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Show "DEM AND IlKCOQNmO FILIPINOS FILlrWMonANt)UM WITH STATE DEPAnf MENT. Drelsre Ths I or Sssra Months Tlis llsfr Mslntlat,l n rrm of flov vran enl lls.s. tnn Ike Uliht of the leoU so Halo. WashlnKlon. Jan 10-Senor Fellpt Agonelllo, tbo rc'presentatlve of Gen fist Agnlnaldo- In Wothlugton, hat file.1 with tho s.raU-ilcpnrtment a mi'm-tiramlum mi'm-tiramlum setting. forth at length tin nasijnsfor hi claim that the l'hlllp-plne l'hlllp-plne gOTsrnincnt should 1 0 ri.cognIr.ed by the United HUUsr Accompanying the memorandum, I a letter Jn which Senior Agontillu states that ho hail received re-ceived no repby to his communication of January fi In which, he aska thata ullablo tlmo bo nrraogeil when ho eoul 1 bo presented jo t10 president and heard upon hUclalms. In view of I the position In which tho reprrscnta 1 tlve of the American government nnd I the representatives Of the I'hlllpplno j government find thimsclrea Uion tho Islandt nt this tlmo ho urge that tho mutter lie given Immediate attention Tho letter and tho memorandum have been listed at official documents In the state department and although the ofllclalt themselves have refused to mnko them publlo they hato nevertheless neverthe-less uxpnsseil willingness for Settor AgnniWo to do mi If he desired The papera aro now In tho hands of becrc-tary becrc-tary Hay. Tho memorandum lailang the amei llnea a a.tatinicnU lurtlgfore inadt pohllobythe llllplim repntonUtlve, Scnor Agonelllo nsserta tho 1 lllplnoi established anil for Ac ecu mojths havt mslntnlned a form pf government re sombtlngtho American In that It li bated upon tho right of tho jKoplq M rulcj that Hpoln having at tho tlmo ol tho signing of the trt,atj of penco possession pos-session of only ouo port nnd tho remainder re-mainder of tho l'lilllpplncs, except Manila, being Jn possession of tin riilllppllia republic bpuln tould glvi notltldto tho United htntu fur tin Islnndst nnd that fiavlng no iltlo te glvo, l(or claim cannot bo rcndiriJ belter by the ratlllcatlon of tho treat; of pcact |