The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1898, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11...1898. TREATY OF PEACE SIGNED BY THE TWO COMMISSIONS| WAR WITH ENGLAND AMERICANS AN SPANIARDS AFFIX NAMES Imposing Climax of Negotiations. END OF EPILOGUE OF WAR DOCUMENTS SEALED WITH THE FRENCH TRICOLOR. Now That the Treaty Is Concluded the United states Will Com- mence to Carry Out Its Provisions. Special Dis: h to The Cail. PARIS, Dec. 10.—The treaty of peace between the United States and Spain was signed at 8:45 o'clock this even- ing. The signing of the treaty to-night would have afforded a subject for a great historical painting. The group ) 1 about the table in the stately r of the Forei pre in itself, the senge of the momentous issues which the act decided was deeply felt by all the participants gave an - pressive and solemn tone to the Around th great mahogany table the ten arbit £ the destiny of an old and young nat Ranged about and behind were numerous attach i The § of those present magn € arlet of the upholsterings contrast een the lothed arbiters and the scener To the Americans it was a happ) ing of the epilogue of war; for Spaniards it was plainly a bitter tr: edy, none the less painful because long foreseen. The: sat silently, as though | almost crushed, and none could with- | hold sympathy for Montero Rios, the | president of the Spanish Commission, | who, coming from his bed, was bundled | in a great overcoat, though logs were | burning in the fireplace ncar by. The spirits of the bodies were sym- bolized by the clothing worn by the members of the commission, for the Americans were attired in evening dress for the dinner given them imme- diately after the meeting by the Duc | de Loubat, and the black frock coats Although the ommissions half-past 3 o'clock, expecting to finish their work in half an hour, the en- grossing of the treaty on parchment was found to be so troublesome that it the signing of the document Clerk Martin of the Ameri can Commission worked all day with- out stopping to eat. When he came into the chamber at 7:30 with the docu- | Spaniards wore met at ment he found the Commissioners | waiting. The Spanish copy had ar- | rived half an hour earlier. Mr. Fergu- | son then proceeded to read first the English and a that the Spanish ver- sion of the treaty. This finished, the two coples were passed around the table, the Commissic signing them in the order of their rank—Willia Day, Senator Cushman K. Davis, Sen- ator William P. Frye, Whitelaw Reid and Senator George Gray; Senor Mon- tero Rios, Senor Abaruza, Senor Gar- nica, Senor Villaurutia and General Cerrero y Saons, each Commissioner signing his opponent’s treatv. Both were tied with the Spanish and Ameri- can colors. When the seals were prepared to be affixed attendants were sent scurrying for ribbons of the French tricolor, with which the documents were sealed, as a compliment to the French hosts of the commission. v officials interestedly watched detail of the proceedings. The eal being impressed, the Commis- s rose, and without formality each member shook the hands of all his antagonists and exchanged assur- ances of sincere pe nal esteem. The Spaniards afterward commented acridlty upon what they termed the bad taste of the Americ in mustering a crowd of attaches to gloat over the con- summation of their downfall and the scramble for relics The signing was finished at 8:45 o’clock. At that time the door of the chamber opened, and Senor Villaurutia appeared, and exclaimed to a group of correspondents who were waiting in the corridor, “C’est fini!"” The other mem- bers of the Spanish commission fol- lowed Senor Villaurut and passed silently through the vestibule to their waiting carriages. The American Com- missic strolled out, chatting com- placently, and as they descended the steps the lights in the chamber were | darkened. There has been great contest among the families friends of the American for posses- 5! with which the sig- written. of the provided with hand- some pens urchased for the purpose. The S appeared to | be unaffected by the souvenir craze and contented the dinary quill pens strewn on the table. Arthur Ferguson, the interpreter of commission, requested Rios to give him his pen, saying: “Have you any desire to preserve the pen with which you will sign?” Yot in the slightest, jard with a courtly said the Span- The treaty as consists of seventeen rticles, it having Dbeen found advisable to subdivide two or three of the articles in the draft agreed upon at the last meeting. The Com- missioners of the two nations wrote their signatures