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CJl IS Pi 10 SPAIN
AMBASSADOR (AMBON RECEIPTS
FOR TWENTY MILLION'S.
THE NONEY BUYS THE PHILIPPINES
Exchange Will Be Bought In New York
and Transferred to Madrid at the
Earliest Moment.
The last move in the negotiations
’terminating the war with Spain oc¬
curred at Washington Monday, when
Secretary Hay paid to the French am¬
bassador, M. Gambon, the $20,000,000
provided by the cession of the Philip¬
pines.
The payment was rtiade in four treas¬
ury notes of $5,000,000 each, and was
receipted for by M. Catnbon as com¬
pletely liquidating the obligation of
the United States in this connection.
The ambassador deposited the $‘20,-
000,000 in the Riggs National bank of
Washington city and the cashing of
the warrants is expected to be made
later through the City National bank
of New York.
The Spanish government was notified
by cable of the payment, but nothing
will be done as to forwarding the
funds to Europe until Spain directs
the exact course to be pursued.
The form of receipt signed by the
ambassador was follows:
“Received from the secretary of
stats of the United States the sum of
$20,000,000 in four drafts upon the
assistant treasurer of the United States
at New York, of date April 29, 1899,
each draft being for $5,000,000, the
same being in full payment of the ob¬
ligation of the. government of the
United States to the government of
Spain as set forth in article 3 of the
treaty of peace between the United
States and Spain, signed at Paris,
France, on the 10th day of December,
1898, the ratifieation of which -was ex¬
changed in the city of Washington on
the 11th day of April, 1899, the pay¬
ment being provided by the act of
congiess, approved March 2, 1899, en¬
titled an act making an appropriation
to carry out the obligation of the
treaty between the United States and
Spain, concluded December 10, 1898.
* “Jules Gambon,
“Department of State, Mayl, 1899.”
Will Buy Exchange.
It is expected that exchange for the
entire. $20,000,000 will be purchased
by Spain’s representative in the New
York market. Dealers were of the
opinion that exchange for about three-
fourths of the amount of the indemnity
had already been gathered and that
the remainder would be obtained
without a further advance in rates.
No Photo* Allowed.
The treasury department has taken
steps to prevent the photographing of
the warrants for the payment of the
$20,000,000 to Spain for the Philip¬
pines, because abuse of the privilege
•might lead to the counterfeiting of
government securities.
Miss Francis E, Johnson, a well
known Washington photographer, surrender -was
called upon Monday to had
plates of photographs which she
made of the warrants in question, and
willingly did so on the representa¬
tions of the civil service officials.
SENT MESSAGES TO DEWEY.
Sons of Revolution Soldiers Hold Tenth
Congress In Detroit.
Enthusiasm for the heroes of 1898
and 1899 equaled, if it did not exceed,
that expressed for the heroes of ’76 at
the opening session of the tenth con¬
gress of the Sons of the American
Revolution at Detroit, Mich., Monday.
The expressions of patriotic ardor
for American fighters of today culmi¬
nated when Colonel E. S. Chittenden,
of St. Paul, proposed that May 1st,
4 ‘Dewey Day,” be celebrated by dis¬
patching the following cablegram to
Admiral Dewey at Manila:
“Congratulations and fraternal greet¬
ings to Compatriot Dewey from the
National Congress of the Sons of the
American Revolution in session at De¬
i,
The suggestion was loudly applaud¬
ed. Ex-Senator Thomas W. Palmer
moved to amend to include General
Otis knd all the officers and men un¬
der cosaroand of both the admiral and
the geWa 1 The cablegram was so
.
amend A 1 ,
FOR III LIEF OF PRISONERS.
General Mac Arthur Send* Hfeney and
Ptothloni Under Vl»* of Truce.
A Manila dispatch under dote of May
2, says: General MacArtbur has sent
officers to General Antonio Luna, the
Filipino commander, under a flag of
truce, carrying money and provisions
for American prisoners in liis hands
and asking an exchange of prisoners
and the names of such as he may have.
It is reported that the insurgents
have two officers and sixteen others
and it is supposed among these are
Lieutenant B. C. Gilmore and eleven
men of tho crew of the United States
gunboat Yorktown, who fell iuto the
hands of the Filipinos last month when
the gunboat visited Baler, on the east
coast ol Luzon.
Major Bell with a squad of scouts
bas captured the town of Maeabebe,
about four miles southwest of Calum-
pit, the people ringing bells and shout¬
ing “vivas.”
The American army is now employ¬
ing Macabebes, instead of Chinese,
and they are delighted to get 50 cents
a day, declaring their loyalty to the
Americans. Major General Lawton is
advancing. Ho has organized a hand
of forty scouts to go ahead of the col¬
umn. The band, which is under W.
M. Young, an old Indian fighter, who
killed five Filipiuos last week, includes
Diaond, Harrington, Somerfield and
Murphy, ol the Second Oregon regi¬
ment.
The anniversary of the battle of Ma¬
nila bay was observed by the United
States fleet, the usual drills being omit¬
ted.
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industrie* Established the
Past Week.
Among the more important of the
new industries reported during the
past week are a box factory in Texas;
a brick and tile factory in Kentucky;
coal mines in Kentucky, Virginia and
West Nirginia; a cotton mill supplies
factory iu South Carolina; ft cotton
and woolen mill in North Carolina; a
$1,000,000 cotton mill in Louisiana; a
$75,000 one iu South Carolina, and
two of 10,000 and 1,200 spindles re¬
spectively in East Tennessee; and one
each in South Carolia and Texas; an
plectric light and waterworks plant in
West Virginia; an electric light plant
in Mississippi; an electric light and
power plant in Georgia; a 100-barrel
flouring mill in Georgia, two of 25-
bar-el and one of 50-barrel capacity in
South Carolina, and a 100-barrel mill
(new) and a $150,000 mill (rebuilt) in
Tennessee; a foundry and machine
shop in upper East Tennessee; a
$25,000 guano factory in Alabama; an
ice factory in Arkansas; lumber mills
in Arkansas, Florida and Virginia; a
machine shop in Northern Alabama; a
$200,000 marble company in Virginia;
a mattress factory and a natural gas
and oil company in Texas; a 600-bar-
rel sugar refinery to be built by
Memphis capitalists; a$2,000,000 iron
and steel company in Virginia; tele¬
phone companies in Arkansas, Ken¬
tucky and Virginia.—Tradesman
(Chattanooga, Tenn.)
GILMORE A PRISONER.
Admiral Dewey Informs Department ol
Fate of Yorkton Crew.
The following cablegram was re¬
ceived at Washington Monday from
Admiral Dewey:
Manila, April 30. —Secretary Navy,
Washington: Apparently reliable in¬
formation, ten of the Yorktown boat
crew including Gilmore,are prisoners
at insurgent headquarters. Am con¬
tinuing investigation. Dewey.
Inasmuch as there were fifteen mem¬
bers of the Yorktown party captured
by the Filipinos at Baler and as Ad¬
miral Dewey accounts for only ten of
them, it is feared that the other five
have been killed. They were proba¬
bly killed or fatally wounded in the
original assault upon the lauding par¬
ty at Baler.
The identity of the members of the
party still unaccounted for is not
known. A telegram was sent to Ad¬
miral Dewey Monday asking him to
give the department, if possible, tho
names of the men known to be in the
hands of the Filipinos. It is accepted
at the department that the reason he
has not already furnished these names,
with the exception of that of Lieuten¬
ant Gilmore, iu his dispatch of Sun¬
day’s date was because he did not have
the information.
The insurgent headquarters, where
Admiral Dewey says the men are held
prisoners, is supposed to be San Fer¬
nando, but there is no assurance on
that point.
MILES IS CRITICISED.
Work of "Beef" Inquiry Board Ended and
Report I* Signed.
The Wade court of inquiry conclud¬
ed its. work at Washington Saturday
in connection with the allegation of
General Miles concerning the boel
supplied to the army during the wav
with Spain. The report was signed at
2:30 o’clock p. m. by every member of
tho board, aucl soon afterwards the
members of tho court left the Lemon
building, where all the meetings in
•Washington have beeu held.
Colonel Davis, flip recorder of the
court, carried the official copy of the
findings to the war department, and,
in the absence of Secretary Alger, de¬
livered it to Acting Secretary Meikle-
john. Mr. Meiklejohn immediately
deposited the document in an envelope
and forwarded it to the president in
New York. The report is of about 30,-
000 words, and goes fully into the
questions which have been raised in
connection with the army beef.
The text has not been made public,
and will not be until after tho presi¬
dent shall have read it. It will then
rest with Lim to say whether the re¬
port shall be given to the public.
The verdict, however, is known to
be that the charges which General
Miles made before the war investiga¬
tion commission are not sustained in
reference to the refrigerated beef, al¬
though his contention that the canned
roast beef was not a suitable continu¬
ous ration is admitted. There is di¬
rect criticism of General Miles for
failing to promptly bring to the atten¬
tion of the war department the rei>orts
made to him concerning bad beef, and
“several individuals” are censured for
failing to observe the proprieties cf
their position as commanding officers
in this and other respects.
