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When he had done, it was the inning of Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, leader of the Nationalist (dominant) Party opposing Wood. Said...
This young-looking Filipino holds the post which was vacated by the astute Sergio Osmena who preferred to sit in the Philippine Senate under his brother politician, Quezon. It may have been that Osmena foresaw unprofitable struggles with Governor General Wood, and preferred to avoid a position of open leadership. At any rate, Roxas was made Speaker of the House and side by side with President Quezon of the Senate has opposed General Wood. Now he comes to Washington for the thankless task of trying to convince the Administration that the Philippines should be made independent. The political prognosticators prophesied...
Hardly had Señor Roxas set sail for the U. S., however, when Manuel Quezon and Antonio de los Alas (who is acting as Speaker of the House, in Roxas' absence) agreed with General Wood on the appointment of officers to the National Coal Co. This was apparently a direct reversal of Quezon's policy of absolutely non-coöperation which he and his Collectivist followers adopted. Reports came of a near-rapprochement between Quezon and Wood. " Ah," said the prophets, " Fair and warmer...
...Manila, Governor General Leonard Wood turned his solid back on Manuel Quezon and the Collectivists howling in the Filipino Legislature and went off to look into the troubles of the Moros on the Island of Min- danao. Apparently he had forgotten the disputants behind his back. Apparently the War Department agreed perfectly that he should...
...member of the Philippine Assembly. In 1916 when the Organic Act of Congress, often called the Jones act, created a Filipino senate, he became one of 24 Filipino senators. In his party, which has continually advocated independence for the islands, he has ranked in leadership only to Manuel Quezon. He resigned his senatorship in order to represent his government at Washington...