The troops of the Lake Lanao Expedition have been paraded in order that the following messages may be read to them: FIRST. MANILA, May 4, 1902. TO GENERAL DAVIS: Order that the following message of the President of the United States be read to every company and troop in your Brigade. It will be published in Division Orders for the information of other commanders, and as a special mark and tribute to the assaulting force of the Battle of Bayan. (Sgd.) CHAFFEE. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 5, 1902. TO GENERAL CHAFFEE, MANILA. Accept for the Army under your command, and express to General Davis and Colonel Baldwin especially, my congratulations and thanks for the splendid courage and fidelity which has again carried our flag to victory. Your fellow countrymen at home will ever reverence the memory of the fallen, and be faithful to the survivors, who have themselves been faithful unto death for their country's sake. (Sgd.) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. SECOND. MANILA, May 4, 1902. TO GENERAL DAVIS: Please accept my congratulations for yourself, and express to Colonel Baldwin and all the officers and men engaged in the Battle of May 2, my high appreciation of their bravery, gallantry and soldiery conduct. My congratulations to both officers and men. I sincerely regret the death of some and the wounding of others. Let no comfort be withheld from the latter that can be supplied them. (Sgd.) GENERAL A. R. CHAFFEE, Commanding Philippines. THIRD. CEBU, May 4, 1902. TO GENERAL DAVIS: My sincere congratulations to Baldwin, and to the officers and men engaged yesterday. Also to yourself for your energetic and skillful conduct of the whole affair, from first to last. It was necessary to give the Moros a lesson, and it seems to have been done in such a manner that it will not have to be repeated. (Sgd.) BRIGADIER GENERAL WADE. FOURTH. REMARKS OF GENERAL GEORGE W. DAVIS. SOLDIERS: