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...blow, bells to ring in the city of Manila. In Washington a few minutes before (noon of the day before) President Roosevelt, beaming his best smile, exclaimed: "This is a great day for you and for me!'' The gentlemen he was addressing were two Filipinos, Senators Manuel Quezon and Elpidio Quirino, who had just watched him sign the McDuffie-Tydings bill offering to make the Philippines a Commonwealth for ten years, to grant them independence thereafter. Everybody beamed but no one was genuinely elated. The McDuffie-Tydings is the old Hawes-Cutting bill (which the Philippines rejected last...
...suit. This McDuffie Bill is a revised version of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Bill rejected by the Philippine Legislature last year, and it grants the Islands an even more complete independence. The changes in the Bill have been favorably commented upon by the President of the Philippine Senate, Manuel Quezon, and other prominent leaders in that legislature, and it is to be expected that the Bill will be immediately granted the required sanction by the Filipinos...
...Visitors of the week at the White House were wily little President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Senate and a party of Filipino politicians. Their faction had defeated in the Philippine Legislature the first step toward independence under the Hawes-Cutting Bill. President Roosevelt entertained them at lunch, pleasantly offered to give his earnest attention to any independence plan they might formulate, when they got it written down...
Newshawks found Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Senate, sick abed with a hot compress about his small brown neck. The peppery little man hunched up out of his sheets to bark: "It is not an independence bill at all. It is a tariff bill directed against our products. It is an immigration bill directed against our labor...
...Senate's action was a shock to Manuel Quezon and many of his Nacionalista (majority) party. When Woodrow Wilson was his good friend, "The Patrick Henry of the Philippines" had his best chance of wrenching his land unconditionally free. In '99 and after, he had shed blood for independence. Now, smoking cigarets by the chain system, he found independence under the terms set by Congress "unjust and absurd." But with racial shrewdness (he is quarter-Spanish) he decided to hold his fire until the independence commission returns to present its arguments to the Legislature. The coming regular legislative...