The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-13
WILDMAN DENIES PACT
Mckinley AppOintee Says No
Promise Was Made FilipinOs.
SPEAKS n RIDICULE
BUSHES TO SUPPORT OF MAN
WHO GAVE HIM HIS JOB.

Washington. Oct pa statement was
issued by the state department today
which says.
In a recent dispatch to the department
of state, under date of Aus "a, 1902,
ROunseveH Wildman. consul of the Unit
ed States al HOngkong, comments upon
the letter as published in the press of
this country on July p last, addressed to
George F. Hoar and R. PetIigrew by J.
AIejandreno, under date of April L. lSsO,
and purport ing TO nave oesn i MIlsi9n
islands. In that letter Mr. AIeJandreaao
I'm April 1898. in the absence Of my
chief, AguinaIdo who was then al Slnga-
pore [ solicited through the American
consul general at Hongkong, Mr.: WIG
miral Dewey. My petition was fa8SoraPly
received and I went with Andres Gafch-
terena and another Filipino (SaEdlco) on
board the Olympia in the bay Oh Kong
Then follows what purports to have
been an interview between the writer ana
Admiral Dewey, in which Dewey prom
iSed the FilipinOS independence, places a
their disposal his feet, for the coIV Ell.
arms holds out the hone that the Onltec
States would supply them with TURNER
States will not take one inch OF the PM
ippipes.
".As / am personally acquainted with
the writer q. Alejandreno) and am taZnil-
lar with all his movements while he was
in Hongkong. and conducted whatever ne
gotiations there were between himself and
Dewey, l think it my duty 10 place on
record d true statement OF the aILS1r.
g In the first place, Admiral Dewey
never saw this man or had one Woro
with him. Just before Admiral Dewey 5
squadron was leaving for Mrs bay, r
AgOncillo and 7. SandlcO, representing
the Philippine junta in Hongkong, asked
permission to have an interview with Ad-
miral Dewey before he lett Tor mania
Their professed object of this interview
was to obtain his permission TO reopen
the rebellion against Spain ana 10 Co
operate with our naval forces in case the
nited States determined to take the Is
lands from SPAIN L saw the admiral per
sonalIy reSa riding their request, and he
said that ] might bring out to Mrs bay
any three of the junta who cared 70 come
On April q L took to Mrs bay II the
tugboat Fame, SandicO, Garchiterena ana
AlejandrenO- On arrival at Mrs bay the
three insurgents were taken on board the
Olympia and were assigned TO captain
GridIey'S room for the time being AFTER
a council of officers in Admiral Dewey $
room. at which, among other Things, the
feasibility of permitting the three FIN
pinOs 10 go to Manila was discussed and
Admiral Dewey requested his chief OF
staff his flag lieutenant and myself TO
interview the FiHp5nOs and report TO him.
AS I said before Admiral Dewey did not
see any of the three men The CONVEX
sation was carried on in English between
SandicO and ourselves and very little OF
it was translated for the benent OF the
two other FilipinOs-
q When I told them that Admiral
Dewey was inclined to permit the three
TO go 10 ManilO the collier NanSnan
if they could give any good reason Tor SO
doing they informed US that they did
not wish to go TO Manila until the Amer
lean squadron had first disposed OF the
daily journal under date OF April p, 1885,
regarding this conference
The upshot of the talk was that they
did not expect to be taken of as they
were, and although they were dying TO
fight for their downtrOdden fatherland,
they had left all their clean linen, tooth
brushes, etc, in Hongkong and could not
take so long a voyage without them L
told them that Hongkong was the very
best place for them and Captain Coghlan,
who came into the room, made so much
fun of them that at least one of the bold
had never smelled powder, decided to ac-
company the squadron if, on COghlans
guarantee, he would be supplied with
new suit of underclotheS. was thor
oughly disguised with the outfit.
a 'Garchiterina declined to accompany
his colleague, on the excuse that his wife
was ill SandicO said he had no idea OF
going, as he was q diplomat and not a
soldier 1 brought them back with me
in the Fame the same afternoon and Ale
jandreno was Immediately taken to the
collier Nanshan.
miraI Dewey gave the Filipino permission
to land at Cavite and join mis- friends He,
however, declined 10 90 so. unless the ad-
miral furnished him with a marine guard
He remained on the Nanshan until 1t was
convenient for the admiral to return him
to Hongkong, which occurred within
fortnight.
Later Becomes General
q" 'AIeiandreno's subsequent history is
well known 10 the military government
in the Philippines. He doomed out as an
insurgent general, a peace commissioner
and q letter writer.
'SThis dispatch from Mr. Wildman was
referred TO the navy department for the
information of Admiral Dewey, who, IN
h &c Nv 90 thereon TOItOVE-
- Attention is invited to the following
extract from page 172, report of the Phil