Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-06
THE PEACE TREATY,
Full Official Text Of the In
portant Document
PAPERS ACCOMPANYING IT..
4 Mass Of Correspondence, Making a
Volume Of 676 Pages.
PRESS REPORTS VERY ACCURATE
MerrItfs and Greene's Testimony
Before the Comm pission-Protest
ton-Vast Amount of other Matter.

WASHINGTON, d. 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, being an
exact copy of the document brought TO
the United States by the American COM
missioners:
ITO the Senate OF the United States:
II 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, 1885,
together with the protocols and papers
indicated in the list accompanying the re-
port of the Secretary of State.
WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
Executive Mansion, Washington, Janu-
ary 4, 1890"
"To the President: The undersigned,
Secretary of State. has the honor to lay
before the President, with a view to its
submission to the Senate, if deemed pro-
per. a treaty of peace concluded at Paris
on December 10, 1898, between the United
States and Spain.
accompanying the treaty are the pro-
tocols 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 !nclosed list.
Respectfully submitted,
JOHN HAY.
department Of State, Washington,
| January 4, 1899"
THE TREATY.
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 pleni-
potentiaries:
The President OF the United States
William r. Day, Cushman X. Davis.
William =. Frye, George Gray, and White
law Reid. citizens Of the United States;
And her Majesty, the Queen Regent of
Spain
Don Eugenio Montero Rios, president
Of the Senate; Don Buenaventura do
Abarzuza, Senator of the Kingdom and
x-Minister of the Crown; Don Jose de
Garnica. Deputy TO the Cortes and Asso-
ciate Justice of the Supreme Court; Don
Wenceslao Ramirez de Villa-Urrutia, En-
yov Extraordinary and Minister Pleni-
potentiary at Brussels. and Don Rafael
| Cerero. General of Division;
Who. having assembled in Paris, and
| having exchanged their full powers, which
were found tC be in due and proper FORM
have. after discussion Of the matters be-
| fore them. agreed upon the following ar
| tces:
ARTICLE l.
Spain relinqushes all claim of sovereign
| ty over and title to Cuba. And as
| the island is, upon its evacuation by
Spain. to be occupied by the United
| States. the United States will, so
long. as such occupation shall last,
| assume and discharge the obliga-
| tions that may, under international law,
result from 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 sovereignty in the
West Indies. and the Island of Guam, In
the Marianas or Ladrones.
ARTICLE III.
snain cedes to the United States the
orchipelaeo known as the Philippine Is
lands. ard comprehending the Islands
living within the following lines:
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 Q1Sth TO the one
| bundred and twenty-seventh Q2th) de-
| gree meridian of longitude east OF Green
0,;cb thence along the one hundred and
| twentv-seventh O21th degree meridian OF
| Io,,gitude east of Greenwich. 10 the paral-
lel OF four degrees and forty-hVe minutes
| "A an north latitude; thence along the
',arallel of four degrees and ffty-fve
pS,,'',,os u55 north latitude. TO intersec-
| 49,, Nth the meridian Of longitude one
| t,,ndred and nineteen degrees and thlrty-
e. minutes Ol935 east of Greenwichi
| .,'N.,,o along the meridian of Longitude
~ hundred and nineteen degrees and
.,.tn.,,l,sve minutes Q19.35 east Of Green
',ot, -. 20 the parallel of latitude seven
| degrees and forty minutes O.fO north
.rseroa along the parallel OF latitude seven
dasrees and forty minutes G.4O north tc
t,s intersection with the one hundred and
stvteenth nl6th) degree meridian of longi-
| trde east of Greenwich; thence by direct
| Iine 10 the intersection OF the tenth pothI
daoree parallel of north latitude with
the one hundred and eighteenth 0lsth
| deqree meridian of longitude east OF
Greenwich. and thence along the one hun
dred and eighteenth QlSth) degree meri
alan OF longitude east OF Greenwlch t'
the point Of beginning
THE United States will pay 10 spain th'
sum of twenty million dollars ~z"oV'VOV
,rith,n three months after the exchange
~ the ratifcatons of the present treaty
ARTICLE ".
rhe r-nited States will. for the term OF
| .oD vears from the date or the exchans'
90 ,be ratifications OF the present treaty
| odnoit Spanish ships and merchandise t'
~ oorts of the Philippine lslands' OF
~ ~ san,e terms as ships and merchsndis'
| of the United States.
ARTICLE V.
rho United States will, upon the sigma
- 90 tho present treaty, SEND back L
crain at it's own cost, the spanish sol
aia,s taken as prisoners OF war AT th'
caotura of Manila by the American 1orces
r,,o ornos of the soldiers In question shai
be restored 10 them,
cnain will. upon the exchange OF ratl
ooations of the present treaty, proceed
-, svocuate the Philippines. as wen a
,ho Islord Of Guam. on terms similar 4
- aorocd upon by the commissioner
,.,,ea 20 arrange for the evacuation
/ ~ porto Rico and the other islands II
~ west Indies. under the protocol o
August u. 1888, which Is to continue II