The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-12-10
Feeling Against the United States at
Making Outrageous Charges.
VIEWS OF SENIOR GHRNICA
AMERICANS ACCUSED OF DISPLAY
ING ASTONISHING CHEEK.
Points That VIII Probably Be Cow
Gray in Favor of Ratification.

PARIS, Dec. 9.-It seems probable tonight
that the Hispano-American peace treaty will
not be signed before Monday Both Senor
Montero Rios, president of the Spanish COM
mission, and Senor Ojeda its secretary, are
still confined to their beds There is consd-
erable work to be done in engrossing the
treaty, and Senor Ojeda's illness is delaying
it. The Americans preserve secrecy regard
ing the terms of the treaty This is partly
through the influence OF the three senators
on the body, who represent that it would
be discourtesy to the Senate to publish the
terms before the treaty is presented to that
body by the President.
The protocol of the treaty will almost
reach the dimensions Of a volume, as it will
contain every written statement presented
on both sides during the conferences. The
Spaniards made last contribution yester-
day on the assembling of the commissions.
Senor Montero Rios then presented vigor-
ously worded protest, in which the Span
iards declared they had yielded to force,
but that they invoked the conscience of
the nations against the abuse Of the rights
of nations of which they were the victims.
The protest was for the purpose of record
and consisted of an argument in support of
every concession made by the Spaniards,
and which the Americans refused, some of
them peremptorily and without an oppor-
tunity for discussion. The protest conclud-
ed: But these concessions which we were
Obliged to make touch us less than the in
suit which has been inflicted our nation
by President Mckinley In his message. We
again protest solemnly against the accusa-
ton hurled against us in connection with
the Maine and we intend to again submit
the question to international tribune,
comprised of England, France and Ger
many, to determine who shall bear the re-
sponsibility of the catastrophe"
In spite of the secrecy observed by the
Americans, 1t is learned that the treaty in
substance consists of thirteen or fourteen
articles. The principal articles provide for
the cession and evacuation of Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippine islands, and the
political, administrative and financial re-
suits thereof; the requirement by the United
States Of public property, and the relinqush-
ment of archives The articles of secondary
Importance determine the status of Spanish
subjects remaining in the ceded territories
and unfinished lawsuits and contracts
guarantees of the same terms to Spanish
shipping and merchandise as imposed upon
American shipping and merchandise in the
Philippine islands, for ten years, and leav-
ing the status of Spanish commerce in the
West Indies to be settled later.
An important provision is the guarantee
of religious freedom in the ceded territories
in the same terms as the Florida treaty, the
Americans having steadfastly refused to in
corporate any guarantee of the United
States determination to favor the property
of the Catholic Church, leaving it subject
to the general laws on the same footing as
private property.
Senator Gray, though well known to be
radically opposed to the policy of annexa-
tion or imperialism, will vote in the SEN
ate to ratify the treaty, considering that
his signing that document binds him to sup
mort If