on two copies of the treaty, one copy being for the archives. The document was prepared by Sec- retary Moore in behalf of the United States Commission and by Senor Vil- laurutia for Spain, on account of the continued ilness of Becretary Ojeda of the Spanigsh Commission. FEach copy contains the English and Span- E texts of the treaty in parallel colunms, The wording has been ap- proved previously by the commissions without a joint meeting, S0 there was no controversy on this subject. ol PLEDGES IN THE TREATY MUST BE CARRIED OUT NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Herald tel- * . | ferred to in the Herald elves with the or- | ) | i | i THE SIGNING OF THE TREATY. —— H /’, f !/’4/‘,"0 ¥ it B A Picture of the Beginning of the Last Work of the Peace Commission, Showing President Day of the American Commission, and Semor | Montero Rios of the Spanish Conmission, in the Act of Affixing Their Respective Signatures—the First to the Duplicate Copies of the Completed Treaty on the Table Before Him. Th's Session Was the Last of the Series, Which Began on October Ist in the *Grand"Salle” of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palais Bourbon, on the Quai d’Orsay, Paris. i egraphs: Now that the treaty of peace | has been signed it will devolve upon the administration to carry out at once | ome of the pledges it contains. It is | expected that instructions will be sent General Otis the first of next week to demand the release of prisoners held | by Aguinaldo and the insurgent forces, | and he has already informed the War Department that he believes he is in a position to take such action and en- | force compliance. The proclamation of the Filipinos re- this morning setting forth the purposes of the United States with respect to the character of the military government to be enfomged as been practically completed, and will be sent to General Otis without delay for issuance. | It is not ieved in official circles | | that there wiil be any trouble in secur- | ing the disbandment of the insurgent forces. So far as the navy is concerned, 1 undetstand it is proposed to discharge as promptly as the service conditions | will admit, 245 volunteer officers re- | maining in the service. It will be dif- ficult to reduce the number of men. | however, for the reason that ships in | the service need 19,000 men now home (on the naval r and an extra num- | ber will be carried until the treaty of peace is ratified and Congress grants the increase recommended by Secretary Long. Secretary Alger will not discharge all the volunteers until Congress has au- thorized an increase of the army. though as a matter of fact the War Department will be compelled, after the ratification of the treaty, to dis- charge every volunteer who asks per- mission to leave the service. | OFFICIAL NEWS OF THE | SIGNING OF THE TREATY | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The official news of the signing of the peace treaty was received in Washington a little later than the press reports. It was in | cipher form, as usual, from Judge Day. It was at once transmitted to the Pres- | ident, who was alone at that time, but within a comparatively short time all | the members of the Cabinet had either | called or sent their congratulations. | The President’s congratulations were promptly cabled to the commission. The news of the signing had been so thoroughly discounted in advance that the actual receipt of the official advices created little stir here. There was a general feeling of relief, however, that no unforeseen circumstance ,intervened at the last moment to block the peace- ful close of the negotiations. RESIGNATION OF SPANISH MINISTRY IS EXPECTED | LONDON, Dec. 10.—A special dispatch from Madrid says the position of the Cabinet is most critical and that the resignation of the Ministry is-expected. In commerelal circles, it is added, the fall of the Cabinet has been dis- counted, as shown by the dull state of business and the heavy taxation. | Fatal Leap While Delirious. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 10.—Ffed Gun- ther, an old man who had for vears been employed in the railroad shops in this city, while delirious to-night jumped from a second-story window in the rafl- road hospital; iving injuries Tecer g which resulted in his death a short time afterward. He was suffering from BEright’s disease. Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Misslon. — e —— The House of Capet has the longest un- broken succession, in the male line—from. Hugh Capet, King of France in 987, to Louis Phiiippe's cation in 1843, TER“HIBLE DEED OF AN INSANE MURDERER. REE SOIL, Mich., Dec. 10.