Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-17
THE WAR is OVER.
Protocol Signed and Presidents Procla-
nation Issued.

nation Issued.
The war between the United States
and Spain came to formal end last
Friday, on terms that are officially
outlined as follows:
1. That Spain will relinquish all
claims of sovereignty over and title
to Cuba.
2. That Porto Rico and other Span
ish islands in the West Indies, and an
island in the Ladrones, to be selected
by the United States, shall be ceded
to the latter.
8. That the United States will oc.
cupy and hold the city and harbor of
Manila, pending the conclusion of a
treaty of peace, which shall determine
the control, disposition and govern
ment of the Philippines.
4. That Cuba, Porto Rico and other
Spanish islands in the West Indies
shall be Immediately evacuated, and
that commissioners, to be appointed
within 10 days, shall, within 80 days
from the signing of the protocol, meet
at Havana and San Juan respectively
to arrange and execute the details of
the evacuation.
5. That the United States and
Spain will each appoint not more than
FIVE commissioners to negotiate and
conclude treaty of peace. The COM
missioners are to meet in Paris not
later than the 1st of October.
6. On the signing of the protocol,
hostilities will be suspended, and no.
tice to that effect will be given as soon
as possible by each government to the
commanders of its military and naval
forces.
Immediately upon the signing of the
protocol, the president sent orders to
the military and naval commanders,
directing the suspension of hostile op-
erations, and then published the fol-
lowing proclamation:
"Whereas, by protocol concluded
and signed August 12, 1898, by Will
liam R. Day, secretary of state of the
United States, and his Excellency
Jules Cambon, ambassador extraor-
dinary and plenipotentiary of the re-
public of France at Washington, re-
spectively representing for this purpose
the government of the United States
and the government of Spain, the
United States and Spain have formally
agreed upon the terms upon which
negotiations for the establishment of
peace between the two countries shall
be undertaken {; and
"Whereas, it is in said protocol
agreed that upon its conclusion and
signature, hostilities between the two
countries shall be suspended, and that
notice to that effect shall be given as
soon as possible by each government
to the commanders of its military and
naval forces;
"Now, therefore, 1, William McKin-
ley, president of the United States, do,
in accordance with the stipulation of
the protocol, declare and proclaim on
the part of the United States suspen-
sion of hostilities, and do hereby COM
mand that orders be Immediately given
through the proper channels to the
commanders of the military and naval
forces of the United States, to abstain
from all acts inconsistent with this
proclamation.
sin witness whereof 1 have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at this city of Washington,
this 18th day of August, in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety eight, and of the indepen-
dence of the United States the one
hundred and twenty-third.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY"