Show I TREATMENT OF AGUINALDD I i Gen Grant Declares Filipino Lead I I or Is of Little Importance i I I I New York June iGen Frederick Dent Grant was given a reception tonight I to-night by the United States Grant pst i G A B In a brief i address Gen Grant said 1J 01 Agulnaldo was not as much ora capture In the Philippines as he seems to have been here To tell the truth Ir r he > hnd lost about all his Influence We did not treat him as if we considered consid-ered him of some Importance We I cannot kill him of course but we want to make him feel that he stands on the same footing with any other I Filipino If we should fine him 10 and send him to jail for thirty da sand s-and set him to breaking rock It would be better for him and for ourselves If when he comes over here weS we-S treat him with contempt he will be treated with contempt by the natives when he goes home But If over there they get the Idea that we have a high Idea of Aguinaldos Importance when he gets back he will have a following which may make us trouble Gen Grant said that the friars were much hated and were very corrupt The Philippine commission he said desired to treat the friars the same as any other persons with no more consideration con-sideration and with no less |