The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-01
MORE PROPOSALS EXPECTED.
.,T AMERICANS WILL CONTINUE
TO HOLD THEIR GROUND.


scburman said FiIipinOs Must First
Inv Down Their Arms-Three
americans Wounded.
vanilla April SO-While it is the general
ov,ectat.on among Americans that the
1,utoino emissaries will return with re-
..ssd nroposals from Gen. Antonia Luna,
uoi Cen. Otis is not letting this prospect
interfere with his preparations for pushing
the war.
Yesterday he ordered Maj. Gen. Lawton
. re+,,rn 10 Angat a few miles north of
/ ,-or7a oarav. and not to advance aggres-
.,rerv while the negotiations are pend
ing.
Gen. Macarthur is apparently acting on
,ba same policy, but he is repairing bridges
ond strengthening the lines of his force,
which is stretched out with a four-mile
front and within a quarter of mile of
the enemy.
The possibilities of peace are gratifying
to great majority of the army. who have
regarded the war as an unpleasant duty
i that must be performed according to
4 American traditions.
Manila Is Cheerful.
Manila is cheerful over the prospect of
a return to normal life, though there are
4 skeptics who remark that truce would
a enable the insurgents to rest until the
rainy season, upon which they have been
4 depending as an important aid.
The prisoners report that there are 75,-
On refugees north of San Fernando. This
is not impossible, considering the thickly
copulated region which the Americans
have cleared It seems also that small
pox is spreading among them.
The so-called Filipino congress will meet
at San Fernando tomorrow.
No Place to Escape to.
When Dean C. Worcester of the United
States Philippine commission, who ac-
companied the Filipino emissaries from Ca
umpit. said to Col. Manuel Argueleses
i that the Americans were under no obliga-
lions to refrain from fighting, the Filipino
officer replied
Would you fight while we are discuss
4 ing terms of peace?"
i Mr. Worcester responded with the sug-
n eestion hat an armistice would give the
# Filipino leaders time to escape.
81 My God, where would we escape to-"
4 the Filipino exclaimed, referring in this to
n the menacing hostile tribes behind the
81 Filipino lines.
81 Col Argueleses told the correspondent
ii Of the Associated Press that he was much
E disappointed in the result of the mission.
4 He said also that Aguinaldo expected Ca
r umpit to be the cemetery of the Ameri-
can army.
Visited Luna's Camp.
Lieut. Col Wallace of the First Mon
81 tana Regiment Mai, Adams and Maj
n Shields, who slept on Friday night in Gen.
Il l4unas camp, where they went to inform
FL the Filipinos that their envoys would re-
FL turn in safety, found the Filipino COM
mander cordial the Filipino troops remov-
h ing their hats as the Americans passed.
h The Filipinos complained to them that
| the Americans used explosive bullets,
81 which is not the fact. The Americans re-
tcrted that the copper shells used by the
Fiipinos are worse than explosive bullets.
Gen. Luna said he regretted being obliged
TO Kill Americans, but that was his busi-
Nj ness.
Gen. Wheaton entertained Col Arguele-
ses and Lieut.. Jose Bernal and provided
lhem with horses to return to their camp.
Fl Must Lay Down Their Arms.
In the course of the conference yester-
Gay Jacob c. Schurman, chairman of the
United States Philippine commission, told
COL Argueleses that if the insurgents
would lay down their arms he and his
coleagues of the commission would con-
n suit them regarding the plan of govern
meht to be submitted to President Nc
AInley. He said he could not promise
mat their suggestions would be adopted,
put ne could assure them that there would
ue presumption in favor of their sugges-
FL uohs' adding that the commissioners
would be especially desirous of satisfying
III pinos
When Col. Argueleses protested that un-
conditional surrender would be humiliat-
ing, Mr.. Schurman replied:
IAere would be no humiliation in Gen.
0uS treating our brother Filipinos as Gen
In H.aHt treated our brother Americans at
Appommattox."
III ArgueIeses Is sincere.
n "I' Schurman said to-day to the CORE
u ..PoHoent OF the Associa ted Press: II be-
HI OoL Argueleses is personally sincere
"uu honest though l have no means of
t theellalilng the sentiments and aims of
~ oee.l o'e glulhorties behind him. The Filipino
4 ~ IKE other Asiatic people, have no
y tbS,. III mere words, without force behind
"A t+'' ou, with force consider concilia>
N spirit of the utmost Importance.
III tstii1S T.NeVe that when peace has been es-
te governing the Fiipinos will not
II 60 cIHcult matter, provided we show
n ,ba uIinness, justice and kindliness. AT
Fl NO present time they distrust and dislike
Fl han. Vu. these sentiments, which are per-
III b,. bps Ho' unnatural, will soon be dispelled
III hs,a o'g eHects of the good government we
n he promised to establish here. 1t viii.
H dor quty of American officials to un-
4 p,ros ~. and sympathize with the Fill
AaWtOn's Men in Fight.
~, eserday. before Gen. Otis had issued
n,r- 0.uer directing Gen. Lawton 10 re-
mana 70 Angat, the troops OF his com
Of tt, encountered the rebels in a circle
MUS '.ls outside San Rafael, about five
ae.Nr northwest of Angat, dislodging them
bsd on hours fighting. The Americans
Fiii, .nree wounded. A thousand armed
rlncod NN Dc 'ie americans ad-
ip- ne villagers met Gen. Lawton. offer
ir+o '.," provisions. They dare not flee
I"e mountain rouutrv IN fba aas.