The age-herald., 1898-11-13
NJ FURTHER DISCUSSION IF
 DISPOSITION OF PHILIPPINES
Americans Instructed to Deliver Udmahm to the Spanish
 Commissioners on the Subject

,,c,u,ere nrovida for rules which will insure order and protect against all rights resi- dents as well as the Cuban natives slili loyal to the mother country.
 Terms Quite Indefinite
 ''The terms relating to the Philippines seem to our understanding quite indennite. On the one hand, the ground on which the United States believes themselves entitled to occupy the bay, harbor and city or Man fla, pending the conclusion Of the treaty of peace cannot be that of conquest since in spite of thee blockade maintained on the bay by the American fleet and In spite or the siege established on land by native supported and provided for by an Ameri- can admiral, Manila still holds Its own ana the Spanish standard still waves over the city On the other hand the whole arehi- pelago of the Philippines is In the power and under the sovereignty of spain.
 Therefore the government Of Spain re- quests that the temporary occupation or Manila should constitute guaranty. It IS asserted that treaty of peace snail oe- termine the control, disposition and govern ment of the Philippines, but as the inten- tions of the federal government by regres- sion remain yelled, the Spanish government must, therefore, declare that, while ac- cepting the third condition, they do not on apieri renounce the sovereignty of Spain over the archipelago, leaving 1t to the ne- gotiations to agree to such reforms as the
  of the culture of their natives may render desirable.
 "The government of her majesty accepts the third condition with the above men, tioned declarations"
 The following is Secretary Days response through M Cambon under date of August 10, and which Spain declares embodied ac- uuiescence to her reservation of Philippine sovereignty from discussion in the peace commissions:
 4a understanding that the note of the Duke of Almodovar de Rio which you left with the president on yesterday is intended to convey an acceptance by the Spanish gov ernment of the terms set forth in my note of the 30th ultimo as basis upon Wnlch the president will appoint commissioners to negotiate and conclude with commissioners on the part of Spain a treaty of peace l understand that we concur Tn the opihloh that the dukes note, doubtless owing 10 the various transformation which 1t mas undergone in the course of Its circuitous tansmission by telegraph and in cipher. is not in the form as it reached the president entirely explicit.
 Terms of Protocol
 'Under the circumstances 1t Is considered that the most certain way of avoiding mls- understandings is to embody in protocoi to be signed by us as the representatives respectiyely of the United States and or II, for peace are to be undertaken. T therefore enclose herewith dratt TOT such a protocol, in which you will ma have embodied the precise terms rendered to Spain in my note of the 30th ultlmo, to- gether with appropriate stipuations for the appointing of commissioners to arrange the details of the immediate evacuation or Cuba, Porto Rico and other islands under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, as well as the appointment of commissioners to treat of peace.
 Accept your excellency, the renewed as surances of my highest consideration "WILLIAM R. DAY" The Americans hold that Spain saw that Philippine sovereignty was involved in the basis of the treaty of peace laid down by the United States. The suspension Of hos tilities was deferred because of this fact A protocol in precise terms was demanded because of this fact, and Ambassador Cam bon cabled Madrid on the same day of Sec retary Days response that the federal goV- ernment had decided to state precisely in the protocol the basis upon which peace must be negotiated It was only when the United States regarded Spain as having made an unqualified compact to leave Phil ippine sovereignty to commission by sign- ing the protocol that hostilities were sus- pended. It was not designed by the United
 States to prejudge Spain's rights, but to have them determined under the protocol by the peace conference. Added to all the l deductions from these communications the | conversations in Washington throughout | the original peace negotiations left no room | for Spain's representatives to doubt that l the United States expected under the pro- tocol to have and hold the right to con- slider Spain's Philippine sovereignty If they cared to exercise it.
 ROW AMONG SOLDIERS.