Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-27

DENT THROUGH THE PHILIP
PINE COMMISSION.
NEW YORK, October pa dis
patch to the Herald from Washington
says: Prompt declaration by Con-
gress in favor of asserting and MAIN
tanning complete sovereignty over the
Philippines at whatever cost and in
favor Of the most liberal kind of self
government when the instruction ends
is what the President wants. 1t is also
what the Philippine commissioners
want. There is a great deal yet for
the President to do on his message and
for the peace commissioners to do on
their report, but this one important con-
clusion is certain.
The President intends to make spe-
cific recommendations to Congress in
favor of holding the Philippines per-
manently and as to the form of civil
government to take the place of the
military as soon as the Tagals now in
rebellion surrender. 1t is authorita-
lively stated that there will be no half
way measures suggested until after the
next campaign. The President will face
the issue squarely and give Congress
the best information possible from his
commissioners and other sources to
support the position he has assumed.
Although members of the Philippine
commission are not talking for publ
cation, there is no doubt they will lay
great stress in their report upon the
desirability of prompt and emphatic
declaration, on the part of Congress,
which will convince those now in re-
/ bellion that all branches of the govern
ment are united on the question of per-
manent American control in the Philip
pines. Such action, in the opinion Of
Admiral Dewey and Prof Schurman,
will be almost as effective as guns in
ending the war in the Philippines.
1t is now only question of the spe-
cific kind of government the President
will recommend. He will be governed
in his decision by the views of the Phil
ippine commissioners, whose final de-
they are here for now. The first meet
ing of the committee will be held in the
State Department tomorrow, but they
will probably not begin the actual prep
aration of their report before next Mon
day.
The story that MIR. Wildman is to be
removed from the post of United States
consul general at Hongkong and re-
placed by Edward Bedloe, late consul
at Canton, which originated in Port
land, yesterday, is emphatically denied
at the State Department. The supposed
cause for removal as reported was
Wildman's friendliness to Aguinaldo
Bedloe's own case has not yet been
disposed of, and the charges against
him are before the President. The be-
lief here is that he viii be reinstated in
the consular service.
A social to the World from Washing
ton says: D. H. Rhodes, an employee OF
the quartermasters department, who
superintended the removal of the dead
soldiers from Cuba this spring, has de-
parted for Manila to make arrange
ments for bringing to this country the
bodies Of the boys in blue who have
fallen in battle or died of disease in the
Philippine Islands.
The promise made by the President
at the time of the breaking out of the
Spanish war that the bodies of all SOL
diers who fell in battle battle or died
of disease in foreign countries should be
returned to their homes in this country
for final interment will be strictly adj
hered to in regard to the Philippine
war. The first bodies will be sent back
by the returning transports which are
now carrying troops to the islands, and
will probably reach this country about
the first of the year.
The remaining bodies of American
soldiers left in Cuba and Porto Rico last
spring and the bodies of those who have
died in those islands since viii be
brought back TO this country in De-
cember.