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TWENTY-FIFTH YEAR. NO. 320.
MANILA HAS SURRENDERED UNCODITIONALLY
PEACE PROBLEMS
Receive lech Attention In fflgh
Official Quarters
Ex-Consul Genera! Lee Outlines Plans of Recoi
struction ii Cite—A Hopeful View
of Affairs to the Island
BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPECIAL WIRE
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—The reconstruction of affairs in Cuba,
Porto Rico and throughout the Spanish West Indies is receiving- earnest
consideration in official quarters, and at the White House today the presi
dent saw a number of prominent callers in reference to this reconstruc
tion in our new insular dependencies. Gen. Lee spent some time with the
president, going over the condition of Cuban affairs. While no announce
ment was made, the impression prevailed that Gen. Lee would be one of
the Cuban military commissioners, to be named within a few days.
Acting Secretary Allen of the navy also saw the president concern
ing Cuban affairs. It is probable that an American naval vessel will go
to Havana harbor before long, and at least two vessels will be ordered
to Havana when the military commission assembles there to determine
upon the details of Spanish evacuation.
Secretary Day also conferred with the president, and later deter
mined, the peace terms being matured, to take a week's vacation, and
he will leave either tonight or tomorrow morning, going, probably, to
Canton. Assistant Secretary Moore will be acting secretary of the state
department during Judge Day's absence. The secretary's retirement from
the head of the department is likely to follow soon after his return from
Canton, and, indeed, it may come during his absence, although there is
no outward evidence today that he was about to close his connection
with state affairs.
The navy department decided during the day to yield, as far as prac
ticable, to the public desire at New York for a naval review of the ships
of Admiral Sampson's fleet. Accordingly, Acting Secretary Allen issued
the following order:
A NAVAL REVIEW DESIRED
"The department is much gratified at the desire expressed to see a
review of the warships and cruisers recently ordered home, and so far as
practicable is desirous of carrying out the wishes of the citiiens who wish
to see the ships. But neither the officers nor the men of the fleet are in
condition to participate in a stree*. parade. The department is taking the
opportunity of the armistice to put these ships at once into the best pos
sible condition for suph servioe as may hereaftr be required of them. It
is expected all other work will be suspended, and the entire available
force of the navy yards directed to this work, in ordea to secure the great
est possible dispatch.
"The department will direct that, upon the arrival in New York har
bor, the fleet shall steam up the North river as far as Gen. Grant's tomb,
fire a salute and steam back to its anchorage. It is expected that the fleet
will reach New York on Saturday, the 20th inst. The plan is to have
Admiral Sampson met off Sandy Hook with orders for the procession up
the North river. It is expected that the fleet will be off Sandy Hook some
time Friday night, but they will lie outside the harbor until Saturday
morning."
The navy department is taking steps to reduce the force of naval mili
tiamen called into service from the several states. The Minneapolis is to
transfer part of her crew to the Tosemite, thus releasing the Michigan
naval militiamen, who man the Yosemite. The Columbia is to transfer
part of her crew to the Dixie and other auxiliary craft, thus allowing the
naval militiamen on these auxiliaries to go home. In this way the naval
service will be speedily turned over to the regular officers and crews.
LEE OUTLINES PLANS FOR CUBA
Maj .-Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, in command of the Seventh army corps, at
Jacksonville, was in conference today with the president and the war
department. He came here on a spe
cial telegraphic summons from Sec
retary Alger, and it was with the lat
ter that he conferred for an hour with
the president. It is generally expect
ed that Gen. Lee will head the mili
tary commission which will adjust af
fairs in Cuba, and it is stated that he
has been strongly urged for the gov
ernorship of the island after the func
tions of that commission cease. On
both of these points, however, Gen.
Lee asserts that he knows nothing.
He admitted, however, he had been
talking over matters in Cuba gener
ally.
Then he added: "The first work
which will have to be done in Cuba
will be to make arrangements by
which all the municipal machinery
can be put in operation in all the
towns, and governmental machinery
throughout the island. There will
have to be a military control, I sup
pose, until such time as the people
interested can organise and put in
operation a government whioh should
be stable and strong enough to pro
tect impartially the interests of Span
iards, Americans, Cubans and the peo
ple of all other nationalities now on
the island, or who may hereafter go
there."
"Is there a probability of Spanish
interests suffering through the Cu
bans?"
"The Spanish property holders,
merchants and all other classes of
Spaniards naturally would unite with
ill the rest, of the conservative in-
(Contlnued on Page Five.)
