The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 10, 1899, Page 1

» VOLUME LXXXV—=NO, 72, FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. THE FILIPINO GENERALS - FEAR THEIR FOLLOWERS THE BEATEN TAGALLOS ARE NOW AT BAY Will Make One More Des- perate Stand at Caloocan. Aguinaldo Has Some New Sol- diers From the North Who Are Believed to Be Very Fierce. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The Sun Manila cable says: The Filipino generals, whose forces were so unmercifully punished by General King’s brigade in the fighting last Sunday, nearly 1000 of them having been killed in the attacks upon Santa Ana and San Pedro Macate to the south- east of the city, are reported to have fled to the interior in disguise to escape violence at the hands of their own people. The officers in command of the main body of the insurgents have asked Aguinaldo to send them re-enforcements, but say they do not want any more Tagallos. Reconnoitering parties are finding villages in every direction flying the white flag, and there is every indication that the villagers have had quite enough of the effective warfare waged by the Americans. The newly arrived native troops are very ag- gressive and are much in need of such lessons as was given to their companions in arms last Sunday. MANILA, Feb. 9, 4:40 p.m.—| All is quiet here to-day. The| Filipinos. are lying low, except| on the extreme left and right.‘ They are evidently concentrating | between Calgocan and Malabon. | Judging from appearances the | Filipinos are being reinforced by better drilled men from the north- ern provinces. In front of Caloo- ¢an they are as thick as a swarm of hees. The American troops feel the heat at midday in the opeh, but they are anxious to proceed. The soldiers are impatient of re- straint while in sight of the enemy. The Filipinos are. still en- trenching themselves on the left of Caloocan. Sergeant Major Smith of the Tennessees has been ordered to proceed to the United States by the next transport as an escort of the remains of Colonel William G. Smith of the First Tennessee Volunteers, who died of apoplexy during the recent battle with the Filipinos. 5:50 p. m.—The natives, fear- ing the Americans were about to make an attack or bombard the town of San Roque, set fire to it to-day. It is still burning as this dispatch is sent, and as it is composed in the main of bamboo huts, it will probably be totally destroyed. Telegraph operators are now worth their weight in gold, and the members of the signal corps are working night and day. AGUINALDO ‘MUST SUBMIT NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The Sun’s Manila cable says: Leaders of the Filipinos, including Aguin- aldo, have taken well to heart the lesson taught them during the past four days and are now trying by diplomacy to end the hostili- ties which they started. Judging from the latest developments they have failed as badly as dip- lomats as they did as military strategists, and it looks as though their only course is to make com- plete submission to American authority. A number of prominent Fili- pinos to-day visited General Otis, the military commander here, for the purpose of making overtures for a settlement of the trouble. They were received by General Otis, but his manner was chilling. The deputation was talkative, and its members dwelt upon the situ- ation from the Filipino point of view, but they had absolutely nothing to offer as a basis of set- tlement. They pressed General Otis for a declaration of same kind as to what the Filipinos must concede in order to secure peace, but his answer dashed their hopes of obtaining any terms that would prove beneficial to the enemy. “Tell - Aguinaldo,” General Otis said to them, “that I have no Continued on Fourth Page. following dispatch: the village before going. eSReReN e NeIReReNeRoNe RN “MANILA, Feb. 9.—After continued interference and intimidation with our work I ordered the insurgents to leave San Roque by 9 o’clock this morning. They left during the night, a few remaining and burning It is now occupied by our troops. San Roque is a village on the neck of land connecting Cavite and the THE FIRST CALIFORNIA’S BATTLE FlE. Birdseye View of the Country About the Pasig River From Santa Mesa, Where the First Fighting Began, to Pasig on the Laguna de Bay. MILLER IS BELIEVED TO HAVE TAKEN ILOILO His Instructions Were to Drive the Na- tives Out of the City. NEW YORK, Feb. 9.—The Herald’s Washington correspon- dent sends the following: In- terest to-night in the Philippine situation is centered upon Iloilo, which is believed to be in posses- sion of General Miller's com- mand. General Otis cabled to the War Department to-day . an- nouncing the dispatch of the First Tennessee Regiment to Tloilo to reinforce General Miller, but it is not certain that it will arrive at its destination in time to take part in the attack. It developed to-day that under the terms of instructions sent to General Miller by General Otis, the former is to present an ulti- matum to the natives directing that they evacuate the town and permit the landing of American forces by .9 o’clock on February 10, or it will be immediately bombarded and forcibly occu- pied. General Miller now has between 2500 and 3000 men, and the First Tennessee Regiment ‘will increase his command by another thousand. As the Herald = stated this morning, it is not expected that General Miller will find any great difficulty in occupying the port, as it is easily approached. Dis- embarkation under the guns of the naval vessels can be readily accomplished, and the men-of- war will materially assist the mili- tary in driving the natives out of the city. Some of the insurgent de- fenders are understood to be armed with Mausers and Rem- & § 3 & BB+ BB 4T+ B e oo tis e Go o loti + 1+ oo Rt e B0 DEWEY THE MAN WHO MUST BE OBEYED WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The Navy Department to-day.received the All quiet. “DEWEY.” mainland of Luzon. 