The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-08-12
PEACE PROTOCOL SIGNED.
Secretary Day and NJ, Cambon, French
Ambassador, Attach Their Names
to the Document.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE prelim-
mary negotiations looking tow ard the
confirmation of peace advanced long
step Wednesday when the secretary of
state and the French ambassador
agreed upon the terms upon which
future negotiations for treaty are to
be conducted and reduced these to the
form of protocol This protocol,
it is true, is yet to be signed
and it is to be submitted to
the Spanish government before the
formal sign atures are affixed, but
the administration view as to the
progress made Wednesday was set out
in Secretary Days sentence: ut is
expected that this protocol will be ex-
ecuted." There is always the POSSIBLE
ity in dealing with the Spanish gov
eminent that it may recede at the last
moment from an implied agreement,
but it is scarcely probable that it
would be willing to involve the French
ambassador in the difficulties that
would follow what to the world would
seem to be Reputation of his benev-
olent efforts in behalf of pain.
There must be a delay-possibly
from "a to As hours-before the next
step can be taken and the protocol
made binding upon both the United
States and Spain by the attachment of
the signatures of the plenipotentiaries,
Secretary Day for the United States
and NJ. Cambon for Spain. The delay
will be largely attributable to physical
causes. The protocol is long; it must
be translated and turned back and forth
into code and simple language no less
than five times before it reaches Mad
rid through the French foreign office.
This work was not begun until late
Wednesday afternoon after it had con-
sumed the best energies of Assistant
| Secretary Adee, of the state depart
| ment, and NJ Thinbeaut, secretary of
! the French embassy, in the prepare
| ton in formal shape of two copies of
! the protocol. one in English and one
| in French. These were prepared care
! fully, the idiomatic variance in the two
! languages nccessitating the greatest
| caution in order that the identical
| character of the two copies should be
! preserved. The length of the protocol
| imposed great amount of labor upon
| the cipher clerks, or whoever is
| charged with the work of rendering
the original into cipher, so that alto
| gether it is apparent that the con-
sumption of time involved In purely
| technical functions will be consider
able as TO make the rendition of a
very early answer i'm probable.
AS to the character Of the protocol
it can be stated on authority that the
terms are in all practical points those
set out in the abstract of the presi-
dents conditions on olished from the
white house week ago. From this
! fact it is deduced that the extra condi-
tions or qualifications sought to be
imposed by the Spanish government
were abandoned at least in large part
by the French ambassador. This de.
duetion is supported by the circum-
stance thatin the early morning, and be-
fore the conference between Secretary
Day and NJ. bon, which resulted in
the agreement, there was a prevalent
impression, based upon the utterances
of public men wholhad talked with the
president, that the Spanish answer
was unsatisfactory and that the nego-
tiations looked as if they might
terminate suddenly. AS this situa-
ton changed SO suddenly after the
conference, it may be fairly as
sumed that the ambassador abandoned
the conditions which the president
was reputed to have regarded as un-
satisfactory. 1t is believed that the
protocol carries within itself provision
for the cessation of hostiities. On
this point the naval contingent is
urgent that our government adopt
the Napolconic policy of refusing
to enter into an armistice with
out requiring some substantial pledge
to secure the contamination OF
peace. What they particularly desire
is that our government shall demand
as a condition of the cessation of hos
tilities the surrender to the United
States military forces of MORO castle,
at the entrance of Havana harbor, an
some such points OF vantage at the
other important ports in the territory
soon to fall under our control.
The peace negotiations are now be-
lieved to lie advanced to point where
the president has felt warranted in
turning his attention to the selection
of the commissioners to be charged by
the United States with the drafting OF
treaty of peace.
The Sixth May Be Returned to Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, Aug. IA telegram
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