WHERE NINE HUNDRED AMERICANS REPULSED THREE THOUSAND SPANIARDS AT MAL^TE
THE HERALD
DEWEY'S SECOND BATTLE
A Fitting Finale to tie Work Eepn by
lis Fleet Last May
mem augusti flees m hong kong
The Departing Captain General Carries to Consul
Wildman Mews of the Fall of the Spanish
Stronghold—Report Credited ,
BT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SPECIAL WIRE
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15.—The department of state Has just issued the following:
"The following dispatch was received at the state department at 11:15 p. m. August 15th from Con
sul Wildman, Hong Kong: 'Augusti says Dewey bombarded Manila Saturday. City surrendered uncondi
tionally. Augusti was taken by Germans in a launch to Kaiserin Augusta and brought to Hong Kong. I
credit the report.'"
The information contained in Consul Wildman's brief message aroused intense interest, but created no
surprise among the officials who read it. For two or three days news of the fall of Manila has been expeoted.
The last dispatches received from Admiral Dewey and Gen. Merritt indicated that it was their purpose to
force a surrender of the city as soon as possible. It is believed that they joined in a note to Gen. Augusti,
demanding the surrender of Manila, threatening to make a combined sea and land attack upon the city unless
the demand was acceded to.
While no information other than that received in Consul Wildman's dispatch has been received by the
administration, it is in a measure confirmed by a brief dispatch from Madrid tonight.
OFFICIALS ARE RETICENT
HONG KONG, Aug. 16.—1t was rumored here last night that Manila had surrendered, but no news is
obtainable from the Spanish consul. Gov.-Gen. Augusti refused to speak. The German consul was called
upon, and he. informed the correspondent that the outskirts of Manila were bombarded by the Americans, and
that the city had surrendered. No damage was done to the city proper, only the outskirts being bombarded.
The date of the bombardment was unknown to the German consul, who refused to say more.
Gen. Augusti told a lady that Admiral Dewey demanded the surrender of Manila in an hour. The
Spaniards declined to surrender, and they immediately began the bombardment, and the Spaniards hoisted a
white flag. Gen. Augusti immediately jumped into a German launch which was in waiting, and went to the
Kaiserin Augusta, which sailed before the bombardment was concluded. The bommbardment occurred on
the 13th inst.
THE NEWS REACHES MANILA
MADRID, Aug. 15.—8 p. m.—According to La Correspondencia de Espana, the surrender of Manila oc
curred after the last attacks made upon the city.
The government is also informed that Gen. Augusti, governor-general of the Philippines, will leave
Manila for Spain by the first mail steamer, giving his command to the second in rank.
AUGUSTI FLEES TO HONG KONG
HONG KONG, Aug. 15.—The German first-class cruiser Kaiserin Augusta arrived here today, having
left Manila on Saturday. She reports that the situation there was unchanged, but her officers are extremely
reticent.
Gen. Augusti, captain-general of the Philippines, arrived by the Kaiserin Augusta. He refuses to be in
terviewed, and will say nothing more than that he is going to Spain at the first opportunity.
It is a significant fact that while the fastest German cruiser has brought Gen. Augusti, she brings only
a small package of mail for the German consul. The consul is now in Canton, and his mail matter remains
unopened.
The precise facts are not known, but it is supposed that Gen. Auugusti fled from the Philippines.
The Spanish consul here has not yet sent to Manila the news that the protocol has been signed, and
Srobably the Spaniards at Manila will discredit the account to be brought tomorrow by the steamer Austra
a, as she was chartered by the Americans.
The opinion here is that the Germans have arranged matters with Capt.-Gen. Augusti. The insurgents
now at Hong Kong are not satisfied with the terms of peace proposed by the Americans.
REPORT RECEIVED AT LONDON
LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Westminster Gazette says it has received from a London business house a re
port that Manila has fallen. The report comes from the firm's Hong Kong agent.
Nothing has been received here to justify a rumor cabled back from the United States that Manila has
fallen and is now in possession of the Americans.
The German cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, which arrived in Hong Kong today, is the latest vessel out of
Manila to report conditions there, and she brings no intimation of a surrender of the city.
LOS ANGELES, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST J6, 189*
PATTON DEFEATED
The Mtaeice of the Octopus at
Sacramento
The Southern Pacific Hirelings Wii First Wool
Boclweiler Is Nominated toy tie Caucus
for Chairmai
SPECIAL TO THE HERALD.
