The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27
FUTURE OF THE PHILIPPINES
AMERICANS READY TO TAKE
 UP THE ISSUE.
Upheaval in France That May Delay the Settlement of Matters Re lating to the Peace
 Treaty.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS, Oct 26.-The American Peace Commissioners held a session of sev- eral hours duration to-day prior to the joint session of the two commissions, which opened at o'clock this after noon. The Americans fully realize that they are approaching the discus sion of the chief question intrusted to them namely, the future of the Phil ippine Islands, and it may be taken for granted that they are we'll prepared to take the matter up when preached by the Spanish Commission.
 The meeting of the Commissioners lasted an hour and five minutes and was adjourned until tomorrow.
 Both the Spanish and the American Commissioners were more reticent after this session than ever before. The Americans fully appreciate not only their own serious responsibilities, but also the delicate position of their Span ish colleagues, to the burden of whose duties here is now added the critical political situation at Madrid, which may compel the president of the Span ish Commission (who is also president of the Spanish Senate), Senor Montero Rios, to leave Paris.
 The Madrid correspondent of the Temps, confirming the report that Pre- mier Sagasta and the Queen Regent have prevailed upon the Minister of War, General Correa, to indefinitely postpone his resignation, pending the conclusion of the peace negotiations says that they represented to the gen. eral that his withdrawal might entail not only the fall of the Cabinet but cause the resignation of certain mem bers of the Spanish Commission, in- cluding Senor Montero Rios, and there by gravely compromise the United States. The correspondent says:
 ''The net result Is that an open crisis seems to have been avoided until the conclusion of the treaty of peace. In any case this has done away with the necessity of an ad interim government which was lately suggested as likely to be the only solution of the present difficulties"
 AS the peace negotiations are now nearing the discussion of the Philip pine question, the Americans feel that no stage of the proceedings has so de- manded their considerate treatment. It may be stated tonight with certainty that the Cuban question has not re- ceived its last consideration by the Americans, nor have the Spaniards &C., cepted as ultimate the United States refusal to assume any portion of the Cuban debt. It may, however, be af- firmed that the Philippine question was not reached to-day, but it may be dis cussed at to-morrow's session, which will be the first occasion during these negotiations of a joint session of the commissions being held on succeeding days, which fact is in some degree sig nificant.
 WASHINGTON, Oct 26-Some ap- prehension has been manifested in cer- tain quarters as to the possible ad- verse effect upon the Peace Commission at Paris of an upheaval in France. It has been suggested that the Spanish case is in such shape that the Spanish has nothing to lose and everything to gain by any change that can be brought about. However that may be, 1t is the stated opinion of the State Department officials here that there is little danger of the situation in Paris becoming so acute as to justify