2 i’mfi*w SEIRIRIR SRR BeReRe Ry [ 9-0-00-0-0-0-00-9 THE KILLED AND WOUNDED WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—The following cablegram was received to-day from General Otis: Manila, Feb. 9.—Adjutant Gen- eral, Washington. Additional cas- ualties: KILLED. First Nebraska. Artificer GUSTAVE EDLUND. Private WILLIAM: PHILLIPOT. Private H. G. LIVINGSTON. WOUNDED. % § [ ] Thirteenth Minnesota ® - Infantry. Private ALEX. F. BURNS, [ ] First Montana Infantry. Private LESTER PIERESTOFF. @ First Nebraska Infantry. Private CHARLES KEIKLBY. Private GEORGE L. CLOTHER. Private ROBERT E. CHILDERS. Private FRED KUHN. Private ORAL F. GIBSON. Private DOUGLAS T. BRIDGES. Private HARRY ZABROOKE. Private GRANT BOYD. Private FRANCIS HANSON. Private MORO C. SHEPERD. Private DANIEL CAMPBELL. , Third Artillery. Private JAMES J. GRATEG. Private JAMES T. LEAHY. First Colorado Infantry. Private CLYDE A. McKAY. Fourteenth Infantry. Private WILLIAM BUSH. Total casualties resulting from all engagements since the even- ing of February 4 aggregate 268, as follows: Killed, 3 officers, 56 en- listed men; wounded, 8 officers, 199 enlisted men; missing, 2 enlisted ? men. OTIS. 000 90-¢0-00-0-0¢0 ! : E 9000 0-0-0-0000 0000 ingtons, but the greater part of their force have no firearms. The German cruiser Irene is at Iloilo, and it is expected that her commanding officer will land a guard of marines for the protec- tion of German subjects and in- terests. No objection could be taken to such action, but as soon as the American troops are in possession and are capable of maintaining peace and order, the German commander will be ex- pected to withdraw his force. With refererice to the situation at Manila, the authorities feel that General Otis still continues to K have the situation well in hand. He will use his own judgment about the conduct of the cam- paign. The administration ap- proves his action in declining to answer Aguinaldo’s communica- tion, and it is not expected he will recognize the Filipinos in any way. ' AGUINALDO IS NOT THE REAL| LEADER CHICAGO, Feb. 9.—Edward-C. Andre, Belgian Consul at Manila, passed through this city. to-day en route to Washington from the Philippines.. In an interview ‘Mr. Andre said he had been much interested in reading the ac- counts of the battles with Aguinaldo’s forces and he was not surprised they had been defeated so easily by the American troops. The ultimate result of the revolution, he said, would be the formation of a little military party among the Filipinos, but the greater part of the inhabitants of the islands would appreciate American rule all the more because of Aguinaldo’s defeat. In Mr. Andre’s opinion Aguinaldo is not the real leader of the insurgents. He believes the little rebel is in the hands of other persons of greater intelligence. Mr. Andre is a strong supporter < the annexationists. He declares this is the only way to govern the Philippines. Mr. Andre came to this country for the purpose of organizing a syndicate to establish- railroads in. the Philippines and will remain in the United States about a month. AGUINALDO’S AGENTS WILL STAY HERE MONTREAL, Feb. 9.— Agoncillo, Marti and Luna, the Filipinos, are hav- ing a very ‘quiet time of it at present. They have received several cablegrams and sent several, but the ones they are waiting for, those which are supposed to contain direct news from Aguinaldo, have not come. Agoncillo says he is not yet entirely ready to say what he will do. “At present,” he said, “we are in com- munication with seven different points by cable and wire and there will be many more, for we cannot carry on a war like this without having agents everywhere. ““We do not rely upon assistance from the Japanese for the present,” he re- plied in answer t6 an inquiry. ‘“We have made no overtures to them and they have not made any suggestions to us.” ‘When asked if he expected his other Filipino friends from Washington, he replied that they would remain in ‘Washington until they were ordered out. S e IR LA, FIGHTING AGAINS GOVERNMENT FORCES Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 189, by James Gor- don Bennett. g LIMA, Feb. 9—The Herald's corre- spondent in Bolivia states that General Pando, the insurgent general, is operating ‘with 5000 men against Orino, where Presj- dent Alonzo is entrenched with the Gov- ernment forces. It is reported that during the recent siege of La Paz five prominent insurgents were shot by Alonzo. Half of the Government’s army is said to have deserted to the revolutionists. PRICE FIVE CENT ALAMEDA COUNTY | FEELS VE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 9.