Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-04-21
WAR ENDED sv THE EXCHANGE
OF TREATIES.
President Mckinley p-oe,ai,us Hos
tilities Arc Closed - Formal cere.
mony at Washington-Frcnch Am.
bassador Acts for Our Recent Enemy.

AAe iorulal exchange OF Publications of
the peace treaty took place at the White
House Tuesday afternoon. Ambassador
'Cambon of France acting for Spain. This
formal recognition that the war is ended
and that the United States and Spain are
again on terms of peace, occurred Just one
year from the day when President Nc.
Alniey recognized that diplomatic consid.
GRAFTON OF thqe' Cuban question had failed
-and that w9T was inevitable.
~ was on April II, 1898, that President
Mchinle$$ sent his war message to Con.
sress' Spying that he had exhausted diplo.
h,atlc efforts and asking Congress to
cloti9 him with the war power. War
waS not declared Until April 81, but the
e94 of peaceful rclationc between the
United States and Spain was on April IL,
AS9S, and the return to a recognition OF
peaceful relations occurred on the first
! anniversary of that day, making the break
between the two nat: ons just one year.
AT 3:2S o'clock Secretary Hay attached
his signature to the Spanish CODY of the
treaty and NJ. Cambon his to the copy for
the United States. The official seals were
affixed at 3:335 o'clock, completing the Ger.
-emony. The Presidents proclamation an.
nouncing the exchange of notifications
emitting the text of the treaty, which is
quoted in full, is as follows:
Whereas, A treaty of peace between the
United States of America and her majesty
the Queen Regent of Spain, in the name Of
her august son, Don Alfonso MIL, was con.
Guided and signed by the respective plenipo.
tentiaries at Paris on the 10th day of De.
cember. 1898, the original of which conven-
ton, being In the English and Spanish Ian.
.suages, is word for word as follows: = = .
whereas, The said convention has been
duly ratified on both parts, and the ratif.
cation of the two governments were ex-
changed in the city of Washington Oh the
eleventh day of April, lone thousand eight
hundred and ninety-ninc. Now. therefore,
be it known that
/, William Mckinley, President of the
United States of America, have caused the
said convention to be made public, to the
emu that the same and every article and
clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled
with good faith by the United States aud
the citizens thereof.
In witness whereof l have %hercunto set my
aahd ana caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed. Done at the city OF
Washington the eleventh day of April, in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and ninety-nine, and the independence of
the United States the one hundred and TWEEN.
ty-third. WILLIAM M'EINLEY.
by the PRESIDENT:
JOHN HAY, Secretary of State.
The ceremony of exchanging the copies
of the treaty took place in the Presidents
office, which is the room between the cab
met and the "war ROOM on the south
front of the executive mansion. There
We're no formal speeches, the President
merely remarking to Ambassador Cambon
that the proclamation of peace would now.
be issued.
The Secretary of State and most of the
members of the cabinet were present, but
the only representative of Spanish inter.
'ests were Ambassador Cambon and First
Secretary Thiebault of the French en-.
bassy. Spain has informed this Govern
ment that she will speedily resume diplo-
matte relations with the United States.
and we shall return the compliment.
After one year Of IL condition of war,
in which the actual hostilities were con.
fined to 112 days. the United States il
again ut peace with Spain, and the muir
der of the Names crew has been avenged