The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-11-05

PARIS, Nov. l.-The Spanish CONF
missioners in the course of two hours
session OF the peace conference To-day,
flatly refused to accept Mondays prop-
osition by the Americans to take the en-
tire Philippine group and to reimburse
Spain for her Pacific" expenditures
there.
This negative decision was expected.
The Spanish commissioners had also a
number Of positive declarations which
filled some thirty-seven sheets Of
typeWritten presentment. In this state
ment the spanIards held that the Uni
ted States had no ultimate right in the
Philippine islands and could have none
save By the consent OF Spain in these
negotiations and upon terms satlsfac-
tQrV 10 her,
According TO the Spanish contention
IN tho formal statement. the United
States entertained no thought OF an
nexinH the Philippines when the proto-
col was s!gned, or II would have been
expressed In the protocol as clearly as
the conditions regarding the cession OF
territory in the Antilles and the Orient.
N. Cambon. before the signature Of the
protocol, received from NJ adEtd-the pre-
sentiment 0lleged-a caS.s message
clearly setting forth that the malhte-
nance OF spains authority over tnc
Philippines should not be aTected ny
the protocol, to which reservation tAe
United States made at that time no pro-
test or objection.
This dispatch 10 n. Cambon, as the
Standards claimed to-dny, embodied nj
so the view that the United states mao
no valid basis for claims In the archl-
pelago'
II was further held to-day oy senior
Rios and his colleagues, that tne capt
tulatloa OF Manila. haVlns oGeuEIeu ~
ter the signing OF the pFotocoi anu mus mus
after the suspension OF hosulltles' WIS
invalid.
The FlrrtspHnish Move.
with all this for a ground work. the
srapiards made their Nrst positive
51....i,s, ~. r,sr,,,ons and n
us.,,,..ss -''s. ai'', .s.,, oa,,-,or nronos,t,on
Tber CHARGED I'ui upon the United States a
wrongful appropriation Of public mo-
neRs helonGing to spain by seizing tne
tariff duties at Manila, ana they toF-
mally demanded lhe return ol fmSss ,i,Ss
moneys IN the sum OF nearly d 'A''''Vl
dollars. ~. 1,,,.o,
On the same prelnlsss t9e N,se ts,a
STATES was to-usy .s.i uesIaiSI ~. 'S T' 1,I,S
maze ana neII ~ prlsuhe,s 'us i,,,a. 2t,'..S
troops at mania IN VIotntiOn VI nv ~,
tional law oecs1se done alteE !s ,nI the suS-
pension OF hostlll'es uuoet tne pIotUSoi ~, ~,
a turtheE cnhtSe was mat aI ~ guy I1H w
prisonmehk OF ths SpaHlsh tF',Vpo az .teI ~
MIA. the uhlte1 otates huu pIi,Ns',ts .,.1
SPAN Iruul quellisS tne ait
had thus GontElputeu % Nng N'V's.ISe y, sa.
against spain aIIeE tue cess't''Oii vi ''os-
tilities. ... ~.
To-days spanish presehtnent alSo 80
cited the feiusai OF the A'usIlGaIlS is s,,,s1 ~
conslder the CUBAN uspt, "li tns sloui,4 sl.,I,N
that u was NOT sanctioned ~ we pAVtO
col and demanded an aaherence 20 tUiS
as O precedent III the 1l5cusAloh u H InS
Philippines reBardlng cessivn son ot " IIleii
the Spanish commissioners heiu tne pro-
tocul to make no mention
corFospondunSs Cited.
In support OF these assertions, Hrgu-
.,., - dovond. tho snanIsh pre-
memo say ''-''' =, -. .-tI.-.5 T.. ~.
sentiment inVoKes SPANS Ieuo'u :" |.S
correspondence by mail and telegraph.
though 1t Is not known unothclaily
whether the spaniards produced the
uessage said to have been sent from
Madrid to M. Cambon, az the time the
protocol was signed in which y was
% gs,IinsTno sovSre,S1fv Al the close OF
the TeadIng the Americans said they