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| Queen Regent Maria Christina. |
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| William McKinley. |
Cortland Evening Standard, Saturday, August 13, 1898.
PEACE IS PROCLAIMED.
Protocol Signed by Both Interested Parties.
CRUEL WAR HAS ENDED.
Army Commanders Ordered to Cease Hostilities.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11—The war which has raged between Spain and the United States for a period of three months and 22 days was quietly terminated when Secretary Day, for the United States, and M. Cambon, for Spain, in the presence of President McKinley, signed a protocol which will form the basis of a definite treaty of peace. It is but simple justice to peace. It is but simple justice to record the fact that to her good offices this speedy termination of a war that might have run on indefinitely was brought about and the president himself deemed that action on the part of the French government as worthy of his special praise.
The closing chapter of events that led up to the signature of the protocol and the cessation of hostilities was full of interest. It was not until 12:30 that the final instructions to the French ambassador began to come from Madrid. The state department was soon advised of the fact that the message was under transmission but, as it was evident that it would be long and that its reception would occupy much time, the secretary of state left the state department for his lunch. At 2:40 o'clock Secretary Thiebaut of the French embassy appeared at the state department to inform Secretary Day that the ambassador was in full possession of the note, was fully empowered to sign the protocol for Spain, and only awaited the pleasure of the state department. He intimated that the ambassador would be pleased to have the final ceremony conducted in the presence of President McKinley, where the negotiations were
Leaving the secretary of embassy in his own office, Secretary Day made a short visit to the White House to learn the president's wishes in the matter. The latter immediately consented to accept the suggestion and M. Thiebaut hastened to inform his principal that the president would receive him at the White House at 4 o'clock.
At the appointed hour a driving storm prevailed, obliging all the parties to resort to carriages for transportation to the White House. Secretary Day came first with a large portfolio under his arm enclosing copies of the protocol, of the proclamation to be issued by the president stopping hostilities and some other papers. He was accompanied by Assistant Secretary Gridler. They were shown to the cabinet room where the president sat in waiting. He had invited to be present Assistant Secretaries Pruden and Cortellu and Lieutenant Colonel Montgomery.
Whew Ambassador Cambon reached the White House it was just 3:55 o'clock, five minutes in advance of the appointed hour, with Secretary Thiebaut he was ushered inside. At 4:06 they were announced to the waiting party in the cabinet room and were ushered into their presence. After an exchange of diplomatic courtesies no unnecessary loss of time occurred and Assistant Secretary of State Gridler on the part of the United States and First Secretary Thiebaut on the part of Spain, retired to a window where there was a critical formal examination of the protocol. This inspection had all the outward formalities due to a document of this importance. It was prepared in duplicate at the state department, one copy to be retained by the United States government and the other to become the property of Spain. The text is handsomely engrossed in a running old English script. Each copy of the protocol is arranged in double column, French and English, standing alongside for easy comparison as to the exactness of translation. The two copies are alike, except that the one held by this government has the English text in the first column and the signature of Secretary Day ahead of that of M. Cambon, while the copy transmitted to Spain has French in the first column and the signature of M. Cambon ahead of that of Secretary Day.
The protocol sent to Spain was accompanied by the credentials issued by President McKinley, specially empowering the secretary of state to affix his signature to this document. The authorization was brief and in typewriting save for the president's signature. Later the American copy of the protocol will be accompanied by the written credentials of the Spanish government and sent to M. Cambon and bearing the signature of Queen Christina. The cable dispatch received by him conferred full authority to sign the protocol, and stated that the written authorization would follow signed by the queen regent in the name of the king. Prior to the ceremony M. Thiebaut showed the cable dispatch to Secretary Day and it was accepted as sufficient to enable the ambassador to sign in behalf of Spain. When the written authorization arrives it will be presented to the state department to accompany the protocol.
The examination of the protocol was satisfactory and the document was handed to M. Cambon first and then to Secretary Day, who affixed signatures in that order to each side of the two copies.
