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Joint Commission Conferences are
10 be Held.
SOME PRELIMINARY DEALING
FiliplnoS May Impose impossible
Conditions-White Fiags-Cer
Smiths Natives.
AUTONOMY.

NEW YORK, lay pa Sun cable
| Alberto Baretto; one of the Filipino
! Commissioners, had an interview to.
! day with the American Philippine
| Commission. The meeting was ap-
proved of by General Luna, one of the
rebel commanders, who is thoroughly
in accord with Aguinaldo in his efforts
to obtain peace.
The primary object of the interview
was to ascertain the kind of govern
ment that the United States proposes
to establish here. The Filipino COM
missioners have no power to effect a
settlement, but must refer all matters
to Aguinaldo.
MANILA, May 22.-The Filipino
Commissioners, Gen. GregoriO del Pr
lar, Lieut.. Col. Alberto Baretto, Maj.
Zealrate and Senior Garcia GonZaga,
with their families, spent today in Wis
iting friends in Manila, and conferred
with Seniors Floriento Torres, Pablo
Ocampo and TeodOre Yanco, the mem
bers of the local Filipino association,
who will participate in the meetings
with the American Commissioners.
Senior Torres was a member of Agui-
naldo's Commission before the war. He
opposes independence, and favorS au-
tonomy, and he has been most inf1u-
entail in persuading the followers OF
2 hn az r.
vances.
Autonomy is the burden of the talk
of the Filipinos, and it is thought that
the kind they wish for would be little
different from the scheme of an Amer
lean protectorate which they talked OF
before the war.
On the suggestion of Mr.. Schurman
president of the American Philippine
Commission, the local Filipino peace
party has started a newspaper
WHITE FLAG
MANILA, May 21-Mai Kobbe's ex-
petition to open communication with
Gen. Lawton has occupied Arayat
about seven miles beyond Candaba, OF
| the Rio Grande, taking the course O.
the stream. No insurgents were found
| there, and the Pamaganis along th'
river are friendly.
Last Friday Maj. Kobbe took SAINT;
Ana, about six miles northeast of San
| Fernando, on the road to San IsidrO
| A priest met the expedition with ;
| white flag Delegations from Sal
| Nicolas and Santiago, small Villages
| just south of ,Arayat, came to hin
with the news that 200 insurgents
who had been holding both places, hat
withdrawn. They invited the Ameri
| cans to enter, and as the members o
| the expedition marched in the church
| bells were rung and the timid natives
who had fed f1ocked back.
NO ARMISTICE.
| WASHINGTON, May f21.-There wa
a lack of news in official quarters to
! day from both Gen. Otis at Manila ant
| Gen Brooke at Havana. The Presl
dent and War Department officials ar
|
expected tomorrow from Gen. Otis re
| speeding the outcome of the meetin;
| between the commissions representa-:
| the United States and Aguinaldo
! though the belief expressed by tn
| American commander at Manila tina
the insurgents want an armistice as
| condition precedent to treating lead
| to the belief that no immediate re
suits may come out of the meeting.
JIM, SMITHS TROUBLE.
NEW YORK, May PA cable !
the Sun from Manila says: Twenty
five native militiamen at Bacolod, Ne
eros Island, have deserted to the i'll
surgents, carrying their arms wit
them. Gen. Smith, commander at lie
Ito. reports that he has decided TO dis
arm the remaining militiamen. Tn
third battalion of the California Reg
ment will start for Negroes tomorrow