The San Francisco call., 1898-12-12
REFUSE ID
 DINE WITH
 AMERICANS DonS Fear Sentiment at Madrid. FRIENDLY CALLS EXCHANGED ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF TEXT OF THE PEACE TREATY. The United States to Pay for the Re- patriation of the Spanish Troops
 From All of the
 Colonies.
FRIENDLY CALLS EXCHANGED
ADDITIONAL DETAILS OF TEXT
 OF THE PEACE TREATY.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 PARIS, Dec. 1.-The United States Peace Commissioners rested to-day af- ter the long strain of daily conferences and almost daily sessions with the Spaniards, the intensity of which they hardly realized until it was over. Warm personal friendships and mutual re- gard have arisen between the two commissions as the result of their ex- tended controversy at close quarters.
 To-day several members of both com missions exchanged calls. The Amer ican Commissioners unofficially inform ed the Spaniards they would be glad to have the two commissions dine to- gether. The reply, which, like the in Vitation, was conveyed automatically through a third party, was that the SpaniardS would be most pleased, put feared It would be inadvisable because it might be misconstrued at Madrid, where already much feeling existed against the Spanish Commissioners.
 Several members of the United States Commission were inclined at first to publish the text of the treaty, but Sen ator Frye made a strong plea yesterday tor the observance of courtesy toward the United States Senate and his ar gumentS prevailed.
 Further details, however, have been ltdIutQ as u lHG NOl O1 lAS lACdNy, which provides that Cuba is to be re- linQuished and that Porto Rico and the Philippines are to be ceded. The Amer jeans are to pay for the repatriation of the Spanish troops from all the colonies. The Spaniards are to return all pris- oners held by them. They are to re- tain possession of all military stores and munitions of war in the Philip plnes and of such ships as have not been captured.
 The commercial treaties between the two nations which the war ruptured are to be renewed at the convenience of the two nations.
 The United States Commissioners have been almost overwhelmed with offers of dinners in England, prompted by the desire of prominent Englishmen to emphasize the Anglo-American en- tente, but they will remain in Paris un- til the day before sailing for the United States. They will make formal calls upon President Faure and high officials here to thank them for official hOSpitali- ties Unofficial hospitality to the United States Commissioners has been osten- tatiously lacking in Paris.
 MADRID, Dec. 1.-The Government entirely approves the memorandum of protest against the action of the United States Commissioners filed by Senor Montero Rios at Paris.
 Fl Liberal says: "The Paris negotia- tions offer a far sadder spectacle than the ships which are bringing back our repatriated soldiers, deplorable as the condition of the latter is.''
 The Cabinet, it is said, will meet the Cortes intact, and Senor Sagasta will ask an indemnity bill for the cession of the Philippines.
 The Cabinet will then declare. as 1t finds itself at a crisis. 1t cannot admit any debate and will, therefore. demand ta l6iata a6nntinn of tho hill a ter which Senor Sagasta will submit the question of confidence to the Queen Regent.
 Fl Heraldo says the Government be- lieves that, in the present circum- stances, the holders of the Philippine debt will accept the arrangement ar rived at and considers the Cuban bond holders should demand of the future Government of Cuba, a fulhllment of the contract by claiming a mortgage on the customs which guarantee the debt.
 The memorandum protests against the refusal of the Americans to sur render the securities deposited in the treasuries of Cuba and Porto Rico by private Spaniards, remarking that never has a civilized nation commit ted such an act of violence"
 Secondly, 1t protests against the ulti- matum demanding the Philippines.
 Thirdly, it protests against the posi- tion in which those Spaniards are placed who desire to remain in Cuba.
 Fourthly, it protests against the ref erence to the destruction of the Maine in President McKinley's message to the United States Congress. On this point the memorandum says:
 Spain has proposed arbitration, but the United States refuses to give her the right which is granted to a crimi- nal, namely, the right of defending her self The Spanish Commissioners leave the care of fixing the responsibility for the explosion to the entire world, which will say whether those are responsible who desire the truth or those refusing to seek it.'
 The newspapers generally express re- lief at the signing of the treaty. The independent organs. most of the pro- vincial papers and the Carlist and Re publican Journals attack both political parties, Conservative and Liberal. re- preaching them equally with having brought the country to the present pass.
 Fl Imparcial alone publishes the con- tents of the treaty which produces less unfavorable impression than had been expected, owing to the commer-