The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-12
Briefly Reviewed the Situation in the
Philippines and Left for West
Point Last Night.
PAPERS FOUND BY FUNSTON
COPY OF AGUINALDO's MASSACRE
ORDER AMONG THEM.
Letters from Bryan, Hoar and Other
American Marplots Sent to Hong
Kong for Safe Keeping.

WASHINGTON, June 11.-Major General
E. S. Otis, accompanied by his aids.
Captain Slayden and Lieutenant Stanley.
early this morning reached Washington
from his home at Rochester, N. Y, where
he stopped over TO visit Mrs. Otis and his
children. He was met at the station oy
Adjutant General Corbin and General
Schwan, and the party was driven directly
to the Arlington Hotel After breakfasting
General Otis went to the War Department,
where ne formally reported to Mr.. Meikle-
john, acting secretary. Thence General
Corbin escorted him and his aids to the
White House The President was in his
private office in close consultation with
Senator Allison, Senator Cullom and JUS
tice Harlan, when the party arrived. Gen.
Otis was easily recognized from his pho
tographs by the throng of callers who were
waiting in the ante-rooms and although
there was no actual demonstration in his
honor. the keenest curiosity was manifested
and many of the White House visitors
crowded around to catch glimpse at the
man whose dispatches have been read with
much interest by the American people dur
ing the past two years. General Otis and
General Corbin were Immediately ushered
into the Presidential library, where Presi-
dent Mckinley met him with the utmost
cordiality, congratulating him upon his ap-
parent good health and thanking him sew
eraI times for his signal services to the
country
General Otis made no report to the Presi-
dent in detail. although the situation in
the Philippines in general way was al
few minutes the President invited General
Otis into his office and presented him to
Senators Allison and Culiom and Justice
Harlan and for over half an hour General
Otis remained talking over the situation
in the Philippines. The President and his
visitors were intensely interested in what
the general had to say and with his opin-
ion of the existing situation in the archi-
pelago.
When General Otis left the White House
he was naturally reticent concerning the
subject of his interview with the President,
but he did not hesitate TO reiterate his
statement, made repeatedly since landing
at San Francisco, that the Filipino rebel
lion, an organization, was dead. He
spoke of the insurgents. who still retained
their arms as robbers" and '.guerrilas.
When his attention was called to the views
of Judge Taft. the president of the Philip
pine commission, in the Manila dfspa tches
printed THIS morning, he expressed the
opinion that they were satisfactory He
said that the United States would be COM
PEELED to maintain in the Philippines for a
considerable period as large an army as
was there at present.
THE army" said he will be needed as
a measure of repression until the robbers
and guerrillas are stamped out. The main
tenance of this large force is necessary
owing to the vast extent of territory which
we must cover. We have established our
selves in Negros. Cebu, Samar and many
of the other islands in addition to Luzon
and to-day actually exercising effective
authority over more territory than Spain
ever did,
General Otis said that practically all the
leaders of the insurrection were either
dead. captured pacified. The recent
capture of General Pillar del Pho, he
thought, had probably been effected with
the consent of that general So far as
Aguinaldo himself was concerned, General
Otis was not inclined to credit the report
of his death. In his opinion it mattered
little, however, whether Aguinaldo was
dead or alive, as his influence had been
completely destroyed. "Aguinaldo." said
he. 'is probably in hiding somewhere in
the mountains of northern Luzon, but he
carries little more influence than any other
individual at large. He is discredited and
a dead issue
Asked as to whether, in the event of more
acute complications in China, troops could
be spared from the Philippines for service
there General Otis replied: Possibly,
possibly.
General Otis left tonight for West Point.
where he will report in person to Secretary
Root. He is completely in the dark as to
his future assignment to duty. He will re-
main at West Point, with the secretary
until after the graduating exercises are
over and will return to Washington with
the secretary, arriving here on Thursday
morning. when he will again call on the
President and make report in detail of
the operations of the army under his COM
mand and submit such recommendations
I'm m
proper. He will leave here again Thursday
night for his old home at Rochester, where
extensive preparations are being made to
celebrate his homecoming on Friday.