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I Single Sheet F 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." Twelve Pages | 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, y t )ss*H{sb^