Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-01
M'klNLEYS DESIRES.
Wants Only Portion of tho Philippi mes
No Instructions to Commits siolcrs iet.

washington, Aug. 2S.-All the state
mcnts to the effect that President Mckin-
ley had formulated instructions TO the
peace commissioners before he left are
erroneous, for he proposes waiting until
the last minute before doing So and to
give them the consideration which his lit
tie vacation will afford. The only thing
he Is known to have decided about tho
matter Is that the United States Will keep
part of the Philippines, and that IL VIII
rot keep the whole of the Philippines
unless Spain should make good her threat
OF forcing the entire archipelago upon us
If we insist upon taking the Island of
l.uzon, which is probably what the Presi-
dent will determine to ask.
His own personal desire Is well known
here to be to hold permanently what We
hold temporarily by the conquest of
Dewey and Merritt and the peace protocol
of Day and Cambon. namely, Manila and
its suburbs its harbor and Its bay. But
/ he is disposed to yield, and he is expected
to yield, to the sentiment in hts cabinet.
and in the country In favor Of n larger
acquisition of territory in the Philippines
/ and to demand the Island of Luzon, to-
gethcr with the guarantee of good govern
ment for the rest of the islands, the pro-
4 vso that they shall not be coded without
our consent and the requirement that we
! shall have an equal opportunity In their
trade.
President Mckinley did not order 4
court Of inquiry to investigate tha
charges against the medical. quartermas-
tors and commissary divisions of the wal
department before he left WaShin gtor
and apparently the country will have to
wait for such acton until he returns.
Secretary Alger returned from Montaui
carly yesterday morning and saw Tho
President before he left, and then went e
his own residence. where 1t was announc
= Al
department until Monday. 1t was stated
that he was worn out, but 1t was deniec
that he had caught dysentery ms Il re
suit of drinking Camp Willoff water.
1t Is regarded as likely, In view OF wha
President Mckinley said to members o
the cabinet. that he had plain talk will
the secretary of war, and told him tina
"somct hing" must be done to meet tn
popular demand for investigating an'
Furnishing the mismanagement of at lcas
three of the war department bureaus
which Secretary Alger had seen Illus
tratcd, according to his own interviews "A
Montauk Point,
Whether President Mckinley told tn
secretary definitely what that some
thing would be, the secretary has no
, said, but, at all events, TO orders for
court of inquiry appeared yesterday. ant
Secretary Ayers subordnates at the Wa
department were saying they knew of n
other form of investigation as likely t.
occur that of self-inVcstigatio
which Secretary Alger and his subordi
mates have been exploiting in their inter
, views and bulletins.
According to these gentlemen, Secrctar
; Alger has, as a result of his belated in
: vestigation of the camp at Montauk Point
, rot only discovered the blunders an
, crimes but set them right, and that h
, would do the same at all the other camp:
, and so remove the cause for complaint
: lie did not realize what was going or
. accepting the reports of his chiefs of bu
! rcaus as correct. and only found by per
sonal inspection that things were in sue
I "A bad condition.
lie returned weary In spirit and In bod.
, after seeing the needless suffering an
= hearing the tales of suffering among GU
soldiers.