The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-01-11
If Our Forces Insist on Occupa.
patton Of the Cities.
THE CABINET is SOPLEDGED.
Agulnaldo Has Gone to IIoilo to
Take Command. Warlike
News Via Paris. Fill
pino Terms.

jan. +, o@S IudG ASuludluo Ids SouC
to Iloilo, at the request of the insur
gents there, to place himself at their
head, with the view Of their possible
fighting with the Americans. The dis
patch also gives list of the members
of the new Filipino cabinet, with facts
as to their antecedents. The following
have definitely accepted Office:
President Of the cabinet and minister
Of foreign affairs, Mabini.
Minister of the interior, Teodoro
Sandico, civil engineer, educated in
England and Belgium and taken to
Manil from Hong Kong by Bear Ad-
miral Dewey.
Minisserof finance, Gen. Trimus, a
close ally of Aguinaldo.
Minister Of public works, Gregorio
Gonzaga, a lawyer, until recently the
Filipino agent at Hong Kong and for
merly Spanish attorney general in the
Vlsayas.
The cabinet is described as homogen-
GUS, every member being pledged, ac-
cording to these advices, to resist the
American military occupation of the
Philippines.
A member of the Filipino junta here
explains that Aguinaldo did not run
away, but ''left Manila for the noun
famous region behind Cavite, in order
to make secret arrangements for his
voyage to Iloilo.
The Filipino who furnishes this in
formation also catgoricaliy and specif
cally asserts that the latest telegraphic
advices declare that if the Americans
insist upon the occupation of the rrin-
cipal cities by the American troops the
whole Of The Filipinos will ''resist by
force Of arms"
Mabini, it appears, claims recogni
ton Of the independence of che Phil
pine islands and will not co lsent to the
release Of the Spanish prisoners, but, it
is added, he is willing to come to an
understanding with the Americans as
allies, for the surrender of the Span
ish military and civil officials and
others, which will only be made on the
following conditions:
l. The negotiations to be opened for.
mally between Spain and the national
Filipino government, Spain nominal
ing delegate to treat Herewith.
2. An exchange of prisoners and
Spain to repatriate, firstly, all the Fill
pinos held prisoners for having been
directly or indirectly connected with
the insurrection; secondly, all prison
ers of war condemned as traitors, re-
VOTERS or deserters, or for having in
any manner seconded the Filipino
movement during the present century,
this surrender to be made before the
Filipinos release the Spanish prisoners,
and Spain to grant amnesty to all Fill
pinos and Spaniards accused Of compll-
city in the insurrection.
3. Spain to defray all the expenses
Of repatriating the Filipino prison
ers and also the cost of maintain
ing and repatriating the Spanish pris-
oners held by the Filipinos, such pay
ment being considered a war indemnify;
the national Filipino government con-
sents to pay the expense of repatrlating
those Filipinos captursd in formal &C.
ton, although, it IS added, as a mat
ter of fact the Filipinos are also enti-
tied to demand the payment thereof by
Spain" Friars taken prisoners, it L,
further asserted, will not be Included
in the exchange, seeing that they act
as papal agents during the war, but
their surrender would be made on the
condition, firstly, that the apostolic
delegate will ask their liberty in the
pope; secondly, that all bulls and pom
ti6cal DEGREES granting special privi-
leges to the religious orders be revoked;
thirdly, that all rites Of the secular
clergy be respected; fourthly, that no
friar hold any parish, cathedral, episco-
pal or diocesan preferment; filthy, that
ali such prefer nents be held by native
or naturalized Filipino clergy, and
sixthly, that rules for the election of
bishops be fixed.
CONFIRMED FROM HONG KONG.
Leading representatives Of the Fill
pino junta iu Hong Kong in the course
Of an interview with the correspondent
of The Associated Press Thursday de-
clared that the serious crisis in the
Philippines is due to what they desig-
nate as overt, unfair treatment of the
Filipinos by the United States" They
said that despite the known fact that
the whole Of the Visayas group was in
possession Of the Filipino forces, Gen.
Otis was ordered to take possession OF
the entire archipelago and dispatched
troops and warships to the southern
Visayas. The Filipinos, according to
the junta representatives, are determin-
ed to prevent the landing Of the Amer-
ican at Jloilo, and may, as last resort,
destroy the city for strategical purposes
The junta insist that rupture OF the
friendly relations now existing between
''the Filinino national government"
and the American executive is immi
nent and that hostilities are probable
unless what they characterize as the
unreasonable, unfair and overbearing
policy of the Americans" is modified.
They say the Filipinos would deeply
regret such rupture, but would ac-
cept it as inevitable In concluding
the interview the spokesman of the
iunta representative SAID: The Fill
pinoes appeal to the American people to
uphold the rights of mankind and to
avoid bloodshed, assuring the Ameri-
cans of our desire to complete friend
ly settlement through an impartial
commission Of inquiry. The Filipinos
Loyalty supported the Americans against
the common enemy; and they now look
to the American nation to fulfill the
the promises made to Aguinaldo at
Singapore before he proceeded to assist
Admiral Dewey. All the Filirinos
ask is the truesta and best rights Of man