The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 10, 1899, Page 9

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1899. 'WAR CLOUDS IN THE FAR EAST A DAY MAY BRING PEACE OR WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES General Otis Strengthens His Position at Manila—Landing the California Regi- ment—Aguinaldo Grows More Ugly. that to-morrow will see a peaceful solution. Meanwhile, all sorts of alarmist rumors are ties are taking every precaution. have disembarked from the transports. diately followed the proclam It is believed this second procla Filipino Congress at Malolos. on Saturday to President McKinley. sat n telegram mature. Pray reconsider the resolution regarding Iloilo. friendship of America and abhor militarism and deceit.” ceived Fight with Americans unavoidable. re is much anxiety there. H4O40404 04040404 040404040404 04040404040 + 0404040+ OHO4040+0+H MANTILA, Jan. 9.—The situation is rapidly approaching a climax and it is just possible in circulation. The United States authori- The troops in quarters are under arms and the Californians The natives, it is reported, have been ordered not to work for the Americans and the em- ployes in the commissary department have gone on a strike. Natives are leaving the city. Major General Otis, however, has the whole situation thoroughly in hand. A second proclamation by Aguinaldo, bearing the same date as the one which imme- ion of Major General Otis, based upon President McKinley’s instructions, first appeared on the streets to-day, but it is alleged to have been recalled. terms are much more vehement than those used in the first proclamation. ens to drive the Americans from the islands, calls the Diety to witness that their blood will be oa their heads if it is shed and details at greater length the promises he claims were made by the Americans as to the part of the insurgents in the campaign. nation is the original draft which was not adopted by the LONDON, Jan. 9.—The Filipino committees in Paris, Madrid and London telegraphed The Paris dispatch read: t against the disembarkation of American troops at Iloilo.” “The treaty of peace being still unratified, the American claim of sovereignty is pre- The Filipinos A representative of the Associated Press learns that the Filipino Junta at Paris has re- 1 1 from the Filipino agent at Hongkong dated Saturday and saying: We are not the aggressors.” A telegram from an English house at Manila to-day says the situation is very strained The dispatch also contained news from Iloilo, the e of which was that the American troops had not yet landed. Its Aguinaldo threat- wish for the H+0+04040404 OWOQOMWW*WWQOWOOO#WI SENATOR HOAR DECLARES - AGAINST THE POLICY OF TERRITORIAL EXPANSION WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—This proved | to be an interesting day in the Senate, cipal subject under discus- | the constitutional right of | ed States to carry into effect | v of expansion. The leading | speaker was Hoar (R.) of Massachu- | setts, who delivered a speech in sup- | port of the resolution introduced by | Vest (D.) of Missouri, declaring it to | in opposition to the constitution for this country to acquire forelgn terri- | tory to be governed permanently as| colonies. Although Hoar occupled the | time_ of the Senate for more than two | hours, he was accorded the unusual | pliment of close and undivided at- | ¢ his colleagu on the floor ge audience but address was de- all the fire, earnest to that liv t (R.) of Conn carefully cut, and had been | k= epared. He took t the position as- SE ecticut Senator, was in violation of | CHUSETTS. NATOR HOAR OF MASSA- nd the Declaration | for this country |it failed. ¥ to be held : S x 1 of Hoar's ad- | ;1 Guncement that Senator ; replied to some points of “'great expounder j an effort to fix a time for a vote upon The galleries of the Senate were well | filled at the opening of to-day’s session, many persons being attracted by the ! Hoar | and ] actions commenced lawfully| against officers of the United States as | | such on the termination of the terms of | | such officers was passed. | Hoar then called up the Philippine | resolution introduced by Vest and ad- | dressed the Senate. Without advert- | ing to the proposed policy of the United | | States entering upon an expansion of | its territory, except in a general and | indirect manner, Hoar entered upon a | | discussion of the constitutional phases | of the question involved in the resolu- | tion under consideration, prefacing his | | argument with a statement of his pe sonal position on the subject. He sali I am one of those men who belie: | that little that is great or good or pe: manent for a free people can be accom- plished without the instrumentality of party. And I have believed religiously and from