_To the Senate_:
In response to the following resolution of the Senate of January 17,
1900, requesting the President--
If in his judgment not incompatible with the public interest, to
communicate to the Senate all communications which have been received by
him or by any Department or officer, civil or military, from Aguinaldo
or any other person undertaking to represent the people in arms against
the United States in the Philippine Islands, or any alleged government
or public authority of said people, and all replies to such
communications;
Also, the proclamation sent by him to be issued to the people of the
Philippine Islands, as actually directed by him to be issued, and the
same as actually proclaimed by General Otis, if in any respect it was
altered or any part of it was omitted;
Also, to inform the Senate whether any approval or disapproval was
expressed by his authority, or that of the War Department, of such
change, if any;
Also, all constitutions, forms of government, or proclamations issued
by Aguinaldo, or any congress or legislative assembly or body claiming
to be such, or convention of the people of the Philippine Islands, or
any part thereof, or claiming to represent them or any part thereof,
of which information may have come to him or to any Department of the
Government;
Also, all instructions given by him to the commissioners of the
Philippine Islands, or either of them;
Also, any information which may have come to him, or any Department of
the Government, since January 1, 1898, in regard to any plans of the
people in arms against the United States for the pillage of Manila, for
risings in the city, or for the destruction of foreign property and the
massacre of foreign residents;
Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department
of the Government, of the treatment of the other inhabitants of the
Philippines by those in arms against the authority of the United States,
and of the attitude and feeling of such other inhabitants or tribes
toward the so-called government of Aguinaldo and his armed followers;
Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department of
the Government, of the treatment of prisoners, either Spanish or
American, by the people in arms against the authority of the United
States;
Also, any information that may have come to him, or any Department of
the Government, as to any aid or encouragement received by Aguinaldo and
his followers from persons in the United States; as to what pamphlets,
speeches, or other documents emanating from the United States and
adverse to its authority and to its policy were circulated in whole or
in part among the Filipinos in arms against the United States, among the
other inhabitants of the islands, or among the soldiers of the United
States, and any information as to the effect, if any, of such pamphlets,
speeches, and other documents, or of similar utterances in the United
States upon the course of the rebellion against the United States;
Also, any further or other information which would tend to throw light
upon the conduct and events of the insurrection against the authority
of the United States in the Philippine Islands, and of the military
movements for its suppression since January 1, 1898.
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