The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1898-12-02
SPAIN WILL
NOT CONSENT
To American Demands Regard
ing the caTo|nes'
WAS NO SESSION YESTERDAY
Judge Day Requested That More
Time be Granted.
FILIPINOS WILL NOT ACCEPT
The Native Press Hostile Toward the
United States.
HAVE 1NCoNTEsTIBLE CLAIMS
Upon Parts of the Archipelago by
Right of Conquest, and Will
Not Allow Their Homes
to be Sold
The Native Press Hostile Toward the
United States.
HAVE 1NooNTEsTIBLE CLAIMS

Paris, December 1.-AnXsouS as Dotn are
to conclude their work, the United States
and Spanish peace commissions did not
hold a joint session today. Their next
meeting will be held at o'clock tomorrow.
This delay arose from the fact that the
Spanish commissioners at yesterdays ses-
sion offered several urgent propositions
which called for special deliberation upon
the part of the Americans Spain asks the
United States to grant for a term of five
years to Spanish ships carrying Spanish
goods or products to Porto Rico and Cuba
the same privilege as American vessels en-
gagged in the same trade may have had and
she qualities this request by a proviso that
trade privileges be extended to Cuba SO
long as the United States government
dominates the island.
In support Of this request the Spanish
commissioners assert that Spain cannot,
without vital harm, Immediately abandon
or cut the business relations 80 long MAIN
\ tanned between the mother country and the
West Indian territories They declare that
family ties and social relations, added to
affairs of trade maintained through GEN.
turies. require gradual dissolution. They
which the United States took over Florida
from Spain, the fifteenth article of which
granted Spain for twelve years the right
to send her goods and products to Florida
In Spanish ships on the same terms as the
ships carrying thither goods and products
of the United States.
Treaty of 1903
The Spanish commissioners cite further
the fact that the treaty of 1903 with
France, for the cession of Louisiana, grant
ed French and Spanish goods and products
the same terms as Americans in New Or
leans and other ports in the ceded terri
tory.
Finally Spain points to the American
proposed open door" policy in the Philip
pines. and asks guarantee of the same ad-
vantages in her West Indian colonies until
trade relations can by degrees accustom
themselves to the change of sovereignty.
The proposition and the arguments by
which it is supported were, strongly pre-
sented, and the Americans desired time for
deliberation. Thus though busy until near
iy O'Clock this afternoon, they were not
fully prepared, and Mr.. Day sent message
to Senor Montero Rios requesting that the
joint session fixed for this afternoon be
postponed until tomorrow.
Meanwhiles4the Spanish commissioners
had been preparing list of subjects for
negotiation, supplemented by suggestions in
counter to and amendatory of the subjects
the Americans submitted yesterday. This
came to the American commissioners to-
day in Spanish, rendering it even more
o-s,- HI, r.
order to give time for translation and con-
sideration. The translation is being made
this evening. and the subjects will be laid
before the American commissioners tomor-
row morning.
Now, that the first gust of grief and cha
grin has passed, the Spanish commissioners
are meeting the Americans In frank spirit
that is helpful to an early completion of the
negotiations.
will be Prolonged
From information which comes to the cor
respondent of the Associated Press from a
well authenticated source late this evening
1t seems unlikely that the commissions will
finish their work as soon as had been ex-
pected. 1t is probable that the negotiations
will last considerably longer
Madrid has instructed the Spanish COM
missioners on three points to which the
Americans attach much importance. These
are the cession of an island in the Caro-
lines, the granting of religious freedom over
the whole of the Carolines and the cession
of cable and coaling station at Ceuta
The Spanish government has. instructed
Senior Montero Rios to grant none of these,
annd while Spain may ultimately yield to
them all, 1t is admitted that the American
commissioners have no power to enforce
their demands on points not covered by the
protocol. Before Spain does yield the ne
gotiations are likely to be prolonged, and
the United States may have to give a sub
stantial quid pro quo.
VIII Not Accept s..
Manila, December 1.-The independent
party Of the Filipinos is not disposed to