Then the last detail in making the protocol binding was administered by Assistant Secretary Gridler in charge of the chancery work, who attached the seal of the United States.
Throughout the ceremony all but the two signers remained standing. M. Cambon in signing for Spain, occupied the seat which Secretary of the Navy Long, now away on a vacation, usually occupied. The president stood at the left hand corner at the head of the great cabinet table, Secretary Day, M. Thiebaut and M. Cambon in the order named on the left side of the table. The rest of the party were standing in other parts of the room.
No credentials were produced during the meeting at the White House, the president accepting Secretary Day's assurance that this had been settled to his satisfaction at the state department.
It was 4:23 o'clock when the final signatures were attached to the protocol, and within the knowledge of all the officials present this was the first time that a protocol or treaty had been signed at the White House. As this ceremony concluded, Acting Secretary Allen of the navy department, Secretary Alger and Adjutant General Corbin appeared, having been summoned to the White House by the president, and they were admitted into the cabinet room just in season to witness one of the most impressive features of the ceremony, when the president requested the hand of the ambassador and through him returned thanks to the sister republic of France for the exercise of her good offices in bringing about peace. He also thanked the ambassador personally for the important part he has played in this matter, and the latter replied in suitable terms. As a further mark of his disposition, President McKinley called for the proclamation which he had caused to be drawn up suspending hostilities, and signed it in the presence of M. Cambon, who expressed his appreciation of the action.
Without delay Acting Secretary Allen hastened to the telephone and directed that cable messages be immediately sent to all of the naval commanders, Dewey in the Philippines, Sampson at Guantanamo, and the various commandants at navy yards and stations to cease hostilities immediately.
There is a dispatch boat at Hong Kong and it is believed that it can reach General Merritt in 48 hours at top speed.
On the part of the army, while Secretary Alger availed himself of the telegraph, Adjutant General Corbin braved the storm and rushed across to the war department where he immediately issued the orders which had been prepared in advance to all of the military commanders to cease their operations. The state department filled its duty by notifying all diplomatic and consular agents of the action taken.
All formalities having been disposed of the president spent half an hour chatting with those present and then at 4:58 the rain still continuing in force, the ambassador and his secretary entered their carriage and were driven to the embassy.
Upon emerging from the White House Secretary Day received the earnest congratulations of the persons present upon the conclusion of the protocol. He stated that the peace commissioners who are to draw up the definitive treaty would not be appointed for several days but declined to indicate who they would be.
TERMS OF PEACE.
Provisions of the Protocol as Signed by Both Governments.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.—The following are the provisions of the protocol as signed by Secretary Day and Ambassador Cambon:
First—That Spain will relinquish all claim of sovereignty over and title to Cuba.
Second—That Porto Rico and other Spanish islands in the West Indies and an island in the Ladrones, to be selected by the United States, shall be ceded to the latter.
Third—That the United States will occupy and hold the city, bay and harbor of Manila, pending the conclusion of a treaty of peace which shall determine the control, disposition and government of the Philippines.
Fourth—That Cuba, Porto Rico and other Spanish islands in the West Indies shall be immediately evacuated and that commissioners, to be appointed within 10 days, shall within 30 days from the signing of the protocol meet at Havana and San Juan respectively, to arrange and execute the details of the evacuation.
Fifth—That the United States and Spain will each appoint not more than five commissioners to negotiate and conclude a treaty of peace. The commissioners are to met at Paris not later than the 1st of October.
Sixth—On the signing of the protocol, hostilities will be suspended and notice to that effect will be given as soon as possible by each government to the commander of its military and naval forces.
The above is the official statement of the protocol's contents as prepared and given to the president by Secretary Day. The protocol was signed at 4:23 p. m. by Secretary of State Day, representing the United States, and M. Cambon, the French ambassador, representing the Spanish government.
Restrictions Removed.
