Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-18
THE MANILA NEWS
"A CHARGE WHICH SENATOR tloAR
WILL ANSWER
News and Notes From the War in the
Philippine Islands, Classified and
Condensed for Busy Newspaper
Readers.

Philippine Islands, Classified and
Condensed for Busy Newspaper
Readers.
John Barrett, ex-United States Min
lister to Siam, has publicly named Sen
ator Eoar the United States Senator
whose anti-expansion speech was
cabled to Hong Kong and subsequent
ly put in the hands of the Filipino
soldiers, causing, as Mr.. Barrett be-
lieves, the open insurrection. Il was
in Hong Kong at the time" said Mi.
Barrett, "and l remember the incident
distinctly. l was coming downstairs
in the hotel when met the president
of the Hong Kong Junta, and he had
in his hands a long despatch which he
had just received. 1t gave large
part of Senator Hoar's speech in full,
and summary Of the rest of it. l
asked the president what he was go
Ing to do with it, and he told me that
he intended to send it to the officers
Of the army in the Philippines. He
was urged not to do it, but he pro-
tested that it had been printed in the
United States and was public prop
erty Four days after that speech
was printed it was in the hands of
those who saw an opportunity to make
political capital of it. The speech was
published and distributed among the
soldiers, and / belive it was the cul-
minating influence that brought about
the open insurrection. This speech.
you must remember, was delivered
before there was an open insurrec-
ton" Senator Hoar declined to take
any notice of the statement attribut-
ed to Mr.. Barrett. The Senator said
that Gen. Otiss reports give the full
est account of the events that led to
hostilities, and that he expects, as he
has already given notice, to deal with
the whole matter in the Senate.
Colonel Bullard, with the Thirty
ninth Infantry, has attacked and de-
feated ten companies of insurgents
strongly entrenched on the Santa
Thomas coast. The insurgents lost
twenty-four killed and sixty captured.
They retreated toward Lake Taal.
1t is asserted that Archbishop No
zaleda contends in his interview with
Mgr. Chapelle, the Papal Delegate, on
behalf of the Roman Church and the
Brotherhood, that the titles to all
property held by the church and the
brotherhoods in the Philippines should
be recognized; that the Roman cate
chism should be taught in the primary
schools; that the existing religious
orders should continue to administer
the parishes; that other parishes
should be established under the same
control, and that the parochial control
of the cemeteries should continue. He
also lays stress in his intentions upon
the Importance of allowing the church
to administer it's own affairs without
State interference, upon the necessity
of a regime that will guarantee the
liberty of the church, upon the de-
STABILITY of European clergy; the es-
tablishment of new college for the
instruction of native priests, and the
continuation of indirect contributions
for the maintenance of churches and
clergy, and upon the expediency of
maintaining the system of parochial
fees, including revenues from births,
marriages, funerals, dispensations and
apostolic indulgences. In addition
Archbishop Nozaleda advocates the
continuation of the Churchs control
of pawnshops and certain designated
hospitals and schools, together with
the establishment CT special form of
parochial administration eXacted by
the actual conditions in the Philip
pines