The age-herald., 1898-10-28
No Portion of the Cuban Debt
 NH Be Assumed. QUESTION OF PHILIPPINES Will Next Be Taken Up By the
 Peace Emoys. ONE CONCESSION WAS MADE America Guarantees Security of Life
 and Property in Cuba. SELECTION OF ISLAND OF GUAM As a Coaling Station in the Ladrone Group Was Agreed to by Spain
 The Philippines Are to
 Be Retained.
America Guarantees Security of Life
 and Property in Cuba.
SELECTION OF ISLAND OF GUAM

Paris, October 27-The Spanish peace commissioners have accepted the negative view of the United States commissioners toward the proposed assumption by the United States of the Cuban debt.
 The American commissioners have firmly but courteously declined to assume for the United States the entire or joint responsl- bility for the Spanish financial conditions, and the Spanish commissioners have finally abandoned the effort and have agreed that the Cuban article of the protocol shall,. without conditions, have place in the ul- timate treaty of peace.
 It was not until Monday that they be- came absolutely convinced that the Amer jeans had, from the outset of their refusal to accept the Cuban debt, meant exactly what they said.
 In spite of the fact that the Spanish commissioners had as background of their efforts doubts of succeeding, their hope of so doing has been so keen and their contention has been so vigorously prose- cuted that the final conviction of their in- ability to win their point brought to the Spaniards such a shock of depression that consistently with these dispatches at the time, there were grave doubts as to the continuance of the negotiations.
 Rios Would Have Resigned
 In support of these statements is the fact that Senor Montero Rios, after Mon- days session and on Tuesday last would have resigned the presidency of the Span- ish peace commission had he not believed that his so doing may have grievously shaken, even if he had not unseated Senor Sagasta's government. From this stand point if for no other reason Senor Mon- tero Rios retained his position, and at yes- terday's session, acting under the convic- tion arrived at on Monday, the Spanish commissioners announced that they would make no further argument on the Cuban debt, and agreed that, practically in the same terms and absolutely in the spirit of the protocol, the article about Cuba should go forward into the final treaty.
 Thus Spain agrees to relinquish sover- eighty over and claim to Cuba without either conditions. All differences regarding Porto Rico and the selection of the island of Guam were also arranged by a mutual understanding, and the commissioners found themselves we'll nigh touching the Philippine question, which will be taken up next week.
 It should be said that the adjustments al- ready accomplished will stand in the final treaty unless opposing views and positions on the Philippine question should develop hereafter and bring to naught the efforts of the future and at the same time the re- suits already obtained.
 The session of the joint commissions, which began today at 2 p. m., ended at I D. m
 America Made Concessions
 Washington, October H.-The intimation conveyed by the American commissioners to the Spanish commissioners at Mondays session of the peace conference in Paris that the position of the United States with respect to Cuba and the Cuban debt could not be regarded as subject to change and that consequently the American commis- sioners were ready to proceed with the con- sideration of other heads under the pro- tocol the Paris advices show had the de- sired effect
 One concession as to Cuba that our con- missioners will make will be to guarantee for the United States that life and prop erty shall be secure in Cuba. This respon- sibility the United States assumes only un- til such time as a stable government shall be formed and operative in Cuba There will be no perpetual guarantee on this score.
 Undue significance has been attached to the dispatch of a special messenger from Washington yesterday to the president at Philadelphia. Almost every day a long report has come by cable from Judge Day, president of the American commission at Paris, telling what had been accomplished and what the Spanish commissioners were seeking and what the American coinmis- sicners propose to do at the next meeting Tho president has gone over these reports very carefully in company with Secretary Hay, and sometimes with military or naval experts, if their advice seemed to be nec- essary.
 Report Was Very Long
 Yesterdays report was very long. and to