The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1898-07-07
ENTRY INTO MANILA
IF POSSIBLE.
Proclamation of Non-Interference of
Forms of Religious Worship, Prop
erty or Lives will be Issued.

Forms of Religious Worship, Prop
erty or Lives will be Issued.
Major General Wesley Merritt, mil
itary governor of the Philippines, who
with his staff and party arrived ear
| ly this morning on the Newport, has
| this to say about his plans:
"If l can make peaceful entry into
Manila all right. If | can't enter the
city peacefully 1 will be obliged to
! force my way in. l am not a glutton
for military glory. | instructed Cen
ernl Greene. who left here with the
second expedition, to consult on his
| arrival in the harbor of Manila with
| Admiral Dewey as to the advisabili-
! ty of their making a joint attack on
the city and forcing an entrance. They
will do the proper thing beyond all
| question. Both men have great abil-
ity. They can cope with any emer-
| gency.
The Newport should reach Manila
by July 25th or by August 1st at the
! latest. She will accompany the
transports to Manila.
"Once | have established an official
| residence in Manila | will issue a
| proclamation in the name of the
| President of the United States, In
which | will announce my appoint
ment as military governor of the Phil
| ippines. and declare the islands sub
| iect to the authority of the United
States. The proclamation will be is
sued in both English and Spanish.
! The proclamation has been prepared.
1t will inform the inhabitants of the
Islands that. the United States will
not interfere with their forms of re-
ligious worship. will not destroy their
churches churches, will not confiscate
their property, will not imperil their
lives or happiness. and will not inflict
upon them an arbitrary and unreason-
able form of government and system
of laws.
"Information of this character will
be set forth in the proclamation in
| order to offset representations to the
contary that have been made to the
people of the Philippines by Spanish
priests, politicians and military au-
thorities.
LET me say few words about the
ceremony of installation as military
| governor. I have seen newspaper
statements that it will be elaborate.
There will be nothing elaborate about
it. There is every reason why it
should be a simple ceremony, one that
will in no way be inconsistent with
the democratic sentiment of our coun-
try.
''The Philippine eNpeditionary force
is made up of soldiers who will give
good account of themselves. Off
GERS and men are of the right stuff
The soldiers are very well equipped
Those that have come from the Ma
tional Guards of the several states
need a little drilling, but they are fiji
to make good fighters at this mo-
ment."
General Merritt's staff and party is
made up as follows:
Majors Strothers and Hale and Cap
tain Mott, aids; General Babcock Col.
onels Whittier, Pope. Brainard, Crow.
der, Lippincott, Potter, Majors Wads.
worth, Mcclure, Kilbourne, Bement
i, Simpson, Sturgis, Woodruff, Whipple
Thompson, Captain Cabell, Murat Hal
stead, Mr.. Peters, correspondent.
Clerks-Messrs. Aydelott, Bowley
Brooks, Homes, Howell, Kilbourne
Lohse, Mcclure, c. G. Mcclure, Rior,
dan, G. n. Smith, Snyder
Enlisted men attached at headquar
ters-Sergeant Frederick Miller ord
nance department; Steward e. Wag
nitz, U. S. army hospital corps: Ser
geants F. B. McReynolds, Seventh
California, and r. B. Parsons, First
California heavy artillery; Corporals
V. B. MunnecIe, First Nebraska ant
T. j. Flint, Twenty-third U. S. infan
try; Privates NJ. A. Bassity, Eric G
A. Julihn and G.. Fl. Jessen, hospita
corps; Charles Graham, Fourth U. S
cavalry; A. II. Kelcher, Eighteenth
U. S. infantry; T. S. McKelvey, of the
Twelfth Pennsylvania; r. f. Whee
lock, Thirteenth Minnesota; C. C
Stockley, Twenty-third U. S. infantry
First-class Sergeants w. II. Andy'
and II. w. Chadwick, and First-clas'
Private J. IT, Watkins, signal corps
Privates f. J. Zeigler and J. D. Car
ter, Twenty-third United States in
fantry; Charles Boil, civilian messen
ger.