SACRAMENTO, Aug. 16.—1n caucus at 1 oclock this morning tEB
Los Angeles delegation nominated I. B. Dockweiler for chairman over Geo,
S. Patton. This means that the fight has just begun, as it is almost oar*
tain the convention, in view of certain disclosures, will refuse to accept
Dockweiler as its chairman, although it has been all along understood
that the selection of the Los Angeles delegation would be accepted. Bui
that was before the pull of the S. P. in the matter became generally,
known.
It was 12:45 this morning when A. McCrimmon took the floor in tfia
caucus and nominated George S. Patton for temporary chairman of tha
Democratic state convention. A test vote on a motion a few minutes be*
fore resulted 45 to 30 in favor of the Patton faction, and it was though!
his nomination was a certainty.
It has been a busy day in Sacramento, with but little absolute ro»
-suits. When the Los Angeles delegation reached the capital, at noon to*,
day, they were about the only delegates in the city, barring the few
members of the Fresno and Madera delegations who were picked np ea
route. _i
CONKLING AND HIS COHORTS
The Los Angeles delegation did not arrive as a solid body. At Tracy,
Delegates Tom McCaffery, A. Ramish, M. C. Marsh, M. W. Conkling and
Tom Casey left the train and went to San Francisco.
Conkling was admittedly the leader of the railroad push backing
Dockweiler for chairman, and he and his cohorts went to San Francisco
before coming to the capital, where they met Mayor M. P. Snyder, Earl
Rogers and others, and that section of the delegation arrived in the city;
at 10 last night, and at once commenced a fight for a delay of the cauong
until Tuesday. This move did not win, but it delayed the caucus for near*
ly four hours.
AN ALL-IMPORTANT SELECTION
At 6 oclock last night the town was full of delegates, every after*
noon train having brought a score or more. As rapidly as possible the
Los Angeles men sounded the various delegations, and by 7 oclock it was
admitted on all sides that Los Angeles would name the chairman of tha
convention. Fresno, with twenty, and Madera, with six votes, were tho
first to caucus and stand by Los Angeles, naming Patton as their choice.
It was generally understood that the fight over the seating of the
contending San Francisco delegations depended upon the selection of a
chairman who would name the committee on credentials. It was also
generally understood that Dockweiler, as chairman, would represent tho
Southern Pacific interests, and would naturally appoint a credentials com*
mittee which would seat the Bainey-railroad delegation in preference to
the delegates seleoted by the committee of one hundred of San Francisco.
In other words, it was a fight of the push of Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco against the purity faction of the Democratic party in the two
cities. While Dockweiler's railroad supporters, led by Conkling, were at
work in San Francisco, he and his friends in Sacramento were denying
any connection with the Rainey-railroad clique and claiming all sorts of
things.
THE HILL-BURKE SUBPBISE
When enough delegates got in town to make tlie move effective, Maj.
W. B. Burke and Dr. R. W. Hill sprung a mine under the enemy's pre
tense of "no railroad push," by showing that certain Los Angeles dele
gates were sent here on free tickets by the Southern Pacific upon the ex
press condition that they would vote for Trask as chairman of the dele
gation and Dockweiler as chairman
of the convention.
Of the men approached in Los An
geles, two gave their affidavits to Dr.
Hill. They are B. J. Adcock and Mar
ion Woods. Each of them, under or
ders from Dr. Hill, accepted the South
ern Pacific's offer of a free ride, and
the committee now has the tickets
given them. The order given to Ad
cock reads as follows:
"LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.
"The bearer is Mr. B. J. Adcock,
Please fix him for Sacramento.
"T. McCAFFEBY."
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
Ed Morris attended to Mr. Woods'
case, and went with him to get his
ticket. So when the push arrived
from San Francisco tonight they,
found a hot time awaiting them. On
every hand they were turned down,
and delegation after delegation from
the interior said that even if Dock
weiler was nominated by the Los An
geles caucus they would refuse to sup
port him. It was thought, under the
conditions, that Dockweiler's defeat
was certain, but he was selected by
the caucus, and will be presented to
the convention tomorrow for confirm
ation. The chances are that all plans
will be upset and another chairman
selected, as the delegates who had
agreed to support the Los Angeles
caucus nominee now say that th*
promise was only made with the un
derstanding that an anti-railroad
man should be selected.
The delegates from the committet
of one hundred from San lieesssee,
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