[97] Taylor, 55 AJ.

[98] Taylor, 26 AJ.

[99] Senate Documents, Vol. 25, Fifty-seventh Congress, First Session, p. 2969.

[100] Senate Documents, Vol. 25, pp. 2931-2932.

[101] Senate Documents, Vol. 25, p. 2956.

[102] Ibid., p. 2966.

[103] Ibid., p. 2966.

[104] Senate Documents, Vol. 25, p. 2955.

[105] Ibid., p. 2952.

[106] The following passage is an extract from an unsigned order dated July 22, 1898:—­

“For the preservation of peace and good order in the community and to put an end to the acts of those who within and without the city of Manila and in the neighboring provinces not under the control of the Spanish Government, are evading the orders issued by these Headquarters, and in view of the large number of those who are storing and monopolizing food and other most necessary articles, under the pretence of desiring to sell them to the Americans, but whose real intention is to ship them secretly to Manila where they receive higher prices for their merchandise, without regard for the injury they are doing the cause of our independence, I have seen fit to decree the following:  ... " P.I.R., 45.5 and 125. 3.

Relative to this matter, Taylor says:—­

“The defection of Buencamino and Pilar had opened the road to Aguinaldo, but at first the blockade was not effective.  There were too many natives there with friends and relations in Aguinaldo’s camp to make him desire to subject the city to the hardships of an effective siege.  And, furthermore, he did not have the force, nor did his men have the necessary discipline, to prevent the ingress of supplies.  It was not until the first part of July that the price of provisions increased.  It was at no time found necessary by the authorities to take over all the stores of provisions in the city.  Indeed, there seems to have been a fairly steady traffic in supplies between Manila and the country to the north.  It was a traffic in which it has been charged that certain Spanish officers of rank made large sums.  Aguinaldo permitted it, and on July 26, 1898, signed an order directing that food should be sent into Manila from the north to prevent starvation in the city, and ordered the heads of the towns in the vicinity not to interfere with this traffic (P.I.R., 1087-4).  The entrance of food supplies was confined to the northern line, for then it would not be known to the Americans who, after July 30, occupied the entrenchments in front of San Antonio Abad.  It was not expedient for them to see too much of Aguinaldo’s methods.”—­Taylor, 14 AJ.

[107] P.I.R., 398. 2.

[108] Senate Document 331, p. 2976, 1902.

[109] P.I.R., 102-10.

[110] P.I.R., Books C-1.

[111] P.I.R., 102-10.

[112] Ibid.

[113] P.I.R., 102. 10.

[114] Ibid., Books C-1.