The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-14
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PEACE PLANS
DISCUSSED
Members Of Paris Commis-
sion in Conference With
Secretary Day.
FURTHER TALK TOMORROW
It Will Take Place at Presi-
dent M'Kinley's
Dinner.
THE pHILIPIHOs MARCH OUT
Yield to General Ctis--Spain's
DaIlying Is Causing
Embarrassment.
THE pHILIPIHOs MARCH OUT


WASHINGTON, Sept IA, 1sss.-Three
members of the Peace Commission, Sec
retary Day Senator Davis and Whitelaw
Reid, were in conference for two hours
at the State Department today. Senator
Frye, it was stated. would arrive tomor-
row morning, and join In the conferences
The plans of Senator Gray, the sixth
member, are not exactly known, although
he, too is expected to join his associates
in their conferences tomorrow. The Presi-
dent Will give dinner at the White
House tomorrow night. at which the
Commissioners will be the principal
guests, all the members of the Cabinet in
the city also being present. It is stated
positively that the dinner will be purely
of a social character, and that the reports
that it will serve the purpose of full and
final discussion of the Philippine ques-
tion are unwarranted. The Commission
sers will leave here Friday in order to take
the Canlpania on Saturday
The meeting at Secretary Days office,
today, was for the purpose of going over
Ifre~sxhole question of the peace settle
ment it is the first time Mr. Reid had
exchanged views with his colleagues on
the subject. The same rigid reticence
which has thus far prevailed continues TO
be observed, and as the Commissioners
came from their two hours meeting they
positively declined to discuss any ques-
TORS relating to the Commission. Leauing
members of the Commission stated posi-
lively that all reports relative TO the in
struction of the Commissioners, or The at
titude Of the United States. were purely
conjectural.
1t is pointed out that the interests of
this country might be seriously prejudieee
if its attitude was made known N ad-
vance of the meeting at Paris, 50 Ihat the
Commissioners have agreed among them
selves to authorize no statement of their
views as a body or as individuals.
General Miles, in an answer to an in
quiry today, stated that in his opinion
the projected parade of the United States
troops in New York was no longer possi-
BILE The arrival in New York haroor yes
terday of another Of the transports from
Porto Rico, bringing large proportion
of the few troops from that island that
remain to return, and the immediate dis
patch OF these troops to their home sta-
tions removed the last chance of a parade
of the Porto Rican troops, and there was
no opportunity now for the Alontauk con-
tingent to parade.
The delay of the military commission
ers in Porto Rico in arranging for the
evacuation OF the island is deprecated by
the medical officers here because of the
danger to which it exposes the United
States troops on the island. After The
lapse of month from the appointment
of the commission nothing has been ac-
conplished beyond the exchange OF few
formal eourtesies 1t has been represent
ed to the President by General Miles that
the cause of the sickness of the American
troops was TO be found in this delay.
It appears that under the truce now
existing, according to military law,
neither side is authorized to either ad-
vance or withdraw troops. Consequently
the American troops are obliged to main
tain the positions they occupied when the
news of the signing of the protocol
reached Them These positions, while
well adapted for fighting, were unhealthy
and were not fit for permanent camps.
The troops were lying around in the
grass and out in low country, when they
might be brought into the towns and COM
fortably housed and cared for If the
Evacuation Commissioners forced the
Spaniards to an issue as they should do.
The conditions in this respect are not 50
bad in Cuba, where the only American
troops are as well settled in the neigh
borhood of Santiago and IN the town It.
self as they could be.
Senator Davis and Mr.. Whitelaw Reid,
members of the Peace Commission had
conference with President Mckinley, but
it was not q long one. 1t was expected
that all Of the members OF the Commits
sion would be in Washington some time
today. President Gilman of Johns Hop
kins University at Baltimore, who is a
member of the committee TO investigate
the conduct of the war, also had talk
with the President.