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Recently Representative Robert Low Bacon of New York, son of Robert Bacon, Secretary of State under Roosevelt and Ambassador to France under Taft, introduced a bill into Congress. Last week General Emilio Aguinaldo who led the Philippine insurrection over 25 years ago, now a good and pro-U. S. citizen in the Islands was moved to register his emphatic protest against the Bacon bill...
...bill is premised on the fact that the two races in the Philippines, Filipinos (Christian) and Moros (Mohammedans) differ temperamentally and every other way, that the Moros being in the minority are trampled on by the Filipino majority, that the periodic Moro uprisings come from no other cause. It proposes in the name of not only wisdom but justice that the Moro part of the Islands be given a separate government under the U. S.-in brief that U. S. try to solve the Philippine problem as the British solved the problem of Ireland. But General Aguinaldo as a good...
...Dawes sometime ago put the question of the advisability of the Haugen bill to an English economist, Sir Josiah Stamp. Sir Josiah approved it, and lately Mr. Dawes has been sitting in at the conferences of the supporters of the Haugen bill. In fact the bill, originally called the Haugen bill from the chairman of the House Committee of Agriculture, and then the McNary-Haugen bill, adding the name of the sponsor of the bill in the Senate, was last week dubbed by its opponents the Dawes-McNary-Haugen bill...
...these finally agreed that Abe Mitchell (who later confessed that he had paid no attention to the newfangled arrangements but just "played for the pin" as usual) had amassed 172 points and was the winner. C. H. Corless, Abe's English compatriot, was second with 161 points. Rugger Bill Melhorn of Chicago was third with 160 points. Other scores: Walter Hagen 148 points, Archie Compston 134, Joe Kirkwood 128. "Par" in points was 228. Comparison of the medal (stroke) scores shed but little light on the relative merits of "guid auld" and "scientific" golf. Mitchell equaled the course record...