The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1898-11-11
SPAIN REFUSES TO YIELD.
Declines Uncle Sans Demand fol
the Philippines.
NEGOTIATIONS ARE STILL ON,
The Question Discussed Outside of the
First Proposition-Spain Finds Much
to Complain of In the Ams rIcan De-
mands-Protocol Not Very Cloar.

PARIS, Nov. 5.-The Spanish COM
missioners, in the course of two
hours session of the peace conference
yesterday, fatty refused TO accept
Mondays proposition by the Amer
leans to take the entire Philippine
group and to reimburse Spain for her
''pacific" expenditures there.
This negative action was expected
The Spanish commissioners had also u
number of positive declarations, which
filled some thirty-seven sheets of a
typewriter presentment. In this
statement the Spaniards 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 negotiations, and upon terms
satisfactory to her.
According to the Spanish contention
in the formal statement, the United
States entertained no thought of an
nexing the Philippines when the pro-
tocol was signed, or it would have
been expressed in the protocol as
clearly as the conditions regarding
the cession of territory 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 maintenance of SPANS au-
thority over the Philippines should
not be affected by the protocol, to
which reservation the United States at
that time made no protest or objec-
ton.
This dispatch to NJ 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 capitula-
ton 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
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 million
dollars
On the same premises, the United
States was declared to have made and
held as prisoners the Spanish troops at
Manila in violation Of international
law, because done after the suspension
of hostilities under the protocol. A
further charge was that, by the i'm
prisonment of the Spanish troops at
Manila, the United States had pre-
vented Spain from quelling the insur-
rection, and had thus contributed to
the violence against Spain after the
cessation of hostilities.
The Spanish presentment also cites
the refusal of the Americans to con-
slider the Cuban debt, on the ground
that it was not sanctioned in the pro-
tocol, and demanded an adherence to
this as precedent in the discussion of
the Philippines, regarding ccssion of
which the Spanish commissioners held
the protocol to make no mention.
In support of these assertions, argu-
ments and demands, the Spanish, pre-
sentiment invol1es SPANS record in the
correspondence by mail and telegraph,
though it is not known 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, Spain
reserved her Philippine sovereignty.
The presentment was read by In
terpreter 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 adjourn
ment was taken to Tuesday.