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The Weather To-day: PARTLY CLOUDY The News and Observer. VOL. XLVI. NO. 43. mm ill ura garouna dailies 11 news and cincuiation. Filipino Envoys Return AGAIN ASK FOR TIME TO ASSEM BLE CONGRESS. Supplies Sent to Lieut. Gilmore and His Party —Courteous Conduct of the Filipi nos —Lawton Scatters the Foe. Manila. May 2.—41:05 i>. in.—Major Manuel Arguelles and Lieutenant Jose Bernal, of the staff of Gcfleral Antonio Luna, returned here to-day to renew and press the request of General Luna for a cessation of hostilities. The officers were received in conference by Major ] General E. K. Otis. The proposals which they had to submit differed but ( slightly from those which they brought , from the Filipino commander in the iirst place. They desired a little time in wjiieli to summon Congress, and ex pressed themselves as being confident that the Congress will decree peace, be cause the people desire it. They repre sent that Aguinaldo is without power to surrender the arms, and that Congress must decide that question. Incidentally, the Filipino envoys asserted that Aguinaldo had not yet made a fair test of his strength against the American forces, because only one-third of his army had been assembled together. The envoys presented a letter from Seuor Mabini, President and Minister of Foreign Affairs iu the Cabinet of Aguin aldo, and who is the backbone of the Filipino organization. The communica tion is personal and unofficial, and sec onds Major Arguelles’ arguments. The envoys will see General Otis again to-morrow. They will sleep to-night in Manila. They lunched with General MacArthur at his headquarters on a car of the armored train at Oalumpit be fore coming to Manila. Whether or not General Luna is sin- j cere in his overtures, the negotiations are giving the insurgents a much needed opportunity to rehabilitate their demoral ized forces. The truth is that dissen sions among the leaders of the rebels is helping the disorganization of the Filipino army as much as is the Ameri can campaign. In the course of the conference with the envoys General Otis agreed with the statement of Major Arguelles that the people of the Philippine Islands wanted peace, and he added that re quests for protection are pouring in upon him from all parts of the country. Major General Lawton was engaged in hard lighting early this morning. Telegraphic communication was cut at 1) o'clock a. m.. and there have been no reports from General Lawton since that time. DIRECT NEWS FROM GILMORE. Manila, May 2. —2:."> p. in. —The tirst authentic information regarding Lieuten ant J. C. Gilmore and his party of 14 men from the United States gunboat Yorktown. who were captured by the Filipinos on April 12tli, was nsreived to day from the hands of Major Arguelles. of the staff of General Antonio Luna. It is in the form of a list of the missing men and is signed by Lieutenant Gil more. The lieutenant reports that lie and his party have been brought across the mountains from Baler, where they were captured. This information was brought in re sponse to a note which Major General MacArthur sent to General Luna by Major Shiels and Lieutenant IJ'nync, and which those officers, bearing a flag of truce, carried across General Luna's lines on yesterday evening. The note after asking for information regarding American prisoners in General Luna s hands, concluded with the message that | he, (General MacArthur) would be pleased to meet General Luna. Major Shiels and Lieutenant Hayne found a span of the railroad bridge a mile from St. Tomas, broken. The officers left 10 days’ provisions for the prisoners on a hand car at the end nf the bridge, placing the car in the keeping of Filipinos, whose conduct throughout the various negotiations has been all that could be expected of a civi lized nation. Refugees report that the Filipino army is deserting San Fernando and massing at St. Tomas, where General Luna's headquarters are located, and that strong entrenchments are being con structed at the sides of the railway and on the swamp front, in flu* liest positions possible. Men of the United States signal corps have established telegraphic communica tion with Major General Lawton, who is advancing in a westerly direction. General Lawton lost one killed and five wounded on yesterday, near San Rafael, where he strongly entrenched himself. General Lawton to-day is marching on 1 Balinag. where a large body of rebels j have been concentrated. General Hale started at daybreak with ' the lowa and South Dakota regiments, I a squad of cavalry and two guns of the Utah battery from Calumpit in a northeasterly direction, to co-operate with the Macabebees, who have asked the Americans to arm them in order that they might tight the Tagals. The Macabebees have already organized a company of bolo men to guard the town. They are bringing Tagal prisoners to General MacArthur. DEWEY RETORTS FAILURE. Washington. May 2.