Note 6 — Chapter II · The Philippine Situation before the American Conquest

See 55th Cong., 3d Sess., S. D. 62, pt. 1, p. 421.

Aguinaldo’s bribery was exploded by Governor Rivera himself in the Spanish Senate on June 11, 1898, when he said that Aguinaldo undertook to submit if the Spanish government would provide for the widows and orphans of the insurgents. Rivera then added that the other promises he had made, he thought later not expedient to keep. (Reference to this in Cong. Rec., vol. 56th Cong., 1st Sess., pt. 2, p. 1334. Proceedings of Senate.)