The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-16

pleted for the departure of the COM
mission and its staff
Most of the party will leave Wash
ington about o'clock tomorrow after
noon for New York, but circumstances
may detain some of the commissioners
until the night train. The Campania
sails at 2 D. m. Saturday and explicit
instructions have been given all men,
bers Of the party TO be on board at
that time. Special baggage tags have
been printed for the belongings of the
members and a small paper DaSter,
showing red and blue bars crossed on
a white background, gives a handy
way of making a red, white and blue
Identification of the personal and gen.
eral luggage of the party.
A number of stout cedar chests have
been made to carry the books, pamph-
lets, typewriter papers, etc, forming
cart of the American case. The
chests are like a shallow steamer
trunk, so that they may be showed
under the berths, and thus be available
on the passage over, instead of going
with the baggage in the hold of the
steamer. This will permit consider
able work on the trip and it is expected
that the commissioners will hold meet
ings on shiDboard. They will go di-
rect from Liverpool to London and
there stop for days rest, then pro-
ceeding to Paris by the way of Dover
and Calais.
Senator Frye called at the war de-
partment during the afternoon and
Meikeljohn. While they were to-
gether, Representative William Alden
Smith of Michigan, who is a member
of the house committee on foreign af-
fairs, joined them. In the course of
a good natured exchange, Mr. Smith
urged Senator Frye to hold on to the
Philippines as an entirety as we'll as
all other territory of which we were
possessed Of as a result of the war
Mr.. Frye automatically avoided COM
hitting himself beyond remarking that
this idea seemed to be growing. AS
Mr.. Frye came from the department
he was asked if he favored a retention
of the Philippines, to which he replied:
Il never have given my views on that
to any human being"
OFFICIAL STATEMENT.
The state department tonight gave
out the following concerning the dis
cussion today between the members
OF the cabinet and the peace commits
sion:
The members of the peace commits
sion, with the exception of Senator
Gray, whose absence was due to his
Inability 10 Withdraw as counsel in
case in which he was engaged some
time before his appointment as one of
the peace commissioners, have spent
the greater part of yesterday and to-
day in a free discussion of the duties
with the discharge of which they have
been entrusted by the president SEN
ator Gray is expected during the even
ing, and before sailing will have a full
conference with the president and his
associates.
While for obvious reasons it was de-
termined that the nature of the in
structionS as to the negotiations about
to be entered upon should for the pres
ent be kept secret and made known
only after definite results shall have
been reached, it is possible to state au-
thoritatively that the commission goes
to Paris fully prepared to follow a
course of action mapped out for it as
the result of the consultations of the
last two days
AT the very outset it will be made
clear to the Spanish commissioners
that, as in the case of the preliminary
protocol, there can be no deviation
from or modification of the demands
made by the United States.
The decision arrived at by the pres
ident, after a full consultation with
the members of the commission. sub
received the cordial and
unanimous approval of the cabinet at
a meeting held this afternoon
AS previously announced. the COM
sails from New York on the
at o'clock Saturday after
noon.