Spain, something very
inadequate to the sacrifices the latter
country makes at this moment, and
she feels, therefore, that the United
States proposal cannot be considered
just and equitable.
Spain has, however, exhausted all
the resources of diplomacy in an at
tempt to justify her attitude. Seeing
| hot Nf a
made to Spain is a necessary condi"
tion to a continuance of negotiations,
and seeing that the resources of Spain
are not such as to enable her to re-
enter upon war, she is prepared, in her
desire to avoid bloodshed and from
considerations of humanity and pa
triotism, to submit to the conditions oi
the conquering nation, however harsh
they may be. She is, therefore, ready
TO accept the proposals of the Ameri-
can commission as presented at the last
sitting.
The reading and the translation OF
the document occupied less than five
minutes. At the conclusion of the
translations the commissioners en-
powered Senior Ojeda, secretary of the
Spanish commission, and Secretary
{ Moore, Of the American commission
! to draw up articles which are to en-
body the REIMBURSEMENT of Cuba by
Spain and the cession of Porto Rice
and the Philippines. These articles
which may be considered as consti
. tuting the conditions of peace, viii bt
ready for submission tomorrow.
A great deal of interest was takeI
In yesterdays meeting. The two com
missions arrived at the foreign Office IL
carriages in the rain, almost stimuli
, taneously, and, repairing to the con
ference room, Immediately opened tn
: only business before them.
Senior Montero Rios, the president o
the Spanish commission, has usual,
preceded the presentation of a Span
ish communication in writing by yer
bally summarizing it, but yesterda!
Senor Rios was silent and unusuall!
grave. His face was deeper lined, anC
< he clearly showed the mental straiI
Q under which he was laboring as HI
approached the final relinquishmen
!, of Spain's colonial possessions.
" Without a word, Senior Montero Rio
: produced two typewritten sheets ant
passed them to the interpreter of tn
70 United States commission, Mr.. Fergu
8 son, who read them substantially a
"a "a cabled, the outline of the Spanish doc
y ument being furnished later to pres
! correspondent by Senor Ojeda.
IS The commissioners left the foreigl
office Immediately after the secretarie
had been directed TO prepare the artl
cles of the peace treaty. There wa
d scarcely any conversation between tn
e. American and Spanish commissioner
Ig after the adjournment.
re Among the Americans only the mos