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United States to Pay Losses Or
American Citizens,
CUBAN PROPERTY DAMAGED
Assumes Debts Incurred by spain
Generosity TO Fallen Foe-Life
I'm MANILA,
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Washington, April l6.-The generosity
Of the United States in dealing with q
fallen foe Is shown IN a bin which has
passed the Senate been reported from
the committee on war claims and
bids fair 10 pass the House without
opposition. The bin provides for
the payment Of claims Of American
citizens for damages 10 property IN
Cuba while Spain held the sovereignty
OF that island. These claims, It is true
are provided for in the treaty Of peace
negotiated az Paris The United states
agreed to assume all these claims Of
American citizens, and Spain assumed
the claims of her citizens. 1t Is said
the claims Of American citizens amount
TO about &20,O0OOO0 They are not
only for loss Of property, but unjust
Imprisonment and ill usage which
Spain inflicted upon the Americans. It
"a doubtful whether the American ciu-
Gems would have ever got anything
like the fun amount Of their claims
from spain, and those having claims
are no doubt well pleased that the
United Safes assumes them. / recall
the fact that about the time the Maine
was blown up and there was an uu-
quenchable demand for war with
Spain a number OF statesmen In Wash
ingt0n thought these unpaid claims OF
American citizens nigh well be made
a basis OF q war Ii was proposed TO
pass "a resolution demanding that they
bee paid at once and II Spain demurred
TO send warships 20 seize Havana.
This process was too slow 10 suit the
American people, The payment OF
these claims bY the United States to-
gether with the $4,000 900 paid for
the Philippines. indicates a generosity
on the part of the victor heretofore un-
known among nations.
LIFE IN MANILA
An interesting letter has been receiy-
ga from the wife of an army officer Of
high rank In the Philippines The lady
Is az Manila and gives a cosby ac-
count of some OF her experiences there.
She says.
In lind the general well az can be-
and everybody else that takes care Of
himself We have good laundries
good water and good food, which Is
spoiled only In the cooking. The ma
tives are a lazy. ungratefu lot of peo-
pie. and the more one secs Of them
the more one realizes the Spaniards
understood how 20 treat them better
than We do / have not been outside
Of Manila, but ] am told this place is
the worst ON the islands. The days
are growing warmer and ] am told
that 10 gets very hot IN May. But when
one lives in a climate Ike this one
must live as near as possible as the
natives do, l do not mean by this that
We so around In airy costumes that
the native men and women wear on
the street. Whatever you do must be
done in the early morning or late In
the evening
II have been entertained a good deal
here by the English residents and the
navy. The army does not seem to be
doing anything.
THE town Is full Of rumsh0ps,
where our soldiers make themselves
III and then blame it on the climate
THE curfew has been extended TO
10 o'clock so that we can be out a it,
tie later
Everybody has some sort OF a trap
here. / have a 'Calesa' and a Filipino
boy who sits behind as q driver one
has 20 be careful how one steps into
49, for the chances are the horse will
go up and you go down like a seesaw,
the horses are so small
Nothing as cheap here any more,
which Is an due 90 the generous meth
DDS OF the Americans. We would ruin
q sphinx. 7 believe Where these peo-
pie formerly worked Tor 81 Mex a
month they want Slf, and you have TO
keen a small army OF them 10 do the
work. They think we are made Of
money