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Show SIGX THE IBEATY. ; PEACE RESTORt'D BETWEEN THE i UNITED STATES AND SPAIN. i i I satiations at Paris Knle.!,nnlthe.Tr.tr of I'euce Sisiu-d by the Commissioners-It I Sow K,Di for the Spanish Cortcz and ihe American Senate to Katiry the Treaty. Washington. Dec. 12.-Spain and the United States are at peace. A treaty 1 was signed at raids at S:45 Saturday I evenin". Ail that now remains is for the cortez of Spain and the senate of ! the United States to ratify the treaty which is only a matter of form, as the Spanish have yielded every point demanded de-manded by our government. Ihe ten commissioners of the two governments met in the room where j the conferences have been held, the ! Americans in a state of elation, the Spaniards appearing dejected and downcast. Although the commission met at 3:30 o'clock, expecting to finish their work in half an hour, the engrossing of the treaty on parchment was found to be so troublesome that it delayed the signing of the document until 8:30. Clerk Martin,- of the American commission, com-mission, worked all day, without even stopping to eat. When he came into the chamber at 7:20 with the document, docu-ment, he found the commissi oners waiting. The Spanish copy had arrived ar-rived a half hour earlier. Mr. Arthur Ferguson then proceeded to read first the English and after that the Spanish version of the treaty. This finished, the two copies were passed around the table, the commissioners commis-sioners signing them in the order of their rank. William R, Day, Senator Cushman K. Davis, Senator William P. Frye, White-law White-law Reid and Senator George Gray; Senor Montero Rios, Senor Abarzuza, Senor G arnica, Senor Villaurutia and General Cerero Y. Soans, each commission commis-sion signing its opponents treaty. Both were tied with the Spanish and American Amer-ican colors. When the seals were prepared to be affixed attendants were sent scurrying for ribbons of the French tri-color, with which the documents were sealed, as a compliment to the French hosts of the commissions. The last seal being impressed, the commissioners rose and, without formality, for-mality, each member shook the hands of all his antagonists and exchanged assurances of sincere personal esteem. The signing was finished at 8:45. At that time the door of the chamber opened and Senor Villaurutia appeared and exclaimed to a group of correspondents correspon-dents who were waiting- in the corridor, corri-dor, "cest fini." The other members of the Spanish commission followed Senor Villaurutia and passed silently through the vestibule vesti-bule to their waiting carriages. The American commission strolled out, chatting complacently, and as they descended the steps the lights in the chamber were darkened. The treaty, as signed, consists of seventeen articles, it having been found advisable to sub-divide two or three of the articles in the draft agreed upon at the last meeting. The commissioners of the two nations na-tions wrote their signatures on two copies of the treaty, one copy being for the archives. The document was prepared by Secretary Sec-retary Moore in behalf of the United States commission, and by Senor Vil-lauruthia Vil-lauruthia for Spain, on account of the continued illness of Secretary Ojeda of the Spanish commission. Each copy contains the English and Spanish texts of the treaty in parallel columns. The wording had been approved ap-proved previously by the commission without a joint meeting, so there was no controversy on this subject. |
