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Last week a smart launch detached itself and cut shoreward from the side of the S. S. President McKinley as she steamed into Manila Bay. From the launch, which seemed the liner's emissary, stepped Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, emissary of the parent U. S. to the Philippines...
...erect, military figure made haste to Malacanan Palace, official residence of the Governors General. A knot of small, smart, brown-skinned men-Filipino politicians-were waiting to shake hands. Col. Stimson also greeted some other small, smart, brown-skinned men who were to be his servants. "Oh, yes," he said, as a chef came forward. "Yes, I know Ming. How are you, Ming...
Another official went west-Col. Henry Lewis Stimson, on the stately S. S. President McKinley, to be Governor-General of the Philippines...
Testifying last week before the Senate Committee on Territories, President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate attacked the liberal-but-firm policy which Col. Stimson represents. But President Quezon intends to leave the Philippines soon, to become Resident Philippine Commissioner in Washington, where he can urge Philippine independence at the adamant doors of Congress instead of in the ears of his docile countrymen. He will be succeeded as Philippine Senate chief by Sergio Osmena, a more mature statesman and no agitator, no propagandist...
...Read, debated, amended & passed the House Deficiency Bill; returned it to joint conference; adopted the conference report; sent the bill to the President. ¶ Concurred with the House to adjourn Dec. 21 to Jan. 4. ¶ Confirmed Presidential appointments, including Ambassador-to-Mexico Morrow, Governor-General Stimson of the Philippines, Ambassador-to-Cuba Judah, Under-Secretary of State Olds, Assistant-Secretary of Commerce Brown, Minister-to-Liberia Francis...