The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-08-10
TERMS OF PEACE.
We Will Consent for the Commits
sion to Meet in France.
NOTIFICATIONS REFUSED.
Spain Must Cede All Her Islands
In Western Waters Save Cuba
to Us if She Wants
Peace.

President Mckinley has given out
the following statement:
In order to remove any miSappre-
henSion with regard to the peace nego-
tiatious between the United States and
Spain, it is deemed proper to say that
the terms offered by the United States
to Spain in the note handed to the
French Ambassador are, in substance,
as follows:
1.-The President does not now put
forward any claim for pecuniary in
demnity, but requires the reinquish-
ment Of all claim Of sovereignty over
or title TO the Island Of Cuba, as well
as the immediate evacuation by Spain
Of the island.
The cession to the United States
and Immediate evacuation Of Porto Rico
and other islands under Spanish sovcr-
eighty in the West Indies, and the like
cession Of an island in the LaGrones.
. The United States will occupy and
bold the city, bay and harbor Of Mani
II, pending the conclusion Of treaty
of peace, which shall determine the
control, disposition and government Of
the Philippines.
If these terms are accepted BY
Spain in their entirety it is stated that
commissioners viii be named by the
United States to meet commissioners
on the part Of Spain for the purpose Of
concluding a treaty Of peace on the
basis above indicated. -
The foregoing was made public by
reason Of the great discussion that has
arisen over the matter and the many
contradictory statements published.
There mas been considerable discussion
between the United States and Spain in
reference to the terms submitted. Spain
wanted them modified, but this the
President has refused to do, except in
some minor particulars.
The President and NJ. Cambon, the
French Ambassador at Washington,
who is acting for Spain, has had several
conferences. NJ. Cambon asked that
the commission to be appointed to set
tie the terms of peace shall meet out
side of the United States, and prefera-
bly, in France. The President sees no
material objection to granting this re-
quest, and it is said to be practically
settled that the conference viii be held
in Paris.
The Madrid government, through N.
Cambon, propounded number Of ques-
tions as to the time when Spain would
be expected to evacuate Cuba and the
territory to be ceded the United States
and what provisions would be made by
the United States to protect the inter-
ests of Spanish subjects in these islands
while the evacuation was in progress.
NJ. Cambon was Informed upon all OF
these points presumably to his salts
faction.
There is one point, however, which
the Spanish authorities, judging from
their communication to their represen-
tative here, fail fully to comprehend,
and Secretary Days call upon the am
bassador Thursday night was for the
purpose, principally, Of making perfect
" clear this one point, which was the
evacuation of Cuba, Porto Rico and
one of the Ladrone islands to be select
ed by the United States, and the per-
manent cessioa to this government Of
all these islands except Cuba, was made
a condition precedent to all peace nego-
tiations, and that not until these terms
had been fully complied with would
this government consent to entertain
any peace propositions whatever.
The question upon which the Spanish
government has so far asked for addi-
tional information are regarded by the
administration as perfectly legitimate
and proper, and up to this time nothing
has occurred to bring in question the
sincerity of their motives. Under these
circumstances it is the purpose Of the
President to deal with them in q spirit
of perfect fairness and to make the road
to peace as smooth for them as the
rights and dignity of this government
will permit, and to this end unimport-
ant concessions Will be readily granted.
Something has been said about an ef-
fort on the part of the Spanish govern
ment to secure some guarantee from the
United States that the lives and prop
erty of Spanish citizens in conquered
territory shall be cared for. The idea
of the administration is that no such
pledge or guarantee is necessary. As
suming sovereignty over conquered ter
ritory and exercising it either through
civil administration, as will be the case
with Porto Rico in the end, or through
military governorship, as will be the
case in Cuba, for an indefinite time,
the United States assumes strict obll-
CATION to protect the lives, interest and
property of all citizens Of all stations,
and it must be remembered that when
the treaty of peace is signed the citi-
zens of Spain, now enemies, will be IN
that category.