Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-03
IOTlS' REPORT MADE PUBLIC
Throws L lht on His Reasons for Enforcing
Chinese Exclusion Act,
ByTsS SECURES MANY CONCESSIONS
Gets More In n Month from the Sultan
of suIu Thnn spain Had Been
Able to secure i'm
Centuries.

WASHINGTON, Dec 2.-The report OF
General Otis on the operations in the Phil
ppines. UP to August 81 last, has been
made public by the War department 1t
is volume of 273 pages, with an append X
Of minor reports almost as large. The le'
port is a chronological recapitula,ion OF
events in the island since General Otis
took command. one of the most interest
ing features is the immense amount Of de-
tail involved in General Otis admins ra-
ton OF the affairs of the island.
General Otis throws some light on his
Chinese exclusion act declaring 1t matter
of public policy. He goes at some length
into the racial differences between the Fill
pines and the Chinese, explaining that there
is a strong feeling against the Chinese
among the natives because of the successful
and INSCRIPTIONS dealing of the Cinnamon
in all trade matters. General Otis says
that in view OF the race hatred between
the Cinnamon and natives, as well as the
factionaI difference among the Cinnamon
themselves which sometimes broke out into
open riot and bloodshed, he deemed it eX-
pedient to apply the American immigration
laws to the island. This was done and ar
rangements have been made for identifying
residence in the islands, so that unneccs-
sary hardship may not be worked.
The correspondence between General Otis
and Aguinaldo before the outbreak OF hos
tilities receives much space and more is
taken UP with the detailed accounts of the
various engagements. In connection with
the Filipino uprising in the suburbs OF
Manila on the night of February 2, Gem
tran nf
Aguinaldos proclamations which melted this
demonstration. The paper fortunately was
discovered on the 18th and the plans Of
the insurgents were checkmated. 1t called
for the assembling of the Manila militia in
the rear of the American outpost. At the
sound OF the attack from the outside the
insurgents in the city were to fall on and
butcher the whole of the foreign popula-
ton. respecting nothing but native Filipino
families. All the Jail prisoners were to be
released and armed to assist in the mas
sacre. The plan was successful insofar as
about l 900 armed insurgents assembled be-
hind the American line. In the fight of that
night and the following day about 500 OF
these were killed.
Bates Secures Many Concessions.
General Otis explains minutely the move
ments in dealing with the foreign mer-
chants, which was interfered with by the
war, the plans of revenues and customs,
the negotiations with the sultan OF Sulu,
from whom, he says, General Bates secured
more concessions in a month than Spain
had been able to secure in 300 years; the
institution of town governments, the estab-
lishment of schools and caring for large
number of prisoners, both Spanish and ma
tive
In concluding his report, General Otis says
that it may prove fortunate that Aguinaldo' S
insurrection was not stamped out instanter
on its inception He says that the natives
throughout the island have peacefully and
even gladly accepted American occupation
of their towns whenever the American
troops appeared, and that they have learned
by experience that the insurgents have made
a specialty Of murder, outrage and robbery
under the guise of establishing free and
independent government. They have had
chance upon the withdrawal Of American
troops to see the difference between Ameri-
can and native methods of government and
his opinion Is that they will gladly submit
to the former so soon as they can be pro-
tected from the latter. A column of 5000
troops, he says, could at any time during
the insurreCtiOn have marched from one END
OF the island to the other without encoun-
tering serious difficulty, but the insurgents
would inevitably have closed in behind them
as soon as they passed, showing the neces-
sity of having sufficient troops to hold the
country after it had been captured.
General Otis dwells upon the necessity
of establishing good school system and
says that the native population is very in
sistent upon the divorce Of the schools from
clerical control. This was promised by the
Spanish government during the last insur-
rection, but the archbishop of Manila has
protested against it's being carried out. Cen
eral Otis says, finally, that the insurgents
are duped by their leaders as to the po-
ltical situation in the United States and
that the cry all along has been to hold out
until the assembling of congress, when the
votes of the anti-eXpansion party, whose
literature has been extensively circulated in
the islands would be sure to prevail,