Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-01-06
SIDE LIGHTS
On the Growth Of the Peat e
Treaty at Paris
CuIled from the Vast Mass Of Corre-
spondence Accompanying It.
Abstracts Of Testimony. Letters aid Cable.
grams Of Great lntcrest.

Washington, Jan. 5.-The following
| is the Presidents message and the Ier-
| ter of the secretary of state. trans
| hitting to the Senate the treaty Of
peace concluded at Paris between the
United States and Spain:
To the Senate of the United States:
| | trans!nT herewith with view to
/ its ratification. treaty of peace be-
tween the United States and Spain,
! signed al the City of Paris, on Dec 10,
1898. together with the protocols and
| papers indicated in the list accompany
ing the report Of the secretary of state.
| (Signed) WIN. MCKINLEY,
| 4, 1899.
To the President:
The undersigned. secretary Ofstate
has the honor to lay before the Presi-
dent with view to it's submission to
the Senate, if deemed proper. treaty
of peace. concluded at Paris. on Dec.
10, 1885, between the United States and
Spain.
Accompanying the treaty are the
protocols of the conference 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. 3. 1899
Acn lyxpr, inn ~
text of which has already been pub
lished. is great mass of correspond
ence, making printed volume of 675
pages. This includes, among other
things, all of the credentials of the
American commissioners to Paris and
| the protocols which are the records Of
the daily proceedings of the commits
sioners that led up to the final treaty
| of peace. embodying necessarily all Of
| the propositions and counter-proposi-
tions of the past printed in both Ian
guages, English and Spanish. From
an inspection of these it appears that
the press reports from Paris during the
proceedings of the commission set
these out with a remarkable of accu-
| racy, considering the secrecy whic n
was supposed to cover the proceedings
There was also included all the cor
| respondence that passed between the
French embassy here and the depart
! ment of state which led up to the sig
nature of the protocol, but the inter-
estinS features, namely, the effort of
the Spanish minister of foreign affairs
10 Withdraw the sovereignty of the
Philippines from the question. has al
ready been published unofficially.
included in this correspondence is Il
letter from NJ. Thiebaut, the French
charge. protesting against the contin-
uance of the operations of the insur-
gents in the Philippines. which he as
sumed were with the knowledge and
consent of the American commander
and suggesting that the Spanish troops
captured at Manila, be allowed to fight
the Filipinos. To this Mr.. Moore.
acting secretary, replied, Sept. 5. that
upon investigation he had found that
most Of the statements We're ground
less. There was sort of a suggestion
from the French charge to the effect
that the families of the Spanish officers
who were captured at Guam were suf-
fering.
There is included all of the CORES
partment of state and the United
States consuls at Manila. Hong Kong
and Singapore relative to the Philip
pines. Consul Williams at Manila. be-
fore the actual outbreak of war. re-
ported a series of most horrible out
RACES by the Spaniards upon the Flip
mos. He declared that ) per cent. of
the latter were loyal to Spain He
complained of being surrounded by
spies everywhere. saying even in his
consular Office he was not safe from
them.
Consul Wildman at Hong Kong. Nov.
3. telegraphed that Gen. Agoncillo was
coming to Washington. He said: He.
has the power to make treaties with
foreign governments, and has proposed
and offensive and defensive alliance
with the United States
Agoncillo asked for arms to aid the
rebellion. Acting Secretary Cridlar.
Dec. Il. replied, telling Wildman to ad-
wise Agoncillo that the United States
were about to negotiate a treaty and it
was not possible to forward arms.
"You should not encourage any ten
dency on the part Of Agoncillo to COM
municate with the department"
A long letter of July Is. from Consul
Wildman defended Agoncillo as man
who had been systematically blacken
ed. and said: According to his own
statement he has been approached by
Spain and Germany and has tempting |
offers from the Catholic church"
April %. Consul Pratt telegraphed
from Singapore: "Aguinaldo gone. my
T..
Dewey cooperation insurgents Ma
Mia"
June 9. Secretary Day telegraphed
Pratt, among other things: avoid I
any negotiations with Philippine in |
surgents.'' Plat replied that he had
no Intentions Of negotiating. Said he:
Left that to Dewey. who desires Az
uinaldo to come.'' Secretary again
Pratt to be cautious to
create no impression that might en-
barrass the government and lead TO-
misunderstanding in the future action.
July 2, Pratt reported to the depart