The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-11-24
WILL sign TIE TREATY.
President Mckinley and His Cabi-
net Confident That Spain Will
Accept Our Terms.
SENIOR RIOS TALK OF WITHDRAWING.
The President of the Spanish Commissions
AttItude Assumed for Political Eject
Prediction as to What Spain VIII Do
London Newspapers Pleased at the
''Open Door Policy.


Washington, Nov. 22.-War with
Spain will not be resumed. SPANS
peace commissioners, reluctantly ana
under protest, will sign treaty of
peace within less than a fortnight,
embodying in full all the demands
made by the United States. This is
the confident belief of President Nc
Kinley and the me mbers of the caol-
net, based upon the logic OF the sltua-
ton as well as upon official dispatches
received by Secretary Hay from Judge
Day, the chairman of the American
commission, yesterday evening.
Many sensational stories came from
Paris yesterday morning announcing
breaking off of peace negotiations, but
the authorities here showed little
anxiety and calmly awaited advices
from Mr.. Day, which came later. The
text of these dispatches has not been
made public, but it is said that after
the meeting in Paris yesterday Senior
Rios, the head of the Spanish commits
sion, was very much excited and talked
of refusing to participate longer IN
the proceedings. His anger, however,
is understood to be personal rather
than official There is nothing in
Judge Days cablegram. member of
the cabinet said last night, to indicate
the slightest belief in his mind that
the bombastic attitude of Senior Rios
would result in the breaking off of ne
gotiations.
The administration has not been I'M
prepared for such a demonstration as
that which Senior Rios is reported to
have made. The president has been
led to believe that the president of the
Spanish commission would, for per-
sonal and political reasons, take a
bold stand against signing away the
colonial possessions of Spain, but the
administration at the same time has
been advised not to give undue weight
to this attitude. 1t is upon the as
sumption that the Spanish envoy is
playing a part that the president and
his advisers base their prediction that
n treaty will be signed; yet the fact
must not be lost sight of that this is
largely an assumption.
Prediction as to What Spain Will DO.
Paris, Nov. 22.-The Spanish peace
commissioners last night telegraphed
to Madrid the substance of the United
States memorandum presented yester-
day and later in the evening they were
discussing it among themselves. As
late as one o'clock this morning a
Spanish commissioner affirmed that he
and his colleagues did not know what
to do regarding the American offer.
There is difference of opinion among
unofficial people near the commissions,
but the prediction is made that Spain
will decline the American offer of
money; that she will refuse to cede
the Philippines and will say to the
United States:
You take the archipelago because you have
the power to do AS you advance we win
reeede protesting against greedy aggression.
I've will faithfully carry out our part of the
pledges and leave Cuba and Porto Rico in your
hands You came here to engage in a discus
sion under the terms of the protocol, but you
evidently meant when drawing up that docu-
ment to provide conference in which. though
we differ, man to man, you proposed to an
nounce at the proper time what you will do
whether we agree to it or object Such an at
titude robs the conference of a negotiative
character and sets up the United States as q
dominant power whose first purpose is to listen
but whose ultimate determine tion is to do its
own W ill
Pleased at the "Open Door" Policy.
London, Nov. 23.-Most of the after
noon papers comment upon and ex-
press satisfaction at the "open door"
intentions of the United States in the
Philippine islands. The Pail Mall Ga
zette says:
Whatever may happen in Porto Rico and
eventually in the United States themselves
Americas colonial policy in the Pacific is the
open door 1t is wise decision on every
ground. in the interests of the prosperity of
the Philippines themselves and as securing the
good will of nations really friendly to America
in the Pacific. The community of interests Of
two Englfsh-speaking nations are thereby def
nitely assured