Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1898 — PROCLAIMS PEACE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PROCLAIMS PEACE.

.McKinley Decrees that Hostilities Shall Cease. CHAINS DOGS OF WAR Cons of Fleet and Army Silenced by the President’s Proclamation. Officials in Military and Naval Circles in Washington Send Rush Messages .to the Front as Soon as the Protocol ?s Signed—Generals and Admirals In Command of the American Forces Notified that Hostilities Shall Be Suspended. >

Whereas, By a protocol concluded and signed Aug. 12, 1808, by William R. Day, Secretary of State of the United States, and his excellency, Jules Cambon, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of France, at Washington, respectively representing for this purpose the Government of the United States and the Government of Spain, the United States and Spain have formally agreed upon the terms on which negotiations for the establishment of peace between the two countries .shall be undertaken; and Whereas, It is in said protocol ■agreed that upon its conclusion and signature hostilities between the two countries shall be suspended, and that notice to that effect shall be given as soon as possible by each Government to the commanders of its military and naval forces; now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President J •of the United States, do, in accordance with the stipulations of the protocol, declare and proclaim on the part of the United States a suspension of hostilities, and do hereby command that orders be immediately given through the proper channels to the commanders of the military and naval forces of the United States to abstain from all acts inconsistent with this proclamation. In witness whereof I have here-'-unto set my hand and caused the >seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this 12th day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twqptythird. WILLIAM M’KINLIJf. President McKinley lost no time in notifying the American military and naval • commanders of the cessation of hostilities. Almost immediately after the signing of the protocol a dispatch was seat to Maj. •Gen. Milos at Ponce, Porto Rico, directing that fighting stop. Duplicates of this •dispatch were sent also to Gens. Merritt and Shatter, appropriate substitutes being made to apply to the different localities in which they had command. At the • some time copies of the protocol and the (proclamation of the President were sent vio the uuval commanders.