—It is not pleasant for a county to have its name hawked through the streets of the capital as one of the shreds to the Burns Sena- torial tail, but that has been the honor thrust upon Alameda County and up- held by the Burns members of its cau- cus last night. Burns had decreed that whdever worked against him should be | corrected with a heavy hand, and Frank Jordan, County Clerk of Ala- | meda County, is the latest man to find | out he meant what he said and some- | times could carry it out. Jordan was in need of some legislation for the bet- ter working of his office, but because he worked for Grant he gets nothing— and Alameda County bears the burden of a boss’ spite. Tom Williams gave it all away while | in the company of some friends after the unfortunate county had been whip- ped into line. He boasted that Burns could pay in revenge as well as coin— that Frank Jordan had worked for Grant, and any man who worked for Grant and wanted anything from his | men could wish for it. It seemed not to matter that a county of 150,000 peo- | ple might object to. further the cam- | paign of a man they would not have anyway, but their case was in the| hands of their delegation and their uele- gation was in the hands of Burns. Last night was the time set for the officials of Alameda County to appear before the Alameda delegation with their requests and suggestions for such | legislation as they needed. The offi- cials came and had a most succéssful interview. They got all they wanted and more, too—all' but Jordan. He had his time and expense bill for his pains, for he could get nothing from the dele- | gation. i It was agreed by the delegation !l?at nothing short of a two-thirds majority should bind the delegation, but when once bound by such a vote it would re- quire unanimous consent to change the I decision. The needs of the officials had | been discussed amgng the delegates and some idea of what they needed was arrived at, but what they wanted was | shown, upon the meeting of the dele- | gation, to be an entirely different mat- ter—and what they got as well. The Sheriff was expected to ask for an extra deputy; he told Stratton he needed but one—yet he asked for two and got them by a vote of 6 to 3. The Assessor asked for everything he could ‘possibly need, the Recorder was not backward, the County Surveyor, the Constables, the Justices, Stenographers, | Coroner—all of them got practically all they wanted—all but Jordan. He got | nothing. It was a great day for Burns and Alameda. Every official who came up was hand- ed his package by a vote of 6 to 3 ex- cept the Auditor and County Clerk. Stratton, Taylor and Knowland were the three. Leavitt, Bliss, McDonald of Livermore, Kelly, McKeen and the peerless Mr. Wright were the six. It was so plain that the thing was a programme that Stratton, chairman of the delegation, declared he would re- sign and leave them to go ahead in their unanimity, and Taylor and Knowland were ready to stand by him, but ‘when the Auditor’s office came up for consideration McKeen broke and things quieted down until Jordan’s claims were considered. Then the Burns men deliberately betrayed their county for a bit of personal spite. They bartered the honor their constituents had entrusted to them because “no man could ‘work against Dan Burns and get anything.” Tuesday night when Jordan came up from Oakland Tom Williams met him at the depot. Jordan had been in Sac- ramento for some time and had gone down to Oakland to gather in those telegrams, see that they were properly sent, and Willlams was waiting to tell him what the Burns people thought about it. He told Jordan then-that he would get nothing from the delegation and that he would never again get any- thing from the Burns element. Jordan wanted some relief in the work of regis- tration—an extra clerk and extra money for copyists. It was something every clerk of Alameda County has wished for and asked for, and it has grown to be a necessity to prevent delay and ex- pense and annoyance to that county. He appeared before the delegation after every one of the officials had been lavishly endowed with legislative fa- vors and found the tables turned. | The question came up on the appoint- ment of a new deputy for registration | in his office. “I move the request be denied,” said Senator Leavitt, and by.a vote it was denied. The vote was § against and 4 in its favor, and by the ,rule requiring a two-thirds majority to .bind the delegation his cause was lost. ' Stratton voted for the deputy; he is a Barnes man; so did Taylor, a Bulla | man, and Bliss and McDonald, both ad- | herents of ‘Grant. Against it was Knowland, a Barnes voter, but one who has a personal feeling against Jordan, by which he swears he will never vote to help the clerk. Then there was Leavitt, a Burns man; Kelly, a Burns man; McKeen, a Burns man, and Bures' latest acquisition, the Honor- able (?) Mr. Wright. Al these men with the exception of Knowland had voted with the six who were so gener- | tion and now he works for Grant,” NGEANCE OF D. M. BURNS Frank Jordan Shown That He Has Offended the Boss. GIVEN NO CONSIDERATION WHATEVER Six Members of the Delegation From Across the Bay Act As Executioners of the Will of the Man From Mexico. nothing from Burns even if Alameda wanted it. There was no necessity for follow- ing up the needs of