The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-09
TREATY TALK.
Senor Garnica Complains
Bitterly Of the Policy
Of the Americans.
SECRECY As TO THE CONDITIONS
Senators Wants Mum to
Be the Word and the
Public Be Damned.
SECRECY AS TO THE CONDITIONS


PARIS. Dec. 8, 1S9S.-senor Montero
Rios. President of the Spanish Peace
Commission, and Senor Ojedas Secretary
of that commission. are still confined to
their beds. The illness of Senior Ojeda
/ delays engrossing the treaty and it is
doubtful whether it will be signed before
Monday.
The Americans held their usual session
this morning.
The spaniards continue making bitter
comments concerning President McKs1-
/ ley,s reference to the Maine. Whsn a
correspondent of the Associated Press
approached Senior Garnica Of the Spanish
Commission for further details Of the tra-
/ ty he said
The fact that you represent all the
American and English papers is really a
reason why 1 should say nothing But
what you SHOW me as having been cabled
/ is substantially correct. The exact num-
Der of articles is still undetermined. It
depends upon how Secretaries Ojeda and
1 Moore divide the treaty 1t may be that
there will be twelve or twenty articles
The. Americans are to pay the indemnity
/ within three months of the ratification.
We shah appoint eonsuls in Cuba Porto
Rico and the Philippine Islands without
delay The Cuban consul win be accred-
tied to the powers that be"
Asked why the spaniards refused TO
grant the United States a coaling station
/ in the Caroline Islands. Senor Garniea
said:-
.Srhe Americans could hardly expect
that we should agree to discuss matters
outside of the protocol, after the lessons
we have had from them on this point
/ When we wished TO discuss the Cuban
debt they absolutely refused to consider
4 it. and they they ask us for whatever
they want Quelle toupet c'What
cheek. y Yet the Cuban debt remains an
important question for settlement
In regard TO the spaniards' final pro
test on the subject Of the Maine, senor
Garnica remarked
THAT protest now becomes history, as
/ it is embodied in the protocol We do
not wish to remain under an imputation
which would perpetuate animosity and
hatred against US and which would be
source of constant irritation in Spain It
/ is neither loyal nor just that this thing
should hang over the reputation OF
/ Spain we cannot submit to it. It must
be cleared up, in justice to ourselves.
| There are many other causes to bring
hatred between the two nations. without
! the addition of such a one as this.
''As TO the future relations of the two
countries, that is one of the things his
tory alone can determine. Many nations
| which have been deadly enemies are
speedily reconeiled.'
Senior Garnica was then questioned as g
the future Of the Philippine Islands aad
/ he said:-
'sThe United States has inaugurated I
policy which will bring it much trouble
and many responsibilities. The Americans
are not prepared for the work they are
about to undertake. Your democratic
system must inaugurate an imperialssiie
and bureaucratic system and you must n
/ crease your army and navy, with he re-
i suit that there will be constant friction
/ between ourselves and the European pow
| ers."
The Americans preserve secrecy re-
garding the terms Of the treaty. That is
party through the influence of the three
Senators on the body, who represent that
! it would be discourtesy to the Senate TO
publish the terms before the treaty is
presented to that body by the President.
The protocol of the treaty will almost
reach the dimensions of a volume, as i
will contain every written statement pre-
sented on both sides during the confer
ences. The Spaniards made a last con-
tribution yesterday on the assembling Of
the Commissions. Senor Montero Rios
then presented vigorously worded pro
test in which the Spaniards declared they
had Welded to force but that they in
voked the conscience of the nations
against the abuse of the rights Of ma
tions Of which they were the victims
This protest was for purposes of record
and consisted Of an argument In support
of every concession demanded by the
Spaniards and which the Americans re- (
fused, some of them peremptorly and /
without an opportunity for discussion
The protest concluded
ssBut these concessions which we are |
obliged to make touch US less than the +
insult which has been inflicted on our /
nation by President Mckinley in his T
Message. We again protest solenltlly
against the accusation hurled against us
in connection with the Maine and we in
tend to again submit the question TO an
international tribunal comprised of Eng
land, France and Germany. to determine
who shall bear the responsibility of the
catastrophe.
In spite of the secrecy observed by the I
Americans, IL rs learned lndb (lie tEtdlt
in substance consists of thirteen or four
teen articles. The principal articles pro-
vide for the cession and evacuation OF
Cuba. Porto Rico and the Philippine ISL
ands, and the political administrative and
financial results thereof the requirement
by the United States of public property
and the relineuishment of archives
The articles of secondary importance
determine the status of Spanish subjects
remaining in the ceded territories and un-
finished law suits and contracts; gnaran-
tees Of the same terms to Spanish ship-
ping and merchandise as imposed upon
American shipping and merchandise IN
the Philippine Islands, for ten years, and
leaving the status of Spanish commerce
IN the West Indies to be settled later.
An important provision is the guarantee
of religious freedom in the ceded terri
tories iii the same terms as the Florida
treaty. the Americans having steadfastly
refused to Incorporate any guarantee of
the United States determination to favor
the property OF the Catholic church, leav-
ing 1t subject TO the general laws on the
same footing as private property.
The Americans were apprehensive even
yesterday that there might be some un-