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complete" he said. I'VE have reached a
satisfactory agreement upon all points tx-
cept one which l confess is likely TO lead
to considerable future trouble, but viii not
lead to a renewal of hostilities The COM
mittee was carefully instructed by the gov
ernment to obtain a complete inventory Of
every piece of crown property on which just
claim could be laid. This was to extend to
every province Not foot of land that for
merly belonged to Spain was to be over
looked. We had our own source of infor-
nation, and Immediately on arrival took oc-
casion to secure the originals or authentic
copies of certain records. When, however,
we asked the Spanish representatives on the
committee for such an inventory we were
told that it had been carefully made and
sent to the peace congress at Paris. We de-
manded a copy, which no doubt the Span
iards in Havana could easily have furnished.
We waited two weeks, but never received
it. There is every reason to believe that
the Spaniards had instructions from Ma
drid not to give it to us. This was an act
of bad faith. Trouble is sure to arise sooner
or later out of this matter, because the
United States will never bulge an inch"
I'm what way did they attempt to hide
the existence of the crown property?" was
asked.
Much of it and many of the buildings
have been secretly transferred to private in
dividuals and corporations, especially re-
ligious corporations. This underhand work
began some time ago; but much of it has
been done since the surrender at Santiago.
Such sales are not valid in law or equity.
The same rule will hold regarding all the
transfers of Spanish government buildings
to second parties?'
What were the facts at Santiago?" was
then asked.
'"They were very different from the repre-
sentations made at the time of the surren-
der" replied the rear admiral. For Gx-
ample, General Wood was told that the
Spanish government absolutely owned no
property in Santiago except the naval hos
pital 1t was asserted that all the other
government buildings, even the custom
house and the palace of the governor general
of the province, were leased from private in
dividuals. This was untrue. The attempt
to swindle the Cubans out of their just
rights was too fiimsy to be overlooked by the
United States as the custodian of their in
terests. The commission is in possession of
most of the original records, and no fear
need be felt that trickery of this kind will
succeed"
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AGONCILLo's PROTEST.
Text of the Document Submitted to
the Peace Commissioners.


Correspondence Of the Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. A.-Following is the full text
of the protest lodged with the American
and Spanish peace commissions by Agon-
clio the agent of Aguinaldo, the insurgent
leader in the Philippines, an outline of
which was cabled to the Associated Press
under this date:
Paris Dec. 12
Their Excellencies the President and Dele
gates of the Spanish-American Commits
sion, Paris.
Your Excellencies-The very noble and
gallant General Aguinaldo, President of the
Philippine republic, and his government,
have honored me with the post of official
representative to the very honorable Presi-
dent and government of the United States
of America, devolving on me at the same
time the duty of protesting against any
resolutions contrary to the independence of
that country which might be passed by the
peace commission in Paris. This has al
ready terminated its sessions. and the reso-
lutions passed cannot be accepted as OBJ
Iigatory by my government. since the COM
mission has neither heard nor in any wise
admitted to its deliberations the Philippine
nation, who held an unquestionable right to
intervene I'm them in relation to what might
affect their future. I fulfill. therefore, my
duty when / protest as / do in the most
CONTINUED on Fourth Pagc1
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Bates and Sanger Assigned.

WASHINGTON, Dec. M.-Maj. Gen. John
c. Bates, United States volunteers, who is
now in this city has been ordered to assume
command of the new military department at
Cienfuegos, Cuba, Jan. !, when the United
States will take formal possession of the
island. General Bates has recently been in
command of the First Division of the First
Army Corps, with headquarters at Macon,
Ga Brig. Gen. Joseph p. Sanger, of the in
spector generals department, has been tenn
porarily assigned to the command of the
military department of Matanzas, Cuba.
These two assignments complete the detail
of officers to command the various military
departments in Cuba under the supreme
command of Major General Brooke, who is
now on his way to Havana to superintend
the steps attending the formal surrender Of
the territory TO the United States forces on
Jan. 1.
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FILIPINOs ALSO ARRIVE.
AgOnciIIO Talks About His Mission to
. PnriA=He Wants .Iusfice


NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The Filipino en-
voys F. Agoncillo and S. Lopez, following
close on the heels of the peace commission
ers,~ returned to this city tosdaW s04a4 the
Etruria. They will remain here over Christ
mas, and at the close of the holidays go to
Washington, where they will await the ar
rival of Juan Luna, General Reigo de Bros
and DR.. T. Josada, special commissioners
sent out by Aguinaldo to the American gov
ernment. The new contingent of Filipinos
are expected to reach Washington, by way
of San Francisco, on Jan. 2 next.
Agoncillo, when he got to quarantine
made inquiries about Judge Day and the
other members of the American commits
sion. He was told that they had arrived
safely on the st. Louis, and that the treaty
of peace between the United States and
Spain was doubtless then in the hands of
President Mckinley.
81 have seen a Spanish copy of it," said
Agoncillo, "and know all that concerns my
country. The Spaniards gave away or sold
what they did not possess. The agreement,
as far as it concerns the archipelago, is
practically void
"Are you still opposed to the annexation
of the Philippines to the United States?'
he was asked.
Certainly L am, and why should not L?
Has not Admiral Dewey in his official
communication to the United States govern
ment said that the people of the Philippines
are filter for self-government than the
Cubans, and that he knew both races well?
Dewey's word ought to have some weight,
and is it right to keep my countrymen back,
while you promise freedom to the people
of Cuba?"
''Was your mission to Paris as fruitful
as you expected?'
81 believe that it was fairly so. Our pro-
test is part of the record of the commits
sion. 1t contains the information that Cap
tain Wood, the commander of the Petrol;
and that Consuls Pratt in Singapore, Wild
man in Hong-Kong and Williams at Cavite
implored the armed cooperation of Aguinal-
do and the other Philippine chiefs, offering
to recognize the independence of the Filipino
nation as soon as triumph was attained.
Furthermore, appeals have been made to
Senators Hale and Hoar to help save. the
people of the Philippines, who fought with
the Americans as comrades, for justice and
humanity from military subjugation.
think that the American people understand
the situation now, and that they will see
that justice is done the Filipinos when the
expansion bubble has burst. l am waiting
further instructions as to how to proceed,
and they will ARRIVE with the special COM
misSioneTS l have mentioned"
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NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The Ward line
steamship Leymania, from Havana and
Mexican and Central American ports, ar
rived to-day. Her passengers said that a
great feeling of unrest still pervades the
city of Havana. Travellers are warned not
to go far from their hotels in the evening,
and riots and street assaults are of nightly
occurrence. The Cubans are quite as lawless
and violent as the Spanish troops. The Co
Ion Battalion, which caused the recent dis
turbance in front of the Hotel de Inglaterra,
have really been At the bottom Of frequent
riots in the suburbs. The Spanish censor is
still exceptionally severe. He will not even
allow the United States vessels in the har-
Dor to be decorated in celebration of the
signing of the peace treaty. No telegraphic
news can leave the island until tampered
with, and press representatives are COM
planning bitterly,
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preaching resistance to the government.
which they have never forgiven for passing
the law allowing civil marriages, the rebel
lion may be serious. Trouble is expected
from the municipalities. which have the
right to withhold taxes and recruits as long
as Parliament has not legislated therefor.
Judge Hawkins, a ruddy, keen-eyed old
gentleman of sporting procivities, is the
largest parsonage in the public eye since
the announcement of his retirement from
the bench on Dec. 49, The newspapers and
clubs TEEN with anecdotes of his sharp
temper and kind heart and quick wit. His
departure from the bench was as eccentric
as his career upon it. 1t has been said that
he adjourned court after recording the YER
dict in his last case and walked out, cutting
off the attorneys attempts at the customary
valedlctory iaudations with the remark,
mo speeches" His popularity was greater
with the public than with the profession, the
people believing that in spite Of his
Feasibility and his habit of violently TAX
ing sides, he seasoned his judgments with
the sauce of common sense. The bars chief
grievance was that. although eighty-one
years of age. he persisted until the last in
holding court far into the night. The retire
ment Of Judge Hawkins leaves the bench
unusually colorless in personalities.
Sir George Trevelyan, the former secre-
tary for Scotland, promises an interesting
book in a month, History of the Amer
lean Revolution" He recently wrote a
biography of Fox, the minister of George
III, and his studies convinced him that a
history of the Parliament of that period
could not Oe judged without a record of the
events beyond the Atlantic. So the new
work will be in the nature of sequel Of
Sir George Trevelyan's biography of Fox.
Its spirit is indicated by Tennyson's lines.
which have been prefixed as a motto:
Strong mother of a lion line,
Be proud of those strong sons of thine
Who wrenched their rights from thee
The old institution of the Christmas panto-
mine holds many theaters here. Among the
Americans appearing in leading parts are
Amelia Stone at Drury Lane, Thomas Muir
ray at Manchester, Julia Ring at Birming-
ham, Julia Mackey, Madge Ellis, Ed Tired
way and Billee Barlow at other places.
The American comedy, What Happened
to Jones'" has attained its two hundredth
performance here.
Reports of new opera enterprises are un-
usually numerous. 1t is announced that
steps are being taken towards founding
Wagnerian theater on the Beyruth plan,
and an Austrian millionaire is credited with
the intention of building a grand opera
house in the heart of Belgravia. A scheme
to exchange artists and operas between the
Grand Opera at Paris and Drury Lane
is under discussion.
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PLYMOUTH, England, Dec. 24.--On the
arrival here this evening of the British
steamer Golconda, from Calcutta, Nov. 10,
via Mediterranean ports for London, it was
reported that there was a case Of bubonic
plague on board the patient being one of the
cabin passenger, an officer in the Indian
Company's service, who was coming home
on leave. The sufferer was attacked by the
disease the day after the steamer left Mar
seilles, and he was isolated as soon as the
nature of his disease was learned. He was
landed here.
Upon being taken ashore the sufferer was
conveyed to the floating hospital.
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ARRIvED AT NEW YoRK.
none OF the Commissioners Inclined
to Discuss the Treaty


