Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-12-02
SPAIN OBSTINATE.
Rios Told Not to Grant Three
Points.
LIKELY TO DELAY NEGOTIATIONS.
One Is Cession OF an Island In the Caro-
lines, Another Granting of Religious
Freedom Over Carolines, Also cession
of CoaIing and Gable Station at Ceuta.

PARIS, dec. 2.-Fr0m information
which came to ths correspondent of
The Associated Press, from a well
authenticated source, it seems unlikely
that the peace commissions will finish
their work as soon as had been ex-
pected. 1t is probable that the negotia-
tions will last considerably longer.
Madrid has instructed the Spanish
commissioners on three points, to which
the Americans attach much Importance
These are the cession of an island in
the Carolines, the granting of religious
freedom over the whole of the Carolines
and the cession of a cable and coaling
station at Ceuta.
The Spanish government has in
structed Senior Montero Rios to grant
none of these, and while Spain may
ultimately yield to them all, it is ads
mitted that the American commission
ers have no power to enforce their de-
mands on points not covered by the
protocol. Before Spain does yield, the
negotiations are likely to be prolonged
and the United States may have to give
a substantial quid pro quo
The commissions expect to hold their
next joint meeting this afternoons
The delay Thursday arose from the
fact that the Spanish commissioners
Wednesday offered several urgent propo-
siGions which called for special dellbera-
ton upon the part of the Americans
Spain asks the United States to grant
for term of five years to Spanish ships
carrying Spanish goods or products to
Porto Rico and Cuba the same privilege
as American vessels engaged in the
same trade may have, and she qualities
this request by provlso that trade privi-
leges be extended TO Cuba so long as the
United States government is dominant
over that island.
In support of this request the Span
1sh commissioners assert that Spain
cannot, without vital harm, immedi-
ately abandon or cut the business rela-
lions so long maintained between the
mother country and the West Indian
territories
They invoke the terms of the treaty
of 1919, by which the United States
took over Florida from Spain, and in the
fifteenth article of which granted Spain
for II years the right to send her goods
and products to Florida in spanish ships
on the same terms as the ships carrying
thlther gooas and products of the United
States.
The Spanish commissioners cite fur
ther the fact that the treaty of 1903
with France, for the cession of Louisi-
ana, granted French and Spanish goods
and products the same terms as Ameri-
can in New Orleans and other ports in
the coded territory.
Finally, Spain points TO the Ameri-
can proposed ''open door" policy in the
Philippines, and asks guarantee of the
same advantages in her late West In
dian colonies until trade relations can
by degrees accustom themselves to the
cnange of sovereignty.
Meanwhile the Spanish commission
ers submitted a list of subject for nego-
tiations, supplemented by suggestions
counter to and amendatory of the sub
jects the Americans submitted Wednes-
day. rendering it even more desirable
to postpone the joint session IN order to
give time for translation and considera-
Jion. The Americans therefore asked
for postponement Thursday, which the
Spanish granted.