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- Senate additional documents bear
to upon the insurrection in the Phil.
innines. The papers are all important.
nne of them Is q report of Col. Ara
0as Blanco, of the Philippine army, to
,ba General commanding the second
.nne of the events of February 2, 1899
n Tondo. He says that on hearing the
alarm of fire he Immediately ordered
twenty men who gathered to hold
themselves ready, so that when the
designated hour arrived they would be
ready to go to Meisic, where the Amer
lean barracks are, and set on fire the
houses, as was agreed upon in the
meeting with ID. Rosend Loman. The
result was that on marching to the
scene of operations we found the Cal
yedala of Azcarraga was filled with
Americans, and with them were num-
her of country people, who cried out
brothers, to the strife! For now is the
hour This is what men were saying
10 that crowd, and at the proper time
thew sounded the call of our army 'ad-
vance and fire. The sight of that
strange scene threw us into confusion,
for we believed that all we had pre-
pared from the beginning as well as
what we saw was prepared by the enc
my and his spies"
He then ordered a retreat, and when
they met the Americans the Colonel
says the latter gave his forces two
yolleys. lie adds that his men, with
their daggers, in a hand-to-hand con-
flict, forced the Americans to retire.
Another letter, dated at Tarlac, Oc-
tober % last, signed by ]. nj. Leyba,
.commends an unnamed Filipino officer.
of whom the writer says that The will
20 to Manila, commissioned by our
government, to throw some dynamite
bombs and set fire to the houses and
the principal buildings, especially
those occupied by foreigners"
APPEAL TO ILOILO GENERAL.
Among other documents Is an un-
signed letter to General Rios, OF the
Spanish army, and In command at Ilo-
Ito, dated at Malolos, October 25, 1898
apparently inspired by Aguinaldo. In
this letter the writer says that his d.
sire is to yet save from shipwreck the
sovereignty of Spain in these islands.
He then proceeds:
L dlQ lulOfIlc tudl you diC SOhoiu
-ering surrendering the place to the
Americans. The way to make this
surrender is to join us and proclaim
the federation of the Filipino republic
with the Spanish republic, recognizing
the chieftainship of our honorable
President, Aguinaldo; fraternal en-
brace will take place between Filipi-
nos, Visayans and Spaniards. There
will be hurrahs for Spain and the Fill
pinos united as federal republic;
your troops will pass into the COM
mon army; you will be promoted to a
Lieutenant General. Those who wan
to can go back at our expense, and the
flags of Spain and the Filipinos will
float side by side. You will give an
account of this to Madrid, and In the
meantime we shall fight the Ameri-
cans together. We shall conquer, and
then we shall wait and adjust our flu
ture relations. The surrender of the
heroic column you command is the
greatest outrage which can be inflict-
ed upon those valiant men since they
have suffered the humiliation which
their unfortunate companions suffer
here, and you, the able and upright
and valiant General, are you going to
sign treaty with the Americans? God
preserve you from 1t, sir.
Your transfer to our side does not
really involve treason to Spain, since
the moment sovereignty passes to the
Americans you are free to transfer
your allegiance. This Is in accordance
with the principles of national honor,
and it would serve as the first base OF
the new allegiance between Spain and
the Filipinos, and then from both come
honor and applause for you, as having
been the one fortunate enough to ef-
feet it,
Both the preceding document and the
one Immediately following were on
paper used in the private Office of Agu-
inaldo, but none of them bore any sig
nature.
COMMISSIONERS INSTRUCTIONS.
The second document in this con-
nection, which is not dated, is appar-
emily letter of instructions to Filipino
pany the American troops to Iloilo.
They were told not torecognize the SOW
ereignty of the American government,
and upon disembarking the commits
sioners were to prepare the Filipino
forces to attack the SpaniArds, some
hours before the Americans can enter
the place." They are told that in case
either the SpaDiards or the Americans
want to treat and make promises, to
believe nothing and pay attention to
nothing, but press the attack until you
die or conquer both OF them"
If the attacks should not take place
until after the entry of the Americans,
the Filipinos were instructed that they
must continue to enter the city, pre-
pairing to occupy 1t, and taking pos
session of the ground, but without fir
ing shot until the Americans COM
mence." In case the Americans should
begin, the Filipinos were to attack i'm
mediately, and not to give up until
killed.
In this connection the Iloiloans
were assured that the Americans were