The forecast of the report as made
by the Associated Press on the 18th
instant was an accurate one. As was
then stated, the court takes the posi-
tiou that the testimony is conclusive
that both the refrigerated beef and the
canned beef were in good condition
when delivered to the government,
and continued so until issued to the
troops, except in especial instances
where the deterioration was due to ac¬
cidental conditions in transportation
or to the influence of the tropical cli¬
mate.
OTIS’ ACTION ENDORSED.
Term* Given Filippino Representatives
Approved By Washington Officials.
A Washington special says: War
department officials are very much
gratified with tho tone of the reply of
General Otis to the Filippino delega¬
tion. It is considered as comporting
with the dignity of the United States.
It would not be possible for the United
States to recognize the existence of
the Filippino congress or a Filippino
government* General
It is believed that whan
Otis’ reply is communicated to the
Filippino commanders they will ask
another conference with the expecta¬
tion of arranging favorable terms of
peace. that
It is said at the war department
it is not likely that any further con¬
cessions than that of general amnesty
will be made. Peace and freedom, it
is believed, will appeal more strongly
to the Filipino army than any argu¬
ment Aguiualdo aud his officers may
make.
Meanwhile it is the belief of the offi¬
cials of the war department that
further’hostilities on a large scale are
not probable.
MOB WRECKS MILL.
Striker* Destroy Valuable Property By
U*e of Giant Powder.
Wardner, Idaho, was the scene
Saturday of the worst riots since the
deadly labor war of 1892. One man
is dead, another is thought to be
mortally wounded and property valued
at $250,000 has been destroyed by
giant powder and fire. The damage
was done by union men and sympa¬
thizers on Canyon creek, two miles
from Wardner.
The strikers took possession of the
Bunker Hill and Sullivan mill, which
they found deserted, the manager hav¬
ing directed his employes not to risk
their lives by battling with the mob.
Powder was called for aud placed under
the mill. Fuses leading to the charges
were lighted nnd the mill blown to
fragments. The loss to the company
is estimated at from $250,000 to $300,-
000 .
CONVENTION ADJOURNS.
Sunday School Worker* Flnlali Tlielr La¬
bor*—Mot Neat in Denver.
The last sessions of the ninth Inter¬
national Sunday School Association at
Atlanta, which were held Saturday,
were perhaps more largely attended
than those of any former day, and the
enthusiasm displayed by the conven¬
tion at the close of the president’s ad¬
dress in the evening will be long re¬
membered by all who heard it.
More was accomplished during the
last threo sessious of importance to
Sunday school work in the United
states and Canada than was concluded
ilnriug the two days previous, and the
delegates departed for their homes
with the conviction that tho ninth in¬
ternational convention had not only
been the largest in point of attend¬
ance, but the most productive of good
to the cause in which they are labor¬
ing than any former convention.
The nomination of Hon. Johu Wan-
amaker, of Pennsylvania, as chairman
of the executive committee, was re¬
ceived with deep approval by the dele¬
gations from every state, the members
of which being familiar with tho
est and enthusiasm displayed in Sun¬
day school work by the ex-postmaster
general of the United States.
The nomination of the day that
struck a responsive chord in the heart
of every delegate was that of Mr. lb
F. Jacobs, of Chicago, the nestor of
the convention, as the chairman of the
commission to make a tour of every
country on the globe where the Bible
has been introduced.
Denver, Col., was selected as the
place of meeting of the tenth interna¬
tional and fourth world's convention.
It had been announced that these two
conventions would be held in the same
city, and at the same time, and the
large audience was on the qui vive of
expectation when the chairman stated
that invitations were in order.
Although Toronto and Indianapolis
made strong pleas for the conventions,
the speech of E. W. Halford, which
was one of the most eloquent and most
brilliant heard in the hall, carried the
different delegations by storm, and
when he concluded, it was readily
seen that the conventions would go to
Denver.
The nominating committee returned
during the day a list of vice presidents
and members of the international ex¬
ecutive committee that is an honor to
the association.
An able address was delivered by
President Smith on the occasion of the
close of the convention and the fervent
and eloquent prayer of Rev. Dr.
George, of Mississippi, brought to
end the most successful as well as the
largest convention in the history of
the International Sunday School Asso¬
ciation.
WARRANTS ARE DRAWN
For Discharge of Treaty Obligation* of
United State* To Spain.
At the request of the secretary of
state the treasury department Saturday
drew four diplomatic settlement war¬
rants for $5,000,000 each in discharge
of the treaty obligations of the United
States to Spain.
