Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-06
FlllplnoS Get Away From
Gen. Halls Column.
TROOPS ARE RETURNING
From M0r0ng Where an Unsuccess-
full Attempt Was Made to Trap the
RebelS-MOre Liberal Concessions
Are Recommended by the COM
mission.

Manila, June $3.50 a. m.-The Amer1-
| can forces have occupied the peninsula.
and General Halls column is encamped
at Morong. Major Truman, marching
across the Binangean. found it imprac-
ticable to form a Gordon and the inSur-
gents, with the exception of a hundred
or two, escaped through the mountains
! after General Pho del Pillar, dragging
their battery by buffalos at night. A few,
however, may be trapped. The Washing
ton troops hav returned to Pasig but
the programme of the other troops is un-
certain. The present expedition shows
the difficulty which is by an
army which must depend upon wagon
trains in catching barefooted bandits in
their own mountains and also gives proof
that the rebels do not intend to fight
battles.
General Hall left San Teresa yesterday
morning and marched II miles to Mo
rong, up and down rocky hills and
through woods and swamps Scores Of
men fell out owing to the extreme heat
and We're left to follow as best they
could. The head of the army arrived
at Morong at noon, having exchanged
only a few shots with insurgent skir-
mishers on the way. Groups of s%tragglers
followed all day, but the force was 200
smaller than when it started. The men
were almost So hours without rations and
it was considerable of an achievement
for them to cover the ground as they did.
En- route to Morong the Americans met
focks of Filipinos and flags of truce,
many of them young men with the bear
ing of soldiers. Many discarded uniforms
We're found in the houses, apparently
those of soldiers who had escaped by
changing their costumes from 'insur-
ructo" to amigo" and walking boldly
past the army which had expected to
corral them. Few We're found about
Morong. One member of the Washington
regiment was killed and two Wounded
in the encounter with the outpOsts. Gen.
Lawton, on board the gunboat. searching
the coast for Major Truman. stopped at
Bingangonan, opposite Morong. The
natives Immediately ran up a flag Of
truce and a delegation in canoe put off
and greeted the Americans with the
usual p~rotestations Of friendship.
New York. June GA special to the
Herald from Washington says: Presi-
dent Schurmann, of the Philippine COM
mission, in a dispatch to Secretary Hay
has, it is believed. recommended more
liberal concession to the F%ilipinos, With
d view ol ciiuliiS lIc lilSufIecllOIl DIT once
An official acquainted with the message
said it reviewed the situation in the
islands, and was Of an encouraging
nature. The dispatch was considered by
the president and Secretary Hay, and the
president has sent a reply. The nature
OF the answer is not divulged. 1t is sig
n%iflcant, however, that coincident with
his message to Mr.. Schurmann a cable
gram was sent to General Otis with in.
structions in line with the presidents be.
lief that the restoration of peace can only
be reached by the complete subjugatior
of the Filipinos. General Otis will con.
tinue his military operations throughout
the rainy season.
1t is apparent that the president does
not look for the close Of the rebellion
until the Filipinos are convinced of thu
military superiority Of the United States
!, The concessions already offered are lib
!, eral, the administration believes, and a,
far as the president can go without au
thorlty from congress, and it is doubtful
If the new propositions made by the com
mission have received his approval.
The war department is preparing plan
to send the 5000 men needed by Genera
+, Otis to make up the 10000 which he say
he must have in order to control tn
situation. Regiments will probably b
= withdrawn from Cuba and Porto Ric
sufficient, with other regulars, to b
taken from the United States to max
UP the number desired. General Otis ad
vises the war department tina the Ore
| gon regiment will leave for the Unite
,, States this week. 1t will be sent direc
1 to Portland, Ore, for muster out at Van
couver barracks. The state department
has received word from the cable com
pany operating in the Philippines tina
the cable to Cebu is now open for husi
ness.