NEW YORK. Dec 24-Judge William r.
Day. Senator Cushrnan K. Davis. Senator
George Gray, Senator w. p. FRYE and
Whitelaw Reid. the United States commits
sioners to arrange a peace treaty with
Spain, reached home to-day on board the
steamer st. Louis. Holding that the rules
governing their diplomatic mission are still
IN Iorce none Of the gentlemen named would
speak regarding the work at Paris They
TOOK the first train to Washington, carrying
the treaty of peace with them. J. Bassett
moore, secretary and counsel of the COM
mission, and Arthur w. Ferguson, transla-
tor We're with the commissioners.
Mr.. Reid said he and his fellow-comrnis-
sloners were very glad to get back, but they
could not discuss the treaty. 1--WE are going
10 washington this afternoon by the first
train we can get," he said, "and shall re-
port Immediately to the President 1t was
understood among that we should say
nothing about our official business when we
arrived. When the treaty was signed it
became an official document, and it must be
lett for Senate of the United States and the
president to decide what shall be done with
IL. Mr.. Reid would not discuss the pub
hshed translation of what purported to be
the text of the treaty, nor would he say any
OF the commission. LAS a newspaper man
should like to talk he said, but as L am
public official cannot"
Senator Gray, the only Democrat on the
commission, was told of w. j. Bryans re-
Gently declared attitude on the question of
expansion. "Um," said the senator. Il am
not on to Colonel Bryan's curves yet" The
senator admitted that he had an opinion
concerning the expansion question. Il have
no doubt" said he, that there is a sober,
thoughtful opinion in this country against
expansion-there must be. The treaty mere
ly gives us control of the situation; we can
do as we please. We keep the Philip
pines or not, as may be determined in the
future"
Senator Frye said: 'At the opening of the
session in Paris the Spaniards first wanted
us to get out of Luzon. That we refused to
do Then came squabble about the Cuban
debt. We were not inclined to pay that,
and after hard fight of days and days our
opponents finally yielded to our claims and
signed the treaty, which have no doubt
will be ratified by Congress-
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Cable Notes.