my soul for half a century in the great doctrines and principles of the can party. I stood in a humble (2 by its cradle. I do not mean, if I can help it, to follow its hearse. I am | sure I render it a service; I am sure I help to protect and prolong the life of that t organization if I can say or do an g to keep It from forsaking the great principles and doctrines in which alone it must live or bear no life. It (f) not my purpose, of course, to dis- : ie sneral considerations which af- acquisition of sovereignty by the American _people over the Philippine | Islands which has been or may be pro- posed. I am speaking to-day only on the theory of the constitutional interpretatic propounded by the Senator from Conne ticutt (Platt). If at any time hereafter | the Senator shall seek to put his theories | into practice by reducing to subjection a distant people, dwelling in the tropics, alien in blood, most of them Moslems in faith, incapable to speak or comprehend our language or to read or write any lan- | guage, and to whom the traditions or the doctrines of civil liberty are unknown, it will then be time to point out what terri- ble results and penalties this departure unlimited and untempered depotism, with- out any relief from assassins. Hoar maintained that the proposi- tions advanced by Platt were not sus- tained by a single one of his authori- tles. He held that the “powers of the United States must be affirmatively delegated or they do not exhibit,” in other words, the “implied powers” re- ferred to by Platt—the power to govern territory acquired through war—did | not exist. “Fhe power which Mr. Platt maintains this Government possesses is one,” said Hoar, “that our fathers | and their descendants have ever loathed and abhorred, and they believed that no sovereign on earth could rightfully | exercise it.”” He said while Platt had admitted that governments derived thelr just powers from the consent of ‘‘some of the governed,” he did not un- derstand that in subjugating and gov- erning the Filipinos Platt proposed to get the consent of any of them. Hoar was inclined to ridicule those who favored expansion and the ratifica- tlon of the treaty of Paris without amendment. Their arguments, he said, were, “Three cheers for the flag! Who will dare haul it down? Hold on to everything you can get! America has outgrown Americanism.” Continuing he said: In general, the friends of what is called imperialism or expansion content them- selves with declaring that the flag which is taken down every night and put up agaln every morning over the roof of this Benate chamber, where it is in its rightful place, must never be taken down from any place where it has once floated, wheth- er that be the rightful place or not—a doc- | trine which {s not only without justifica tion, but if it were planted thers would make of every war between civilized and powerful nations a war of extermination orhl war of dishonor to one party or the other. . Hoar then entered upon a critical analysis of Platt’s speech. After sum- marizing the argument he said: The constitutional argument for slavery was ten times as strong as the argument of Mr. Platt. The slave master said he owned them for their good. The Senator | from Connecticut proposes to own nations for their good. He set forth his own constitutional doctrine, which he desired to oppose to that of Platt. He declared that the people of this country had not deposited all sovereignty anywhere and had used no agent of theirs to exercise all sov- ereignty, unlimited and uncontrolled, and further said: The powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the States tively, or to the people. The sov which can be ex d by the n n a unit is only that which Is necessary for accomplishing the purposes of the ad- ministration, and must be ly ranted therein as nece ent in the judgment of ( complish the purposes therein expressi declared. All other sovereignty Is re- served to the States or the people. The power to conquer alien peoples and hold them in subjugation is nowhere ex- pressly granted. The power to conquer allen peoples d hold them in subjuga- tion {s nowhere implied ary for the accompli 0 ses de- clared by the constitu 1t is clearly shown to t not to be exercised by an the framers of the con: ought not to be expre because it is immoral self, and because it is ¢ sly in the Declaration of Independence, great interpreter and expounder of constitution, which owes its origin to same generation and largely to the sa men. Tt is affirmed that it 1 fit to be merous instar ntemp constitutions and contemporaneo writers and authorities on public la who express the opinion of the Ame: eople in that generation who adopted he constitution, as well as the men who framed In discussing how territory may be acquired