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...vetoed 24 bills passed at the last session of the Philippine legislature, one of the chief of which was a proposal for a plebiscite on independence. And Henry Morgenthau, former U. S. Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, issued a statement to the Filipinos through the press as he left Manila...
...later the Methodist Church in Manila passed the following resolution: "Whereas some of our Protestant missionaries have been misunderstood and misquoted on the question of independence...
...cabled His Excellency, Mr. A. C. D. deGraeff, Netherlands Minister in Washington, that he will make all necessary preparations for the reception of the party in Java, and that he has designated Mr. A. T. Keen, Director of the Prince Hendrik School of Batavia, to join the vessel at Manila so that students will have the benefit of his lectures and personality for about one week before arriving at Java. Mr. Keen was educated in England, and is one of the prominent educational men of the Far East. His appointment by the Dutch East India Government indicates a sincere desire...
...offense of lese-majesty has evidently become a felony in some parts of America's far-flung empire. Antonio D. Pagua, Councilman-elect of Manila, was convicted yesterday and sentenced to four months' imprisonment on a charge of having insulted Leonard Wood, the present governor-general of the Philippines. The culprit's offence had consisted of referring to the general in a recent political campaign as an "autocrat" and a "usurper of Philippine autonomy",--terms not altogether indefensible in view of the general's well-known partiality for military methods...
...Manila, a bill was proposed in the territorial legislature forbidding sending through the mails: "Photographs, engravings, lithographs, books or any kind of printed matter depicting any inhabitant of the Philippine Islands belonging to the so-called non-Christian tribes and to the tribes inhabiting the provinces of northern Luzon...