Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-10-12
DATE OF POSSESSION.
Spanish Control In Cuba Comes to an
End Dc. |.
OFFICIAL NOTICE IS GIVEN.
What Washington Says About NS-
ported Clash mt Paris over the
Philippine Islands-Subject
Not Touched Yet.

Washington, Oct. II. Instructions
have been sent to the United States
military commission in Cuba fixing
Dec. as the date when Spanish con-
troll over the island must cease. Inc
commissioners, acting upon these IN
structions, have notified the Spanards
hat all ports and customs receipts ana
The MANAGEMENT of municipal analrs
will pass into the hands of the Ameri-
AN military commander in the island.
This order was not intended to work
hardship to the Spanish troops or gov
,rnment, but it was thought best to NIX
/ definite time to end Spanish rule ana
20 begin operations under the United
States.
1t Is probable that United States
:roops will go to Cuba before that time.
BY Dec. it is expected to have troops
20 stationed that there will be no need
Of Spanish troops to preserve order.
The proclamations that have been is
sued by the president establishing Gus
tom rates and defining the manner IN
which Cuban territory shall be governed
will prevail until it becomes apparent
hat new regulations are needed
On Oct. IS Major General Brooke will
assume absolute command of the island
If Porto Rico 1t is possible that all
he Spanish troops will not have left
Porto Rico at that time; if so, they will
oe auartered in barracks until they can
re taken away. In the language OF
Secretary Alger, the United States will
oe the host and the Spaniards the guests
after Oct. 1S. The United States will
SS.;~ 70 n
1t its own expense. That was no part
If the protocol. The custom houses. the
money received for customs and the
government of the island will pass COM
pletely from Spanish control on the date
set. The present custom regulations.
under permission of the president, will
prevail.
The Pence Comm issiOn.
The peace commissioners in Paris. so
far from reaching a point of absolute
variance on the question Of the Philip
pines, have not as yet taken up that
subject for consideration. 1t is true that
at the very first session of the joint
commission the Spanish representatives
sought to raise a question concerning
the occupancy of Manila bay and town
by the United States military and naval
forces.
The United States commissioners
promptly and unequivocally refused to
consider this point in any respect, and
with some reluctance the Spaniards
gave over for the time being the effort
to raise that issue. Since then the COM
mission, whenever meeting jointly, has
been engaged entirely with three ques-
lions, to the complete exclusion of the
Philippines. These questions relate en-
tirely to Cuba, Porto Rico and Guam
and, according to the very latest re-
ports from the American commissioners
to Washington, they are still under
consideration.
The United States will not assume
any financial Indebtedness as the re-
suit of the cession or release of Cuba
and Porto Rico. 1t was fully expected
by the authorities here that the Span
ish contingent on the peace commission
would make a strong effort to make
the assumption of the heavy financial
obligations of these islands condition
of the cession of Porto Rico and the
abandonment of sovereignty over Cuba.
But the American commissioners We're
fully and definitely instructed on these
points, and the general tenor of these
| instructions was that such obligations
were not to be assumed by the United
| States.