The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1898-12-30
THEIR. WORK ISBa)NE.
Treaty Commissioners Turn the
Great Document Over to
the President.
uEREMONY IN THE BLUE PARLOR,

Which Was Simple But Of Vast Import
Text VIII Not he Published Until tho
Senate Has the Paper Filipino Protest
Printed at Paris-Boldiy Attacks Both
the Right OF Spain to Give and Our
Right to Take.
Washington. Dec. N.-President Nc
Kinley received from the American
peace commission late Saturday after
noon the treaty of peace between the
United States and Spain. In presenting
this momentous document Judge Day.
a chairman of the commission, said IT
represented the earnest efforts Of the
American representatives at Paris, and
that 1t was submitted with the hope
that 1t would rebound to the peace,
credit and glory Of the American ma
ton. Accepting the treaty from the
hands of Judge Day the president re-
sponded with heartfelt thanks and con-
gratulations to the commission as a
body and to the members individually.
He spoke of all that had been accom-
plished and Of the happy method by
which difficult questions had been ad !.
5usted. The formal ceremony of de-
hverfng the treaty to the president &C.
Cured in the Blue Room and lasted
half an hour.
Goes tn the State Department,
The commission arrived here from
New York on special train at 4:30 p.
N. A great crowd Of holiday excursion
lists filled the railroad station, and in
order to avoid the jam the special was
run on side track, where the officials
had an opportunity to leave the train
before 1t entered the station. Chief
Clerk Michaels, of the state depart
ment, was on hand as representative of
Secretary Hay, and quite a number of
officials from the state. war and navy
departments, as well as friends and
relatives, were there to greet them. 1t
was stated after the delivery of the
treaty to the president that 1t would
not be made public at present, the usual
courtesy to the senate requiring that it
should be submitted to that body before
being made public. In the meantime it
will remain in the custody of the state
department for safe-keeplng. although
copies of 1t will be In the hands Of the
president for such consideration as may
be needed.
Ciouus Loom In the philippines.
The treaty delivered to the president
yesterday contains a provision by which
Spain turns over to the United States
the Philippine islands, and whether
there is trouble in Cuba-which many
predict-or not, it does not appear GER
tain that the turning over of the Philip
pines will be an easy job-or rather that
the securing of the property will be
easy. For part Of the record OF the
peace negotiations is a protest made by
Agoncillo, the Filipino agent in Paris
during the negotiations, and this docu-
ment has been printed in full at Paris.
Protest Recites Spanish History.
The protest says at the outset of the
peace treaty that 1.-The resolutions
passed cannot be accepted as obligatory
by my government, since the commits
sion has neither heard nor in any wise
admitted to it's deliberations the Philip
pine nation, who held an unquestion-
able right to intervene In them In rela-
ton to what might affect their future"
Then arguing that Spain had no right
Of disposal of the Filipino people or
islands, 1t quotes history to show that
this right was never given to Spain, but
distinctly withheld in two treaties, and
when Spain attempted to enforce such a
right II resulted in war that has con-
tinued to the present day. That in
brief Is what the protest says as to
SPANS rights.