Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-01-18
PUTS IN A new PLEA.
AgonciIlo Files Another Memo.
randum with the State
Department.
HIS FIRST ONE BEING IGNORED

He Reminds the Secretary That 1t Has
Not Been Replied To-Urges Action on
His Presentation of the Filipino Case
Spanish Flag Gives Havana Cubans Of
Tense and Is Pulled Down-Sanguilly's
Grievance Against Gen. Ludlow.
Agoncillo, the representative of General
Aguinaldo in Washington, has filed with
the state department a memorandum
setting forth at length the reasons for
his claim that the Philippine govern
ment should be recognized by the Unit
ed States. Accompanying the memoran-
numis letter in which Senior Agoncillo
states that he has received no reply to
his communication of Jan. 6, in which
he asks that a suitable time be arranged
when he could be presented to the pres
ident and heard upon his claims. In
view of the position in which the repre-
sentatives of the American government
and the representatives of the Philip
pine government find themselves upon
the islands at this time he urges that
the matter be given immediate atten-
ton. The letter and the memorandum
have been listed as official documents
In the state department, and although
The officials have themselves refused to
make them public they have neverthe-
less expressed a willingness for Senior
Agoncillo to do so if he desired.
Secretary Hay Has the Papers.
The papers are now in the hands of
Secretary Hay. The memorandum Is
along the same lines as statements here
tofore made public by the Filipino rep
resentative. Senior Agoncillo asserts the
Filipinos established and for seven
months have maintained form of gov
eminent resembling the American, in
that 1T is based upon the right of the
people to rule; that Spain having at
the time of the signing of the treaty Of
peace possession of only one port, and
the remainder of the Philippines, ex-
cept Manila, being in possession of the
philippine republic, Spain could give
no title to the United States for the
islands, and that having no title to give
her claim cannot be rendered better
by the ratification of the treaty of
peace.
Situation Is Quiet at Iloilo.
Manila, Jan. 16.-Oficial dispatches
just received here from Iloilo, Island Of
Panay, indicate that the natives are
disposed to be friendly, although abso-
lutely opposed to the landing of the
United States forces without orders
from Malolos, the seat of the so-called
Filipino national government. Some of
the officials at Iloilo are not in accord
with the revolutionary government, but
are willing to accept-an American pro-
tectorAte and to go to state the case
to Aguinaldo If furnished transporta-
tion by the Americans. The United
States transports Newport, Arizona and
Pennsylvania, with the Eighteenth in
fantry, the Iowa battalion, the Sixth
artillery and a detachment of the signal
corps. constituting General Miller's ex-
petition, are anchored close to Guimaras
island, between Panay and Negros
where an excellent water supply is OBJ
fainable. The natives, though indis-
posed primarily to furnish the Ameri-
cans with fresh supplies, now permit
the American officers to go ashore and
furnish them with an escort during the
daytime.