Phoenix weekly herald. [volume] (Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Territory) 1896-1899, 1898-09-29
A TREATY OF PEACE.
Formalitfes that VIII Close our War
With Spain.

a treaty of peace. Within that time
many new chapters have been added
to the laws of diplomacy. Further
more, just as we have done in our
conduct of the war, we shall establish
many precedents in the method of its
conclusions.
Our peace commissioners to treat
with Spain will rank as ENJOYS ex-
traordinary. The president is not linn
tied as to who they shall be or how
many he may appoint. Neither will it
be necessary for him to select the same
number as commissioned by our enc
my. None of our treaties of peace have
thus far been signed by a commission
equally divided as to number. Our
peace commissioners may be men of
almost any position in official or civil
life whom the president may see fit to
confirm. OF course it would be dis
courteous to Spain should men of
inferior rank and ability be commits
stoned. 1t was charged that England
endeavored to display her contempt for
us by appointing men of little conse-
Quence to act for her in the treaty
of Client, which closed the war of
1912.
Our peace commissioners thus far
have included our most distinguished
diplomats, a speaker of the House of
Representa- tiveS, an eX-United States
senator. a chief clerk of the state de-
partment, and citizen from private
life. In 1914 the Senate rejected AL
bert Gallatin, appointed on the com
mission to close the second war with
Great Britain. because he was then
secretary of the treasury. But he was
afterwards 'reappointed and confirm
ed.
There is no strict rule as to the place
of meeting during the preparation of
the treaty. In the usual order of dip
lomatic events a neutral state would
be selected, but a precedent contrary
to this was established for US in 1913,
when the treaty concluding the Next
can war was signed in Mexican terri
tory. The peace commission will have
attached to it a secretary, with sew
eral assistants, private secretaries,
stenographers, interpreters and mes
sengers.
The credentials of our commission
ers will be modest, typewritten sheets,
While those of the Spanish commits
sioners will be very elaborate and YER
bose, giving at length the full title of
each holder. The first named of our
commissioners, who will act as presi-
dent and chief spokesman for his dele
cation, will probably begin the practi-
cal part of the negotiations by reading
at length the demands and ultimatum
of President Mckinley. An adjourn
ment will then be taken, probably I'M
til the following day, to enable the
spokesman of the Spanish side to take
time to communicate to his home gov
eminent by cable, if necessary, and
prepare his reply and the translation
of it. A firm demand as to territorial
distribution and the continuance of the
war up to the ratification of the treaty
will reduce parleying and diplomatic
fencing to a minimum Should Spain
refuse our demands, there will doubt
less be an adjournment of the COM
mission, the two delegations returning
home and preparing their failure to
their respective governments.
The treaty will be drawn upon large
sheets of the heaviest white linen pa
per. folio size. 1t will be in manu-
script throughout. The entire text will
be in two columns, one in English and
the other an exact translation in
Spanish. All treaties signed in Wash
ington are carefully written by an ex-
pert penman employed by the diplo-
matte bureau of the state department.
He writes a steel plate, copybook
hand, using only the very blacklist of
black inks. A great treaty, such as a
treaty of peace between European ma
lions, usually commences: I'm the
name ofMost Holy and Undivided Trim
ity" When Turkey, not a Trinitarian
nation, is party, ''In the name of AL
mighty Cod is substituted The for
mer was written in bold shaded letters
across the head of the treaty of Paris;
neither was employed in the treaty of
Client, and the latter in the treaty
of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which conclud- !
ed the Mexican war AT least two Origi-
nal copies, and perhaps several certi- |
fed copies will be signed, the latter for |
The original copy will |
be placed on filed in the ministry of |
foreign affairs in Spain. the other in |
our state department. The latter will |
De kept in large manila envelope IN
IN pigeon-hole shelf marked SPAIN
N one of the series of cupboards in
he division of rolls and library. The
ages will be bound together with silk
baby ribbon, both ends of which will
De brought around over the last page,
the signatures of the commits
ioners, and sealed with the same wax
Is will be placed opposite each name.
The signatures will be in a column
'unning lengthwise with the page
each American minister will do well
o take with him on his mission a hand
ONE seal ring. A peace commissioner
5 permitted to use his personal seal
opposite his signature. These impress
ions viii be to the left of the sigma
ure, in red wax. The Spaniards' seals
viii doubtless be very elaborate, bear
ng their family coat OF arms. Our
on the other hand. will
oubtless be traditional democratic,
nd use seals bearing simply their
In our first two peace
reaties. however, this modesty does
OF seem to have been displayed by
ur commissioners, who evidently wed
18th their foreign collaborators in re-
pect to insignia of heraldry The i
aal of Henry Clay upon the treaty of
hent was an exception to this, yet
bove the Old English "H. c. is ]
lint trace of some heraldic emblem. {
The treaty of peace having been /
gned. it need not even then be accept i
l by the President unless it thorough {
satisfies him. If it is consistent
18th his instructions, he will imme
ately transmit it to the Senate, con- c
ened, probably in special session for d
lie occasion. The direct representa- t
YES of the people will have no vote b
BON it, and therefore, will have no '
md in the conclusion of the war. The C
mates deliberations prior to ratifica- b
On of the last treaty of peace lasted
rec weeks. Some interesting dis S
Issions are bound to occur pending a
tification of the Forthcoming treaty. Il
fter having been referred to the il
,mmittee on Foreign Relations, the L
eaty will be printed, and considered, r.
necessary, behind closed doors. On "
@ final vote tMO-thirds of the Sen d