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—The central cable office of the Western Union Telegraph company reports that all restrictions placed upon cable traffic to the West Indies, Spain and its dependencies by the government of the United States have been removed.
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| Queen Liliuokalani. |
NEWS FROM HONOLULU.
Our Flag Not Yet Raised Over the Islands.
EVENT HAS BEEN DELAYED.
It Will Go Up When the Commissioners Arrive.
VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 13.— The steamer Victoria brings the following advices from Honolulu bearing date of Aug. 4:
United States steamship Philadelphia arrived here yesterday, six days and 20 hours from San Francisco, with Admiral Miller and staff on board. Admiral Miller has orders to confer with Minister Sewall, and until after the conference nothing definite will be decided to the flag raising program. A conference with the Hawaiian government will be held this afternoon. It is generally understood that the flag will not be raised until the commissioners arrive on the 17th inst.
F. M. Hatch has resigned his position as minister to the United States.
The Ewa plantation, the best paying sugar estate in Hawaii, has decided to increase its capital stock to $2,000,000. The present capitalization is $1,000,000.
The Japanese imbroglio of 1897 has been settled by the payment of $75,000 to Japan. In making the payment the government does not admit the justice of the claim or right of Japan to indemnity. The payment was made at the request of President McKinley.
Queen Liliuokalani returned to Hawaii on the 2d inst., glad, she said to her friends, to be back in her own country, among her own people. She was given an enthusiastic reception by several hundred of her native friends. She declined to be interviewed.
The United States transport steamers Rio de Janeiro and Pennsylvania sailed for Manila Aug. 3 and this morning the transports Peru and City of Puebla took their departure for the same destination. While the vessels were in port 26 measles patients on board the Puebla were cared for at the local hospital, but were removed to their vessels before her departure. On the 27th Isaac Strickland, private of Battery G, Third battalion, died.
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| Main Street, Cortland, circa 1899. |
PROTEST AGAINST PAVING.
LEWIS S. HAYES HAS SHERIFF BRAINARD SERVE IT.
He Declares That "Any Person Who Invests a Dollar in Paving or Buys a Paving Bond Loses His Money"—The document was Served on Village Clerk Crombie This Morning— Is Simply a Protest.
A rumor was prevalent upon the streets this morning that Sheriff Brainard had served upon Village Clerk Crombie an injunction against the paving of Main-st., and quickly there was a bustle in municipal circles to learn the exact nature of the report. Clerk Crombie was besieged by anxious inquirers, but to all he could only reply that Lewis S. Hayes had had Sheriff Brainard serve upon him a protest against the paving of Main-st., and giving notice that he should resist payment of his share of the tax for the same.
Mr. Hayes was interviewed by a STANDARD reporter soon after the paper had been served, and his reply to the reporter's inquiry as to the matter was, "All I have to say is that any person who invests a dollar in paving or buys a paving bond loses his money." When asked why he had Sheriff Brainard serve the paper, he said he did so upon the advice of his attorney. He declined to state what further action he would take, if any, saying that the whole matter was in the hands of his attorney and he should follow his advice. His attorney is B. T. Wright.
The STANDARD man was informed by a prominent attorney this morning that the protest filed had no present legal status, but he presumed it was filed by Mr. Hayes, so that he would be in a position to resist payment when the work is completed, and the taxes are called for. The full text of the document is as follows:
To the President and Trustees of the Village of Cortland, to said Village of Cortland, and to the Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving Company, and to all Others whom it may Concern:
You and each and every one of you will please take notice that I, a citizen and taxpayer of the village of Cortland, N. Y., do hereby protest and object to the paving of Main-st. in the village of Cortland, N. Y., by you, or either or any of you, under or in accordance to the contract entered into by and between the said village of Cortland by and through the president, officers and board of trustees of Cortland village and the said Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving company for the following reasons, and upon the following grounds, and others that may hereafter arise or appear, to wit:
First—The said board of trustees of said village of Cortland have no power or authority to enter into or make said contract.
