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Show TAFT'S NEGOTIATIONS. raris Temps Comments on the Several Sev-eral Notes Fassed. Tarls, July 20 The Temps, lomment-Inirupon lomment-Inirupon the negotiations between William Wil-liam II Taft, Governor of the Philip, plna islands, nnd the Vatican, soys. ' Notwithstanding the tourtcotii Ian gunte iifcd by both sides the Vatican's reily to Gov, Toft's last note Is tantamount tanta-mount to a rejeillon of the Ameilcan offers, which amounted to nothing lens than the concluilnn of an Indliect concordant con-cordant with tho United States Tho signature of such a lonvention would hsvn given the nposlollu delegate In Washington n sort ot diplomatic ex-quateui ex-quateui permitting him to confer dl-reitls dl-reitls with Ptesldent Iloowvelt or the Government without the Intermediary of an American citizen, such as Archbishop Arch-bishop Ireland. 'The xatlcan, In refusing to lend a hand In tho gradual expulsion of tho congiegMtlons from the Philippines, his at the same time atlfled tho germ ot an American concordant which would have been a tiHimi h for tho pollcj thn Pope his seemed so nidently to puisuo slpco his ndvcnUJ |