The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-29
THE YIELDING OF SPAIN
HER DIPLOMACY EXH4 LISTED. SHE
 ACCEPTS AMERIC4,S TERMS,

Protests to the Very Last That the
 Claims of the United States Were Un-
 just and Inequitable- Submitted Oniy
 to Force-Secr etaries of the Commits
 sions Empowered to Draw Up Articles
 Embodying the Relinquishment of
 Cuba by Spain and the Session Of Porto
 Rico and the Philippines Madrid is
 Calm.
 Paris, Nov. 26.-Spain has accepted the United States offer of $20,O00, 900 and at joint session of the peace commissions this afternoon consented without condition to relinquish Cuba and to cede Porto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines. The document presenting this acceptance contained only three hundred words. It opened with a refer States and said that the Spanish com missioners after having taken cogniz- ance of the terms proposed by the Americans, replied that their govern ment had tried to give as equitable an answer as possible, but that they were not prepared to commit their govern ment to the acceptance of the princi- pies embodied in the American argu ment. Spain rejects these principles as "she always has rejected them." Bas- ing her attitude upon the justice of her cause, the note then says, she still ad- heres to those principles which she has heretofore invariably formulated"
 However, the note adds, in her desire for peace she has gone so far as to pre- pose certain compromises which the Americans have always rejected. She has also attempted to have submitted to arbitration some of the material points upon which the two governments differed. These proposals for arbitra- 'tion the Americans have equally re- jected. These allegations, in Spain's reply with regard to attempted arbitra- tion refer to her proposal to arbitrate the construction of the third article of the protocol and also to submit the Spanish colonial debt of Cuba and the Philippines to arbitration. The last proposition has been made in a written communication. Since it's presentation and in return for such arbitration Spaln offered to cede the territory in dispute. The Americans refused both proposi- tions for arbitration.
 Spain's reply to-day, in substance, continued by declaring the United States offered, as kind of comDensa- ton to Spain, something very made quate to the sacrifices that country made at this moment and she felt there fore that the United States proposals could not be considered just and equit- able Spain had, however, exhausted all the resources of diplomacy in an attempt to justify her attitude. Seeing that an acceptance of the proposals made to Spain was a necessary condi- ton to a continuance of negotiations and seeing that the resources of Spain were not such as to permit her to enter into war, she was prepared in her de- sire to avoid bioodshed and from con- alterations of humanity and patriotism to submit to the conditions of the con- ouering nation, however harsh they might be. She was therefore, ready to accept the proposals of the American commission as presented at the last slt- ting.
 The reading and the translation of the document occupied less than five minutes At the conclusion of the trans lation the commissioners empowered Senor Ojeda and Secretary Moore of the eeio +, Hrly 9rfic- cles which should embody the re,in- quishment of Cuba by Spain and the cession of Porto Rico and the Philip pines. These articles, which may be considered as constituting the condi- tions of peace, will be ready for submis- sion on Wednesday. A great deal of in- terest was taken in to-day's meeting. The two commissions arrived at the foreign office in carriagesin the rain, al- most simultaneously and, repairing to the conference room Immediately opened the only business before them
 Senor Montero Rios, the president of the Spanish commission has usually preceded the presentation of Spanish communication in writing by verbally summarizing the same. But, to-day, he was silent and unusually grave. His face was deeper lined and he clearly showed the mental strain under which he was laboring as he approached the final relinqushment of Spains colonial possessions. Without word. Senor Montero Rios produced the typewriter sheets and passed them to the interpre- ter of the United States commission. MT. Ferguson who read them substan- tially as cabled, the outline of the Span- ish document being furnished later to correspondent of the Associated Press by Senor Ojeda.
 The commissioners left the foreign of- fee immediately after the secretaries had been directed to prepare the arti- cles of the peace treaty. There was scarcely any conversation between the American and Spanish commissioners after the adjournment Among the Americans only the utmost con- eideration for the Spaniards was appar- ent. The Spaniards seemed to be re- ]ieved at having arrived at the conclu- sion of a long controversy.
 The leading article in the Temps to- day. column long, is devoted to se- were arraignment of the American at titude towards Spain in which America is made to appear as merclless con- uueror imposing Draconian conditions