The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-16
GENERAL AMNESTY.
Probable Release of All Filipino
Prisoners July L.

Manila June 16-F'riendly natives in
Manila say q report is current among
their countrymen that the five soldiers
of the Fifth cavalry who were captured
by the insurgents May 80 have been
bOloed to death near Teresa, in Morong
province, Luzon. This report has not
been confirmed by the American au-
thorities of that district.
Twenty-Five members of a band of in
surgents who were captured while fight
ing with General Iukban in Samar
took the oath of allegiance to the United
States and were subsequently released.
Four members Of the band were killed
in the engagement which resulted in
the capture of their companions The
twenty-five who have sworn allegiance
have seen General Chaffee and have
promised to give him all the assistance
in their power in the work of maintain
ing the present peace conditions in
Samar.
A commission has been sent to Samar
to appoint SenOr Llorentes governor of
the island and to establish civil govern
ment there.
It is expected that a general amnesty
will be declared July l. This amnesty
prisoners now on the island of Guam
The prospects in the island of Leyte
for a speedy termination OF the armed
resistance there are bright Since the
ports of the island were closed, sur
renders Of insurgents to the native con-
stabulary have occurred daily.
Speaking at the West Point centennial
dinner which was held last week Act
ing Civil Governor Wright said he did
not think the strife now being Waged
in congress over the Philippine govern
ment bill is as fierce and as irrecOncil-
able as it appears to be- that the sober
pie We're always right, and that they
would in time do justice to the Aneri-
cans in the Philippine islands.
Speaking at the same dinner, Colonel
ar-lcc a FFr0f7r Iaa 4 Of ff71
sistant department at Manila, said:
The graduates of West Point may
be charity boys but in the Mexican
war these boys saved the nation in
money alone more than the military
school has cost since its foundation. The
same boys led 100000 men to victory
in the greatest of modern wars. The
charity boys have all repaid their board
and keep a thousand fold; they can
glory in the fact that wherever 25,0e0
American troops have faced an enemy,
the commander of these men was a
West Point gra aduate. The established
reputation of the boys from West Point
has become a synonym for honor, in
tegrity and the highest credit in the
country. They have saved the country
millions Of dollars and thousands OF
lives, and the charity will no doubt up
hold in the present the proud supremacy
of the United States. -
Henry Ide, the member of the Philip
pine commission, who was assigned to
has received a petition from the print
ers in the employ of the government,
asking that their salaries be paid in
gold or in some other established and
Notwithstanding currency. In reply to
this petition, Mr.. Ide said he thought
that the conditions of which the print
ers complained would probably be re-
lieved. They are now paid in Mexican
silver.
The chamber of commerce has pre-
sented to Gen. Chaffee a set of resolu-
tions which express the regard with
which Gen Chaffee and the army in the
Philippines are held by the business
men of Manila.
When the criminal suit brought by
Benito Legarda, Filipino member of
the civil commission. against the news
paper, Freedom, for having published a
hbelous article from another neWspa-
per of Manila, came up for hearing last
week, counsel for the editorsof Freedom
objected to Judge Rhode. before whom
the suit was to be tried on the ground
that when Rhode was a private attor-
ney he had addressed opprobrious cpl
thets to the editor of the paper and de-
cIared that he would not rest until he
had landed him in prison.
Judge Rhode admitted having made
this statement but said he thought he
was capable OF trying the case fairly.