The record-union., 1898-11-11
Her Commissioners Will Not Admit
the American Contention
That the Word Disposition In Protocol
Means Surrender Of Philippines.
French Journals Criticise the Acs
tion Of the American Commis~
sioners in Presenting Their Rec
plies to the Spaniards in Eng~
ish.

| PARIS, Nov. 10.-The newspapers OF
this city, after yesterdays meeting OF
the Peace Commission, seemed % have
gathered from some source or other the
impression that the Spanish Commis-
| sloners have cause for complaint
against the Americans because the lat
| ter presented their replies to the Span
lardS in English, and without SpanA
ISL translation of the document There
Is no basis for complaint on the SUBJ
Ject. The President of the Spanish
commission, Senior MOntero Rios, and
Judge Day, the President of the Amer
lean Commission. agreed that owing
to the lengthy document, all concerned
might be spared the reading of the
matter, which is usually translated in
writing into Spanish for the benefit OF
Senior Montero Rios and the two men-
bers of the Spanish Commission who
do not understand English.
Each side, up to the present, has
made it's own written translauions. but
the Americans alone have supplied AM
interpreter, instead of the SpaniardS
furnishing an interpreter for their use.
as they might have been expected to-
do. The American interpreter is Ar
thur Ferguson, and the Spaniards have
narveled at the facility with which he
did his work. They have never once
checked him or corrected him in the
slightest degree. In view of the fact
in the case, some references os the
Paris newspapers this morning are in
teresting.
Regarding yesterdays meeting, sfe
Figaro" says: 1.-The American Com
missioners contented themselves with
producing long memorandum in Eng
lish. After having deposited this upon
| the table, they left the task of trans
lating it to the Spanish Commissions
ers, apologizing courteously for its
length and the difficulties of translation.
They then retired. The situation thens
at present, is as follows: The Americans
persist in refusing to take over the
Cuban debt, and exact the cession of
| the Philippines. The Spaniards, on
their side, refuse to cede the archipel-
ago.
| The "Petit Bleu" says: "1All diplo-
matte forms were outraged by the
Americans at yesterdays sitting. 1t
is customary in such cases to read the
memorandum presented to the other
side The Americans, however, on
tented themselves with throwing it,,
written in English, upon the table. a
member of the Spanish Commission has
remarked that his colleagues can never
admit the claims of America in ref
e1ence to the Philippines. The pro-
tocol says the treaty shall determine
the disposition and control of the Phil
iprines, and the Americans now claim
that disposition means the colony
shall be surrendered to America This
Spain can never admit"
The Petit Bleu' expresses it's belief
OF an early rupture in negotiations.
The "Rappel' says: "a Spanish
Commissioner has declared that the
Sraniards will yield only to force IN
the question of the Philippines"
Continuing, this paper asserts that 1t
anticipates the rupture of the negotia-
tions at an early, date, adding: "The
country which started out as the HbAr-
ator of Cuba now threatens war, all
though her demands as to Cuba have
been acceded to, because she cannot an
mex territory which played no part I'M
the bringing ON of the war. We pre-
fer the liberator of Cuba to the OPP
presSor of Spain"