The San Francisco call., 1898-12-10
SPAN|ARDS
 RESENT TIE
 ACCUSATION Want Arbitration as to the Maine. TO DODGE RESPONSIBILITY DECLARE McKINLEY'S ALLU- SION AN INJUSTICE. On the Eve of the Signing of the Treaty of Peace the Dons Con- tinue to Show Their
 Bitterness.
TO DODGE RESPONSIBILITY
DECLARE McKINLEY'S ALLU-
 SION AN INJUSTICE.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

PARIS. Dec. .9.-Senor Montero Rios president of the. Spanish Peace Com mission, and Senor Ojeda, secretary are still confined to their beds. The ill- ness of Senor Ojeda delays expressing will be signed before Monday.
 The Americans held their usual ses- sion this morning.
 The Spaniards continue making bit ter comments concerning President Me kinley's reference to the Maine. The Spaniards made a last contribution yes terday on the assembling of the com missions. Senor Montero Rios then presented a vigorously worded protest in which the Spaniards declared they had yielded to force, but that they in- voked the conscience of the nations against the abuses of the rights of na- tions of which they were the victims The protest was for the purpose of record and consisted of an argument in support of every concession demanded by the Spaniards and which the Amer jeans refused, some of them peremptor- fly and without discussion. The protest concluded:
 But these concessions which we were obliged to make touch us less than the insult which has been inflicted on our nation by President Mckinley in his message. We again protest solemnly against the accusation hurled against us in connection with the Maine, and we intend to again submit the question to an international tribunal, composed of England, France and Germany, to determine who shall bear the respon- Sibility of the catastrophe"
 When a correspondent of the Associ- ated Press approached Senor Garnica of the Spanish Commission for further de- tails of the treaty.. he said:
 The fact that you represent all the American and English papers Is really a reason why l should say nothing. But what you show me as having been cableC is substantially correct. The exact number of articles is still unde- termined. It depends upon how Secre- taries Ojeda and Moore divide the treaty. It may be twelve or twenty articles The Americans are to pay the indemnity within three months of he ratification. We shall appoint consuls in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines without delay. The Cuban Consul will be accredited to the powers that be-"
 Asked why the Spaniards refused to grant the United States a coaling sta tiOn in the Caroline Islands, Senor Gar nica said:
 The Americans could hardly expect that we would agree to discuss matters outside of the protocol after the lessons we have had from them on this point. When we wished to discuss the Cuban debt they absolutely refused to con- slider it, and then they ask us for what ever they want. Quelle toupet. (What cheelk). Yet the Cuban debt remains an important question for settlement
 In regard to the Spaniards' final pro- test on the subject of the Maine, Senor Garnica remarked:
 That protest now becomes history, as it is embodied in the protocol. We do not wish to remain under an impu- tatiOn which would perpetuate animos- ity and hatred against us and be a source of constant irritation in Spain. It is neither loyal nor just that this thing should hang over the reputation of Spain. We cannot submit to it. It must be cleared up, in justice to our selves. There are many other causes to bring hatred between the two nations without the addition of such a one as this. As to the future relations of the two countries, that is one of the things history Q one can determine. Many na- tions which have been deadly enemies are speedily reconciled.'