Show DEFINES ITS POSITION american pence peace commission retires refuses to accept cuban sovereignty itris oct 18 at the sitting bitting ot of the peace commission tile the american commissioners ners officially and definitely rejected the idea of 0 accepting sovereignty over cuba for the united states the spanish commissioners thereupon remarked that spain having abandoned such sovereignty under pressure from the uni united led State sand the united states state having denied that sovereignty henceforth belongs to them cuba Is do de facto in a state of anarchy as an intermission of sovereignty cannot be viewed in in any other light the amerian commis commissioners rejoined that without accey accepting aing sovereignty the united states considered themselves deputed and bound to maintain security for all the inhabitants I 1 that they would not fall fail to introduce and uphold order and in short they would do all that was necessary to put the island in a state of normal org Iza fration tion to he be transformed at the earliest moment into a legal regularity satisfactory for the security of all upon this the spanish comm commissioners assion promptly replied that by the fact odthe of the declaration just made them out of the united states undertaking to restore legality order and security the united states were invested with veritable sovereignty and consequently could not refuse to accept the consequences of such sovereignty seeing that they admittedly admit edly could not tolerate the relapse into anarchy of an island placed under their supervision and direction notwithstanding these striking ol 01 objections the american commissioners persisted in their refusal and officially declared lec lared that the united states cannot be considered invested in vested with sovereignty and nd that they the commissioners could not deviate from this definite declaration |