constitutionally by the United States Hoar said: “It may also acquire adjoining or outlying territory, dis- pose of it, make rules and regula- ne that ought body—one that ution thoug by fmmoral and u: nybody in n tions for it for the purposes of national | security and defense, as in the case of Hawaii, although it may not be ex- pected that the territory so acquired, | held and disposed of shall ever come into the Union as a State.” However, immediately following this statement Hoar set the Philippines against Ha- walil in this declaration: Mr. President, you are not NOw propos- ing to acquire Or own property in t Philippi with dominion as a necessary incident; you are not to own a foot of land there. You propose to acquire do- minion and legislative power and nothing else. Where in the constitution is the grant of power to exercise Sovereignty Where we have no property. In support of his interpretation of the constitution Hoar cited various author- ities, among them Charles Sumner and Justice Matthews. He appealed to Sen- ators who are hesltating as to what their action upon the question of ex- pansion may be—"the greatest question that has ever been or ever will be put to-them in their lives, the question not | of a year or of a century, not of a | generation, but a question pertaining rather to the great period of national life”—not to commit themselves in principle to such a policy by support- ing the peace treaty and then to say they will consider hereafter how they will act under it. In the course of his appeal to Senators Hoar satd: y sou raise the flag over the Phil- 1p‘;}!r}1‘ee: a5 an emblem of domain and ac- quisition, you take it down from Inde- pendence Hall. He extolled the statement of Louls Napoleon, made in 1854, that “the time of conquest is past, never to return, for it is not by extending the boundaries of its territory that a nation can hence- forward be honored and powerful, but by placing itself at the head of gener- ech which had been directed es- | Jution. quire and govern for- | nd declared that had | | would discuss the anti-expansion reso- providing that all honorably discharged soldiers and sailors who served in the War of the Rebellion, with the volun- mouth Rock and | war with Spain who may be disabled have expanded | in any way, shall be admitted into the iDt0 its own constitut ion. from our constitutional principles will He reiterated his for-| Mitchell of Wisconsin reported from PFin8 upon us. that the United States | the Military Affairs Committee a biil | Hoar said that our fathers who framed the constitution had studied ancient history and had learned that { while there is little else that a democ- the doctrine of | yeer soldiers and sailors of the war of | PACY cannot accomplish, it cannot rule rf would have been | 1812, of the Mexican War and of the over vassal states or separate peoples | without bringing the elements of death He quoted d his speech in oppo- | It was passed. 0 the Nicaragua canal bill, but | AR R R RS D R R B T T P P Y LEO XIlI FAVORS EXPANSION W YORK, Jan. 9.—The Herald’s Washington correspondent S wing: Pope Leo XIII favors occupation and control of by the United States and all the power and influence can will be invoked among the representatives of the church in this country to expedite the ratification of the peace treaty. This i rmation comes directly from Rome to one of the most trusted friends of the Catholic church in this country, Whom I met in the capitol to-day When the question of American sovereignty in the Philippines was first suggested, the European representatives of the Tatholic church did not look with favor upon American control in the islands. That feeling has been wiped out by the provision in the peace treaty which calls for the free exercise of religion in the Philippines as in Cuba and Porto Rico. The treaty also contains a guarantee that property In these islands belonging to the church shall not be taken from it \by the United States Government. ' Archbishop Ireland spent several days in this city last week in conference with the President, the Secretary of State and other mem- bers of the administration. While in Washington it is understood that Archbishop Ireland performed some valuable missionary work among certain representatives in the interest of the prompt ratifica- tion of the treaty. PP P S LI TE VST IUPIPCUDE PR 0 SN R R T S S BN AR R R DD D PPN Home for Disabled Volunteer soldiers. | Professor Creasy as saying in his “Fif- fteen Decisive Battles of the World" A bill to authorize the revival of suits |, L1rere has never been a republic yet in history that acquired dominion over another nation that did not rule it self- | Ishly and oppressively. There is no sin- | gle exception to this rule either in | ancient or modern times.” Hoar believed, he