The San Francisco call., 1898-08-21
SUGGESTIONS IF
 FOREIGN POLICY Conclusions of the Sara toga Conference. THE PRESIDENT COMMENDED DISPOSITION OF CONQUERED
 TERRITORY. This Country Should Not Cease to Control Until the Natives
 Are Able to Govern
 Themselves.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SARATOGA, Aug. 20.-Chancellor McCracken of the University of New York, as chairman of the committee Of twenty-one on resolutions. presented to the National Conference on the Foreign Policy of the United States a report, which he said had been unanimously agreed upon by the committee The resolutions were unanimously adopted by the conference as follows:
 eve. the participants in the national conference on the foreign policy of the United States, held at Saratoga on Au- gust 19 and 20, 1898, are unanimously agreed as follows:
 purpose of the national administration in first seeking to avoid war with Spain, and subsequently prosecuting the be var var it to a speedy conclusion. It Is glorious to our arms and gratifying to the high aspirations of our people.
 ''On behalf of freedom and human wei fare we thank the officers and men of our army and navy for their skillful and he roic achievements on land and sea, and for their chivalrous conduct toward the defeated enemy. We believe that the res cued and liberated people of the surren- dered islands are, in a sense, temporarily the wards of the conquering. nation, and we should treat them sas such.
 With our success, with our view or natural right and of the inestimab ble privileges of civil liberty, we should not be Justified in returning the conquered islands to the misrule and oppression from which we have relieved them. As soon as the islands under our present protection can be trusted to govern themselves they should be allowed to do so the United States retaining under its authority only necessary naval sta tions. Until such time as they may be able to govern themselves they should continue under the protection of the Uni- ted States, and the question as to wheth- f,t,, in6 Q nd q H. tual desire of both, they should be per manently annexed should be left to the time when it arises.
 s'The United States, in behalf of each territory in question, and so long as 1t shall continue under its protection, should adopt proper measures for securing out of the revenues of these countries, the establishment of free, elementary, unsec- tarian schools, sufficient for the instruc- ton of all persons of school age.
 we count the present an an .Sa ausPie9us I2Si3 3us States of a graded diplomatic and con- sular service
 I've heartily approve of the principle national difficulties and urge that its largest practicable application be supplied by treaties of arbitration.
 t'We cordially favor the precedent set bv President Mckinley In refusing at the beginning of the war to grant letters of marque and reprisal. and we recommend that in the psafe to ne Sf d6 pracfc ing of privateering be forever prohibited; also that provision be made. as foreshad- owed by the Government of the United States in refusing to sign the declaration of Paris in 1856, for the exemption from capture of private property at sea. In ac- cordance with the enlightened sentiments of mankind"
 Chairman Henry Wade Rogers and Secretary Ralph W. Easily of Chicago and the committee of twenty-one were instructed to present the resolutions to President Mckinley and his Cabinet for their consideration. The conven- tion tonight adjourned subject to the call of Chairman Rogers.