Second—The said board of trustees of said village of Cortland have not obtained or acquired, and do not possess authority, power or jurisdiction to pave said Main-st. in the village of Cortland, as provided and set forth in the contract herein before mentioned and referred to, nor in any other way or manner, nor to order it to be done by another, nor to employ or engage any other person or persons, company or corporation to pave the same.
Third—That no legal or proper petition signed by the bona fide owners of the lands fronting or abutting upon the said Main-st. in said village of Cortland, the lineal feet front or whose lands constitute at least one half of all the feet front of the lands fronting or abutting on said street, praying that the said board of trustees of said village shall pave said street in said village not less than the entire width thereof from curb to curb with such material and in such manner as such board of trustees shall determine has ever been presented to said board of trustees.
Fourth—That no legal or proper petition for the paving of said street has been presented to said board of trustees for the paving of said street, such as is required by the provisions of Chapter 157 of the laws of 1896, amending Chapter 342 of the laws of 1889 entitled, "An Act to revise, amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the village of Cortland and repeal certain acts and parts of acts."
Fifth—That the proceedings of said board of trustees in ordering the paving of said street was illegal, unwarrantable, without authority or jurisdiction and not in accordance to the provisions of the statute and laws of this state permitting the paving or improving of the streets of the village of Cortland.
Sixth—That the said board of trustees, president and officers of said village of Cortland, have no power or authority to enter into or make a contract as the one above mentioned and referred to, either themselves, or in behalf of said village, and that said contract so entered into by and between said village of Cortland by and through its president, officers and board of trustees with said Warren Scharf Asphalt Paving company is illegal and void.
Seventh—That said contract is illegal and void in that it is contrary to and in violation of the laws of this state, and is in contravention of private rights, in violation of the public interests and against public policy.
And I hereby give notice that I make this protest and objection in behalf of myself as a citizen and taxpayer of the village of Cortland, N. Y., and also in behalf of any other taxpayer or taxpayers of said village who may feel himself or themselves aggrieved by said contract above mentioned or by the proceedings to pave the street above mentioned, and who may join in contesting and resisting the levy and collection of any tax or assessment to pay for said paving under said contract or proceedings above referred to, or to prevent and resist the imposing of any liens on his or their property therefor, or to resist the collection of any bond issued to raise money to pay therefor, or to pay therefor, or to pay any part thereof or any interest thereon.
LEWIS S. HAYES, Dated, Cortland, N. Y., Aug. 12, 1898.
BREVITIES.
—There will be no services in Grace church to-morrow owing to the rectors vacation.
—Rev. Edward Hitchcock, D. D., of Philadelphia will preach at the Presbyterian church to-morrow morning in the absence of the pastor.
—New display advertisements to-day are—C. F. Brown, Ring Us Up, page 7; Palmer & Co., Special Bargains in Hose, page 6; Stowell, Fruit Jars, page 7.
—The man who owes you a debt honestly made, and refuses to pay the same, or is offended when you ask him for money because you need it, is neither a friend to himself nor to you.
—Plans for the new Lehigh Valley railroad station at Auburn have been completed. The structure will be 30 by 90 feet in size, two stories high. It will be of brick and the style will be modified Romanesque.
—The bicycle riders of the Y. M. C. A. are making arrangements for a cornroast to be held some evening next week. All members of the association who ride wheels are expected to attend. The exact time and place will be announced early next week.
—Binghamton is to see professional baseball during convention week for Manager Leonard of the Cortland team has leased the B. A. A. grounds for Thursday and Friday and the two games scheduled to be played with Canandaigua will be contested in this city. Both clubs belong to the State league and the games will be league and not exhibition contests.—Binghamton Herald.
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| Members of Cortland City Band in 1898. |
Band Concert.
There will be a band concert and free dancing
at the park this evening. The Cortland
City band orchestra will furnish the music for dancing.
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