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...Porto Rican Legislature recently authorized a commission to visit Washington to urge this end. In Washington last week Secretary of War Weeks fortified himself for the visit of the Commission by consulting with Major General Mclntyre, chief of the Insular Bureau. Doubtless he will give the islanders a cordial welcome. But he expressed the opinion that under the present regime Porto Rico is enjoying unparalleled prosperity...
...loss is now about 600,000 pesos a year. ¶To stabilize the currency and save the bank, large bond issues were necessary. The bonded indebtedness of the islands at the end of 1922 was 143,920,000 pesos, of which 135,500,000 pesos were obligations of the Insular Government (the rest provincial and municipal). ¶ The former President and three other officials of the National Bank are in jail. ¶ By stringent economies Government expenses have been reduced (figures in pesos) : Receipts Expenditures...
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
Hoping to pacify the island, the President and Secretary of War Weeks chose as Reily's successor Representative. Horace M. Towner of Iowa, Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee, who on arriving at his post was greeted with a tremendous ovation, " the greatest celebration that the island had ever witnessed...
There are now 112 Harvard Clubs which belong to the Associated Harvard Clubs, President Marvin reports. Of these, 99 are in the United States, 3 in Canada, and 10 in foreign countries or insular possessions. The Harvard Club of Berlin has been reorganized under Ambassador A. B. Houghton '86; Ambassador R. W. Child '03, is president of the Harvard Club of Rome; and the newly-formed Harvard Club of Paris has completed a fund of 25,000 francs to send a French boy to Harvard, the first 1000 francs having been contributed by Ambassador Herrick