Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-01

Americans that the Filipino emissaries
will return with revised proposals from
Gen. Antonio Luna, Major General Otis
is not letting this prospect Interfere
with his preparations for pushing the
war. Yesterday he ordered Major Gen
eral Lawton to return to Angat, few
miles northwest of NorZaray, and
not to advance aggressively while the
negotiations are pending. Gen. Mac
Arthur is apparently acting on the
same policy, but he is repairing bridges
and strengthening the lines OF his
force, which is stretched out with
four-mile front and within a quarter
of mile of the enemy.
The possibilities of peace are gratlfy-
ing to a great majority of the army,
who have regarded the war as an I'M
pleasant duty that must be performed
according to American traditions.
MANILA IS CHEERFUL
over the prospect of return to normal
life, though there are skeptics who re-
mark that a truce would enable the in
.surgents to rest until the rainy season
upon which they have been depending
as an important aid.
The prisoners report that there are
$4,000 refugees north of San Fernan-
dino. This is not impossible, consider
ing the thickly populated region which
the Americans have cleared. 1t seems
also that smallpox is spreading among
them. The so-called Filipino Congress
will meet at San Fernandino tomorrow
morning.
When Dean c. Worcester, of the
United States Philippine Commission,
VINO accompanied the Filipino ennis
saries from Calumpit. said to Col. Man
uel Arguelles that the American were
UNDER NO OBLIGATIONS
to refrain from fighting, the Filipino
officer replied:
would you fight while We are dis
cussing terms of peace?"
Mr.. Worcester responded with the
suggestion that an armistice would
give the Filipino leaders time to es-
cape.
"My God, where would we escape
to-" the Filipino exclaimed, referring
in this to the menacing hostile tribes
behind the Filipino line.
Col Arguellas told the correspondent
no
much disappointed in the results of his
mission. He said also that Aguinaldo
expected Calumpit
TO BE THE CEMETERY
OF the American army.
Lieut.. Col. Wallace, of the First Mon
tana regiment, Major Adams and Major
Shields, who slept on Friday night in
Gen. Luna's camp, where they went to
inform the Filipinos that their ENJOYS
would return in safety. found the Fill
Pine commander cordial, the Filipino
troops removing their hats as the
Americans passed. The Filipinos COM
planned to them that the Americans
fact. The American officers retorted
that the copper shells used by the Fill
pinos are worse than explosive bullets.
Gen. Luna said he regretted being
Obliged to kill Americans, but that was
his business.
Gen. Wheaton entertained Col. Ar
guelleses and Lieut. Jose Bernal and
provided them with horses to return to
their camp.
In the course of the conference yes
terday Jacob C. Schurmann, chairman
of the United States Philippines Com
mission, told Col. Arguelles that if the
insurgents would now
LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS
be and his colleagues of the commission
would consult them regarding the plan
of government to be submitted to Pres
ident Mckinley. He said he could not
promise that all their suggestions
would be adopted, but he could assure
them that there would be a presumption
in favor of their suggestions, adding
I that the commissioners would be es-
pecially DESTROYS of satisfying the legit-
innate aspirations of the Filipinos.
When Col Arguelles protested that
unconditional surrender would be hui
initiating, Mr. Schurmann replied:
"There would be no humiliation in
General Otis treating our brother Fill
pinos as General Grant treated our
brother Americans at Appomattox"
Mr.. Schurmann said to-day to the
correspondent of the Associated Press:
Il believe Col. Arguelles is person
allv
SINCERE AND HONEST,
though / have no means of ascertain
ing the. sentiments and aims of the
authorities behind him. The Filipino
people, like other Asiatic peoples, have
no trust in mere words without force
behind them. but with force I con-
slider conciliatory spirit Of the utmost
Importance.
believe that when peace has been
established, governing the Filipinos