—The following cablegram has been received from Ad- mii-iil Dewey by the Navy Department: "Manila. May 2. "Secretary Navy. Washington: "1 cannot get further information con cerning Gilmore and party now. As soon as this information is obtained I will telegraph. Information reached me today from Guam, dated March 2th: ‘ln habitants are quiet and contented un der the Fnited States Hag.’ When will the Glacier depart? (Signed) "DEWEY.” It is stated at the Navy Department that the Glacier will sail from New York May loth for Manila. AGUINALDO ASKS NO PEACE. He Declares Part of the Congress is Seeking to Out-Vote Him. London. May 2.—Representatives of the Filipino Junta say they received a telegram from Aguinaldo dated April 30th. in which he states that his govern ment. lias nothing to do with the present peace negotiations, which he asserts, are being conducted by a group of half castes and Creoles who are anxious for peace in the expectation of getting high offices under a new government. Sev eral of these men, Aguinaldo says, are members of the Filipino Congress, where they are endeavoring to out-vote him. Aguinaldo answered that he had hail no direct negotiations with the Americans since the fall of Malolos, when certain pro|H>sals passed between Mr. D. C. Worcester, of the American Philippine Commission and a representative of Aguinaldo. looking to a peace based iqiou independence with an American alliance. Aguinaldo disavows the pres ent negotiations, and adds that under no circumstances will he accept an Ameri can protectorate. The dispatch con cludes with a contemptuous reference to Major Arguelles, as a Spanish officer who has no more authority to act on be half of Aguinaldo than has Luna him self. AMERIC AN PRISONERS WELL. Washington, May 2.—The following cablegram was received at the War Department at midnight: "Manila, May 3. “Adjutant General,'Washington: "List of prisoners in the hands of the insurgents just received shows Lieutenant Gilmore and seven enlisted men navy lost from Yorktown, and six enlisted men army, three of the six wrongfully arrested in January before hostilities commenced, all reported to be doing well. Besides the above, men in hands of insurgents. South and Captain Rockefeller, still unac counted for. (Signed) "Otis.” LAWTON SCATTERS THE FOE. Washington, May 2.—The following cablegram was received by the War Department shortly before midnight: “Manila, May 2. Adjutant General. Washington: "General Lawton’s column pass ing westward from Norzagaray cap tured Baliuag and villages in vicinity yesterday, scattering and pursuing sixteen hundred insurgent troops, llis only casualties, two wounded; insur gent loss several killed; large num ber wounded and captured. Numbers not stated. Have opened communica tion with Lawton via Malolos by means of Hale’s troops and detach ments from city. (Signed) “Otis.” SECOND CONFERENCE FRUIT LESS. Manila, May 2.—Noon. —The second conference, held this morning between Major General Otis and the Filipino emissaries, Colonel Manuel Arguelles and Lieutenant Jose Bernal, terminated without any definite results. FCNSTOX MADE A BRIGADIER. Washingtoi/, May 2.—The President has appointed Colonel Frederick Fun ston, of the Twentieth Kansas, a bri gadier general of volunteers. This ap pointment was recommended by Gen eral Mac Arthur, and supplemented very strongly in a cable dispatch re ceived yesterday. General MaeArthnr said that the services of Colonel Fun ston during the campaign, and espe cially in the crossing of the Rio Grande River, deserve a recognition such as his promotion to be a briga dier general, also that as a leader of troops Colonel Funston was especially valuable. J. K. JONES NAMES JOHNSON. Washington. May 2. —Before sailing for Europe today Senator Jones ad dressed a letter to Mr. J. G. Johnson. National Committeeman from Kansas, asking him to act for the Democratic National Committee during the ab sence of the chairman, Mr. Walsli in Alaska. 