The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-12-08
THE PEACE TREATY.
The Commissioners at Paris Have
Practically Accomplished One.
THE EIGHT ARTICLES IT EIB0DIES.
Judge Day Instructed Z" Hasten the Con-
cIu-ioE and 10 Limit the Treaty 70 Pro
tocoI Points, leaving other Matters
to Re settled Afterwards.

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Paris, Dec :. The treaty of Paris is
practically an accom- pli>hed fact. es-
terdav-s session disposed of the essen /
tial features OF the treaty. which Will
be embodied in the following eight
articles:
First-The customary preface Of treaties. ia
the nature OF an expression Of amIty and OF
hope for perpetual peaca,
Second-The reIinguishment by SPAN Of her
sovereignty over Cuba
Fhird-The withdrawal Of the Spanish troops
Fourth-The REIMBURSEMENT by Spain q he.
sovereignty over Porto Rico
Flfth-Spaiu's cersiOn OF the Philippines
Sixth-The withdrawal of the Spanish troops
there
Seventh-Paymeut by the United States OF
500 O)O, 900 for the Philippines
Eighth-The provision for the open door
commercial policy in the Philippines
The rough draft of the treaty, which
may be consid erably changed, covers
the proposals. II makes a long dOcu-
ment, which Senator Davis. OF the
United States peace comm ssion. says
will be found to be one of the most in
teresting papers Of its character ever
written. SO compl etely are the de-
tails of the evacuation of the Philip
pines stipulated nat a com mission
such as arranr FL. 4or the Spanish with
drawal from the West Indies will be
unnecessary.
Among the questions not yet settled,
however, are the cOaling station and
religious freedom in the Carolines, the
Spanish commission not having replied
to the American offer. The Americans
| have agreed to transport the Spanish
| prisoners home, including the gar
| rison and sailors at Manila, captured
| by Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt,
| as well as the soldiers and civilians
held by the FiIipinos, whose return
the Americans have guaranteed, As
| compensation Spain promises to Ilber-
ate all ban, Porto Rican and Philip
| pine political prisoners
Spanish soldiers electing to remain
| in the colonies may DO so, but 1t Is
more a matter of economy for the
| Americans to return the others as they
must be fed as long they are kept
and Spain is unable to bear the eX-
| pense of the repatriation. Also the
| Americans have rejected SPANS re-
quest for free shipping for ten years
! in Cuba and Porto Rican waters, they
! having given the Spanish commits
sioners such poor consolation as the
latter may derive from the permission
| to re-apply when the diplomatic rela-
| tions have been renewed, for shipping
| concessions under the reciprocity
| scheme of the Dingley law, for which
| Senior Dupuy De LONE was negotiat-
| ing in Washington when the war broke
| out.
| There are still under discussion eight
| secondary subjects which the Spanish
commi ssioners preached last week, in
| GLIDING the status of patents and copy
| rights. The American commissioners
Yesterday handed to Senior Montero
| Rios a written reply covering these
questions. There will probably be no
! Joint session to-day as the Spaniards
desire time to consider this document
| INSTRUCTIONS TO JUDGE DAY.
Washington, Dee. THE advices
from Paris to the effect that it might
be reasonably presumed that the peace
commissioners will be ready to sign a
| treaty of peace within day or two
are fully confirmed here. 1t is learned
| that the presidents instructions to
| Judge Dav were to hasten the con-
clusion and, to that end, the Amer
! lean commissioners have been
authorized to limit the treaty closely
to protocol points, leaving other mat
LeFS, SuCH DIS Gltc eCtI utoA--C%A " OA|-S
stations and naval stations, to be dealt
with hereafter. As such separation Of
| the points is entirely in line with the
| EXPRESSED desire of the Spanish COM
| missioners, there appears to be no
| reason, now that an agreement has
| been reached as to all OF, the protocol
! points, why those should not be inn
! mediatelv reduced TO the form in which
| it is desired they should appear in a
treaty, and be at once signed by the
| commissioners. In this case it IS
| possi BILE that the treaty of peace may
| be submitted to congress even be-
| fore the Christmas recess. It IS
believed that it will make toward a
| speedy ratification to conf1e the treaty
to the points of the protocol. AS TIC
| the other points which our commits
sioners were instructed to negotiate
upon, they may or may not be disposed
of at Paris by the present commission
| erS. but the indications now are that
they will be left to adjustment in the
future by the ordinary methods OF oil
plomacv, the Spanish government be
ing under no compulsion whatever
| save such as may be exercised by the
Spauish who NAV suffer from the lack
of proper treaty safeguards to regu'
late commerce between Spain and the
United States.
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