Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-01-06

TRANSMIT ling II III THE SEN
ATE FOR RATIFICATION AND
SECRETARY HAYS LETTER OF
TRANSATLANTIC TREATY
NOT MATERIALLY DIFFERENT
FROM THE SYNOPSIS PRINTED
AT THE TIME IT WAS SIGNED.
Washington, ID. c., January 5.-The
following is the Presidents message
and the letter of the Secretary of State,
transmitting to the Senate the. treaty
of peace concluded at Paris between
the United States and Spain, together
with the official text OF the treaty. be-
ing an exact copy of the document
brought to the United States by the
American commissioners:
To the Senate of the United States:
l transmit herewith, with a view
of its ratification, a treaty between
the United States and Spain. signed
at the city of Paris on December 10,
1898, together with the protocols and
papers indicated in the list accompany
ing the report of the Secretary of
State. WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Executive Mansion, Washington, Janu-
uary 4, 1899.
To the President:
The undersigned. Secreatry of State,
has the honor to lay before the Presi-
dent, with view to its submission
to the Senate if deemed proper, treaty
of peace concluded at Paris on Deem.
Der 10, 1898, between the United States
and Spain.
Accompanying the treaty are the
protocols of the conferences OF the
peace commission at Paris, together
with copies of statements made before
the United States commissioners and
other papers indicated in the enclosed
list. Respectfully submitted.
JOHN HAY.
Department of State, Washington, Jan.
uary 8, 1899.
The United States of America and
Her Majesty, the Queen Regent of
Spain, in the name OF her august son,
Don Alfonso Kill, desiring to end the
state of war now existing between the
two countries, have for that purpose
appointed as plenipotentiaries:
The President of the United States,
William r. Day, Cushman X. Davis,
William P. Frye, George Gray and
Whitelaw Reid, citizens of the United
States, and Her Majesty. Queen Regent
of Spain, Don Eugenio Montrero Rios
president of the senate; Don Bonuven-
tura de Abuzeratua senate of the king
dom, and ex-minister of the crown;
Don Jose de Garnica, deputy to the
Cortes and associated justice of the
Supreme Court; Don Wenceslao Ram
irez de Villa-Urrutia, envoy extraor-
binary and minister plenlpotentiary at
Brussels, and Don Rafael Cerero, gem
eral of division; who, having assem-.
bled in Paris and having exchanged
their fun powers, which were found to
be in due and proper form, haye, after
discussion Of the matters between
them, agreed upon the following ar
ticles:
Article I-Spain relinquishes all
claim OF sovereignty over srld title 70
Cuba.
And as the island is, upon it's evac.
uatiOn by Spain, to be occupied by the
United States, the United States will,
so long as such occupation shall last,
assume and discharge the obligations
that may under international law re-
suit from the fact Of it's occupation, for
the protection of life and property
Article II.-Spain cedes to the United
States the island Of Porto Rico and
other islands now under Spanish SOW
ereignty in the West Indies. and the
island of Guam in the Marianas or
Ladrones.
Article ITI.-Spain cedes to the Uni
ted States the archipelago known as
the Philippine islands and compre-
bending the islands lying within the
following line:
A line running from west to east
along or near the twentieth parallel OF
north latitude, and through the middle
Of the nayigable channel OF Bachi, from
the one hundred and eighteenth (l1SthD
to the one hundred and twenty-seventh
G27th) degree meridian OF longitude
east of Greenwich. thence along ths
one hundred and twenty-seventh
127th) degree meridian Of longitude
east of Greenwich TO the parallel OF
four degrees and forty-fiye minutes
(4.45) north latitude, thence along thu
parallel OF four degrees and forty-fye
minutes (445) north latitude 10 its in
tersection with the meridian OF longi-
tude one hundred and nineteen degrees
and thirty-hve minutes (119.35) east OF
Greenwich; thence along the meridian
Of longitude ons hundred and nineteen
degrees and tlirty-fiye minutes 11935)
east of Greenwich, 10 the parallel OF
latitude seven degrees and forty min
utes (7.40) north; thence along the par
allel of latitude seven degrees and forty
minutes (7.40) north to its meridian Of
longitude east of Greenwich thence by
a direct line to the intersection OF the
tenth (10th) degree parallel of north
latitude with the one hundred and
eighteenth (1i8th) degree meridian OF
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