The Santander papers have ceased pub
lication, owing to the severity of the Spanish
censorship.
The Spanish transatlantic line steamer
Colon, from Havana Dec. 10, arrived at
Cadiz last night. She had on board 1900 re-
patriated Spanish soldiers.
1t is now learned that the several hundred
Montenegrin soldiers who were recently
overtaken by snowstorm in the Lara pass
and who were thought to have been frozen
to death, succeeded in making their way
through the heavy drifts and have arrived
safely at Podgoritza, a town Of Montenegro.
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MORE TROOPS TO EMBARK.
$500 VIII Go TO Cuba ON the Minne-
vaska and Manitoba

waska and Manitoba,
CHARLESTON, S. c., Dec. A.-Two of
the largest of the Transports the Mime
waska and the Manitoba, are expected in
Charleston harbor on Monday or before, and
at least $500 men will likely be on hand to
sail for Cienfuegos and Matanzas. Generals
Bates and Sanger are expected here to-
morrow or Monday with headquarters, and
these generals will take with them stores,
stock, lumber for tent floors, fuel. forage
and cots. The steamship Saratoga is ex-
pected to arrive here for her fourth trip on
Wednesday, and will carry back to Havana
the first battalion of the First Regular IN
fantry. Another steamer, a small cne, is
expected, to load with three hundred tons of
forage and quartermasters supplies for Ca
silda, Cuba, during the week.
The NIinnewaska will carry General Bates
and the Sixth Ohio Infantry, now in camp in
Knoxville, TO Cienfuegos. The regiment
numbers ,1Eosnen eNk will bring 142 mules
and forty-five horses. A detachment from
some regiment now in Savannah will also
go on the Minnewaska, which, in addition to
men, will also carry $1,000 pounds of hay,
1900 pounds oats, 200 tents, lumber and
supplies for thirty days.
The Manitoba will carry Brigadier General
Sanger and staff, Second Brigade, Second
Division, and a regiment of his brigade now
in camp at Americus Ga. The Second
Brigade hospital also will CO. Tt includes
one hundred beds, four medical officers,
thirty-seven female nurses, forty-three ami
mails and fourteen wagons. There are 1850
men in the regiment, and they will carry
cots, tents lumber, fuel and stores.
On Dec. % the Saratoga will take to Ha-
vana a battalion of the First Infantry and
the stores and forage left here by the sec
ond battalion of the Tenth Infantry.
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Frank Gould Buys Costly Dogs.

NEW YORK. Dec. A.-Frank Gould saw
George Killian. of $50 East Eighteenth street.
giving his two rough-coated st. Bernard
dogs an airing on Fifth avenue. Presto. the
male, carried a whip IN his mouth. Laura
Jean. his companion. trotted after him. The
dogs struck could's fancy. He wanted them
and did not long dicker about the price He
paid 5000 for the animals and they were
taken to his kennel at Lyndhurst to-day.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. M.-The secretary of
war has received the following cablegram
from Major General Lee at Havana:
Seven thousand rations have been sent to
Guines and about forty thousand TO other
points in Havana province. Rations are also
being distributed in the city of Havana, in
cluding two thousand cans of condensed milk
to sick and debilitated women and children
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WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 26-United
States Senator Gray, one of the peace COM
missioners, arrived home tonight. He said
that, while he did not know the sentiment
Of the people on this side of the Atlantic
with reference to the treaty, and had not
consulted his colleagues in the Senate, it
was his opinion that the treaty would be
rtified without amendment. When asked if
he was favorable to the conditions of the
treaty he evaded direct reply by saying,
well, signed it, Mr.. Gray declined to
discuss the treaty, saying that it would not
be diplomatic at this time.
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MILITARY COUP PLANNED.
Court of CassatiOn May, However, De-
eide Against DreYfus.

