The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-01
ARE ANXIOUS FOR PEACE
1t Is Expected That Negotiations
Will Be Successful.
TAGAL0S CANNOT ESCAPE
Menacing Hostile Tribes Behind Their
Lfnes-Calumpit Was to Be the
Cemetery Of the Amer
ican Army.

| IS the general expectation among Amer
| leans that the Filipino emissaries will
return with revised proposals from Gen.
eral Antonio Luna, Major General Otis
is not letting this prospect Interfere
with his preparations for pushiny the
war. Yesterday he ordered Major Cen
eral Lawton to return to Angat, a few
miles northwest of Norzagaray, and not
to advance aggressively while the ne
sotiations are pending. General Mac
Arthur is apparently acting under the
same policy, but he is repairing bridges
ana strengthening the lines Of his force
which Is stretched out with a four-mile g
ltout ana Wlthln quarter of a mile
of the enemy.
Inc possibilities of peace are gratify-
ing to a great majority Of the army.
VINO have regarded the war as an I'M
pleasant duty that must be performed
according to American traditions. Ma
MA MA IS cheefful over the prospects of
return to normal life. though there are
skeptlcs who remark that truce would
enable the insurgents to rest until the
RAINY season, upon which they have
been depending as an important aid.
Inc prisoners report that there are
G,oo0 refugees north of San Fernando.
rms is not impossible, considering the
,iiiShiS populated region which the
Americans have cleared.
The so-called Filipino congress will
meet at San Fernando tomorrow
When Dean Worcester of the United
states Philippine commission. who ac-
companied the Filipino emjssaries
from Calumpit. said to Colonel Manuel
Arguelles that the Americans were nm
DER no obligations to refrain from
hghting. the Filipino officer said:
G.rt,t
cusslng terms of peace?"
Mr.. Worcester responded with the
suggestion that an armistiee would
give the Filipino leaders time to es
cape.
My God, where would we escape
to-" the Filipino e;s, latmed, referring
IN this to the menac ng hostile tribes
behind the Filipino is,,es2
Colonel Arguelles told the corre-
spondent of the associated press that
ne was much disappointed in the re-
suits of his mission. He said also that
Aguinaldo expected Calumpit to be the
cemetery of the American army.
Lieutenant Colonel Wallace of the
lst Montana regiment. Major Adams
and Major Shields, who slept on Friday
nlght IN General Iuna's camp. where
they went to inform the Filipinos that
their ENJOYS would return in safety,
Il.
the Flhplno troops removing their hats
as the Americans passed The Filipinos
complalned that the Americans used eX-
ploslVe bullets. which is not the fact.
The American officers retorted that the
copper shells used by the Filipnos are
worse than explosive bullets. General
Luna said he regretted being obliged
to XIII Americans, but that that was
his business General Wheaton enter
tanned
ant Jose Bernal and provided them
with officers to return to their camp.
In the course of the conference Ia
cob Schurmann, president of the Amer
lean Philippine commission, told Colo
mel Arguelles 'that if the INSURGENTS
would lay down their arms he and his
colleagues of the commission would
consult them regarding the plan of gov
ernment to be submitted to President
Mckinley. He said he could not prom
Use that all their suggestions would be
adopted. but he could assure them that
there would be presumption in favor
or their suggestions. adding that the
commissioners would be especially de-
sirous of satisfying the legitimate as
mel Arguelles protested that uncondi-
Lonal surrender would be humlliating
Mr.. Schurmann replied:
There would be no humiliation in
General Otis treating our brother Fill
plnos as General Grant treated our
brother Americans at Appomattox''
Mr.. Schurmann said to-day to the
correspondent of the associated press:
Il believe Colonel Arguelles is per- |
sincere and honest, though T |
have no means of ascertaning the sem
timents and aims of the authorities be- |
mind him. The Filipino people. like |
other Asatic people, have no trust in |
4
but with force | consider a concilia- |
tory spirit of the utmost Importance"
Il believe when peace has been estab-
lished that governing the Jilioiros |
will not be difficult matter, provided |
we show them firmness justice and |
kindness. At the present time they
distrust and dislike us. but these sem
tlments, which are. perhaps, not I'M
will soon be dispelled by the
have promised them to establish there
1t will be the foremost duty Of Ameri-
can officials to understand and sympa.
thize with the Filipinos themselves"
Yesterday. before General Otis had is
sued the order directing General Law
ton to return to Angat. the troops of
his command encountered the rebels
in a circle of hills outside of San
Rafael, about five miles northwest of
Angat, dislodging them after an hours
lighting. The Americans had three
wounded.
A thousand armed Filipinos fell back
Is the Americans advanced. The viii
ayers met General Lawton, offering
lim provisions. They dare not flee into
he mountain country on the east be-
,ause of the robher tribes there, and
IN the west are the troops of General
Macarthur.
MesSrs Carrick and Holmes, Ameri-
ans who had been running a sugar mill
It Calumpit, and whose fate mad caused
ome anxiety, have sent word 10 Ma
lila that they are safe with Mr.. HIS-
gins, manager of the Manila -DagUpan
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