The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-29
general will no doubt grant general
amnesty.


amnesty.
THREE THOUSAND RECRUITS.
San Francisco, April 29.-Three thous-
and recruits and twenty officers Will be
concentrated at the Preside immed1-
ately The large post will be converted
into a regular recruiting and receiving
rendezvous for troops. There are over
a thousand there now under command
of Col Harbach Third infantry, and
Capt. Hardin, Eighteenth infantry, ad-
jutant.
The United States transport steamers
Senator and Ohio sailed yesterday for
the Philippines, via Honolulu. The VeS-
sells bear the Thirteenth infantry and
several hundred recruits for service in
the Philippines, besides carrying hum
dreds of tons of machinery and supplies.
WHERE THE ARMS COME FROM.
New York, April ga dispatch to the
Journal and Advertiser from London
says:
Louis SpitzeI, who has been supply
ing the Filipinos with arms, has
rived here direct from Hong Kong. He
said in an interview:
why should not I furnish arms to
the FilipinoS? There is money in it.
l am a British subject and it is a legiti-
mate business. Did not Dewey and
Wildeman give Aguinaldo rifles in the
beginning? Wildeman has been send
ing out all manner of stories about me.
I told him before leaving Hong Kong
that L would continue to sell arms as
long as 1 felt so inclined"
TODAY'S CONFERENCE.
Manila, April 29.-The ENJOYS from
Gen. Luna were Hospitality treated by
Gen. Otis who provided them with a
house and with a guard and permitted
them to visit friends here. Returning
to the palace this morning the ENJOYS
saw an illustration of American reSour-
ceS. A long train of wagons and pack
mules was just starting with provisions
for Gen. Lawton who has reached Mar
uncO.
The conference at the palace lasted
three hours, Mr.. Jacob G. Schurman of
the United States Philippine commits
sion attending and Admiral Dewey
dropping in for an hour.
The discussion was mostly between
Gen. Otis and Col. Argueleses who had
been selected for the mission by Gen.
Luna because he had known Gen. Otis.
Gen. Argueleses served on the Philip
pine commission which met the Ameri-
can authorities before the war in
endeavor to smooth over the impending
troubles.
Mr.. Schurman emerged from the pal
ace between the two shock haired half
savage looking emiSSarieS and the three
drove unattended to the office of the
United States Philippine commission,
where they talked informally for about
an hour. Manila is divided between two
opinions, the majority believing that
the Filipinos desire peace, while others
think they are sparring for time in
which to reha bilitate their demoralized
army. The latter opinion gained color
from the fact that reinforcements have
been sent to the south, opposite the
American lines.
Col. Argueleses, who is a lawyer,
splendidIy illustrated the Malay sub
tIety at words. While he declared with
apparent frankness that the Filipino
leaders wanted a chance to give up the
struggle gracefully through the con-
greSS instead of Surrendering ignOmin-
iousIy. he asked for a fortnights ar
mistice so that congress might be sum-
mOned on May 1. He endeavOred to
commit the Americans to greater con-
cessiOnS and wanted terms guaranteed
by treaty. He was told that recognition
of the Filipino government was impos-
Sible, and he was given to understand
that a written guarantee OF amnesty for
all insurgents was the utmost that could
be given.
Col Argueleses argued that Spain had
given similar guarantees and broken
them, and he laid much stress on the
Spaniards' honor. He persistently. de-
clared that the Filipinos must be per-
mitted to retire with honor.
In conversation with Mr.. SchurInan,
Col Argueleses revived the question of
independence and was referred to the
statement in the commissioners procla-
nation that the EilipinoS would be
government as soon as they proved
themselves worthy of it. Mr.. Schurman
warned Argueleses that the longer war
was waged and the more were killed.
the stronger would be the animosities
hindering any amicable cooperation
between the two peoples for the pros
perity of the islands.
The insurgents have an insurrection
on their own hands. The Macabees,
traditional foes of the Tagales, are ris-
ing in the north, while the burden of
thousands of hungry and diScOntented
people who fed before the American
army and who are camping behind the
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