The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-05
SPAIN FLATLY REFUSES
They Reject tho Philippine Propo-
sition.
ACTION WAS EXPECTED
The Argument Advanced Is That Anne r
lea Has No Ultimate Rights in the
Islands - Capitulation OF
Manila Invalid.

Paris. Nov. 4.-The Spanish commits
s~ioners, in the course of a two hours
session of the peace conference to-day.
fatty refused to accepts Mondays
proposition by the Americans to take
the entire Philippine group and TO re-
imburse Spain for her pacific expcn-
ditures there.
This negative action was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also a
number of positive declarations. which
filled some 81 sheets of typewriter pre-
sentiment. In this statement the Span
iards held that the United States had
no ultimate rights in the Philippine
islands and could have none save by
the consent of Spain In these negotia-
tons and upon terms satisfactory to
her. According to the Spanish con-
tention i'm the formal statement. the
United States entertained no thought
of annexing the Philippines when the
protocol was signed, or IL would have
been expressed I'm the protocol as clear
ly as the conditions regarding the ces-
sion of territory in the Antilles and the
Orient. NJ. Cambon. before the sigma
ture of the protocol. received from
Madrid. the presentment alleged a cable
message clearly setting forth that the
maintenance of SPANS authority over
the Philippines should not be affected
by the protocol. to which reservation
the United States made at the same
time no protest or objection. This dis
patch to NJ. Cambon. as the Spaniards
claimed to-day. embodied also the view
that the United States had no valid
basis for claims i'm h archipelago.
Ii was further held to-day by Senior
Rios and his colleagues tina the capitu-
lation of Manila having cur after
the signing of the protocol. and thus
after the suspension OF hostilities, was
invalid. With all this for a ground
work. the Spaniards made their first
positive move against the Americans,
and IL constituted their counter propo-
sition. They charged upon the United
States a wrongful appropriation of
public moneys belonging to spain by
seizing the tariff duties at Manila. and
they formally demanded the return of
these moneys in the sum OF nearly a
million dollars.
on these same premises the United
States was to-day to have made and
held as prisoners the Spanish troops at
Manila in violation OF International
law because lone after the suspension
Of hostilities under the protocol. A
further charge was that by the impris-
onment of the spanish trcops at Ma
MIA the united states nau prevented
Spain from quelling the insurrection
n had thus contributed to the vio-
lsnce against Spain after the cessation
of hostilities.
To-day's Spanish ~presentment also
cited the refusal of the Americans to
consider the Cuban debt on the ground
that 1t was not sanctioned In the pro
tocol. and demanded an adherence Ia
this as a precedence to the discussion
of the Philippines. regarding a cession
OF which the Soanish commissioners
held the protocol to make no mention.
In support of these assertions. argu-
ments and demands. the Spanish pre-
sentiment invokes SPANS record In the
correspondence by mail n telegraph,
though II Is not known officially
whether the Snaniards produced this
message said 10 have been sent from
Madrid To NJ. Cambon at the tins the
protocol was signed. IN which. IL was
afhrmed to-day, spain reserved her
Phllippine sovereignty.
The presentment was vi by Inter-
prefer Ferguson. being rendered from
the spanish. in which IL was written.
into English. Al the close OF the read
ing the Americans said they wished 10
have the Spanish statement rendered
into English for more careful consider
alton and an adjournment was taken
to Tuesday.