This man told him all about the mistakes of the Americans and evidently greatly impressed him, for shortly thereafter he read to us at a commission meeting a draft of a proposed cablegram which he said he hoped we would approve.

It would have stultified us, had we signed it, as it involved in effect the abandonment of the position we had so recently taken and a radical change in the policy we had recommended.

Mr.Schurman told us that if we did not care to sign it, he would send it as an expression of his personal opinion.

Colonel Denby asked him if his personal opinion differed from his official opinion, and received an affirmative reply.

We declined to approve the proposed cablegram, whereupon he informed us that if his policy were adopted, he and General Aguinaldo would settle things without assistance from us, and that otherwise he would resign.