Show E r. r W I tX j T J DEFINES ITS POSITION American Peace Commission Refute Refuses to Accept Cuban Sovereignty P Paris ris Oct At 18 At the sitting of the peace commission the American commissioners commissioners commissioners com com- missioners ofil officially and definitely rejected re re- jetted the tho idea of accepting sovereignty over Cuba for the United States The Spanish commissioners thereupon remarked remarked re re- remarked re- re marked that Spain having abandoned such sovereignty under unde pressure from the United the the United Stat States s shaving having denied that that sovereignty sovereignty henceforth hence henc forth belongs to them Cuba is de facto in a state of anarchy as an intermission intermission intermission sion of sovereignty cannot be viewed in any other light The American commissioners rejoined rejoined rejoined re re- re- re joined that without accepting sovereignty sever the United States considered d themselves deputed and bound to tomain main maintain tain tamn security for all the tho inhabitants that they would not fail faU to introduce e and ana uphold order and nd in short the they would do all that was necessary to pu put y the island in a state of nor normal al org to be transformed at the earliest earliest ear car liest moment into a legal regularity satisfactory for the security of all Upon this the Spanish commissioners commission ers promptly replied ed that by the fact fad t of the declaration just made them ou out t of the Unit United d States und undertaking t to restore legality order and security the United States were invested with wit h veritable sovereignty and consequently consequent y could not refuse to accept the consequences consequences conse copse of such sovereignty seeing g that they admi edly could not tolerate e the relapse into anarchy of an island islan d placed under their supervision on sn and d dir direction Notwithstanding these striking objections objections ob oh the American commissioners commissioner s persisted in their refusal and official officially Y declared that the United States canno cannot t be considered invested with sovereignty Y and that they the commissioners could not deviate from this definite e declaration |