General Otis said:  “It was unanimously decided to print, publish, post, and disseminate as much as possible among the inhabitants under insurgent domination this address, printing the same in the English, Spanish, and Tagalog languages.  This was done, but scarcely had it been posted in Manila twenty-four hours before it was so torn and mutilated as to be unrecognizable.  It suffered the same fate as the proclamation of January 4, set out in pages 113 and 114 of this report, but it produced a marked beneficial influence on the people, especially those outside our lines, as it carried with it a conviction of the United States’ intentions, on account of the source from which it emanated, it being an expression from a committee of gentlemen especially appointed to proclaim the policy which the United States would pursue.”

—­Taylor, 90 AJ.

Taylor adds:  “The commander of one of the regiments of sandatahan in Manila reported that he had forced the people of the city to destroy the proclamations issued by the commission (P.I.R., 73. 9).  As he found this necessary, the action of the people could hardly have reflected their real feelings in the matter.”

[446] Taylor, 96 AJ.

[447] Ibid.

[448] Taylor, 97 AJ.

[449] Taylor, 97 AJ.

[450] Ibid.

[451] Nominally they were named by Aguinaldo.

[452] Report of the Philippine Commission to the President, Vol.  I, 1900, p. 9.

[453] Now chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court.

[454] Blount, p. 235.

[455] Blount, p. 105.

[456] Report Philippine Commission, Vol.  I, p. 183.

[457] P. 981.

[458] September 15, 1913.

[459] The building where the executive offices of the insular government have been located since the American occupation.

[460] Taylor, 18 HS.

[461] This name is applied to certain provinces organized under special acts because the majority of their inhabitants are non-Christians.

[462] Tayabas, Romblon, Masbate, Iloilo, Antique, Capiz, Cebu, Bohol, Occidental Negros, Oriental Negros, Leyte, Albay, Ambos, Camarines, Sorsogon, Marinduque, Batangas, Surigao, and Misamis.

[463] Obviously a misprint, perhaps, for “perusal of.”

[464] Blount, p. 380.

[465] For further details see pp. 746; 753.

[466] A native surf boat.

[467] See Chapters XXI-XXIV.

[468] Chap.  XV.

[469] Chap.  XIV.

[470] Chap.  XVI.

[471] Chap.  XVII.

[472] Chap.  XVIII.

[473] See Chapter XIX.

[474] Chap.  XXX.

[475] Chap.  XXX.

[476] Chap.  XXXI.

[477] Chap.  XXXII.

[478] Chapter XXVII.

[479] Chapters XIV, XXII, XXIII and XXIV.

[480] Reply to Jones, Pamphlet, Manila, 1913.