The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-05
SPANIARDS FLATLY REFUSE.
DENY UNCLE SANS RIGHTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES.

Their Presentment Charges the
United states with Wrongful APP
preparation of Tariff Duties at Ma
Mia and Demand Return of About
Million - Made Prisoners of
spanish and Made the Suppression
OF InsurrectiOn Impossible - Adj
iOurned Until Tuesday.
Paris, Nov. 4-The Spanish commission
ers, in the course of a two hours session
of the peace conference to-day, fatty re-
fused to accept the proposition made last
Monday by the Americans to take the en-
tire Philippine group and to reimburse
Spain for her pacific" possessions ,here
This negative decision was expected. The
spanish commissioners had also a num-
Der of positive declarations which flied
some thirty-seven sheets of a typewriter
presentment In this statement the Span
iards held that the United States had no
ultimate rights in tine Philippine Islands.
and could have none save by the consent
of Spain in these negotiations, and upon
terms satisfactory to her. According 20
the Spanish contention of the formal
statement, the United States entertained
no Thought of annexing the Philippines
when the pI otocol was signed, OF it would
have been expressed in the protocol as
clearly as the conditions regarding The
cession of territory in the Antilles and TIE
Orient.
NJ. Cambon, before the signature of the
protocol, received from Madrid-ihe pre-
sentiment alleged-a cable message clearly
setting forth the maintenance OF Spanish
authority over the Philippines should not
be affected by the protocol, to which reser-
walton the United States made at that
time no protest or objection. This dis
patch 10 M. Cambon. as the spaniards
claimed, to-day, embodied also The view
that the United States had no valid basis
for claims in the archipelago.
Ii was further held to-day by Senor
Rios and his colleagues that the capitula-
ton of Manila, having occurred after the
signing Of The protocol and thus after the
suspension of hostilities was invalid.
With all this for a groundwork, the Span
iards made their firsI positive move
against the Americans, and it constituted
their counter-proposltion They charged
upon the United States a wrongful appro-
priat.on OF public moneys belonging to
Spain by seizing the tariff duties at Ma
Mia and they formally demanded the re-
turn of these moneys, In the sum OF near
ly S1000,000 On the same premises, the
United States was to-day declared to have
made and held as prisoners the Spanish
troops at Manila on the violation of in
ternational law, because done after the
suspension of hostil!iies under the proto-
col A further charge was that by the
Imprisonment of the Spanish troops at
Manila, the United States had prevented
Spain from quelling the insurrection, and
had thus contributed to The violence
against Spain after the cessation of hos
tlities.
To-day's Spanish presentment also cited
the refusal of the American TO consider
the Cuban debt, on the ground that il was
rot sanctioned in the protocol and de-
manded an adherence 10 this as a prece-
dent in the discussion in the Philippines.
regarding cession OF which the Spanish
commissioners held the protocol to make
no mention.
The presentment was read by Inter
prefer Ferguson, being rendered from the
Spanish, in which it was written, into
English. AL the close OF the reading the
Americans said they wished to have the
Spanish statement rendered into written
English for more careful consideration and
an adjournment was ia Ike TO Tuesday