the County Clerk. It was plain he had tied up Alameda’s registration for the next two years at least by daring to antagonize the man from Mexico, so the unfortunate clerk let it go at that, and when he came downtown after the caucus he had the pleasure of being told, “I told you so.”” “He took Burns’ money before elec- was Tom Williams’ explanation of why Ala- meda County should be denied decent registration. It had been argued that whatever Jordan had received or spent had no bearing on the necessities of his office, but that was a matter the precious four of the delegation passed by, although each one of them knew when he voted that although the club they wielded was swung over Jordan, when it struck it was their own county it hurt. Jordan had been helped by Tom Williams before his election, and while smarting.under what he consid- ers the injury Jordan has done him he does not hesitate to say his assistance was of the substantial order. Having forgotten the sunburst through which the Hon. Mr.. Wright winged his way into_ the Burns camp, Williams feels hurt that after his generosity the Coun- ty Clerk should work for Grant. The Burns people were rallied and the four Alamedans betrayed their county for Burns and did the master’s bidding. The thing got out .and the Burns people were jubilant, not because they had betrayed a county, but because Jordan had been fixed. The matter has not ended with the characteristic: work of the Burns men in the caucus. It will be fought out before the Senate on a bill to be intro- duced there to-morrow by Senator Stratton. He intends to draw up a measure specially fitted to meet the case of the luckless Alameda office, and he and Taylor and Knowland will sup- port it. It will provide that in coun- ties where the registration is placed in charge of the County Clerk the Super- visors shall assist him financially. As a rule, all measures affecting one coun- ty are left to the delegation from the county, and the action of a caucus of the delegation is usually recognized by the Legislature as final, but Stratton is going to keep his bill out of the hands of the delegation, or at least the Burns men in it, for only from the outside can Alarneda hope to escape the wrath of the beaten Burns. The most interesting part of the caucus of the Alameda delegation was not the session in the Capitol; it was a session downtown impromptu, brief and characteristic, and due to a sudden accession of virtue on the part of Mc- Keen and his desire to return to the majority fold. McKeen was one of the six in the delegation, and he was proud to be with such company as Leavitt and Kelley and the Hon. Mr. Wright. He voted as they did until it came to a question of the Auditor’s office, and then it was McKeen made his unlucky and unwitting step toward virtue. He was sorry he did it fifteen or twenty minutes after, and that was what caused the interest. Cal Ewing, Alameda’s Auditor, wanted two deputies and a fat addi- tional sum for expenses. He asked for it from the delegation and there was at once an earnest objection from Tay- lor and Stratton and Knowland, the minority. Stratton declared that he knew for a fact that Ewing only needed one additional deputy and. he was op- posed to giving him any more. But the six were in evidence and it ap- peared useless to argue until McKeen showed some symptoms of reform. He said he did not know about that extra deputy, and when the vote came round to_him he voted “No.” It was 5 to 4. It required six to bind the caucus. The chairman declared the motion lost and Ewing lost his dep- uty throurh the virtuous perfidy of As- semblyman McKeen. After the caucus adjourned the majority with Ewing and a few others sought a place where they could talk it over, and when Stratton came upon them in the Golden Eagle he found Ewing juljlant. “I have all I want,” Ewing declared. “I was treated well,” and he ordered another bottle. “You seemp happy for & man who has only half what he asked,” said Strat- ton. “No, I got all T asked for,” declared Ewing. “I asked for two deputies’— “And you were given one,” inter- rupted Stratton. “No, two.” “No, one.” 3 “I tell you its two,” insisted Ewing, and the sturdy majority crowded around and said: “Yes, he got two.” Stratton was not to be bluffed. “He was given but one deputy,” declared he, “and my notes show it. Your notes show it, too, Mr. Wright, and so do yours,” turning to Kelley, who had acted as secretary of the caucus. The Hon. Mr. Wright gave it as his recollection that the vote had given Ewing two deputies, McKeen having voted in favor of it, and with such backing McKeen swore he ‘had voted to give his friend Ewing all the deputies he wanted and had never thought to vote otherwise. Stratton was firm, however, and exhibited his notes. They showed that McKeen had voted “No,” making five to four, and under the rule of the caucus the vote to allow Ewing a second extra deputy was lost. Then he called for the notes of the secretary, and after some hesitation they were produced and again they showed the motion lost and the un- fortunate McKeen had found himself for once with the virtuous. Then the Hon. Mr. Wright was called upon ous. It was no sudden thrill of econo- my; it was just that Jordan could get S o for his notes and he had the temerity Continued on Second Page. e