LONDON, Dec. 25.-The Paris correspond
ent of the Weekly Sun asserts that he has
knowledge of a military coup planned for
Wednesday next, but does not give the
names of those involved or details Of the
plot. The Sunday Specials correspondent in
Paris hints at similar knowledge, adding
that the Court of Cessation on Thursday
will give judgment against Dreyfus The
judges, the correspondent AYERS, yielding to
the government, do not dare to pronounce
a decision which would result in the down
fall Of the republic
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MADRID, Dec. A.-The condition of Senior
Sagasta, the premier, was somewhat better
this morning, and the attending doctors are
now hopeful of his recovery. After the close
of the Bourse here to-day, however, Spanish
interior securities fell to 53.75 owing to an
unfavorable bulletin regarding the condition
Of the premier.
A bulletin issued this evening announces
that the condition of Senor Sagasta has un-
dergone no change since the last report.
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The Gar an UncIe.

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 24.-The Grand
Duchess Xenia, sister of the Car, has given
birth to a son.
The Grand Duchess Xenia, eldest sister of
Emperor Nicholas, was born in 1876 and is
the wife of Grand Duke Alexander, a son
of the Grand Duke Michael, who is the
grand-uncle of the Czar.
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SAN JUAN DE PUERTO RICO, Dec. "a.
Gen. Guy v. Henry, the military gov
ernor Of Porto Rico. reduces the budget for
next year from 100000 pesos. as under the
Spanish regime. to 10000 pesos. He asks
for authority to apply the custom-house
revenue to the improvement of roads and
the cleaning of cities.
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Russia Docs Not Wand Our MONEY.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec M.-It is semi
officially announced that the minister of
finance, NJ. De Witte, is unable to accept the
proposal (recently communicated by the
United States charge d'affaires, II. H. D.
PIERCE of William NJ. Ivens, of New York,
the representative of group of financiers,
to make a large loan to Russia.
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Hanged by Experts.

Special TO the indianapolis Journal
SEYMOUR, Ind. Dec. IA corresponds
ent here who visited the scene OF the Scotts-
burg Iynching says the men who hanged
Tyler were evidently experts. FOR the knot
was tied In 'true hangznan's style" ana
everything gave evidence q careful prep
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ACT OF BAD FAITH.

Admiral Sampson Tells How Span
fards Tried to Hide Crown Lands.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2L-The World pub
fishes the following interview with Rear
Admiral Sampson regarding tha work Of the
Cuban evacuation commission, Of which he
wae a member. Its work is practically
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The Woman Had Recovered from Her
to Have Subsided.
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PRESENTED TO PRESIDENT DrExIN-
LEY AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT.
Commissioners Landed at New York
Yesterday Morning and Proceea-
ed at Once to Washington.
RECEPTION At WHITE HOUSE
INFORMAL ADDRESS BY JUDGE DAY
ON CHE WORK AT PARIS,

Followed by Response from the
President COngratuIatinG the Com.
missiOners on Their Success.
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A HOOSIER MOB
SCOTTSBURG CITIZENS sTEING UR
MARION TYLER To A TREE.
Masked Men Take Him from jail Two
Months After He Attempted to Kill
His Wife and Himself.
NO CAUSE FOR THE LYNCHING

TYLER'S TRIAL WAS SET AND JUS
TICE WOULD HAVE FOLLOWED.
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tne treaty will be submitted to the United
states Senate almost Immediately after the
reassembling of Congress.
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FOREIGN FINANCIERs AND MANU-
FACTURERS GROWING ALARMED.
United States Rapidly Coming to the
Front in Money Matters, Conn
merce and Industries.
WARNING SOUNDED BY BRYCE
ENGLISHMEN UNDERBID BY COMPET-
ITORS IN NEW WORLD.

Profitable Contracts for Steel Rails,
garded as British Territory.