4 u- RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 3, IS!)!). WHERE ATKINSON GOT HIS FACTS From Public Documents of the United States. THE WORK A COMPILATION facts and figures from de bates IN CONGRESS. MR. ATKINSON DESCRIBES THE BOCKS He Declares if I hey are Kept Out of the Mails, the Congressional Record is Impliedly Unsuitable Sending fjr the Troops at Manila. Boston, Mass., May 2.—Hon. Edward Atkinson, Vice-President of the Anti- Imperialist league of ibis city, "as shown the Washington dispatch stating that the Postmaster General had direct ed that certain pamphlets prepared by Mr. Atkinson be taken from the mails to Manila. Mr. Atkinson said he had received no direct communication from Washington about the matter. He ex plained that the documents were com pilations of facts and figures taken from the debates in the National House and Senate and calling attention to points overlooked in debate. “tiv the action of the Senate.” Mr. Atkinson continued, “these compilations were published as Senate documents and they arc now public documents of the United States. Therefore any action taken toward keeping them out of the mails would imply that the Congres sional Record and official documents of the United States are unsuitable to !>'■ sent to officers of the volunteer regi ments now in Manila, whose term of service lias expired, aud whose return to this country is demanded by officials <>f certain States who say that the men are entitled to discharge. “It is said that the dispatch of these pamphlets from this country to Hi. l Philippine Islands is barred lest <liey should create discontent and even mutin'-- among the soldiers; that being stand by the Department to be the design of thesse publications. “There are two pamphlets only. Tii first edition of the first, printed in No vember was dedicated to President Mc- Kinley, in support of his statement that •forcible annexation would in* criminal aggression.’ The facts and figures given in that pamphlet as a whole were made the frequent subject of debate in (he House of Representatives and the Senate during the session, and the pamphlet as a whole was finally printed by order of the Senate as Senate document No. 02. “The second pamphlet was issued late in February, when it appeared that acts of criminal aggression were being com mitted in the Philippine Islainds. 11l that pamphlet certain facts and state ments wen* submitted to the attention of the Senate, and were the subject of debate, and that pamphlet again, by or der of the Senate, was printed a- a Senate document. I have a copy of Nu. 02. and have sent for a copy of the latter. “These pamphlets were, on April 24th anil 25th. addressed by me to Admiral George Dewey. President Scliurman, Prof. Worcester, General H. G. Otis, General laiwlon, General Miller and the correspondent of a New York illustrated weekly in Manila. None others have, to .my knowledge been sent to any one else. 1 desired to send them to other officers, anil for that purpose notified tin* War Department of my intention and asked for a list that would give me the names. If it is unlawful for a citizen of the United States to communicate with other citizens in Manila by send-ng them documents in a private edition which have been printed by order of the United States Senate as public documents, 1 am. content to leave tin* matter at that exact jhdut« which requires no comment from me.” INTERRED AT ARLINGTON. Two Hundred and Fifty-two Bodies of Soldiers From (Tuba ami Porto Rico. Washington. May 2. —The bodies of 252 of tin* soldier dead brought from the battlefields of Cuba and Porto Rico by the steamer Crook were Interred at Arlington today with military honors. The ceremony was identical with that held on the occasion of the interment of tile bodies brought by the Crook on her first trip about a month ago, but neither the President nor the members of his Cabinet were present today as on the former occasion, the military display was less elaborate and tin* crowd much smaller. Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn. as tin* representative of the War Department, in the absence of Sec retary Alger, however, was in attend ance. and Major General Miles and his staff in full uniform paid their last tri bute to their departed comrades. GRATEFUL TO VOLUNTEERS. Washington. May 2.