The record-union., 1898-11-12
No Truth in the Statement Pub
Iishsd at Paris
That the Spaniards Will Refuse to Discuss
the Subject.
The Report That Senior Montero
Rios Had Recommended an
Abandonment Of the Peace Ne.
gotiations Unequivocal1y Denied
at Paris.

PARIS, Nov. 11.-It is now generally
understood that the joint session of the
Peace Commissions which was ar
ranged for Saturday will be postponed
until Monday. At the joint session of
w ednesday last it was agreed that the
session fixed for Saturday might be
postponed until Monday, if the Spanish
Commissioners found themselves un-
able to prepare a reply for presentation
on Saturday, and it now appears the
Spaniards found it necessary to send
to Madrid for certain records which
cannot reach Paris before ID
o'clock on Sunday morning, and
therefore their proper embodiment into
the Spanish memorandum cannot be
accomplished before Monday.
The next answer from the Spanish
Commissioners will deal with the rights
of either to discuss the question of
Spanish sovereignty over the Philip
pines and with the American conten-
ton that the retention of public moneys
and customs collections at Manila is
justified by the fact of the military oc-
cupation Of the place by the American
forces and warranted by the protocol,
even if faulty, as claimed by Spain be-
suspension of hoStilitieS.
There is no truth in the statement
printed here this morning that the
Spaniards have decided to refuse en-
tirely at the next session to discuss the
cession of the Philippines.
Judge Day. President of the Ameri-
can Commission. is suffering from a
cold, and had a slight chill last night.
l,s-
he is resting quietly to-day. The Judges
indiSposition is in the nature of an at
tack of the grip, from which all the
Commissioners have suffered more or
less, but he expects to be able. to attend
to business tomorrow. This evening
Judge Day is feeling much better, his
slight fever having yielded to treat
ment
1t became known here this evening
that some publicity had been given to-
day in New York to statement that
Senior Montero Rios had recommended
an abandonment of the peace negotia-
tions, and that Senior Sagasta. though
unwillingly, would probably be com
PEELED to accept the recommended ton.
with a final decision in the matter st
the next meeting. On the authority of
one who has the best means of know
ing the facts of the case, this report
can be unequivocally denied.
SPANISH MAY NOT YIELD.
MADRID, Nov. 1.-THE Queen
Regent presided at the Cabinet council
held to-day. Premier Sagasta read a
letter from Senior Rios, President of the
Spanish Peace Commission, announc-
ing that the American Peace Commits
sioners had refused to recognize the
Cuban debt, and had exacted the Phil
ippine Islands. The Cabinet council
will meet again this evening, and de-
eide upon reply.
The newspapers assert that the Gov
ernment of Spain is sending instructions
to it's Commissioners at Paris not to
yield on the question of Spanish SOW
ereignty over the Philippine Islands,
which is asserted to be entirely outside
of the protocol. wherefore the Commits
sioners are not authorized to discuss it.
Government will declare that it has not
been authorized by the Cortes to nego-
tiate the cession of the Philippine ISL
ands.
The Liberal advises the Spanish
Peace Commissioners to leave Paris,
after lodging a protest against the de-
mands of the Americans.
The Spanish newspapers are angry
at the Marquis Of Salisbury, whose
speech at the Guildhall banquet on
Wednesday night they declare to have
been merely a glorification of brute
strength and a denial of the rights of
the weaker"