The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-04-26
PAPERS
OF FIL!PINOS
The President Sends Congress Some
Information of Startling
Character

WASHINGTON, April 1S.-In fur
ther response to the Senate resolution
of January II last the President sent
to the Senate additional documents
bearing upon the insurrection in the
Philippines. The papers are all inn
portant. One of them is a report OF
Colonel Aramas Blanco of the Philip
pine army to the General command
ing the second zone" of the events of
February 2, 1899, in Londo. He says
that on hearing the alarm of fire he
Immediately ordered twenty men who
gathered to hold themselves ready $50
that when the designated hour arriv-
ed they would be ready to go to Meisic,
where the Americans barracks are and
set on fire the houses about there in
order to interfere with their coming
out of the barracks, as was agreed up
on in the meeting with DroSend Lo-
man. The result was that on march
ing to the scene of operations we
found the CalZadal of Azcaraga was
filed with Americans and with them
were a number of country people who
cried out Brothers, to the strife, for
now is the hour This is what men
were saying to that crowd and at the
proper time they sounded the call of
our army, Advance and fire. The
sight of that strange scene threw us
into confusion, for we believed that
al we had prepared from the begin
ming as well as what we saw was pre-
pared by the enemy and his spies"
He then ordered a retreat and when
they met the Americans the Colonel
says the latter gave his forces two
vOlleys. He adds that his men with
their daggers in a hand-to-hand con-
flict forced the Americans to retire.
Another letter dated at Tarlac Octo-
Der % last, signed by J. M. Lebab,
commands an unknown Filipino officer,
whom the writer says that he will go
to Manila commissioned by our gov
ernment to throw some dynamite
bombs and set fire to the houses and
the principal buildings, especially
those occupied by foreigners"
Among other documents is an un-
signed letter to General Rios, OF the
Spanish army, and in command at Ilo-
ilo, dated at Malolos, October 25. 1898,
apparently inspired by Aguinaldo. In
this letter the writer says that his de-
sire Is to yet save from shipwreck
the sovereignty of Spain in these ISL
ands." He then proceeds:
II am informed that you are consid-
ering surrendering the place to us or
to the Americans. After six months Of
vigorous siege and of total abandon
ment | understand how you can prefer
us to the others. The way to make
this surrender is to join us and pro-
claim the federation of the Filipino
Republic with the Spanish Republic,
recognizing the chieftainship of our
honorable President, Senor Emilio
Aguinaldo; a fraternal embrace will
take place between F'ilipinos, Vizayans
and Spaniards. There will be hur-
rahs for Spain and the Filipinos united
as federal republic; your troops will
pass into the common army; you will
be promoted to a Lieutenant General.
Those who want 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
Americans together. We shall con-
quer and then we shall wait and ad-
Just our future relations. The surren-
der OF the heroic column you command
is the greatest outrage which can be
inflicted upon those valiant men since
they have suffered the humiliation
which their unfortunate companions
suffer here; and you, the able and up
| right and valiant General, are not go
/ ing to sign a treaty with the Ameri-
cans? God preserve you from It, sir.
| Your transfer to our side does not real
( ly involve treason to Spain. since the
moment sovereignty passed you are
| free to transfer your allegiance. This
, is In accordance with the principles OF
/ n