—The President has assured several of his Congressional visitors from the West of his deep ap preciation of the services rendered by tin* volunteers. He lias said to these Senators and Representatives that it is liis earnest desire to reward, in some fitting way. the courage and endurance of the volunteers who had the right to he discharged upon demand, but who have continued in the service and ma terially assisted in bringing tin* Philip pine war to a close. THE CABINET CALL THIS TREASON Declare Atkinson Aided Phil ippine Insurrection. THE PENALTY STATED IMPRISONMENT FOR TEN YEARS OR A HEAVY FINE. WHAT ACTION IF ANY INDLTERMINED The Goverrment Thinks Mr, Atk nson did not Real'ze the Gravity of his Offence in Sending out An'i rxpan sitn Circulars. Washington, May 2. —Tin* absentees from today's Cabinet meeting were Sec retarys- Gage. Long. Alger and Wilsou. One of the subjects of discussion was tin* circulars which were mailed to tin* troops at Manila criticising tile Philip pine policy of tin* Government and ad vising volunteers whose terms of service is alwmt to expire not to re-enlist. A member of the Cabinet in speaking <d the matter said that Mr. Edward At kinson, of Boston, who is believed to have been largely instrumental in the preparation and sending out of these cir culars was unquestionably guilty of as sisting an insurrection against the ait* (hority of the United States, and was subject to a term of Imprisonment or a heavy fine or both. The law. which, it is said, has been violated is section 5334 of the Revised Statutes which is as follows: “Every person who incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against tin* authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be punished by imprisonment not more than It) years, or by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or by both of such punishments; and shall, moreover. In* incapable of holding any office under Uie United States.” What action, if any, will be taken in- the matter lias not been determined, but it is said that the Government is dis posed to regard the acts of Mr. Atkin son as those of a person without any proper conception of tin* gravity of the offence committed and the Governmeni may not at this time, take action against Mr. Atkinson and his assistants. '1 ne Postmaster General stated at tin* Cabinet meeting that in* had ordered the circulars stopped at San Francisco. Members of the Administration regard Mr. Atkinson’s alleged action as sedi tions and disgraceful, and it is not im probable that, if repeated, prompt and energetic action will be taken. HIS PAMPHLETS ARE SEDITIONS Washington, May 2. —’lilt* Postmaster General lias directed the postmaster at San Francisco to take out of the mails for Manila three pamphlets issued by Edward Atkinson, of Boston, vice-presi dent of the Anti-Imperialistic Is-aguc. This order does not apply to the circula tion of the pamphlets by mail in this country, but bars their dispatch from this country to tin* Philippines, discon tent and even mutiny among the soldiers being stated by flu* Department to be the design o's these publications. '1 he three pamphlets are specifically de scrined and in no circumstances are they to be forwarded by mail to the Philippines. Tin* three pamphlets, copies of whieli have been prohibited in tin* mails for the Philippines, are those which have the following titles: “Criminal Aggression, by \\ horn “The Cost of a National Crime.” and “The Hell of War and its Penalties.” These, unless something should de velop to necessitate further action may be circulated through the mails within this country. According to Mr. Atkin-- son’s own statement, as reported, a large number of the pamphlets have been sent out. Tin* matter was brought to the at tention of tin* postal officials by the War Department, whose authorities were greatly exercised with a suggestion that some action be taken. It is thought that there is little imssibility of any of these publications getting past the San Francisco office, but if a few should, the military authorities in tin* Philip pines will promptly suppress them. Postmaster General Emory Smith made this statement to the Associated Press today: “Not. only are they designed to incite to mutiny the American soldiers iu those islands, but also to foment and encour age insurrection on the part of tin* Fili pinos themselves. Such seditious litera ture as that now estopped might have an effect on tlie forces we now are deal ing with that would be incalculably to their advantage and certainly would tend to stimulate and strengthen their already weakening opposition. The law