Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1898-12-21
PEACE TREATY IS signed.
Commissioners Representing SPAN
and America Conclude Ihe1I
Work in Paris. E.
IT CONSISTS OF SEVENTEEN ARTICLES.

Principal Features OF the =
President Mckinley Sends Con-
eratulations The Expenses An-
CURED by the AmericAn&-Protest
Made by the Spanish Government
Paris. Dec. 12.-The treaty of peace
was signed at S:45 Saturday evening
The treaty as signed consists OF II ar
ticles, it having been found adv1saDle
to subdivide two or three of the articles
in the draft agreed upon al the last
meeting. The commissioners of the
two nations wrote their signatures on
two copies of the treaty. one copy De-
ing. for the archives. The document
was prepared by Secretary Moore, IN
behalf of the United States commits
sioners, and by Senior Villa Rut1a Tor
Spain, on account of the continued lii
ness of Secretary Ojeda. of the Spanish
commission. Each copy contains the
English and Spanish texts of the treaty
in parallel columns. The wording had
been approved previously by the com
missions without joint meeting, so
there was no controversy on this SUBJ
ject.
Principal Features.
The essential features of the peace
| treaty are as follows:
First-The customary preface Of treaties
| in the nature of expression OF amity ana
| Of hope for perpetual peace.
Second-The REIMBURSEMENT by Spain OF
| her sovereignty over Cuba.
Third-The withdrawal Of ali Spanish
| troops.
| Fourth-Relinquishme by Spain or
| sovereignty over Porto Rico.
Fifth-Spains cession of the Philippines
Sixth-The withdrawal of the Spanish
| troops there
acknowledgement by the United States
of $40 100000 for the Philippines.
| Eighth-The provision for the "open
door, commercial policy in the Philippines.
| Ninth-Cable station rights in other Span
| ISL. colonies
| 1enth-Release of Cuban and Philippine
| political prisoners.
Eleventh-Mutual abandoning of all
| claims for indemnity.
| President Sends Congratulations.
| Washington, Dec. 12.-The oficia!
news of the signing of the peace treaty
was received in Washington little
later than the press reports. 1t was IN
cipher form, as usual, from Judge Day
! 1t was at once transmitted to the pres
! ident, who was alone at the time. but
within a comparatively short time al:
| the members of the ca binet had either
called or sent their congratula tions.
The presidents congratulations were
promptly cabled to the commission.
| The news of the signing had been 50
| thoroughly discounted that the actual
| receipt of the official advices created
| little stir here. There was a genera;
feeling of relief, however, that no un-
| foreseen circumstance interviewed at
the last moment to block the peaceful
close of the negotiations.
| Expenses Of the Commission
The following figures give the esti-
mated expenses incurred by the Amer
lean members Of the peace commission,
now spending their seventy-frst day in
Paris. up to this time:
! Salaries Of commissioners. $50, 900; salary
Of secretary, $4,000: compensation of inter
! prefers. legal advisers ETC.. SIC, 900: steam
ship passage for party. $1,000: hotel accom-
| modations, $4,000; personal expenses OF
| party, incidentals. etc.. $4,000: services OF
| special employees $4,000. Total. $4,000
| The American peace commission is
composed of five MEMBERS secretary.
| score or more translators, type
writer's, stenographers and a retinue of
servants. In all: 80 persons were in the
party.
| Protest Approved.
Madrid, Dec. 12.-The government
entirely approves the memorandum OF
protest against the action of the United
| States commissioners filed by Senior
| Montero Rios at Paris.
The memorandum protests against
the refusal of the Americans to surren-
der the securities deposited in the
treasures of Cuba and Porto Rico by.
private Spaniards, remarking that
never has civilized nation commit.
ted such an act of violence"
Secondly, it protests against the ulti-
matum demanding the Philippines.
Thirdly. it protests against the posi-
ton in which those Spaniards arc
placed who desire to remain in Cuba.
Fourthly, it protests against the ref
erence to the destruction of the Maine
in President McKinley's message to the
United States congress. On this point
the memorandum says:
Spain has proposed arbitration but the
| United States refuses to give her the right
| which is granted to criminal namely the
| right of defending herself The Spanish
! commissioners leave the care OF fixing the
responsibility for the explosion to the en-
tire world, which will say whether those
are responsible who desire the truth or
those refusing to seek it,
Killed by Express Train.