Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-27
an extract is OF the greatest interest.
The article saws:

The Article says:
THE Islands are full of hemp. sugar and
tobacco ready for the market Any one
able tot get these products out of insur-
gent ports can procure them at his own
prices The foreign houses Of the. chief
ports own or control a great feet of small
steamers and SAILING vessels, and all that
is requisite for highly lucrative trading is
cleara ncts for the insurgent ports, where
the uleFchandise is stacked up waiting
sale Getting safely out of such ports
with full cargo insures enormous profits.
Before the navy secured control Of the
thirteen purchased Spanish gunhoats no
clearance was needed Commerce Yves
practicallyi free. The little merchant5nei
simply ran stuff from the closed insurgent
ports to open Islands, carted it overland to
nearby open ports and sold it. smuggling I
arms and ammunition on the return srlpf
The naval cruisers and gunboats guarding
the open ports were easily avoided. In "a
owned by supposedly friendly nations Iop-
taiped clearance from United States on
GERS for three or four open ports, and STOP
pea at various forbidden narbors h the
When the modifying fever waz at its
highest General Ous opened wHe Inc
OF money. anmuniiion and foodI INTO M, me
besieged districts. the insurgent /clearances
showed that vessels aesualybe ga touehe9
to the insurgent gevernment. ~
Admiral Dewey on May 15Ia ordered his ais
possession of our forces/ General OTIS
dared not resis the ore we9 i n Fl he
Would Yf have had % go 50 Washington, and
he HeTd not run 90 the he closure
of all ports not iFlhsT his effective contr rlt
About That GATE Occurred the remark
a soe s as Mama n sng fRing the eumna!ion
OF the differences between the commanders
in chief afioaI and ashore, which was soon
home. It was ri the same meeting thar
Dewey. according to current belief calm-
" used the exbression, Your lying reports
.'In the discussion regarding the. effect on
the supposedly friendly natives OF Ad-
miral Dewey's order restricting trading,
General OILS brought up his plans for util-
ling th9 thirteen gunboats ne mad par-
chased from the Spaniards in the southern
an enT to the army''s control OF any forefee
afloat by the emphatic deciaraton: II
thesT vessels come out of tbs. Pasig river
mapned. as you propose Will seize them
as IA menace to public safety.
general Otis had evolved scheme 70
send. them out 10 hunt smuggIers' WIN
FilipfNo firemen and dechhands, nauVe
pilots &pd differed by army non-coms
and priv&tes. He had no ioea OF the nee
essity of Quitting a single officer aboard
who could run the vessel a mile without a
pilot or having~>a force 10 handle them II
the Filipinos deserted or showed treaCH-
cry Dewey toldN him the insurgents
would possess every one of them within. a
week after they left\port and then de-
clared that he would se3%e them
About June 1st Captain\N Barker dssu .5
ed control of the little gunb6ats distributed
throughout the feet by attacSHlng mem 10 -
the various ships on blockade, Sduty, ana
fic was stopped and the, insurgerAds were
cut off from guns, cartridges and money.
The laundering policy of General
Otis was never more clearly shown
No wonder Dewey elected to come
home.