said, this country | to be a sovereign nation. He believed | Congress pussessed all the powers necessary to accomplish the great ob- Jects the framers of the constitution in- | tended should be accomplished. But he { denjed that it possessed the “establish- ing and extravagunt” powers under the | constitution which the Senator from | Connecticut (Platt) attributed to it. | Hoar affirmed that every consti- | tutional poi.er is limited to the one su- ipreme and controlling purpose declared {in the constitution itself—"“in order to |form a more perfect union, establish {justlce, insure domestic tranquillity, | provide for the common defense, pro- | mote the general welfare and secure the ibless(ngs of liberty to ourgelves and to | our posterity.” He continued: | | When the Senator from Connecticut un- | dertakes to declare that we may do such | things, not for the perfect union, the common defense, the general welfare of | the people or the securing of liberty to ourselves and our children, but for any | fancied or real obligation to take care of | distant people beyond our boundary lines, not People of the United States, then | T deny hls proposition, and tell him po | can find nothing either in the text of the constitution or in the proposition of the fathers, or in the l{udgmem: of courts from that day to this to warrant or sup- port his doctrine. ‘We have heard of limited monarchies, constitutional monarchie: "dugounm tempered by assassination,” but the logic of the Senator from Conhecticut means ) ous ideas and spreading everywhere the empire of right and justice,” and added: Napoleon forgot what he had said when little stronger. He saw his op- Mexico as our‘fflvnd}s think see ours in the Philippines. But the égf"e, and terrible feet of destiny overtook him in the midst of his pride and power. Qur Commissioners come back from Paris, bringing with them the -castoff clothing of this pinchbeck Napoleon and ask us, who have seen his fate, to discard for them the spotless robes in which our fathers arrayed the beautiful genius of A"A’eifl ago last December the President of the United States sent a_message to Congress. In that message he said: *“I speak not of forcihle annexation, because that is mot to be thought of, and, under 'T);h;\ll “'Qmél be crim- aggression.” e time of conquest {'s“‘pas‘f'.‘" said Louis Napoleon. Ah, Mr. President, President McKinley but re- peated Louls Napoleon, though in louder and clearer yoice. President McKinley when he spoke was not thinking even of honor or of power, inspiring_or alluring as are honor _and power. He placed himself and placed the American people on the stern, enduring and perpetual rock of righteousness, that forcible annexation Is not to be thought of under our code of morality; that it would be eriminal aggression. Who shall haul him down? Who shall haul down the code? Who shall haul down the President? Hoar dwelt with emphasis upon the large increase in national expenditure which the policy of expansion advo- cated by Platt would entail, placing the amount at $150,000,000 annually. Hoar spoke two hours and ten min- utes, concluding at 2:30 p. m. Only once was he interrupted and then by Platt of Connecticut, at whom the speech was directed. When Hoar sald that within the past few months Platt had changed his position, as during the Cuban discussion he had supported the proposition that the Cubans are and of right ought to be free and independent, Platt, interrupting, said: “I think the Senator has misstated my position. I did not vote for that proposition.” In reply Hoar inquired If Platt, while he may not have voted for the propo- | the code of morali sition, did not actually think the people of Cuba were entitled to be free and independent. Platt—The Senator is tempting me into a speech which he would not tol- erate if I should deliver it here. When Hoar had concluded Platt ad- dressed the Senate. Platt maintained that Hoar had ad- mitted his contention that this coun- try had the right to acquire and gov- ern distant territory, but that he had unfairly presented what he (Platt) had said about the acquisition and govern- ment of such territory. He read from his speech a paragraph showing that he had held it to be the duty of this country to provide for acquired terri- tory a most liberal and enlightened sys- tem of government—a government in accord with the spirit of the Declara- tion of Independence and of the consti- tution. Platt said with emphasis: Yet he holds me up here as opposed to applying to the people of this acquired territory the principles of legislation in accordance with the spirit of the Declara- tion of Independence and of the constitu- tion. The United States never has legis- lated in opposition to the Declaration of Independence and the comstitution, and it never will I want to say that an application of the doctrines of the Senator from Massachusetts would have prevented our expansion westward across this continent to the Pacific Coast. We found here this continent in the hands of the Indians, who did not want us here, nor did they want to be placed under our government. Notwithstanding that con- | ditlon we established our government here and now at last we have brought many Indlans to a state of civilization and citizenship. ‘You violated your Declara- tion of Independence,” says iae Indian, “when you legislated for me,” but who, Mr. President, would turn back the hands | of time to meet the requirements of the | doctrine of the Senator from Massa- chusetts? 