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Meanwhile, the Mayor of Manila and the Secretary of the Interior also resigned as a protest. Then Manuel Luis Quezon led the whole Filipino Cabinet into Governor Wood's office and they all resigned because they had not been consulted on Conley's reinstatement. Quezon declared that...
General Wood had exceeded his authority. General Wood "begged to state" that "each and every" one of Quezon's declarations was without the slightest foundation in fact, and he accepted the resignation of the Cabinet. Then both sent cables to the War Department...
...course the question of a secret service agent kept no one from his sleep. Quezon is a very clever politician. He issued a statement saying: "The masses understand that the issue revolves around certain fundamental principles of government..." It does. Under the Jones Act of 1916 the Philippines were promised independence when they achieved a stable government. They were given a legislature to make their own laws on nearly every subject, the United States Senate having a veto. The Governor General, appointed by the President, selects his own Cabinet which must be approved by the Philippine Senate...
...Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena carry the Philippine politics more or less in their political vest-pockets. Quezon is a Spanish-Filipino, fiery and magnetic Osmena a Chinese-Filipino,. coolheaded, sphinxlike...
...That Quezon, a clever magpie of a politician, is executing a local political maneuver...