The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-13
THE PEACE COMMISSION.
No Names Except Days Yet An
nOunced-President COngrRtuIated.

NO Names Except Ody ACA All
nOunced-President Congratulated.
WASHINGTON, Aug 12.--The representa-
tives of this government on the Paris Peace
Commission practically have been agreed
upon by the President and his advisers but
it is announced that the names will not be
made public, perhahps for several days.
The President may decide to make change
in the commission as it now stands, and, as
there is no special reason why it should be
announced Immediately, it was agreed to
defer the announcement of the names I'M
til all possible chance for reconsideration
had been removed. 1t is known that Sec
rotary of State Day will be head of the
commission for the United States. He has
been identified intimately with all phases
of the Cuban question, both prior to and
during the war, and it is regarded as pc
culiarly fitting that he should be quite as
intimately identified with the conclusion to
the peace negotiations. Necessarily, it has
been pointed out, Secretary Day, when he
enters upon his duties as peace commits
sioner, will resign his seat in the Cabinet.
1t has been understood that he desired to
relinquish his Cabinet position. In fact. he
was prevailed upon to assume the duties of
secretary of state only by the insistence of
the President, who reposes in him the great
est confidence and who particularly desired
that Judge D.; should remain with him
in official capacity until the Cuban question
was disposed OF finally.
The protocol signed to-day provides that
the commission shall meet in Paris rot later
than Oct. 1. The expectation is that the
representatives of this country will leave
for France not later than the 18th of Sep
TENDER, and probably not much before that
time. While it is not anticipated that the
commission will encounter very serious
difficulty IN reaching an agreement, the
probabilities are that the treaty drafted will
not be. ready for submission to the Senate
before the regular session of Congress,
which will begin on the first Monday Of
December. However should the commits
sion reach a speedy conclusion a special
session of the Senate may be called by the
President.
Nothing definite has been done yet about
the constitution of the commission which is
to meet in Havana and San Juan to ar
range for the evacuation by the Spanish
forces of the Islands of Cuba and Porto
Rico. Adjutant General Corbin, whose name
has been mentioned in connection with the
head of the commission, said tonight that
he would not bea member Of It, The repre-
sentatlves of the United States will be three
in number, and all probably will be officers
of the army and navy.
President Mckinley has been the recipient
tonight of warm congratulations from al
parts of the country on the successful ter
mination of the war. Scores of congratu-
latory kilograms were received at the White
House, and many reached the administra-
ton through Secretary of War Alger and
Adjutant General Cerbin. Many of those
received at the War Department came from
officers in the army now in the field. Dur
ing the evening several members of the Cab
met called at the White House to tender
their congratulations to the President upon
mis- successful conduct of the war and its
happy termination. The President ex-
pressed himself as greatly gratified that the
war should have ended with comparatively
so small loss to the American arms.