Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-12-21

PARIS, Dec. 1O.-The treaty of peac,
was signed at S:45 p. m. this evening
The joint eace commission met a
$3.50 p. m. and at 5:15 p. m. took re
cess until z p. m.
lhn Americans were the first to ar
rive at the foreign office, the Spania rds
coming half an hour later. S-no,
Montero Rios, president of the Span
ish commission, assembled the steps
leaning on a Cane aud bundled up In
= fur coat.
The Americans shook hands witt
the Spaniards when the latter entered
the conference hall. The faces of the
representatives of Spain were exceed
iDgly solemn. Apparently they re
garded the occasion ~ a funeral one
The treaty, which was not co omplet
ed, was brought in sections in the
hands Of engrossers while the commits
| oiou was SlCllnS.
After being photographed the com.
missioDers listened to the reading OF
the treaty until 5:15, at which hour
they took y recess Until z O'Clock,
while awaiting the arrival of the las,
sections of the treaty.
The long session this afternoon and
the subsequent recess were due only
TO the fact that each article of the
treaty had to be carefully read and
compared in Spanish and English,
and to the fact that the engrossing OF
the last article in Spanish was incom.
plete.
There has been q great contest a.
mong the families and friends of the
American commissioners for possess.
ion of the pens with which the sigma.
lures to the treaty were written. Some
OF the Americans were provided with
handsome pens purchased for the pur.
pose. The SpaDisrds appeared to be
una ff-cted by the souvenir craze, and
contented themselves with the ordi
nary quill pens strewn on the table
Arthur Ferguson, the interpreter oil
the American commission, requested
Senor Montero Rios to give him his
pen, saying:
'Ha7e you any desire to preserve The
pen with which you will?"
! "Not in the slightest sal the
Spaniard, with courtly bow.
CONSISTS OF SEVENTEEN ARTICLES.
The treaty as signei consists OF
seventeen articles, it having been
found advisable to subdivide two or
three of the articles in the draft agreed
upon at the last meeting.
The commissioners of the two ma.
tions wrote their signatures on two
copies of the treaty. one copy being
| for the archives.
The document was prepared by
Secretary Moore in behalf of the United
States commission and by Senor Will.
arutia for Spain. on account of the
continued illness of Secretary Ojeda
of the Spanish commission.
Each copy contains the English and
Spanish texts of the treat; in parable
columns. The wording had been ap
prove d previously by the commissions
without joint meeting, so there Wa.
no controversy on this subject.
The signing of tbs treaty tonigh
would have afforded q euhject for
great historical painting. The group
gathered about the table In the statel,
char mber of the foreign office, was In
pressive in itself. while the fact tha
the sense Of the momentousness of the
issues which the act decided was deep
ly felt by all the participants, gave IL
impressive and solemn tone to tn.
scene.
Around the great mahogany table
sat the ten ar1iters of the destinies OF
an old and young nation. Ranged
about and behind them were mum erous
attaches of the American commission.
The jets from the crystal chandeliers o.
bove the heads of those present, mag.
nified the brilliant green and scarlet
Of the upholsterings In their gaudiness
| There was theatrical contrast be
tween the b lack clothed actors and th,
scenery. To the Americans it was {
happy ending Of the epilogue of war
for the Spaniards it was plainly bit
ter tragedy, none the less painful be-
cause long forseen. They sat si,entl,
as though almost crushed, and non,
could withhold sympathy for Senol
Montero- Rios, the president Of th,
Spanish commission, who, coming
from his bed, was bundled in a grea
overcoat, though logs were burning in