Show PRIVATE SEb SESSIONS HELD both doth bid ram predict 1 ct treaty will be R signed within ft anderk paris dee der S 5 the united state and spanish peace commissioners held private sessions today afterward representatives of both sides predicted con confidently that the treaty would be signed within a week unless unforeseen complications arose the american commissioners aay say there Is I 1 DO no foundation for the reports C circulated la in the united baates and cabled back that thit president dent mckinley baa has forwarded ded to the american in missioners instructions to insist up w spain yielding yield inc a coaling base in the Caroll carolines nes and that the spaniards are endeavoring to renew their opposition to a cession of tha the phil both commissions recognized that the latter question is settled |