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1 Mr. Williams to Mr. Cridler, Senate Document 62 (1898), p. 319.

2 See First Report of Taft Philippine Commission to the Secretary of War, p. 17.

3 General MacArthur’s report for 1901, War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 90.

4 Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1241.

5 J. R. Arnold, of the Philippine Civil Service Board, in North American Review, for February, 1912.

6 Correspondence Relating to War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1261.

7 War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 98.

8 Senate Document 331, pt. 1, 57th Congress, 1st Session, 1902, p. 136.

9 Cagayan, Isabela, and Nueva Vizcaya.

10 A kind of two-wheeled buggy, the principal public vehicle of Manila.

11 As it turned out, I lost nothing in the end, because my resignation of my military commission was not acted on at Washington, and I only ceased to be an officer of the army by operation of law at the end of the fiscal year, June 30, 1901, as had been provided by the Act of Congress of March 2, 1899, organizing the twenty-five regiments for Philippine service.

12 See the Act of the U. S. Philippine Commission of July 17, 1901, entitled, “An act restoring the provinces of Batangas, Cebu, and Bohol, to the executive control of the military governor,” in Public Laws, U. S. Philippine Commission, Division of Insular Affairs, War Department.

13 See American Census of the Philippines, vol. ii., p. 123.

14 Ib., vol. i., p. 58.

15 War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 7.

16 See pages 102 et seq. of Our Philippine Problem by H. Parker Willis, Professor of Economics and Politics in Washington and Lee University. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1905.

17 Where he still is.

18 Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1297.

19 The words quoted were used by Mr. Root in a speech delivered at Youngstown, Ohio, October 25, 1900.

20 Sixty-six men and three officers were surprised at breakfast and cut off from their guns by several hundred bolo men who had come into town as unarmed natives under pretence of attending a church fiesta. Forty-five men and officers were killed after a desperate resistance. Twenty-four only were able to escape. War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 8.

21 Governor Taft’s Report for 1901, War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 8.

22 War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 208.

23 Leviticus xvi., 10.

24 War Department Report, 1901, vol. i., pt. 8, p. 12.

25 Senate Document 331, pt. 1, p. 86, 57th Congress, 1st Session (1902).

26 War Department Report for 1900, vol. i., pt. 5, p. 59 et seq. Ibid., 1901, vol. i., pt. 4, p. 88 et seq.

27 Report for 1901, p. 98.

28 See Philippine Census, vol. ii, p. 123.

29 The Provincial Government Act was an act passed February 6, 1901, outlining the general scheme of government for the several provinces, and indicating the various tempting official positions attaching thereto.

30 War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 191.

31 Senate Document 331, p. 1612 et seq.

32 Senate Document 331, 1902, p. 1614.

33 S. D. 331, 1902, p. 1622.

34 Ibid., p. 1623.

35 S. D. 331, 1902, p. 1628.

36 War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 221.

37 Colonel Wagner’s testimony before Senate Committee of 1902. Senate Document 331, pt. 3, p. 2873.

38 War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 284.

39 Senate Document 331, 1902, p. 887.

40 Senate Document 331, pt. 3, p. 2878.

41 Theodore Rex.

42 War Department Report, 1902, vol. ix., p. 192.

43 Correspondence relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., pp. 1352–3.

44 Military Correspondence Relating to War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1244.