The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-12
DIFFERS FROM OTIS
General Macarthur Entrusts
Details to Subordinates.
MAJOR is A POTENTATE
FORCES RULE UPON UNWILLING
FILIPINos IN BoHoL.

Correspondence. Of the Associated Press)
Manila. May 15-General Macarthur
during the few days he has sat in the
governor generals chair has already
demonstrated chat he believes in let
ting the chiefs of bureaus do their
share of work. He has handed over to
the staff officers of the department
many matters which have formerly
been considered in the governor gen
erals Office, giving them discretion in
the settlement of details and only hold
ing them responsible for results.
one Of his first official acts was to
place the issuance OF passes, such as
permits to go through the lines or to be
on the streets of Manila after 10 o'clock,
in the hands of the provost marshal.
During the past ten months General
Otis aide, Lieutenant Stanley, had
signed $4,000 OF these permits, and a
large proportion of the applications had
beer. personally considered by General
Otis.
Another order which met with gen
eral approval was the appointment Of
Lieutenant Colonel Z. H. Crowder to
be secretary to the military governor
with powers which make the Office one
of Importance, second only to that Of
the governor in civil affairs. Among
the branches cf the public business
which viii come under Colonel Crow
deT's supervision are the judiciary,
customs, revenue, postal and the tele-
graph, treasury, auditors, municipal
governments, schools, public works,
claims, prisons, patents.
Hale Becomes a Potentate.
Major II. c. Hale, with three com
panies of the FOrty-fourth infantry,
has become potentate of the island Of
BOhOl by peaceful conquest. BOhOl is
third as large as the neighbOring
island of Panay, but had no armed in
surgents. It had, however, a very
complete and efficient little republic Of
its own, which formed a part of the
revolutionary government. When the
troops landed at the principal town a
body Of local officials appeared and
handed to their new ruler a document
which set forth that the inhabitants
could not offer allegiance to the United
States because that was forbidden by
"the honorable Emilio Aguinaldo, pres
ident of the Filipino republic. and the
lawful head Of the state" that Major
Hale should secure first AguinaldO's
permission, then the BohOlenos would
agree to the occupation. But, the ad-
dress continued, the islanders were IN
armed, and in view of their poverty
resulting from long blockade, could not
be expected to attempt resistance
Therefore the president and congress
of the republic Of BOhOI resolved, first
10 avoid anything which might be
viewed as prOVOcatiOn; second, to allow
the commander of the United States
military expedition to carry out his or
ders without interference; third. to
carry on the native civil government
with the laws which were received from
the Filipino republic and to do every
thing necessary in the interests of law
and order, peace and harmony.
Major Hale installed the lnSurgent Of
ficials as servants of the United States
but insisted upon the removal from the
public building of its principal Orna-
ment, a big painting of AguinaldO, He
has begun many public improvements,
started schools and new roads, but the
BOhOlenOs remain true to their first
love. They keep the Filipino flag fly
ing in all the villages end only lower it
when a company of American soldiers
comes along. Then they Fasten to
swing out the stars and stripes as an
evidence of good faith.
Aguinaldo's Premier Dying.
Apolinario Mabini. the premier of
AguinaldO'S cabinet, who is not only
the most able among the leaders of the
insurTeCtiOn, but almost tn only one
whose honesty has. never been ques-
toned, is dying Mabini remains in an
American prison in Manila because he
has nowhere else to go. Before the
revolution he was a wealthy man, as
riches are rated in the Philippines, but
all his money was invested in the cause
OF ''indeDendencia-'
When his health was plainly falling
General Otis offered him a carriage for
a daily drive. Mabini refused il, reply
ing that = cannot accept IavOrs from
the Americans"
The Manila newspapers are printing
much about the troubles incident to
building the great government ice
plant and cold storage warehouse.
which has been under way several
months, without remarkable progress.
The architect of the building, Edward
Barrath Of Chicago, and Frank L.
Strong, formerly an engineer of the
navy, were sent to Mania by the
Quartermaster general to act as super
Vising architect and consulting en-
gineer General Otis detailed Major
Rcudiez of the army to have charge of
the work There was constant friction
between the major and the civilian en-
gineers
The local papers are protesting be-
cause the cost of the building, half a
million, is charged to the revenues of
the. islands. They argue that il should
be paid for by the United States be
cause it is to be used solely for the
storage of army supplies.