covering the case is ample. What action might be taken—and tin* offense is of the gravest character —is not to be discuss ed. I do not believe there is any inten tion to prosecute Mr. Atkinson as the matter now stands. The authority to do so however, is plain. He not only at tacks the President and the Government in the most virulent language and dis putes the National policy, but also calls on the American troops to defy the Gov ernment. Certainly this Government is empowered to stop or check, as it sees tit. tin* circulation of these seditious puh b-iat ions.” At the Mercy of Mataafa ORDER CHECKING HOSTILITIES STRONGLY CONDEMNED. Rebels and Germans in Virtual Control —Mrs. R. L. Stephenson Pictures ihe Hor rors of Bombardment of Samoan Villages. Wellington, X. Z„ May 2.— Advices from Samoa indicate that the instruc tions received from the powers to cease hostilities makes the situation in the islands very serious, as the reb els hold the main food supplies and are again near the municipality of Apia. The correspondent of Reuter’s News Agency, thinks it is evident that the home authorities have misunder stood the situation in Samoa. The Germans and rebels are already jubi lant, and claim a victory over the Brit ish and American forces. The corre spondent says that unless the rebels are made to submit the difficulties will remain unsolved. The white peo ple in the outskirts of the city are at the mercy of the rebels. The Ameri can vice consul’s store at balita was looted last week, while a German store a joining it was left untouched. British and American residents all strongly condemn the action of the powers in ordering a cessation of hos tilities at this stage. ti'.pection of the battlefield shows that tilt* defences erected by tin* reb els near the’home of the late Robert Louis Stevenson 'were strong and well planned. The loss sustained by the rebels, it is evident, was much greater than was at first supposed. The main section of Mataafa’s followers who were engaged in llu* battle of \ ailima retreated westward to Lulumoengu, where they lay in wait for friendlies. Orders had been given them to cap ture Lieutenant Gaunt’s head. The rebels were also anxious to secure the superior weapons with which his bri gade is armed. It is rumored that thirteen boats tilled with armed rebels arc approach ing from the east. The town appears to be safe. KAUTZ IS NOT RESTRAINED. Washington, May 2.—4 t is denied ofti eiiill that any undue restraint inis been imposed upon Admiral Kautz. which should encourage the insurgents in Samoa. On the contrary. Admiral Kautz has been advised that the Presi dent supports him in all that he has done: and he is entirely satisfied with liis conduct and the only injunction laid upon the Admiral has been to avoid un necessary slaughter and bloodshed. This injunction is not understood to in any way restrain the officer from such mili tary and naval operations as in his opin ion are necessary to protect fully tin* in terests of the United States, British and THE RALEIGH IS COMING. She is Now On Her Way to the City of Wilmington. l’hiladelphia, May 2. —The cruiser Ral eigh steamed away from this city for Wilmington. X. C. Before leaving Cap lain Coghhin and liis officers expressed their gratitude for their kind reception here. PULITZER TALKS ON BRYAN. If lie’ll Give Up Free Silver, lie’ll Win, Says the World’s Editor. London, May 2. —The Daily News to day devotes a column to an interview with Joseph Pulitzer, editor of the New A ork World, chiefly devoted to a comparison of the methods of Eng lish and American journalism. Touch ing iiiion polities. Air. Pulitzer is quot ed as having said: “It seems to be assured that Air. Bryan will again have tlie Democratic nomination for tin* presidency next year.” “Will he be supported by a united party?” asked the reporter. “That,” Air. Pulitzer rejoined, “all depends upon liis good sense or folly, if he again puts the free silver issue to the fore, and fights on it. ninny in the party will stand aloof: but If he is content to let free silver sink to the background and fight Ihe battle on the great question of expansion or anti-expansion and anti-mono|K>ly or trusts, then he will receive wide sup port. Not only will he have the united Democratic party behind him, but he will also be supported by Ihe vast hosts of moderate people who have been alienated by the new departure from our constitutional Government which the present imperialist policy