The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-01-06
PARIS TREATY OF PEACE
PRESIDENTS MESSIGE TR1 NS1IIT-
TING IT TO TEE SENATE,

TING IT TO TEE SENATE.
Accompanying the Treaty is Great
Mass of Correspondcnce-Tmte &
Light Thrown on the Negotiations at
Paris AgoncilIo's Statement That lie
Was Approached by Germany.
Washington, Jan. 5.-The following
is the presidents message and the let
ter of the secretary of state transmit
ting to the senate the treaty of peace
concluded at Paris between the United
States and Spain.
To the senate of the United States:
/ transmit herewith with a view to its
ratification, a treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain signed at
together with the protocols and papers
Indicated in the list accompanying the
report of the secretary of state.
William Mckinley.
ary 4, 1899.
To the president: The undersigned
secretary of state has the honor to lay
before the president, with view to it's
submission to the senate, If deemed
proper, a treaty of peace concluded at
Paris on December TO- 1898, between the
United States and Spain. Accompanying
the treaty are the protocols of the con-
ferences of the peace commission at
Paris together with copies of state
ments made before the United States
commissioners and other papers indi-
Gated in the enclosed list.
Respectfully submitted,
John Hay.
Department of State, Washington, jan
uary g. 1899.
Accompanying the treaty. the full
text of which has already been pub
lished, is a great mass of correspond
ence, making a printed volume of 675
pages This includes among other things
all the credentials of the American COM
missioners to Paris and the protocol
and the daily proceedings of the COM
missioners, embodying necessarily all
the propositions and counter PROPOSE
tions of the past printed in both lam
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 degree of accu-
racy, considering the secrecy which was
supposed to cover the proceedings.
There is also included all the CORE
spondence that passed between the
French embassy here and the secretary
of state, which led UP to the signature
of the protocol, but the interesting feat
ure, namely the effort of the Spanish
minister of foreign affairs to Withdraw
the sovereignty of the Philippines from
question has already been published
unofficially.
Included in this correspondence is
letter from M. Thiebault the French
charge daffaires, protesting against the
continuance of the operations OF the IN
surgents in the Philippines, which he
assumed were with the knowledge ana
consent of the American commanders,
and suggesting that the Spanish troops
captured at Manila be allowed TO hght
the Filipinos. To this Mr.. Moore, act
ing secretary, replied on September
that upon investigation he had found
that most of the statements We're
groundless. There was a sort of sug-
gestion from M. Theibault to the effect
that the families of the Spanish officers
who were captured at Guam were sui
fering There is included all of the cor
respondence that passed between the
department of state and the consul at
Manila and Hong Kong relative to the
Philippines. Consul Willis at Manila
before the actual outbreak of war, re-
ported a series of most horrible out |
RACES by the Spaniards upon the Fill
pinos He declared that five per cent. |
of the latter were loyal to Spain. He
complained of being surrounded by |
spies everywhere, saying that even his |
consular office was not safe from them.
Consul Wildman at Hong Kong, on
November 3 telegraphed that General
Agoncillo was coming to Washington.
He said: "Be has the power to make
treaties with foreign governments and
has proposed an offensive and defen-
sve alliance with the United States"
Agoncillo asked for arms. Acting Sec
retary Crider on December Is replied,
telling Wildman to advise Agoncillo
that the United States would not nego-
tiate the treaty and it was not possible
to forward arms. you should not en-
courage any tendency on the part of
Agoncillo to communicate with the de-
partment." A long letter of date July
is from Consul Wildman described
Aeoncillo as man who had been sys-
ternaticaIly blackened. Said he: 'Ac-
cordingA to his own statement, he has
been approached by Spain and Germany
and has tempting offers from the Cath
olc church"
June 20 Secretary Day telegraphed
Consul Pratt: avoid any negotiations
with Philippine insurgents" Pratt re-
piled that he had no such intentions. He
said: LEFT that to Dewey, who desires
Aeuinaldo to come" Secretary Day
again admonished Pratt to be cautions
to create no question that might embar-
rass the government July Pratt re-
ported to the department that the sui
ton of the Sulu islands was negotiating
for the annexation of his group to Brit
ish Borneo, which he said should be
watched.
All of the statements made by Cen