The record-union., 1899-04-29
No Cessation Of HostiIities in the
Philippines.
The Advances Of the FiIipinos for Peace
Net With a Rebuff.
Aguina1do's Subterfuge to Over
come General Otis Consistent
Policy of Ignoring the Filipino
Government Failure, the
American Commander Declining
to Recognize It's Existence.

| NEW YORK, April 2S.-A special to
the Evening World from Manila con-
tradicts the reports that General Luna
has surrendered, and confirms the reg
ular press advices that Commissioners
have sent to General Otis to ask for a
cessation of hostilities. The World
dispatch reads as follows:
"Filipinos have not surrendered
There is no cessation of hostilities''
OTIS DECLINES TO RECOGNIZE
FILIPINO GOVERNMENT.
| MANILA, April 2S.-The Filipino adj
vances for peace have been fruitless.
Colonel Manuel Arguelezs and Lieu
tenant Jose Bernal, who came into Cen
eral MacArthur's lines under flag of
truce. told General Otis that they were
| representatives of General Luna who
had been requested by Aguinaldo to ask
General Otis for a cessation of hostili
ties in order to allow time for the sum-
noning of the Filipino Congress, which
body would decide whether the people
wanted peace
! General Otis replied that he did not
recognize the existence of the Filipino
conference Tomorrow
The Filipino officers walked down the
railroad track to the Kansas regiments
outpost at 8 o'clock this morning. The
Kansas Captain in command there es-
corted them to General Wheatons head
quarters, where they were provided
with horses and sent to the headquar-
ters of General Macarthur The latter
invited the Filipinos to sit down at
lunch with him, and conversed with
them for some time. He refused, how
ever, to speak authoritatively on the
subject of their errand, referring all in
quiries to General Otis
! The Filipinos were then escorted by
Major Malloney of General Macarthur s
stan to Manila, reaching this place at
| 3 p m. General Otis aide, Lieutenant
| Sladen, was awaiting their arrival at
| the depot with a carriage, in which
they We're driven to the palace entrance.
The Filipino officers attracted much
attention. They We're dressed in uni
form of checked blue and white cloth
and wore straw hats. They carried no
side arms. They were escorted directly
to the office of General Otis. Jacob B.
Schurman, President of the Philippine
Commission, and Hon. Charles DENLY
a member of the commission. soon
joined the party there
/ The news of the arrival of Filipino
officers under flag of truce spread
through the city rapidly, and many Of
ficers gravitated to the corridors of the
palace, while a crowd of natives gath
cred in the square opposite the palace
At . O'Clock the two Filipino officers.
escorted by Lieutenant Sladen and
Major Malloney left the palace They
did not look at all elated as a result Of
their meeting with General Otis and the
members of the Filipino commission
Aguinaldo is evidently selecting the
army as a cloak for his congress. hop
ing by subterfuge to overcome General
Otis consistent policy of ignoring the
| Filipino Government The Filipinos'
argument is that it is impossible to ar
range an armistice without the sanction
of the Congress General Otis pune
tured this assumption by asking if Gen
eral Aguinaldo could make war without
the Congress, he could stop without
reference to that body. One of the con-
ferrees afterward remarked that they
are shrewder than white men in di-
plomacy, as the Malays are credited
with being
While the insurgents are undoubtedly
tired of war, the leaders are torn with
dissensions. There is a suspicion that
4 1T was hoped by means of a conference
| to ascertain what they could expect
If they saw that anything IS to be gain
| ed by continuing the war. en- armistice
would afford them an opportunity for
recuperating their demoralized forces.
| 1t is an interesting commentary upcn
Aguinaldo's scheme shat only sixty of
the 300 members of the Filipino con-
gress have taken the oath of allegiance
which their constitution requires.
A Filipino proclamation replying to
the proclamation of the American Com
missioners has appeared 1t is signed
| by Madini for the President. and is
dated at Caniasdro, April 10th. 1t is
in the usual grandiose STYLE and de-
clares that President Mckinley issued
the proclamation in order to force the
American Congress to ratify the cessfon
of the islands under the treaty of Paris.
This contract of cession was made
with the Spanish after Spanish dorni-
nation had been ended by the valor of
| Jul lIOOpS.
The proclamation complains that the
Filipinos were not represented at Paris
/ during the negotiation of the treaty,
and that they are without assurances
of the fulfillment of American promise.
1t dilates upon the alleged Anglo Saxon
hatred of blacks, and asserts a. desire to
enslave them.
The proclamation concludes: 1--WE
stand alone, but we will fight to the
death. Coming generations will pray
over our graves, shedding tears of graf
itude for their freedom
| BUSHWHACKING REBEL s.
| MANILA, April 2S.-Yesterday fur
nished added proof that the United
States troops lave fear of bushw hack
ing that is above their fears of battles.
The Washington regiment, which is
holding Taguig with three companies
of the Twelfth regulars. engaged large
force of insurgents in a fight in The
| Jungle The Americans lost two Killed
and ten wounded.
The Filipinos have been massiny at
the mouth of the Pasig River and it is
estimated that there are 1000 Of them