means.” ASBESTOS MINE BOUGHT. Atlanta, Ga., May 2. —The famous asbestos mine at Sail Mountain, in White county, has been sold for $200,000 to Bancroft and Kenney, mining en gineers of IsMidou. The sale oil the basis of $200,000 is the greatest amount ever paid for a mint* in the State of (Jeorgia. General J. C. Breckinridge lias been elected vice president of the Sons of the American Revolution, and it is conceded that lie will be the next president. , PRICE FIVE CENTS. German residents in Samoa, for it is ex pressly understood that Admiral Kautz is present simply for the uprpose of car rying out the treaty obligations as to tlie interests of the citizens of the tri partite agreement and not as a represen tative of any one power. So far no advices have conic to either tin* State or Navy Departments as of tin* date of these last press dispatches, lienee it is assumed that no events of great importance have occurred warrant ing the sending of a cablegram cither by Admiral Kautz or United States Consul Osborne. THE HORRORS OF WAR. Graphical Picture by the W idow of R. L. Stevenson. London, May 2.—Robert Louis Ste venson's widow lias written a letter to the Westminster Gazette from Fun chal, Maderia, on the bombardment of Samoan villages by the English and American warships. Mrs. Stevenson says: “President McKinley allowed no firing on Cuban towns unless they gave cause of offence, and Commodore Watson was ordered not to attack un defended Spanish cities. Does the President keep his humanity for civil ized countries alone?” Mrs. Stevenson declared that * lie Samoan villages are inhabited in time of war by non-combatants, who have to choose between the shells of the warships and “taking to Ilu* bush.” Under such conditions, she says, delicate women can hardly exist, while children die like flics. Airs. Stevenson's letter concludes as follows: “Chief Justice Chambers has been represented as saying in a letter to his brother: ’I never was happier.' He must be a person singularly de void of imagination if he never pic tured to himself the scenes being enacted in those bombarded villages; the exodus of panic stricken people rushing hither and thither, shells bursting everywhere, tin* cries of bed ridden and helpless wounded people burning alive in their blazing houses, women in the pangs of childbirth, mangled children crawling on the sands, the sea before them and the bush behind. And we read that the woods also were shelled. Who is to he held aceountanle for these deeds, that disgrace both England and America. BALTIMORE DEMOCRATIC HAYS CARRIES THE C1 iY BY NEARLY 9.G00 MAJORITY. All Democratic Candidates for Sccoid Bun ch City Courcil Elected, and 18 if 24 Members First Brai ch. Baltimore, Md., May 2. One of the most exciting campaigns in the his tory of Baltimore city resulted today in a Democratic landslide. Thomas (i. Hayes was elected mayor by nearly !>,()()<) majority over Win. T. Alalster, Republican, tin* present incumbent, while his running mates, Skipwith Wihner, for president of the second branch of the city council and James H. Smith, for comptroller, were chosen by practically' the same fig ures. in addition to these candidates at large, the Democrats elected all of their candidates for the second branch of the city council, and IS of 24 niem i ers of the first brunch. Today’s election is the first under the charter for Baltimore city adopt ed by the last Legislature last. year. I niliT its provisions the municipal elections are held in May so as to di vorce as far as possible municipal politics from State and national is sues. It also changes the term of the mayor from two to four years, the terms of the comptroller and presi dent of the second branch of the city council being a like period. All of the candidates elected to dnv will assume their offices on the third Wednesday of November next. There are several theories being ml vanned by Republican leaders aud others to account for the surprising result of today's contest, but the one most generally accepted is Duo it*,* Republicans who do not endorse the Malster administration, instead of staying away from the polls, voted Die straight Democratic ticket. The city is wild with excitement tonight, bat the best of feeling prevails The torpedo boat Somers av. \» : *t New York yesterday Senator nitnau "ill go to Uloivm*- today to study tobacco culture. He will make some experoueio on ' farm at Trenton,
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