1t is the spirit of the Declaration of In- dependence that gives it life. It is per- fectly well assured that no attempt will ever be made to legislate for the people of this country or our acquired territory in contravention of the Declaration of In- dependence. am one of those who be- lieve that we shall not ring the doom of this country when we shall place over the i bitants of our acquired territory leg- n which will confer upon them the gs of peace, happiness and pros- | is! | blessi perity. Caffery of Louisiana inquired of Platt whether he would force upon these peo- ple our system of government against their will. Platt replied: That question is a part of the argu- ment of the Senator from Louisiana and the Senator from Massachusetts in su port of the pending resolution. They hold that we cannot go into an enemy’s country, even in time of war, without the consent of the inhabitants of the coun- try. The argument contains within it- self its own argument. After alluding to the late war and the responsibilities entailed by it upon this country and explaining briefly his own position with respect to the war, Platt | said: | We propose to proclaim liberty and jus- | tice and human rights in the Philippines | or wherever else _the flag of the country | shall be planted. Who will haul this princi- | ple down? No, Mr. President, this entire argument of the Senator from Massachu- | setts is a speech conjured up by him in support of his position. I cannot be ac- cused of not loving justice and purity and unselfishness as devoutly as the Sen- ator from Massachusettes loves them. I 1l meet the responsibilities that are to connection with this question in of the declaration of independ- | d of the constitution and could { never be persuaded to do otherwise. Hoar briefly replied to the statement of Platt, reiterating and elucidating | some of the points of his own speech which he conceived Platt had mis- understood. The Nicaragua cana! bill was then taken up and Caffery continued his speech in opposition to it. Caffery, in reply to Chilton, said that he did not want an isthmian canal constructed jointly by the United States and Great Britain, but he believed the Clayton- Bulwer treaty to be in as complete force now as when it was first nego- tiated. Bacon, Money and Chilton engaged | in a general discussion of the binding power of treaties in general. Chilton called attention to the fact that Great Britain has distinctly declined to abro- gate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty. Under the amendment offered by Caf- fe the abrogation of the treaty was necessary, and if Great Britain should persist in her refusal he would like to know how the canal was to be con- | structed. Caffery walved answer to this inquiry and continued his discussion of the terms of the treaty itself. At the conclusion of Caffery’s speech, | Morgan of Alabama, in\ charge of the | bill, made an effort to fix the time for beginning to vote upon the measure and the panding amendments. He sug- gested that the time be 8 p. m. on the 1ith inst., but Caffery objected. Morgan then gave notice that to-mor- { row, if no arrangement could be made for & vote, he would ask the friends of | the measure to stand with him until it was passed. Telier of Colorado suggested that he would like to know how the money for the consztruction of the canal was to be | raised, and Morgan said he would an- swer the question before a vote upon the measure was taken. The Senate then, at 4:45 p. m., went into executive session and at 4:55 p. m. adjourned. SOME LIBERTY ; FOR THE FILIPINOS LONDON, Jan. 10.—The Vienna cor- respondent of the Times says: “The American Government intends to intro- duce a regime in the Philippines similar to that of England in Egypt. The Filipinos will be endowed with as much liberty as is good for them, and if they do not behave themselves voluntarily they will be made to do so.” FAREWELL BANQUET ' T0 LORD BERESFORD English Rear Admiral Given a Part- ing Reception on Leaving Shanghal. SHANGHAI, Jan. 9.