The San Francisco call., 1899-05-07
DEWEY IS.
SHORTLY TO
COME HOME
Peace in the Philippines Is
Believed to Be in
Sight.
A MATTER OF HOURS
The Admiral Is Wanted to Give
His Advice to President
Mckinley.
A NATTER OF HOURS
spectal pispatch to rhe can.

VIEW YORK, may O.-Iue WASH"
M ington correspondent of the
L Herald telegraphs: Official in
timations have been received by the
President that Admiral Dewey de-
sires to return home as soon as peace
negotiations with the insurgents are
concluded.
This statement, made to me to-day
by a nigh administration official, con-
firms the Herald's announcement of
the prospective early return of the
admiral. AS it is the expectation Of
the administration that peace in the
archipelago is merely a question of
hours, it is apparent that Ad, ural
Dewey will soon be on his way home.
Admiral Dewey has not asked to
be recalled. In President Schur-
mans dispatch received at the State
Department yesterday, however, his
homecoming was alluded to and
reference was made to the desire of
the commission that he should see
the President and explain the situa-
ton to him, as the admiral is mem
ber of the commission.
Secretary Long could not tell me the
method of procedure which will be fol-
lowed in the matter Of the admirals
recall 1t is expected, however, that
Rear Admiral Watson will be sent to
Manila in a few days, dependent, of
course, on the progress of the peace
negotiations and that the admiral will
| then be granted permission to return
| to the United States.
He will be directed to come in one of
| the ships under his command, in all
! probability his flagship, the Olympia,
and he will undoubtedly return through
the Suez canal so as to touch at New
York.
1t requires about forty-five days to
make the voyage from Manila to New
York, and officials do not expect the
admiral will reach this country much
before July or August, although as in
dicated, everything is dependent upon
| the rapidity with which the peace ne
gotiations are concluded. President
Mckinley will be glad to talk with the
| admiral regarding the Philippine situa-
ton. Before Dewey's departure from
Manila it is expected he will go over
the work of the commission in order
that he may be able to present the
views of his colleagues as we'll as his
own to President Mckinley.
When he has concluded his confer
ence with the President, the admiral
will be given a long rest and then such
duty as he may desire.
President Mckinley has expressed to
friends his firm conviction that the
Filipino insurrection will collapse with
in the next forty-eight hours. This
conclusion is based upon highly salts
factory cablegrams received from Mr..
Schurman, president of the Peace Com
mission, an outline of which was pub
lished in the Herald this morning.
Another conference between the
Peace Commission and Aguinaldo's
representatives is probably now or
soon will be in progress, the result of
which President Mckinley believes will
be the decision of the FilipinOs to lay
down their arms as a preliminary to
the Inauguration of the form Of gov
ernment which the Peace Commission
has recommended and which the Pres
ident has approved.
In view of the auspicious outlook for
an early peace, it is thought in some
quarters to be rather strange that the
! American forces continue fighting.
When 1 asked a high official of the ad-
minfstration for an explanation of this
apparent incongruity, he declared that
vigorous measures were necessary until
peace had become an accomplished
fact.
THE trouble all along has been,' he
said. that guinaldo's army has mis-
understood our efforts at conciliation.
Every act of kindness has been con-
sidered by AguinaldC as an evidence of
weakness. and he would invariably fol-
low all peaceful overtures by orders for
increasing the strength of his intrench-
ments The members or the Peaee
! Commission-civilians as well as the
! military members-have all agreed that
the best means for securing a speedy
! termination of the rebellion is to keep
hitting hard while the enemy is re-
volving in his mind the conditions upon
which he can have peace.
"Our information. however, justif1es
the belief that there will be cessation
of hostilities within less than forty
! eight hours.
The form of government which the
Peace Commissioners have recon-
mended has been the principal topic in
| official quarters here to-day. Comment
is generally favorable. Even the anti
! expansionists have little fault to find
with it. They declare that anything is
! better than a military form Of govern
ment and even if the substitute pro-
posed by the commissioners does not
! contemplate ultimate independence for
! the Filipinos it will be more in keeping
with our institutions TO control the
archipelago through the civil than
through a military government.
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