The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-05

Paris. Nov. 4.-The Spanish commits
sioners, in the course of two hours
session of the peace conference today,
fatty refused to accept Mondays prop
osition by the Americans to take the
entire Philippine group and to reim-
burse Spain for her pacific" expendi-
lures there.
This negative action was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also a
number of positive declarations, which
filed some 81 sheets OF a typewritten'
presentment. In this statement the
Spaniards held that the United States
had no ultimate rights in the Philip
pine stands, and could have none save
by the consent of Spain in these nego-
tiations and upon terms satisfactory TO
her. According to the Spanish conten-
ton in the formal statement, the Unit
ed 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.
NJ. Cambon, before the signature of
the protocol, received from Madrid the
preSentment alleged, a, cable message,
clearly setting forth that the mainte-
nance of Spain's authority over the
P hilippines should not be affected by
the protocol, to which reservation the
United States made at that time no
protest or objection.
This dispatch to NJ. Cambon, as the
Spaniard' S 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 chat the capit-
ulation OF Manila having occurred af-,
ter the sigr ng 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 it constituted their counter prop
osition. 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 demand the return Of
these moneys in the sum of nearly
81, 10000 OF these same premises the
United States was today declared to
have made and held as prisoners the
Spanish troops at Manila in violation
of international law, because done af-
ter the suspension of hostilities under
the protocol A further charge was
llAcl ny Lie ipliSOlllltlil VI lilG SDdn-
ish troops at Manila the United States
had prevented Spain from quelling the
insurrection, and had thus contributed
to the violence against Spain after the
cessation of hestilities.
Today's Spanish presentmentc 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 a precedence to the discussion
of the Philippines, regarding a cession
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 invokes Spain's record in the
correspondence by mail and telegroph,
though it is not known unofficially
whether the Spaniards produced the
message said to have been sent from
Madrid to NJ. Cambon, at the time the
protocol was signed, in which, it was
affirmed today, Spain reserved her
Philippine sovereignty. The present
ment was read by Interpreter Fergu-
son, being rendered from the Spanish.
in which it was written, into English.
At the close of the reading the Ameri-
cans said they wished to have the
Spanish statement rendered into writ
ten English for more careful consider
alton, and an adjournment was taken
to Tuesday.