The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-11-10
SAYS We HAVE NO CLAIM.
Spain Refuses to Sell the
Philippines.
ACCUSES US OF BAD FAITH
Not Sanctioned by ProtocoI-Demands
the Return of Moneys Seized at
Manila After the CspituIation.

Paris. Nov. THE Spanish commits
eioners, in the course OF a two-bours'
session Of the peace conference today,
fatty refused to accept Mondays propo-
sition by the Americans to take the en-
tire Philippine group and to reimburse
Spain for her pacific" expenditures
there.
This negative action was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also
number of positive declarations which
flied some 81 typewriter sheets. In
this statement the Spaniards held that
the United States had no ultimate
rights in the Philippines islands, and
could have none save by the consent OF
Spain in these negotiations and upon
terms satisfactory to her.
According to the Spanish contention
in the formal statement, the United
States entertained no thought Of annex
ing the Philippines when the protocol
was signed. or it would have been ex-
pressed in the protocol as clearly as the
conditions regarding the cession Of ter
ritory in the Antilles and the Orient.
M. Cambon, before the signature Of the
protocol, received from Madrid, the
presentment alleged, cable message,
clearly setting forth that the mainten-
ance of Spain's authority over the Phil
ippines should not be affected by the
protocol, to which reservation the
United States made at that time no
protest or objection. This dispatch to
M. Cambon, as the Spaniards claimed
today, embodied also the view that the
United States had no valid basis for
claims in the archipelago.
1t was further held today by Senior
Rios and his colleagues that the captu-
lation Of Manila, having occurred after
the signing of the protocol. and thus
after the suspension OF hostilitIes, was
invalid.
With all this for groundwork. the
Spaniards made their first positive
move against the Americans, and it
constituted their counter proposition.
They charged upon the United States a
wrongful appropriation of public money
belonging to Spain by seizing the tariff
duties at Manila, and they formally
demand the return of these moneys in
the sum of nearly 81, 100000.
On these same premises the United
States was alleged to have made and
held as prisoners the Spanish troops at
Manila, in violation OF international
law, because done after the suspension
of hostiities under the protocol.
A further charge was that by the inn
prisonment Of the Spanish troops at
Manila the United States had prevent
ed Spain from quelling the instruction.
and had thus contributed to the vio-
lence against Spain after the cessation
of hostilities.
Today's Spanish presentment also
cited the refusal OF the Americans to
consider the Cuban debt on the ground
that it was not sanctioned in the pro-
tocOl, and. demanded an adherence to
this, as precedence to the discussion
of the Philippines, regarding a cession
of which the Spanish commissioners
held that the protocol made no mem
ton. In support of these assertions,
arguments and demands, the Spanish
presentment invokes Spain's record in
the correspondence by mail and tele-
graph, though it is not known unoffi-
cially whether the Spaniards produced
the message said to have been sent
from Madrid to M. Cambon at the time
the protocol was signed, in which. it
was affirmed today. Spain reserved her
Philippine sovereignty.
The presentment was read by Inter.
prefer 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 con-
sideration. and an adjournment was
taken to Tuesday.