The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-05-19
representatives OF Rebel Cabinet
and AguinaIdo VIII Send
Commissioners to Otis
70 SEEK TERMS OF PEACE.
Var Department Firmly Convinc.
cd That end OF Insurrcction
is Near at Hand.
THEKSURGENTS DEMORALIZED
Aeuinaldo Has Lost Prestige
With the Army -. His Per-
sonal Rctinuc Robbed.

MANILA, May 10. 10 q. m.-The Phil
Ippine commissioners to confer with the
American commission regarding the
surrender, arrived last night Mt San
Is!dro, and are coming to Manila TO-
day.
The people OF Manila are confident
that the insurrectlon Is ending.
WASHINGTON. May 1S.-Gcnerai
Otis cables the war department that
representatives Of Aguinaldo are seek
Ing terms of peace and that the forces
Of the insurgents are scattering in the
mountains.
Following is General OTIS cable:
MANILA, May IS.
Aljutant General, Washington.
Representatives of lnsurgent cabinet
and Agulnaldo In mountains twelve
miles north San Isidro. which was
abandoned on the 18th inst. VIII send
In commissioners Tomorrow to seek
terms OF peace.
Majority of force confronting Mac
Arthur at San Fernando has retired to
Tarlac, tearing up two miles Of rail-
way; this force has decreased to about
twenty-five hundred. Scouting parties
and detachments moving to-day in var
ious directions. Kobbe with column ut
CaDdara on Rio Grandc. Great majorl-
~ Of Inhabitants of PROVINCES over
which troops have moved anxious for
peace, supported By members Of lnsur-
gent cabinet. Aspect OF affairs at pres
ent favorable.
(sisned) OTIS.
The End is Near ut Hand.
War department officials are firmly
Convinced that the end OF the insurrec-
lion In the Philippines is at hand. and
that the representatives of the insur-
gent cabinet and of Asuinaldo who are
10 meet Genera! Otis tomorrow vii!
succumb TO the inevitable and surrcn-
Ger. Their forces, 1t is said at the de-
paFt'nent are evidently SO utterly de-
tn0rllty9i l,. tI,n .,fl, 30
the Americans that they are ready to
accept peace on the best terms they can
OBTAIN. Driven northward to the foot
h!!s OF the mountains as they have
oeen, their fleeing and scattered forces,
G1sntegratcd and dishenrtencd, no
longer can be made to face our victori-
ols advance. Less than q week ago
ueNeEa! Luna was reported just north
Of San Fernando, where General Mac
As'hurs troops are concentrated and
Inc Ne!Shborhood OF Bacolor, with about
'VN rebels. To-day General Otis re-
po'tS tha: the remnant of this force,
ABOUT 200 men. has withdrawn to Tar
.ac' ov"- twenty miles north OF San
Fernando. It Is probable that the re-
ma'ncer Of this force moved east ana
!''ned the main body of the insurgents
which abandoned San Isldro yesterday
anu He'd nOrthward to the point FROM
which hgulnaldo Is now sending his
COMM CEiDrnyr 80 o.,
VIII Avail Nothing.
'his Is ruse to gain time, which
none Of the officials at the war depart.
n'eAt believe. 1t will avail them moth
"S as the Americans will utilize the
pS''oa during the negotiations IN recon-
"0''e'iag the country ahead OF them
"epdTAtory to the resumption Of opera
"o's the minute the negotiations fail.
me dispatch Of two bnttalion3 of the
."eAty-third infantry yesterday to
'o'o' tho principal town In the Sulu
t,'en'peiaEo. Is the fourth military expc-
N''on detached from the main body Of
WI Troops at Manila. The Sulu archi-
''aSo Is a. Group OF $50 small Islands
.AeAaiHS In the form of crescent, like
"f AIcutlan Islands, south Of the Phil
''''"es' There are no insurgents so far
20 "oo"n In the Sulu group. The popu-
'"''oH OF the islands consists OF aborl-
e"eS' chinese traders and negroes.
strength OF American Forces.
4"ere 10 no absolute Information Mt
WV war department concerning the
"'Aeht strength OF the American forces
'''er Macarthur. Law,on and Kobbc,
"'"e" nave been operating against tho
,"'U'Gents north OF Manila. The num-
W. VI men In each organization were 1t
~ W its maximum strength would be
''''0' but 1t Is doubtful II their strength
'''''s ll'0o0 men. MacArthur's troops
It one regiment, are volunteers. All
-" N'boca men are regulars recently
''eu' Three OF the six regiments un-
W. ihwton also are regulars. There Is
'"d'chi difference between the vOl-
WITS and regular organizations.
,''eS IN the former nrc permanent.
l.. "''V inc EapB In the ranks OF the rcgu-
,"'" , hre being constantly filed by new
,"'''' 1t Is estimated that Mac
H., ,N'"f now has about $500 men for nc
Nv Nv service; Lawton about 5000 ana