The record-union., 1899-11-25
Has Renounced All Further Connection
With the Insurreciiun.
Says the Congress and Cabinet Are
Scattered, Never to Assemble
Again, Some Returning to Their
Homes and Others Fleeing for
Safety, and Believes the Rebel
Soldiers Will Lay Down Their
Arms Everywhere When They
Learn the Truth.

MANILA, Nov. 24.-5:5O p. m.-Bau-
tista, President of the Filipino Congress,
presented himself to General MacAr-
thur to-day and formally renounced
all further connection with the insur
rection. He was one of the influential
FilipinoS who heSitated at the begin
ming of the war as to which side to
cast his lot. He was offered Judge
ship of the Supreme Court, but declined.
He now announces that he desires to ac-
cept the position, and says the Filipino
Congress and Cabinet are scattered,
never to reassemble. Some of the mem
bers, he adds, have returned to their
homes, while others are flying for
safety. Many of the Congressman have
resigned, and he believes the Filipino
soldiers will lay down their arms every
where as soon as they learn the truth.
THE SITUATION AS SUMMED UP
BY GENERAL OTIS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.-General
Otis summarizes the situation in Luzon
in a dispatch to the War Department
to-day, in which he says that the insur-
gent Government can no longer claim
to exist its troops and officials are scat
tered and Aguinaldo is in hiding. The
dispatch follows:
Manila, Nov. 24.-C1aim to Govern
ment by insurgents can be made no
longer under any fiction It's Treas
urer, Secretary of Interior and Presi-
dent of Congress are in our hands;
its President and remaining Cabinet
officers are in hiding, evidently in diff
ferent Central Luzon provinces; it's
Generals and troops are in small bands
scattered through these provinces act
ing as banditti or dispersed, playing the
role of amigos with arms concealed.
The indications are that Aguinaldo did
not escape through the lines of Law
ton or Wheaton, but fled westward
from Bayombong railway station. Tel
egraph1c communication from Dagupan
Will be established probably to San Fa-
bian to-day. By relaying nine miles
of track with material at hand, rail-
way communication to that point may
also be re-established.
Fuller details Of the sharp engage
ment between Carpenters command
and the insurgents at Iloilo have
reached the War Department in the fol-
lowing dispatch from General Otis.
Manila, to-day:
I'm Panay on the 21st inst. when
Diskman drove the enemy in the yicin-
ity of Jaro, Carpenter, with two bat
talions of the Eighteenth Infantry and
Bridgeman's battery, had a severe en-
gagement at Pavia, north of Toilo. His
casualties were five killed and twenty
wounded The latter are now in Iloilo
Hospital; others. slightly wounded. are
with the command. The enemy was
u xr-if !, L
lculars have not been received. Car
penter passed on to the insurgents
stronghold, Santa Barbara, which he
captured on the 22d instant, without
loss. Nothing has been received from
the column under the immediate COM
mand OF Hughes, which is moving rap
idly and operating north and west of
Santa barbara Apparently, the VISA
yans are friendly, but they are not
taking an active part. The enemy con-
sists of 1000 Tagalos.'
A later dispatch from General Otis
gives the results of the fighting at Ilo-
lilo as follows:
Hughes, lloilo. reports that the enc
my has been driven back into the
mountains, and that the insureent can-
1tal. Cobatuan. has been captured. The
only serious action was that of Car
penter at Pavia. Total casualties. five
killed or since dead of wounds; twenty
seven wounded. He captured ten pris-
oners, eighteen cannon, six rifles and
quantities of ammunition The enemy's
casualties are not stated,
THE CHARLESTON SINKS
WASHINGTON, Nov 24-The Navy
Department has received tho fo1,o,y;,,e.
cablegram from Captain Leutze conn
manding the naval station at Cavite
dated Manila, to-day:
'Culgoa reports Charleston disap-
peared."
The Culgoa was the relief ship sent
out from Hongkong. 1t is believed at
the Navy Department that the Charles
ton has slipped down into deep water
This report has dissipated the last hone
of saving the ship.