The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-03
WORK OF TREATY MAKERS.
How the Peace Document VIII Be Pre-
pared, Signed and Sealed.
(Iohiladalnhin Inn11irerl

About the LIST of December will be add
ed to the collection of important internal
tional documents in the state department
cluded between Spain and the United
States at the conference to be held in
Paris about the LIST of October. This
treaty will take rank in Importance and
interest with ene treaties of the wars of
1776 and 1872, and the Mexican war.
The action Of the peace commissioners
at Paris will not be final. The treaty on
which~they agree will be subject to rati-
tication by both countries. According to
the constitution and laws of the United
States, no treaty with this country is
operative until it has gone through five
signing by the peace commissioners is
only the first.
When the peace commissioners have
reached determination the treaty, as
agreed to, will be copied in duplicate, and
each copy will be signed by all the com
missioners, The copies will be made with
the PEN for the typewriter Is not recog-
nized in diplomacy. In the Spanish copy
the Spanish commissioners will sign first,
and in the American copy the American.
The American COPY will be brought
the American commission and delivered
to the secretary of state. In the state
department a message for congress will
be prepared. 1t will embody the text of
the treaty. 1t will be written on heavy
sheets of blue paper, fastened together at
| the top with red silk ribbon. The presi-
uenl VIII sign THIS message, ana ASSIST
( ant Secretary Pruden will take it to the
capitol, where the senate, gathered in
special session, will be waiting to receive
it. When the message has been delivered
mittee on foreign relations will move an
executive session, and behind closed
doors the message will be read. 1t will
probably follow the usual custom and be
referred to the committee on foreign re-
lations, When the senate adiourns 1t will
be delivered to a confidential messenger
will carry 1t to the public printer, and
under his personal supervision 1t will be
put into type by special set of COM
postors When the work is complete and
about 100 copies have been run Off the
forms and proofs will be locked up in the
vault. The copies will be delivered to the
secretary of the senate, who will receipt
for them, number each one and deliver
them to the mombers of the senate
When the treaty has been approved Tor
the senate has advised and consented to
its ratificationD, a new copy will be made
and returned to the president, with the
signature of the president of the senate
attested by the secretary of the senate.
The president on receipt Of notice that
the senate has given its consent, will
ratify the treaty, and the state depart
ment will prepare what is known as an
exchange copy. This is the copy which
will be sent to Madrid to be preserved
there as the permanent record of the gov
eminent between the countries. Spain
also. viii prepare an exchange copy and
When it was customary to use wax for
the official seal Of state document it
was usual for the state department to
inclose the seal of an exchange treaty in
a round silver box. having the national
coat-of-arms in relief Now that waters
are used this is not done, and the ex-
change treaty we send to Spain will
doubtless be q very plain document. It
Will be written in English, on long sheets
of blush paper known as treaty paner
fastened at the side with. ribbon. The
president will sign it, Secretary Days
signature will attest that of the presi-
dent and then the document will be
taken to the keeper Of the seal Of state
1t is not enough that the keeper should
recognize the signature of William Me-
Kinley and William r. Day. He must
have a signed order from the president
directed to him, before he will make the
impression of the great seal on the red
wafer at one. corner of the document.
The treaty, then complete, may be In
closed in box. but It viii probably be
placed in portfolio of green leather,
embossed and stamped with gold bor-
der.
The copy which the queen regent Of
Spain will sign and Prime Minister Sa-
gasta will forward to this country will
differ from ours. 1t will be in two lam
guages-Spanish and French-and It will
probably be engrossed on vellum and in
closed IN carved or ornamental box.
Almost all the exchange treaties on file