The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-06-15
THE REBEL RECORDS
Some Most Interesting Fill
Pine Archieves
Have Recently Been Captur-
ed, Showing their Finan-
cial History

insurgents documents discovered by
General Funston, together with some
interesting papers which Captain
Smith found in the possession of
General Pantaleon Garcia, throw in
teresting lights upon the Filipino
government. But Buencamino, the
secretary of State of the Filipino
revolutionary government, who is in
Manila, says none of the really inn
portant secret papers were found. He
was correspondence with foreign gov
ernments and letters from anti-imper-
ialists, including w. j. Bryan and
Senator Hoar. All of these, he say
were sent to Hong Kong last September
for safe keeping in the hand of the
junta. The purport of the letters from
anti-imperialists, according to his
recollection, was that the Filipinos
should adhere to their demand for
independence and they would eventually
be sustained by the American voters.
In Albay province our troops re-
Gently found the yearly financial state
ment of the rebel government. While
it is thought thefgures are untrue, tits
interesting as an example of how the
rebels do business and maintain their
prestige among their people. In the
balance sheet for ls0S-l00O the insm-
gent minister of finance states that
during the year ls96-lS97 the expenses
of the Spanish government in admins
tering affairs amounted to - 1871, 0l0,
but thanks to the capacity of the
revoluntary leaders the total eXpendi-
lures of the insurgent government for
the last year amounted to only s., H.
2O3.
WHEN MANILA SHOULD FALL.
1t was promised that as soon as the
rebels gained possession of Manila,
which would be in few weeks, they
could manifestly reduce the rate of
taxation. In the meantime, money
was needed and it wasincumbent upon
all good patriots to pay all the tax
collectors asked of them.
The minister of finance accounts for
his income as follows; Ordinary in
direct taxes, S2l6, O26: ordinary direct
taxes, S553,37s; special taxess S42I, 800;
extraordinary contributions, g, ops, 600
total, Bill, 203.
The expenditures are accounted for
as follows: General obligations
$l45, 741: foreign obligations, S44, 520:
department of the interior, SOL, 775;
war and navy money, S2,49S, 727: law
and order, SIT, 100; public instruction,
SITE public works, $50, 6S3;
agriculture, industry and commerce,
slO,s34; total s3,l72,3 65 The state
ment shows a deficit of 81 1852.
According to this annual report the
yearly pay of lieutenant general is
$500; general commanding division
gets $780, brigadier general gets
Qo7o. ~ oo1ooal Qo1O. 1iautanopt co1onel
$40; major is allowed $3.50; a
captain draws $50: first lieutenant
$40: and a second lieutenant 500. The
wages of sergeant are $36 year; a
corporal gets $50 and the man with
the gun is allowed 81 for twelve
months service to his country. This
balance sheet further makes provision
for %, 900 soldiers, 5000 of whom are
sergeants and 800 corporals and the
cost of keeping them in provisions for
one year is put down at $4O7, 400,
AGUINALDo WROTE 1T HIMSELF.
Most important of the letters found
is Aguinaldo's plan for the uprising
in Manila, which was draw by him al
Malolos. 1t is in his own handwriting
in the Tagalog language and bears
the date of January 8, 1899. Pinned
to the document was translation into
Spanish, done by the hand of Buen
canine. Aguinaldo's order was ad
dressed to his "valiant Sandalihans, >
or bolomen. When the word of the
uprising was given they were to STAY