The age-herald., 1898-11-18
AMERICA WILL
 NOT ARB|TRATE Madrid Papers Realize Hopeless ness of Further Resistance, ND AID GAN BE EXPECTED From Any Outside Power fWar is Renew  SPAIN WILL NELss 70 DEMANDS
 7ss Time Limit haySS Given Her For Defr sleply.
BISMARCK'S BRUTAL MOTTO
Ascribed to the American Commission CTS as in Line With the Stand Taken in Regard to Philip
 pine Archipelago.

Madrid, November 17-Almost all the papers deprecate the dllatory proceedings at Paris, expressing their belief that the United States will decline arbitration and urging the government to yield quickly since it is impossible for Spain to renew the struggle or to expect European assist- ance and furthermore because 1t would be better to cease wasting money and to cons centrate attention upon Spain's domestic affairs and the restoration of her finances.
 Spain Will Yield
 London, November 1S.-All the special dis. patches to the London papers this morning from Paris express the belief that the Spanish commissioners will finally yield. though under protest, to the American de- mands.
 The Spanish Reply
 Paris, November 1.-The clerical force of the American peace commission was hnsy, nearly all last night In translating the Spanish memoranda presented at yester- days joint session. While the translators and typewriters were rendering the Span< ish argument into printed English, couns sel for the American commission studied if sheet by sheet, making notes of records to be examined and of law points bearing on the matter In hand. As a result, when the Americans gathered for their daily ses- sion today the Spanish presentment lay before them in English, ready for consider- ation and accompanied by data bearing upon it.
 No unofficial persons know the contents of the document presented by the Span- ish commissioners yet but 1t is safe to as- sume that, added to her insistence on the reservation of her Philippine sovereignty and her proposition to arbitrate the con- struction of the third article of the proto- col Spain has made two other important statements.
 tirst-1hat on the high ground of fnan- cial probfty she cannot allow any discus son here of the validity of her action in pledging the resources of the Philippines for the payment of the Philippine debt. Second-That in connection with tha American proposal to reimburse Spain for her pacific expenditures in the Philippines, she cannot admit of any inquiry as to.how she has spent the proceeds of the loans based on the Philippine pledges.
 If Spain has assumed this attitude, and 1t is believed she has done so, she practf- caly compels the American commissioners to consider at least the entire Philippine debt and it's assumption by the United States or the Philippine islands as con- dition to Spain's amicabe surrender of her sovereignty over those islands. It is diffi- cult to understand how the Americans can reply to this in any other manner than by strictly outlining their position and giving the Spaniards a time limit in which to &C., cept the proposition of the United States. But the American commissioners may pa- tiently continue their endeavors to arrive at an amicable understanding on the sub- ject
 The Matin today, in reviewing the history of the late war, criticises the American att titude in regard to the Philippine islands, and says Prince Bismarck on one occasion remarked that when you have your knee on nations neck make her cough out all you can,' adding: Tt is possible the United States now remembers this brutal maxim, and 1t is possible the United States has for. gotten the rancor, hatred and exasperatiou 1t involves" <->