November 24, 1900: Otis telegraphed Washington that the claim to government by the Filipinos can be made no longer

On November 24, 1900, General Otis telegraphed Washington that the claim to government by the "insurgents can be made no longer under any fiction". Otis noted in his cable that, "the treasurer, secretary of the interior, and president of congress are in our hands, its president and remaining cabinet officers are in hiding, evidently in different central Luzon provinces, acting as bandits, or dispersed playing the role of 'amigos', with arms concealed".