Evening star., 1898-12-12
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
The Cortes Brothers Have an Inter
view With the President.
BEST fILIPIN0S FOR ANNEXATION
Mary Public Men at the Executive
Mansion.
CONSIDERING MENTS

Maximo Cortes and Angel Cortes. the two
| Filipino brothers, who came all the way
| from Hong Kong to ask President Nc
| kinley to confer immediate citizenship
| upon them. saw the President today and
/ had n short talk with him. They have
| founo out since they got here that there is
| no way, except by special act of Congress,
| by which they can Immediately become citi-
zens. Consequently their chief argument to
| the President that the Philippines be
annexed to the united States as speedily
| as possible.
| They told the President In the most posi-
| tive language that from the day the United
| States declared war against Spain the am
| bition of the better class of Filipinos has
| been to become citizens of this country by
| the annexation of the islands. When
| Aguinaldo sailed from Hong Kong to Ma
Mia the last time he was given thousands
| of dollars by he Cortes brothers anu other
flch flplnoS on condition that he should
hSht Tor annexation. lie promised TO do
| this, and those who thus supported HIM
are sapponted in his course. The Cortes
| brothers tod these facts to the President
i and be listened with interest.
When they had concluded their state
ment the President assured them that the
| only object of this government was the
good of the people of the Philippine Is
| lands He suggested that the two t'Ilipinos
| write out fuIl statement of their views
and submit ii to the Secretary OF state Tor
| the future use of this government and as
| information.
Will Write Out Statement.
| This will be done. as Don Maximo and
Don Angel will remain some time before
| going back to the islands. They hope TO
soon know the contents of the Paris treaty,
| or at least the part touching upon the ISL
ands. They have concluded that by re-
| naming here until after Christmas the
| treaty may be made public.
The Cortes brothers were much pleased
with their short conference. They We're to
have been introduced to the President nv
| Senator Perkins, but failed to get TO the
| White House at the time he did. Their re-
| cepuon was as warm and cordial. however,
| us If they had been formally introduced.
Many Callers.
IN anticipation OF the Presidents leav-
| ing the city for week many public men
went TO the White House today for word
| about various matters. Senators Penrose,
| Proctor Perkins. Pritchard, Lodge Nc
Laurin, Mcbride, Simon, Hanna, Burrows
Bacon and Clay, Representatives Payne,
russell. Taylor Codding, Butter and Gov
ernor Russell of North Carolina were
among the callers.
Senator Pritchard talked to the President
about civil service and other matters He
dId not refer to the recent troubles in his
state. The senator and Governor Russell
did not call together. Governor Russell
said that he the President about North
Carolina troops in the service. Il did nor. -
he said, tax about The race troubles in
North Carolina as did not come TO Wash
inston Tor that purpose"
senators Simon and Mcbride want ia
have capt John Murphy made a paymaster
IN the regular army and asked the Pres-
dent to do this.
Attorney General Grggs has made out a
huhper OF appointments in the various
states and took these to the President for
approval In the matter of the district at
tofney snip for New Mexico Attorney Cen
erai GrigSs has de, ided that the democratic
incumbent shall serve out his term. he is
gold democrat but much has been done to
nave his place vacated for a repubhcan
! Inc policy of the Attorney General is to
allow gold democrats to serve out their
terms everywhere and to be in no hurry to
replace them even If they have gone over
their terms for a short while
secretary Hay had a short conference
with the President.
The Engineer Commissionershfp.
Secretary Alger visited the White HOUSE,
this afternoon, and among other things
spoke TO the President about settling the
matter of an Engineer Commissioner for
the District. The President said that he
was not yet ready to pass upon the matter
and would not do so until after his return
from the south The President has given
no indication of his intentions in the case
The tight grows warmer each day be-
tween the friends of Col. Black and Capt.
Beach. and a number of pubnc men are in
dorsng one or the other of them
city Postmnstership.
The selection of a postmaster for the Dis
trict will also go over until after, the Presi-
dents return, and possibly until after
Christmas
Unless the President can get chance
to revise the civil service order between
now and tomorrow, which is entirely un-
likely, that long-expected document will
rest in pigeon Hole for some time longer |
The Presidents Southern Trip.
Owing to the great desire of the south
ern cities to be honored by visit from
President Mckinley, another change in the
Presidents program of his southern trip
was made this afternoon. The change is |
in favor of Augusta, Ga. Senators Bacon |
and Clay and Representative Fleming head |
ed an enthusiastic delegation of Augusta |
men who saw the President and asked |
him to visit that city. The Augusta men |
included ex-senator Walsh now mayor of |
the city; William I. Eve. Col. 7. B. Dyer |
w. II. Stallings, Col. ]. r. Randall, D. B. |
Fogarty and Claude Smith.
Nine thousand troops are encamped at |
Augusta and the proposition was for the |
President to spend two hours in Augusta |
reviewing the soldiers.
The Augusta people succeeded in their
endeavors. The program now is for the |
President to leave Savannah early on the /
morning OF the 10Th of December and go |
to Macon, Ga. He will spend two hours |
there and then go to Augusta, which he |
will reach on the afternoon of the 10Th /
After two hours there the train will start
FOR Washington. passing through Column |
bia, S. c., instead of coming back by At
lanta, as at first planned. The return to |
Washington will not be materially delayed
by the change.
The presidential train. in charge of Col |
s. L. Brown of the Southern railway, will |
leave Washington at o'clock tomorrow
afternoon.
To BE Settled by the Cabinet
The question of the military governor
ship of Cuba and other important military
commands will be settled at meeting of /
the cabinet to be held tomorrow morning.
before the departure of the presidential
party for the south.