Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-03-29
FILIPINO. DOCUMENTS ,
SENT Tg &. TIE SENATE
Big Batch Of Papers bald Before
the Upper Holse.by the
President.
CONTAIN VARIETY OF INFORMATION
Consist of Rebel Documents. Pro.
cccdinss ofPhilippine Commits
sion at Hong Kong and
Other Papcrs.

l washington. E,ldrcn ~J.-lne pfeSl-
dent yesterday sent to the senate adj
Elitional documents concerning the,
Filipino insurgents, consisting OF pa
pers captured by American troops, in
formation concerning the Philippine
commission in Hong Kong, relating TO
the treatment of prisoners, etc. The
documents concerning the meeting of
the Philippine commission i'll Hong
Kong is a transcript OF the meetings
proceedings of the committee, Held
February "a and April 5, 1898. The
record for April 5 contains the Fili-
pino version of Aguinaldo's negotia-
tions with Admiral Dewey relative TO
the former accompanying the admiral
10 Manila. One OF the entries is to the
following effect: .
The president (Aguinaldo) ds-
scribed the negotiations which took
place during his absence in Singapore
with the American consul of that Eng
fish colony. Both agreed that the
president should confer with the ac.-
miral commanding the American
| squadron in Mir bay, and if he should
accept his propositions as beneticial.to
the Filipinos he should go in one If
the cruisers which form the fleet to
cake part in the subsequent events.
The account says Aguinaldo- asked
for the advice of the committee as TO
whether he should accompany the adj
| aniral.
| The advice was generally favorable
TO his going, but Aguinaldo insisted
that it was dangerous to go to the
Philippines without Il previous writ
ten agreement with the admiral, since
it may happen that if he places hini-
| self at his orders he may make him
sign a document containing proposals
highly preiudicial to the interests of
the fatherland.'
: Continuing, he said that if he NC
cepted such proposals the act would
be llnpatriotic, while if he should re-
fuse "a break between the. two is evil
| dent."'' =
To avoid this dilemma lsc proposed
that a committee should be sent to tho
admiral to intervene with ths insur-
gents if necessary! ttlttA It g. asueptain
the intentions of tire United States.
10 this it was replied. by 1pembers OF
The committee that sit is. thoroughly
agreed upon with the admiral that he
is to give the president all the arms
which he needs, since the former is
convinced that the feet can do moth
ing in the Philippines if it is not used
in connection with the. insurgents IN
carrying out their plan of war against
the Spanish government"
They expressed the opinion that ow'-
ing to Admiral Dewey's degree of
tculture' he would not require the
signing of any documents, but insist
fed that il he did so insist Aguinaldo
could decline. In this CONNECTION the
following extract is significant:
'.There will be no better opportuni-
ty than the present for the expedi-
tionary forces to land on these islands
and to arm themselveG A'f the expense
>of the Americans and insure the at
tainment of QUE egitimatc aspirations
against those very people. The Eli.
Pine people unprovided, with h arms will
be the victims of the demands anttscN-
actions of the United States, but pro-
vided with arms will be able to oppose
themselves to them and struggle for
their independence.
sAgoncjllo urged that Aguinaldo
once in the Philippines could arouse
the masses to- action against the
Americans. He thought, however,
i that it was probable that the United
States would grant independence to
the Filipinos. The question as to
whether Aguinaldo should go was put
to vote and the proposition was
carried unanimously"
Among the letters is one dated May
j. last, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Son
nichsen, then in captivity among the
Filipinos. He says:
"Up to Lieutenant Gilmore's arrival
we have been treated in a most bar
barrie manner, starved, beaten and
bound. We have been living on 5
cents day and most of us are nearly
naked. The Spaniards have been
treated even worse than we, being tor
tured i'm the stocks and starved
The third section of the material
forwarded relates to letters which
were sent to the Philippines and were
encouraging to the insurgents. One
of these is from j. Y. Martifis of st.
Louis. who asked for an article on the
Filipino situation which will strength
en- the cause of anti-eNpansion in, the
elections in the United States. There
is also a letter dated at Cincinnati and
signed Dansinger, which purports to
give the proceedings, of the Ohio Sin
i gle Tax league in. derogation of the
war upon the insurgents Nh. Dam
singer also expresses his strong oppo-
sition to such a war.