Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1898-08-20
Signed and Proclamation
Issued Calling For a Cessa-
ton Of HostiIities.
kRMY AND NAVY COMMANDERS
Notified That Protocol Is Signed
and All Military Operations
Are Suspended.
EVACUATION or THE WEST INDIES
Five Commissioners To- &c Appointed
by Each Government TO Con-
ciude a Peace Treaty
ut Paris.

Washington, Aug. 15.--With sim
plicity In keeping with republican in
stitutions. the war which has ragged
between Spain and the United States
for a period of three months and
twenty-five days was quietly termi-
mated at two minutes past 4 O'Clock
yesterday afternoon, when Secretary
Day for the United States and NJ.
Cambon for Spain, in the rescnc OF
President Mckinley, signed a proto-
col which will form the basis of a def
mite treaty of peace. 1t is but simple
justice to our sister republic, France,
TO accord the fact that 10 her good Off
ces this speedy termination of a war
that might have run on indefinitely
was brought about and the president
himself deemed that action on the
part of the French government us
worthy of special praise.
pr"sid nt.s Proclamation.
The president issued the following
proclamation Immediately after the
signatures had been affixed TO the pro-
tocol:
by the President Of the United
States of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.:
Whereas, BY a protocol concluded
and signed August II, 1898, by VIM. Il.
Day, secretary of state Of the United
States, and his eXcellency, Jules Cam
bon, ambassador extraordinary and
plenipotentiary of the republic of
France, at Washington, respectively
representing for this purpose the gov
eminent Of the United States and the
government Of Spain, the United
States and Spain have formally agreed
upon the terms on which negotiations
for the establishment Of peace be-
TWEEN the two countries shall be under
taken; and
Whereas, II is in said protocol
agreed that upon it's conclusion and
signature hostilities between the two
countries shall be suspended, and that
notice to that effect shall be given as
soon az possible by each government
10 the commanders OF its military and
naval forces,
"Now, therefore, I, William McKin-
lev. president of the United States,
do, in accordance with the stipula-
tons of the protocol, declare n pro
claim on the part of the United States
n suspension of hostilities, and do
hereby command that orders be i'm
medintely given through the proper
channels to the commanders of the
military and naval forces of the Unit
ed States to abstain from all acts in
consistent with this proclamation.
an witness wehereof | have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed,
Done at the city OF Washington,
this 18th day Of August In the year OF
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred
md ninety-eight and of the independ-
ence Of the United States the n hum
drcd and twenty-third'
civilian Mckinley.
"By the president:
civilian II. Day, Secretary of State
A copy of the above proclamation
has been cabled to u army and navy
commanders. Spain will cable her
commanders like Instructions.
Provisions ~ the Protocol.
The protocol provides:
/. That Spain will relinquish all
claim of sovereignty over mt title to
Cuba.
2. That Puerto Rico and other Span
ish islands in the West Indies and an
island in the Ladrones, TO be selected
by the United States, shall he coded
to the latter.
= That the United States will &C.
cupy and hold the city, bay and har-
bor Of Manila pending the conclusion
OF a treaty of peace, which shall deter
mine the control, disposition and gov
eminent of the Philippines.
4. That Cuba, Puerto Rico and 9TH
err Spanish islands in the West indies
shall be Immediately evacuated and
that commissioners, to be appointed
within ten days, shall, within thirty
days from the signing of the proto-
col, meet at Havana and Il Juan re-
spectively, to arrange and execute the
details of the evacuation.
:. That the United States and Spain
will each appoint not more than five
commissioners TO negotiate and on
clude a treaty of peace. The commits
~sioners are to meet Mt Paris not later
than the 1st of October.
6. On the signing of the protocol,
hostilities will he suspended, and no.
tice to that effect will be given as
sooon as possible by each government
to the commanders of its military and
naval forces.
Orders Hostiiities TO Cease.
The orders to General Merritt at Ma
Mia were as follows:
"Adjutant Generals Office, Wash
Aug. 12.-Merritt, Manila:
The president directs all military OPP
erations against the enemy be sus-
pended. Peace negotiations are near
completion, a protocol having just
been signed by representatives of the
two countries. You will inform the
commanders Of the Spanish forces il
the Philippines of these instructions.
Further orders will follow. Acknowl-
edge receipt.
"By order of the secretary of war.
II. c. Corbin. Adjutant General
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