—The municipal Council, the Chamber of Commerce and the American and China Association gave | a farewell banquet last evening to Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, who has been for some time in China on a special mission from the British Asso- ciated Chambers of Commerce to inquire as to the opportunities for further de- velopment of British trade in this country and as to the security for investments and undertakings already here. Lord Beresford, in responding to a toast to his health, said the cosmopolitan char- acter of his hosts proved that his policy in China was unanimously approved by the representatives of the great nations having the largest trade interests in China. Lord Beresford sailed from Shanghal to- day for Japan. Supervisors’ Act Questioned. WOODLAND, Jan. 9.—At the last meet- ing of the Board of Supervisors the Hor- ticultural Commissioners were removed and the positions abolished. The opinion of many attorneys s that the Supervisors have no authority to abolish the office and tuere may be some litigation over the matter. | ———— Alleged Illegal Marriage. OODLAND, Jan. 9.—Recently a man named Johnson married a young lady named Rich, at Rumsey, in this county, Rev. Mr. Swafford of Arbuckle, Colusa County, officiating. It now transpires that the marriage license was {ssued in Colusa County and the clalm i{s made that that marriage is illegal. SURPRISED AT THE CHANGED SENTIMENT Perkins Gets a Roast From an Eastern Paper for Heeding Instructions From Cali- fornia’s Legislature. Call Office, Riggs House, WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Senator Perkins expressed surprise that members of the Legisla- ture shqQuld change in sentiment, when a few years since California voted overwhelmingly to restrict Chinese immigration. “The action of the Legislature is surprising also,” sald he, “in view of the fact that annexation of the Philippines will ruin Califor- nia’s beet sugar industry.” At the same time Senator Perkins says he will obey the instruc- tions of the Legislature. The Springfleld Republican, arriving here to-day, was extensively circulated in the United States Senate. It scores Senator Perkins for asking instructions of the Legislature respecting his attitude toward the peace treaty, and says: “After expressing the conviction that the acquisition of the Philip- pines would prove disastrous to the republic, he smothers his con- victions, will violate his oath of office and vote for what he concelves to be injurious to the country. His course is self-stultifying to the last degree. Mr. Perkins does not go to the people of California for instructions, but to a lot of allexed representatives who had no more business to instruct him on behalf of the people than he had to in- struct himself. When Mr. Perkins, obeying instructions of inter- lopers, rises to vote for the treaty he should be promptly challenged. The California Legislature is not a member of the United States Sen- ate. It has no vote there.” PICOIIPIPIPPIOEPIPICPPOPOOCPOIPOOOD PPPP00009000009000020 0PSO POFS PPV CPPIPIPPPIPIPSPPOOSPPCLSISCOSIPSS CONFLICT NOW UNAVOIDABLE Miller Ordered to Land Troops at Once. 2go he was an inmate of an asylum for the insane, but was discharged under the supposition that he had fully recovered. He was taken in charge Sunxu.y night on complaint of his wife. |DENIES CONFESSION AND REPROTESTS INNOCENCE | Reply of Dreyfus to Questions Com- municated to the Court of Cassation. PARIS, Jan. 9.—A telegram from Cay- enne, capital of French Guiana, has been communicated to the Court of Cassation, embodying the reply of Dreyfus to ques- tions put to_him by the Public Prosecu- tor there. Dreyfus energetically denles | that he ever confessed thaf he was guilty |to Captain Lebrun-Renault, in whose charge he was placed at the Ecole Milie taire at the time of his condemnation and degradation, and he reprofests his inno- cence. et N .B-USIE SUED FOR DIVORCE. Extreme Cruelty the Ground for His ‘Wife’s Complaint. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 9.—Mrs, Amos Rusle to-day filed a suit in the Superior | Court against the famous baseball player for divorce and $5000 alimony. They were married in 18%0, and Mrs. Rusie alleges extreme cruelty on her husband’s nart al- most from the date of her marriage. Drunkenness also is alleged. She says Ku- sle owns $80% worth of real estate, has | $1400 in bank and draws $3000 a year, PROTECTED BY NAVAL GUNS SMALL BOATS WILL CONVEY THE SOLDIERS ASHORE. Delay Has Aggravated the Situation at Iloilo and Given the Insur- gents a Chance to Get Reinforcements. Epecial Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Jan. 9. The feeling is general in War De- partment circles that a conflict with i the Filipinos is unavoldable, but ft is | E—E—E—H—H-—8—E—8-8—NN not believed that a bloody battle will | L Huw MEN May Become Strong Instructions wired to General Miller, through Otis at Manila, are for him to land troops imme= diately, but not fire a shot unless A Great Medical Institution That Makes Wonderful Cures and Gives Consultation and Advice FREE OF CHARGE. compelled to. Miller is instructed to land his sol- Life is not nearly £o bad as it some- times appears to be. People them. ADVERTISEMENTS. diers by means of lighters or small boats, under the protection of naval | guns. If the insurgents do not open fire he is to adopt a most pacific and | conciliatory policy and relieve them of | all apprehension that they may be harmed. * selves are mostiy at’ fauit A little common sense and some careful thi I they repel the landing General Im lpr;g are mighty factors In human h::— o 3 . | ness. Miller is instructed to “take such |7 £t 3o are not physically perfect, fres . - 'TO! TVou! ilit; measures as he sees fit to protect | W Giiment. do net sive up b desmoniragied his troops and quarter them at|g g% Tads £f, B30 20 loilo.”” BSTond endoyable. Many men would . e better dead than alive, In their pres- { M ent condition. Instructions were also cabled Admiral [} 5, SEECE. o004 with one or soces Dewey to order naval vessels at Iloilo | M Of the troubles that ruin the lives of to operate with General Miller and | ;‘f:;fi;",“”:hf?“fi‘&"l%a§°"§““ e cover the landing. No shots are to be A et i B g £ S dert es du X ighty fired by the naval vessels unless the ‘. years—DR. MEYERS & co. ©shteen fire from the Filipinos seems likely to | Partial or complete loss of vitality, be so damaging as to prevent the land- | :{;{'fii‘l“lrfiu"list‘s m'i’;:"fm, oo an ing of our troops. 5 { M cesstul physiclans. After leaving the White House this || “Also contracted allments, including afternoon Secretary Alger said no im-| g :o;r;}a;ga;:. malignant Blood Poison, at portant news had been received and B o o B e B B B B B B e B B B e B B that the President hoped the landing | would be effected without resistance. | General Otis has all along had in- | structions to land men at Iloilo, but at the same time he was to do nothing | that would precipitate trouble. | It is realized that the delay has been | disastrous. Had the American troops | been landed immediately on their ar- rival at lioilo and found it in posses- | sfon of the insurgents a fight would | probably have resulted, but an engage- | ment must have been soon terminated | in favor of our soldiers. While the | troops were cooped up on their trans- | ports, however, the natives were gath- | ering reinforcements and making ex- | tensive preparations for determined re- [ sistance. These preparations have re- sulted in making their position in the city so strong that it is feared that re- inforcements will have to be sent to | General Miller before he will have suffi- | cient strength to land. The first overt act of the natives| communicated to the department last | night, which resulted In mortal infury | of one soldier and the wounding of an- other, convinces the officials that the | hatred of the insurgents for Americans | will not die out as long as resistance is | possible. Nothing is known at the de- | partment of what has taken place at | Tloilo since Friday, the day Colonel | Potter, General Otis’ bearer of dis-| patches, left there. Colonel Potter car- | ried instructions back to General Miller | | with him, but in view of the serious- | ness of the situation, nothing will be said of the nature of the contents at the | ‘War Department. The Secretary of War has been om-i cially advised of the action of the in-! surgents in soaking the houses in the | business part of the city with kerosene | oil and of their determination to aovply [ | ] the torch as soon as the Americans attempt to land. All of the foreign res- | idents, including the acting American | Consul and his family, have gone| aboard the warships in the harbor, and the banks and private Individuals have sent money and treasure aboard. Secretary Alger spent over an hour | with tae President to-day and was| Joined during the conference by Assist- | ant Secretary Meiklejohn. The fact that no news had been received from | NO PAYTILLCURED BETTER THAN A GUARANTEE. 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MAGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS CoO., Market st., opp. Palace Hotel, San Take Elevator. “E-ES-E-a-N-a-aan. the Philippines seems to be worrying | — " - them. Suspected of Insanity. WOODLAND, Jan. 9.—L. G. Stone, a ‘war veteran, is under restraint on a sus- A picion that he is insane. Ahout six years HOITT’S SCHOOL Has removed from Burll home at Menlo Park, San leo County; credited, and prepares boys equally w%.i business; next term begins January 1Sth, 1898, IRA G. HQITT, Pn, D,, Prinolpal new ac- for