The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-13
THE WAR WITH SPAIN IS At AN END.
The Has Been Signed Day
Cambon-The Closing Chapter Led
Up to the of Hostities

( signature of NJ Cambon ahead of that
of Secretary Day
The protocol sent to Spa'l was ac-
| companied by the credentials issued by
President Mckinley specially empoN err
ing the secretary of state to affix LIS
signature to the document. The au-
thorization was brief and in typewrlting,
save for the presidents character site
! bold signature. Later the American
copy of the protocol will be accompanied
by the written credentials of the Span
ish government sent 10 NJ. Cambon aud
bearing the signature of Queen Chris
tina.
The cable dispatch received ty him
to-day conferred full authority to sign
the protocol, and stated that the writ
ten authorization would follow, signed
by the queen regent in the name of the
king. Prior to the ceremony of to-day
Nj. Thiebaut showed the cable dispatch
TO Secretary Day, and ii was accepted
as sufficient to enable the ambassador
to sign in behalf of Spain. When the
written authorization arrives II will be
presented to the state department to
accompany the protocol.
The examination of the protocol was
satisfactory and the document was
handed to NJ. Cambon first and then to
Secretary Day, who affixed signatures
in that order to each side of the two
copies. Then the last detail in making
the protocol binding was administered
by Assistant Secretary Cridler, in charge
of the chancery work, who attached the
seal of the United States.
Throughout the ceremony all but the
two signers remained standing. NJ.
Cambon, in signing for Spain. occupied
the seat which Secretary of the Navy
Long, now away on a vacation. usual
ly occupied. The president stood al the
lnf haWa
great cabinet table. Secretary Day, NJ.
Thiebaut and NJ. Cambon, in the order
named, on the left side of the table.
The rest of the party were standing in
other portions of the room.
No credentials were produced during
the meeting at the white house, the
president accepting Secretary Days as
surance that this had been settled to
his satisfaction at the state depart
ment. 1t was 4:2S o'clock when the final
signatures were attached to the proto-
col and, within the knowledge of all
officials present, this was the first time
that a treaty or protocol had been
signed at the white house.
As this ceremony concluded Acting
Secretary Allen of the navy depart
ment, Secretary Alger and Adjutant
General Corbin appeared. having been
summoned to the white house by the
president, and they were admitted into
the cabinet room just in season to wit
ness one of the most impressive feat
ures of the ceremony, when the prosi-
dent requested the hand Of the ambas-
sador and through him returned thanks
to the sister republic of France for the |
exercise Of her good offices in bringing
about peace. He also thanked the am
bassador personally for the important
part he has played in this matter and
the latter replied in suitable terms As
a further mark of his disposition, Pres |
1dent Mckinley called for the procIa- !
nation which he had caused to be |
drawn up suspending hostilities. and |
signed II in the presence of NJ. Cambon |
who expressed his appreciation of the |
action. Without delay Acting Secre- !
tary Allen FASTENED TO the telephone !
and directed that cable messages be |
sent to all naval com |
manders, Dewey in the Philinpinas /
at Guantanamo and the vari- |
Gus commandants at navy yards and |
stations to cease hostiIities Immediate
~. There is also a dispatch boat al
Hong Kong and IL is believed that IT
can reach General Merritt in As hours
at top speed.
On the part of the army. while Secre-
tary Alger availed himself of the teIe-
graph, Adjutant General Corbin braved
the storm and rushed across to the
war department where he immediately
issued the orders which had been pre-
pared in advance to all of the military
commanders to cease their operations. |
rhe state department fulfilled it's duty
by notifying all diplomatic and con-
'ular agents of the action taken.
All the formalities having been dis
posed OF. the president spent half an
lour chatting with those present and
hen, at 4:5S, the rain still continuing
n force, the ambassador and his secre-
ary entered their carriage and were
irlven TO the embassy.
The pen which was used by Secre-
ary Day in signing the protocol was
slVen to Chief Clerk Michael of the
tate department, who had bespoken H.
u. Thiebaut secured that used by the
french ambassador
upon emerging from the white house
secretary Day received the earnest
congratulations of persons present upon
he conclusion of the protocol He
tated that the peace commissioners
Fho are to draw up the definite treaty
would not be appointed for several
avs, but declined to indicate who they |
rOuld be