The record-union., 1899-01-06
The Presidents Message and Sec
rotary Of States Letter
Transmitting to the Senate the Convention
Concluded at Paris,
Together With an Exact Copy of
the Document Brought to the
United States by the American
Peace Commit In
teresting Correspondence Relat-
ing to the Peace Negotiations.

Peace Commissioners-A1 In
teresting Correspondence Relat-
ing to the Peace Negotiations.
WASHINGTON, jan 5.-The follow
ing is the Presidents message and the
letter of the Secretary Of State, trans
hitting to the Senate the treaty or
peace concluded at Paris between the
United States and Spain:
ITO the Senate of the United States:
I transmit herewith, with a view to its
ratification, a treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain, signed at
the city of Paris on December 10, 1888.
together with the protocols and papers
indicated in the list accompanying the
report of the Secretary of State.
civilian MCKINLEY"
Executive Mansion,
washington, January 4, 1899.
ITO the President: The undersigned,
Secretary of State, has the honor to
lay before the President, with a view
to its submission to the Senate, il deem
ed proper, a treaty of peace concluded
at Paris on December 10, 1898, between
the United States and Spain. Accom-
panying the treaty are the protocols of
the conferences of the Peace Commits
sioners at Paris, together with copies
of statements made before the United
States Commissioners, and other papers
indicated in the inclosed list Respect
fully submitted. JOHN HAY,
Department of State, Washington,
January g. 1899"
OFFICIAL TEXT OF THE TREATY.
Accompanying the message and the
Secretary'S letter is the official text of
the treaty, being an exact copy Of the
document brought to the United States
by the American Commissioners. The
full text of the treaty follows:
The United States of America and her
majesty, the Queen Regent of Spain
in the name of her august son, Don AL
fonso XIII, desiring to end the state
of war now existing between The two
countries, have for that purpose APP
pointed as plenipotentiaries: The Pres
ident of the United States-William R.
Day, Cushman K. Davis, William p.
Frye, George Gray and Whitelaw Reid,
citizens Of the United States. and her
majesty, the Queen Regent of Spain
Don Eugenio Montero Rios, President
OF the Senate; Don Buenaventura de
Abarzuza, Senator of the Kingdom and
ex-Minister Of the Crown; Don Jose de
Garnica, Deputy to the Cortes and AS
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court;
Don Wenceslao Ramirez de Villa-Ur-
rutia, Envoy Extraordinary and Minis
ter Plenipotentiary at Brussels, and
Don Rafael Cerrero, General of Divi-
sion, who, having assembled in Paris.
and having exchanged their full pow
ers, which were found to be in due and
proper form, have, after discussion of
the matters before them, agreed upon
the following articles:
Article l. Spain relinduishes adj claim
OF sovereignty over and title to Cuba:
and, as the island is, upon it's evacua-
ton by Spain, to be occupied by the
United States, the United States will.
SO long as she shall last assume and
discharge the obligations that may I'M
der international law, result in the fact
OF its 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 sover-
eighty in the West Indies, and the ISL
and of Guam in the Marianas or La
drones.
Article III. Spain cedes to the United
States the archipelago known as the
Philippine Islands, and compreh ending
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 navigable channel of Bachi from
the one hundred and eighteenth 01Sth)
to the one hundred and twenty-seventh
Q27th) degree of meridian of longitude
east of Greenwich; thence along the
one hundred and twenty seventh
Q27th) degree meridian of longitude
east of Greenwich to the parallel of four
degrees and forty-five minutes 4:45)
north latitude; thence along the paral-
lei of four degrees and forty-five min
utes q:45) north latitude to it's inter-
section with the meridian CT longitude
one hundred and nineteen degrees and
thirty five minutes Q19:35) east of
Greenwich; thence along the meridian
of longitude one hundred and nineteen
degrees and thirty-five minutes Q19: 35)
east of Greenwich to the parallel Of lat
itude seven degrees and forty minutes
WV uO1 lIleucS dlOIlS the parallel
OF latitude seven degrees and forty min
utes GAO north to its intersection
with the one hundred and sixteenth
Q16th) degree meridian of longitude
east of Greenwich; thence by direct lins
to the intersection of the tenth doth
degree of parallel of north latitude with
the one hundred and eighteenth Q19thl
degree meridian of longitude east of
Greenwich, and thence along the one
hundred and eighteenth Q1Sth) degree
meridian Of longitude east of Green
wlch to the point Of beginning
The United States will pay to Spain
the sum of twenty million dollars (S2O
OOo.OOO) within three months after the
exchange of the notifications of the
present treaty.
Article IV.-The United States will.
for the term of ten years from the date
of the exchange of the notifications Of
the present treaty admit Spanish ships
and merchandise to the ports of the
Philippine Islands on the same terms
as ships and merchandise of the United
States
Article v.-The United States will,
upon the signature of the present
treaty, send back to Spain, at it's own
cost, the Spanish soldiers taken as
prisoners of war on the capture of
Ma Mia NV the American forces Thu