Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-19
Senate Receives Some I'm
portant Documents.
TELLS OF RESURRECTION
Letter by Aguinaldo-Spanish and
FilipinOs to Fight Together to
Establish a Common Republic
Value of Filipino Soldier.

Washington, April 1S.-In further re-
sponse to the senate resolution of Jan
II last, the president sent to the enate
additional documents bearing upon the
instruction in the Philippines. The
papers are all important. One of them
is a report of Colonel Arams Blanco, of
the Philippine army, to the general
commanding the second zone of the
events of Feb. 2. 1899, in Tondo. 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 ar
rived they would be ready to go to
Meisic, where the American barracks
are and set on fire the houses about
there in order to interfere with their
coming out of the barracks, as was
agreed upon in the meeting With DeS-
cesend LNman. The result was that on
marching to the scene of operations
we found the Calzadal Azacaraga was
filled with Americans with them
We're a number of country people who
cried out Brothers to the strife, for
now is the hour This is 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 all
we had prepared from the beginning as
we'll as what we saw was prepared by
the enemy and his Spies"
He then ordered a retreat and when
they met the Americans the colonel
says the letter gave his forces two vol
legs . He adds that his men with their
daggerss in a hand-to-hand conflict fore
ed the American to retire.
Another letter, dated at Tarlac, Oct.
90. last, signed by j. NJ. Lebab, COM
,orlc rs, ,,,l-,oyx, i1ipiyn .,f1onp
whom the writer says that he will go
to Manila, to throw some dynamite bombs
and set fire to the houses and the prin-
cipal buildings. especially those occupied
by foreigners"
Among other documents is an unsign-
ed letter to General Rios, of the Spanish
army and in command at Iloilo, dated at
MalolOs, Oct. %, 1898, APPARENTLY inspired
by Aguinaldo. In this letter the writer
says that his desire is to yet save the
~shipwreck the sovereignty Of Spain in
these stands.
He then proceeds: II am informed that
you are considering surrendering the
place to us to the Americans. After six
months of vigorous siege and of total
abandonment | 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 re-
public with the Spanish republic, recog-
niZing the craftsmanship of our honorable
president, Senior Emilio Aguinaldo; a fra
ternad embrace will take place between
Filipino, Viscayans and Spaniards. There
will be hurrahs for Spain, and the Fill
pinos will unite as a federal republic;
your troops will pass into the common
army; you will be promoted to a ~lieuten-
ant general. Those who want can go
back at our expense. and the flags Of
Spain and the Filipinos will foat side by
side. You will give an account of this
to Madrid, and in the meantime we shall
fight the Americans together. We shall
and then we shall wait and ad-
just our future relations. The surrender
of the heroic column you is the
greatest outrage which can be inflicted
upon those valiant men. since they have
suffered the humiliation with their unfor-
tunate companions suffered here; and
you, the able and upright and valian gen.
eral, are you going to sign a treaty with
the Americans? God preserve you from
1T. sir. Your transfer to our side does