Word: insular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must have been with a great many grim thoughts that Governor General Wood, acting on behalf of the Secretary of War, opened the Insular Legislature of the Philippines. He had warred all through the previous session with the Legislature, which demanded his removal. The chief occupation of the island legislators has been to say "No" when the Governor said "Yes" and to say "Yes" when they anticipated that the Governor would...
...politics and political scheming than for commerce and civil engineering. Perhaps the Governor sighed. But he had really little to fear in the nature of an immediate rumpus from the Legislature, for the reason that all the real political leaders are in this country, junketing and ineffectually agitating for Insular independence...
...people will not be surprised by the attitude taken by President Coolidge. They understand Mr. Coolidge must play politics in the matter, but they do have faith in the American Congress." Meanwhile ructions continued in the islands. The Insular Legislature provided some years ago an Independence Fund, an annual outlay of 1,000,000 pesos ($500,000) for promoting the independence of the islands. The fund, unlike any expenditure authorized by Congress, receives its annual income of 1,000,000 pesos without any specific appropriation. Moreover, it is spent secretly. Some time ago court proceedings were instituted by the opponents...
Recently the Insular Auditor Ben F. Wright ordered payments of the fund stopped. Last week the Philippine Press Bureau, a propaganda organization maintained in Washington out of the fund, announced that in retaliation "the Filipinos are abstaining from patronizing American goods and American newspapers" and asserted that private contributions were being received which in the course of a year would aggregate not 1,000,000 but 2,000,000 pesos. If this latter is so, nobody should be dissatisfied. Other reports from the Philippines declared that the appeal for private contributions to the Independence fund had netted less than...
Meanwhile in Washington the Insular Affairs Committee of the House voted 11 to 5 to report granting independence to the islands. Some of those voting for presenting such a measure are opposed to granting independence at present, but voted favorably merely to bring the matter up. A subcommittee was delegated to draft the measure with two basic provisions: 1) that the U. S. was to have the right to a naval base on the islands, and 2) that there should be suitable guarantees for the payment of Philippine bonds most of which are held in this country. Democratic and radical...