ndries Azcoule. They assured General Otis
of the hearty support of the Visayas except those few who have been
stirred into revolt by the agents of Aguinaldo on the Island of Panay.

The government of Negros, they declared, was in favor of American rule,
and there was no adverse sentiment whatever among the natives. The
stars and stripes are now floating over all the official buildings
on the island. The commission offered to raise an army of 100,000
Visayans to fight the Tagalos on the Island of Luzon. The commissioners
represent large sugar-interests in Negros.

The Negros Island deputation was greatly pleased with its reception.

Admiral Dewey's flag as a full American Admiral was saluted becomingly
by all the warships of foreign nations at Manila, even including the
Germans, who had not until then showed the Americans any significant
courtesy. The English led the function with an Admiral's salute. There
was no novelty in this, for they long ago in every friendly way
recognized Manila as an American port. The Germans have given signal
manifestation of their desire to promote the most cordial relations
between Germany and the United States by ordering the withdrawal
of all vessels of their navy from Philippine waters and placing the
lives and property of their subjects there under the protection of
the United States Government.

A Hongkong dispatch of February 28 contained this information:

"Professors Schurman and Worcester to-day, after a long consultation
with Wildman, who is looked upon as one of the best-posted men in
the Orient in regard to Philippine affairs, expressed themselves as
satisfied with the outlook.

"They are especially pleased with the action of President McKinley
in restoring to the wealthy Cortes family the great estates illegally
confiscated by the Spaniards.

"'It is good politics,' said a leading member of the Hongkong colonial
cabinet to-day. 'It will seal to America every Filipino who possesses
property. It is the hardest blow Aguinaldo has suffered.'"

Admiral Dewey is strengthened by gunboats enough to keep out the
Filipino supplies of arms picked up in Asia, and Congress may not
be making a noise agreeable to our enemies for the rest of this
year. There is compensation in the omission. There will be no European
or American interference in the process of pacificating the military
faction of Filipinos, who are ungrateful and murderous, during the
rest of the last year of the centur