The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-09
NO ANXIETY AT WASHINGTON.
Confident That Aguinaldo's Appeal
Will Bring Forth No Response.

Washington, Aug S.-The state de-
partment is entirely without Informal
ton as 40 the address by AguinaldO to
foreign powers for the recognition of
the Filipinos. either as belligerents or
as constituting an independent govern
ment. The appeal is looked upon, how
ever. as creating no particular change,
as it has been the desire of A2uinaldo
and associates from the first to secure
such recognition. The appeal puts this
desire into rather formal shape, and 1t
may bring to an issue the position of
outside governments.
There is no idea here that any for
eign government will heed the address.
The international usage as to recogni-
ton was quite fully developed during
the Cuban insurrectiOn, at which time
the question was exhaustively dis
cussed in congress and was the subject
OF lengthy consideration in the mes
sage of the president The general view
at that time was that recognition of
besiigerency was not in itself a caSuS
belli. Up to the present time there has
been no intimation TO the state depart
ment that any foreign power enter.
tanned even the remotest idea of giving
recognition 20 Aguinaldo and his asso-
ciateS. On the contrary. there has been
most friendly feeling maintained be-
tween this government and foreign
powers throughout the Philippine con-
fiict
The state department does not share
the apprehension which is said to have
arisen among army officers that China
has given indirect recognition to the
FilipinOs. This apprehension grew out
of a report from General Otis that
horses could not be secured for caval-
ry use from China. because Ehey were
'contraband of war;
At the state department it is said
the matter has not assumed form in
volving the recognition of a state of
war. but that Minister Conger reports
China's course is due entirely to GER
tain domestic regulations prohibiting
the expectation of horses or ponies
Some time ago General Otis made
requisition on the war department for
$500 horses to mount the cavalry in
the Philippines. He stated in the dis
patch that the horses in the islands
were not satisfactory and that the con-
tracts for them in China had failed.
the words "contraband of war" being
added
The matter was then referred to the
state department for investigation.
and Minister Congor on the 5th wrote
letter to Secretary Hay. enclosing the
correspondence that had passed be-
tween the foreign office and himself
relative to the refusal of China to allow
the ponies TO be exported.
1t appears from this correspondence
that E. s. Dalton had contracted at
Tien-Tsin for seventy-five ponies and
twenty-five mules. but was refused an
export pass. Minister Congor. upon in
vestigation. found that the refusal was
based upon a law of China prohibiting
the export of horses and ponies. Rus
STA has been refused. as well as other
countries and the Chinese foreign office
said they could not make an exception
in favor of the United States. No sug-
gestion is made that the ponies are
contraband of war. and General Otis
must have been misinformed when he
sent his dispatc'. to the war depart
melt.
The course which the foreign consuls