Show TREATY WITH SPAIN iit Satisfactory Progress Being ZDtfle Toward To-ward Concluding Ono < Satisfactory progress has been matlri J toward the conclusion of a general 1 treaty of friendship and Intercourse with Spain In replacement of the old treaty which Into passed abeyance by rcanon of tho late war A new convention conven-tion of extradition Is approaching completion com-pletion and I should be much pleased were a commercial arrangement to follow fol-low I feel that we should not suffer to pas an opportunity to reaffirm tho cordial ties that cxjsted between us and Spain from the time of tme our earliest ear-liest Independence and to enhance tha mutual benefits of that commercial Intercourse In-tercourse which Is I natural between tho two countries SUPPLEMETAL TREATY By the terms of the treaty of poaca the line bounding the ceded Philippine group In the southwest failed to Include In-clude several small Islands lying west of the Sulus which have always been1 recognized a undor Spanish control The occupation of Slbltu and Cagayan1 Sulu by our naval forces elicited a < claim on the part of Spain the essential essen-tial equity of which could not bo gainsaid 1 gain-said In order to cure the defect of the treaty by removing all possible ground of future misunderstanding respecting re-specting Lime interpretation of Its third article I directed tho negotiation of a supplemental treaty which H bo forthwith laid before the Senate whereby Spain quits all title and claim to the Islands as well as to any and all Islands belonging to the Philippine archipelago lying outside the lines described de-scribed In said third article and agrees that all such Islands shall be comprehended compre-hended In the cession of the oas o-as fully as If they had bean expressly Included within those lines In consideration consid-eration of this cession the United States is i to pay Spain the sum of 100000 10000 TREATY OF PEACE I A bill Is now pending to effect tho recommendation made In my last anr 3 nual message that appropriate legislation f legisla-tion be had to carry Into execution article ar-ticle VIII of the treaty of peace with I Spain by which tho United States assumed as-sumed the payment of certain claims I for Indemnity ot Its citizens against Spain I ask that acton be taken to fulfill this obligation 1 ARBITRATING CLAIMS The King of Sweden and Norway I has accepted the Joint InvitatIon of the United States Germany and Great I Britain to arbitrate claims growing out r of losses sustained In the Samoan Islands In the course of military operations ope-rations made necessary by the disturbances disturb-ances in 1S09 CLAIM UPON TURKEY Our claims upon the Government of the Sultan for reparation for Injuries suffered by American citizens In Armenia Ar-menia and elsewhere give premise of early and satisfactory settlement His Majestys good disposition in this regard re-gard has been evidenced by the issuance issu-ance of an made for rebuilding the I J American college at Harpoot |