The warrant directed the United
States treasurer to pay the several
sums to his excellency, Jules Cambon,
ambassador extraordinary and pleni¬
potentiary of France, representative
of the government of Spain.
The warrants were signed by F. A.
Vauderlip, assistant secretary of the
treasury; F. J. Tracewell, comptroller,
by C. M. Foree, chief clerk, and Ellis
H. Roberts, who directed the assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York to pay them.
KILLED WHILE EXPERIMENTING.
Five Sion Sent Into Eternity By the Bur*t-
iiig: of a Torpedo.
The powder press at Dupont powder
mill at Carney’s Point, N.J., exploded
Saturday afternoon, killing five men
and injuring three others.
The explosion occurred during an
experiment with a government giant
torpedo. Among the killed was Capt.
Stewart, a government inspector,
. SOUTHERN MAKES DEAL.
South (Carolina and Georgia Has Been
Placed In New Hand*.
The deal between the Southern rail¬
way for the purchase of the latter rail¬
road has been consummated.
The terms of the purchase were not
given out, but it is understood the
Southern will enter into control at
once and probably put on a steamship
line to the West Indies.
CONFERENCE WITH FILIPINOS SO
FAR FRUITLESS.
AMNESTY ONLY WILL BE GIVEN.
tieneral Oils Informs tl»o-Envoy* Th»l
Filipino Government Will Not
lie Recognized.
A second conferencenvas held Satur¬
day at Manila between General ,Oti»
and Colonel Manuel Arguelesses and
Lieutenant Jose Bernal, who cama
from General Lana under a flag of
truce Friday to ask for a cessation of
hostilities. The meeting was fruitless.
It is understood tLnt the Filipino com¬
missioners were given terms upon
which the Americans will consent to
negotiate.
The Filipinos admit that they have
been defeated, and it is expectod that
they will return with fresh proposals
from General Luna.
The envoys from General Luna
were hospitably treated l>y General
Otis, who provided them with a house
and with a guard and permitted them
to visit their friends. Returning to
the palace Saturday morning the envoys
saw an illustration of American re¬
sources. A long train of wagons and
pack mules was just starting with pro¬
visions for General Lawton, who has
reached Maruuco.
The conference at the palace lasted
three hours, Jacob G. Schurman, of
the United States Philippine commis¬
sion, attending and Admiral Dewey
dropping in for an hour.
The discussion was mostly between
General Otis and Colonel Argueleses,
who had been selected for the mission
by General Luna because he had
known General Otis.
Colonel Argueleses had served on
the Filipino commission which met
the American authorities before the
war in an oudeavor to smooth over
the impending troubles. Mr. Scbur-
man emerged from the palace between
the two shock-haired, savage-looking
natives and drove unattended to tha
office of the United States Philippina
commission, where they talked infor¬
mally for about an hour.
Manila is divided between two opin¬
ions—the majority believing that tha
FilipinoB desire peace, while others
think they are sparring for time in
which to rehabilitate their demoralized
army. gained color
The latter opinion
from the fact that re-enforcements
have been sent to the south, opposite
the American lines.
Colonel Argueleses, who is a lawyer,
splendidly illustrated the Malay sub¬
tlety at words. While he declared
with apparent frankness that the Fili¬
pino leader wanted a chance to give
up the straggle gracefully, through
the coagress, instead of surrendering
ignominiously, he asked for a fort¬
night’s armistice so that tho congress
might bo summoned on May 1st, and
endeavored to commit the Americans
to greater concessions and wanted
terms guaranteed by treaty.
He was told that recognition of the
Filipino government was impossible,
and he was given to understand that
a written guarantee of amnesty for'Mil*
insurgents was the utmost that conld
be given.
Otl* Will B« Caution*.
A Manila dispatch of Sunday state*
while it is generally expected among
Americans that the Filipino emissaries
will return with revised proposals
from General Antonio Luna, General
Otis is not letting this prospect inter¬
fere with his preparations for pushing
the war. He h»B ordered Major Gon-
erol Lawton to return to Angat, a few
miles northwest of Norzogaray, aud
not to advance aggressively while tha
negotiations are pending.
General MacArtbur is apparently
acting on the same policy, but he ia
repairing the bridges and strengthen¬
ing the lines of his force, which is
stretched out with a four-mile front,
and within a quarter of a mile of ths
enemy.
The possibilities of peace are* grati¬
fying to a great majority of the army
who have regarded the w-ar as an un¬
pleasant duty that must be performed
according to American traditions.