—William Hitchings yesterdayafternoon mur- F dered his brother-in-law, John Hunt, also his sister, Mrs. Hunt, and Thomas Hayward, a sixteen-year-old youth, employed by Hunt. Hitch- ings then cut his throat. The three were cutting wood together on Hunt's farm, two miles west of this village, when Hitchings, without warning, at- tacked his brother-in-law with an ax, killing him instantly., The insane man then chased Hayward until the latter slipped and fell, and Hitchings killed the prostrate boy with his ax. Hitchings pext covered his brother- in-law’s body with brush and proceeded to the farmhouse, and after a ter- rible and desperate struggle with Mrs. Hunt, he stabbed her in the neck with a jackknife, killing her also. After the woman’s body was disposed of by being pushed under a bed, Hitchings went upstairs to his own room, leaving unmolested a baby asleep in its cradle. The madman’s last act was to apply the knife to his own throat. He succeeded in Kkilling himself, evi- dently after two attempts. Hitchings was considered not to be right mentally and out of his head at times. No adequate reason for his awful crimes is as yet known. The dead woman's young daughter found her mother's body on her return from school. Her clothes had been nearly torn off in the unequal struggle. Neighbors found the bodies of Hunt and Hayward in the woods late at night. BRYAN’S MILITARY S ERVICE SOON TO END. ment. has either forwarded his resignation to Washington, or is about to do so. Of this there seems to be no doubt. To-day he called on General Lee, commander of the Seventh Corps, and General Keifer, com- mander of the First Division of the corps, of which Colonel Bryan’s regi- ment is a part, and is understood to have announced his intention to quit the service. Colonel Bryan would neither deny nor confirm the rumor, but stated that when the time came he would prepare a written statement and give it to the press, so that there would be no possibility of affy misstatement of his position. “It is well to have the newspapers to talk through,” said he with a laugh. “They beat your hat all hollow.” Colonel Bryan’s regiment understands to-day that he will be their com- mander but a few days longer. Lieutenant Colcnel Vifquain is quoted by other officers of the regiment as having told them that there would soon be promotions in the regiment. as Colonel Bryan would resign and he would succeed him as colonel. SA\'ANNAH, Ga., Dec. 10.—Colonel W. J. Bryan, Third Ncbraska Regi- JACK, THE FAMOUS TRICK DOG, DEAD. troupe of performing dogs, now at the Orpheum, died this morning in great agony. Jack was valued at $2000. He did his turn last night all right, but Pro- fessor Herbert saw he had fever and summoned a veterinary surgeon. The dog rapidly grew worse, and for five hours he barked and struggled until death relieved him. Jack was the best “hind-lez dog” in the United States. He had worked on the stage during nine of his ten yvears of e: HEAD-END COLLISION NEAR PRESCOTT. . PRESCOTT, Ariz., Dec. 10.—A head-end collision occurred two miles L 0S ANGELES, Dec. 10.—Jack, the star performer of Professor Herbert’'s north of Prescott this afternoon. In which one man was killed and four others were wounded, one probably fatally. The northbound extra had just left the yards when it met the regular Prescott and Eastern train from Mayer, in a deep cut and on a curve. Engineer W. H. Wade of the extra was instantly killed and Conductor James Atkinson and Fireman Love were seriously injured. Engineer Thomas Gatfield and Fireman George Walker of the Prescott and Eastern train were seriously injured. It is thought Gatfield will die. 2 TARIFF REMOVED FXOM CHRISTMAS GIFTS. WASHINGTON. Dec. 10.—The War Department to-day issued a cir- cular providing that by direction of the President it is ordered that the existing tariff and regulations governing importation; into Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines be modified in order to allow the free entry of packages and articles clearly intended - Christmas presents for officers and enlisted. men of the army and nav- a.d for other em- ployes of t.c Government now serving in those islands. MAY SUCCEED THE LATE ARCHBISHOP GROSS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Friends of Archbishop J. J. Keane, now in Rome, are endeavoring to have him appointed to the See of Oregon, > as successor of the late Archbishop Gross. The Roman Catholics ©of @regon would be'pleased with his selection, but they ‘do not think -he would accept. BAILEY ESTABLISHES HIS LEADERSHIP Democratic Congressmen Agree by Unanimous Vote to be Bound by Caucus Action. