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Show PRIVATE SESSIONS HELD. l3oth Sides Tredict Treaty Will Be Signed "Within a YVeek. Paris, Dec. 5. The United States and Spanish peace commissioners held private sessions today. Afterward representatives of both sides predicted confidently. that the treaty would be signed within a week unless unforeseen unfore-seen complications arose. The American commissioners say there is no foundation for the reports circulated in the United States and cabled back that President McKinley has forwarded to the American commissioners com-missioners instructions to insist upon Spain yielding a coaling base in the Carolines and that the Spaniards are endeavoring to renew their opposition to a cession of the Philippines. Both commissions recognized that the latter question is settled. |