Show CALLSBRYANTO TIll t Acting Secretary of War Meifclejohn Invites 1 Nebfaskans Attention to Some Official Documents U i Popocratic Leader Made Statement in Speech at Tipton Indiana Regarding r Re-garding the Sulu TreatyTo This His Attention is Called and z the Letter of the President to Gen Otis on the Subject Is Cited Washington Oct 9ActIng Secretary T fMelkleJchn of the War department has gcnt the following letter to lon W J c fBryan who spoke at Pcorla today i Washington Oct I 19GO Dear SIrIn L tim prC3S reports yesterday of your ad E F dress at Tipton Ind In which you rc erred to the overthrow of human clavery 1 lln the United Suites resulting from the success of the armies of the Union you I rare also reported na saying In that con tnccllon o fought then for the adop C ion of a constitutional amendment that provided tliat no man could own n slave I and yet before the Philippine war Is I ended Ewe have tho Sulu treaty which recognizes zIac r Permit me to Invite your attention to he following extract from the Jotter of I r the Secretary of War to MaJGon E SOls j S-Ols commaridlnyr the United States forces fin the Philippines under dale ol October 27 ISM r The President Instructs mo to advise you that the agreement signed August 20 J IfcSO between TJrlfrGcn John C Bates j representing tho United Slates of tho ono hiurl the Sultan of Jolo the Dato Rajah itti iMurta tho Dato Matllk the Dato Calbl t and the Dato Joakanln of the other part Is confirmed and approved subject to the action of Congress provided for in the clause of Congress l of peace between tho l ITJlted States nnd Spain which provides the civil rights and the political status of L the native Inhabitants of tho territory hereby ceded to the United States nhall l t JC determined by Congress and with the L t understanding and reservation which 1lucnlandlnr should be dlstlnclly cornmunlcatcrt to tho Sultan of Jolo that thlu agreement Is not J to lie tleemeI In anyway to authorize or i give the consent of the United States to JIo existence of slavery In the Zulu archipelago 1 archi-pelago a thing which 1 f made Impossible by tho Thirteenth Amendment to the Con rstllullon of tho United States J I I Is I probably unnecessary to call your fatlcntlon to the fact that In the absenco ntenlon c fof tho approval of the President It Is Im Vposslbre for us to have the Sulu treaty Lor any other treaty Very respectfully fe G D MEIKLEJOHN 0 = f Hon W J Bryan Peorla 111 z t |