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—The Demo- crats of the House of Representatives held a caucus to-night on the question coming over from the last session as to the binding force of caucus action. Of 126 members on the roll of the House 86 were present. Among those present were Representatives Bailey of Texas, Richardson of Tennessee, De Armond and Bland of Missouri, Wheeler of Alabama, ‘Allen of Mississippi, McRae of Arkansas, and Sayres of éxas. Representatives McMillin of Tennessee and Bankhead of Alabama were not among those present. The meeting was devoted to a brief dis- cussion of the wisdom of making caucus action binding. A resolution to this ef- fect had been introduced and this was pending. The main interest centered in the ability of Bailey and his friends to pass the resolution. In order to test the strength of the Bailey forces Mr. Clardy of Kentuck, moved to reconsider the vote by whic the resolution had been agreed to at the last sesslon. The motion was tabled—62 to 13, thus establishing that the advo- Jcat_els of the resolution had a clear ma- ority. The resolutions were then adopted without opposition. Beyond this no ac- tion was taken. Mr. Bailey sald after the caucus: “I_have no desire to discuss the action of the caucus further than to say that it must now be plain to all thinking men that the ‘stories of serious divisions in the Democratic party were the inven-|' tion of a few sensational newspapers.” oo SNES ot Kept People at Home. ‘WOODLAND, Dec. 10.—The contest be- tween the home merchants and a Sacr: mento department store was on to-da. The town was crowded with people and the local merchants did a splendid busi- ness. 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Edouard Doumont Declares It Is Sought by the Stronget Nation to Crush the Weaker as Carthage Was Crushed by Rome. Special Cable to The Call and the N ew York Herald. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. PARIS, Dec. 10.—Slowly, but stead- ily, the conviction is gaining ground here that war with England is inevitable. Paul de Cassagnac’s paper .the Au- torite, even goes so far as to declare it imminent and suggests the probabil- ity of an alliance with Germany, rather than see France share’ the fate of Spain. ‘This is no alarmist opinion. It is one shared by people in diplomatic, parlia- mentary, naval, military and commer- cal circles alike. That there is no reck- lessness In it even the fire-eaters:among French public. men realize. They recognize that war with her transchannel neighbor means almost certaln defeat for France, yet at the same time they ask, What they are to do? How is war to 'be prevented? England seems determined, they say, to force France back to the wall. The moment must come when further re- treat will be impossible. ' No people:can possibly swallow affront after affront to the condition of what Lord Salisbury recently defined as a “decaying nation.” France, according to public opinion here, has given way before England only to be met after every eoncession with heavier demands. “The English are imitating the Ro- mans in their intercourse with the Car- me yesterday. ‘“History is repeating materials of defense had been given up and hostages had been dellvered into the hands of the Romans the Cartha- genians found themselves fact to face with the choice of abandoning their city and seeing it razed to the ground or accepting war. “Similarly England is making de- mand after demand. . Yesterday she claimed Fashoda. She got it. To- morrow she may revendicate Calais —————————————— upon the ground that it befonged to her for centuries. “One is forced to admit that Calals forms part of England much more manifestly than Fashoda does. If this were conceded some fresh . demands would follow, for England has deter- mined to make War upon us. She has decided France must be crushed just as Rome decided that Carthage must be destroyed—‘delenda est Carthage.’ " Nor is .the editor-in-chiéf of Libre Parole” alone in this ‘opinion. Henri Rochefort expressed virtually the same views to me, though of course in. his own vivacious style. “England wants war with France,” he said, hotly. “She is looking.for a pretext to declare it and if.she cannot find any she intends to make one, ' . “Sir Bdmund Monson’s Speech is the latest evidence of this. It is inSolently threatening to the same degree as it is absurdly unjust. When or.where was ever a proposition.to found-a sehool in any country regarded as casus belli?” M. 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