The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-02-24
PRESIDENT SCHURMAN

Outlines the Constitution Prepared
For the philippines = IdenteaIly
the Same as That Prepared Tor the
Louisiana Purchase and the One
Prepared by Paterno; Agpinaldo's
Prime Minister.
CHICAGO, Feb. g. - President
schurman, Of Cornell University, and
former head Of, the Philippine commits
sion, delivered an address before the
student body at the Armour Institute
to-day, in which he foreoasted the re-
port and recommendation OF the COM
mission. soon to be published at WASH
ington.
President schurman said that he had
recommended to the President gov
ernment and constitution for the Phil
ipplnes identically the same as that
framed by educated Fillplnos, which is
practically the governmental policy
outlined by Thomas Jefferson for the
government OF the vast territory ac-
Qulred by the Louisiana purchase. Pres
dent Sehurmnn said further he was
happy to state President Mckinley had
accepted the recommendation and waR
sending out second commission to
put this government In operation.
''T6 avoid any mistake on the sub
iect." said the speaker, "the constitu-
tion drawn up by Pedro a. Paterno,
AguinaldO's prime minister, In 1898,
VIII be published alongside with the
constitution adopted by the commits
sion, so that It may be seen that the
two are Identical, with only slight elab-
oration in the American form. This
constitution also agrees with the re-
quests that Lending Filiplnos have been
making Of US day after day
The Government They Asked For.
"The newspapers have not given
publicity to the fact that We are to
give the FTliplnos the very government
they themselves ask, but our govern
ment Is now striking OFF 1900 copies OF
the report that It may inform those
who have been so solicitous in regard
to the kind OF government their friends,
the Filiplnos, will obtain from US.
Continuing, the speaker said that
after careful study Of the island
tribes, he became convinced that the
plan OF Great Britain In her govern
ment Of the Malays-signlng peace
pacts with the Individual chiefs OF the
trlbes-was the most satisfactory one.
The results upheld his opinion. for in
the southern row Of islands, where this
policy was followed, not a gun had
been fired, and the American flag had
been held an honored emblem. This
policy was not adopted in regard to
the middle islands, which are inhabited
by the Visayan tribe, the largest in the
group Of islands, because OF the fnct
that the most peculiar Of civil govern
ments prevails there. The influence OF
Spain, said President Schurman. per-
meates the entire country and Its half
million OF inhabitants. Owing TO DOM
inauce OF Spain during the many gener-
atlons that have passed, chieftains
have disappeared, and the great popu-
IattoR Is left leaderless by the. removal
OF Spanish rule. There are no chiefs in
this portion Of the country with whom
fna q n 60 ln''l Eoi
n lii96s 70 6aSet q peace pact. but
the great desire OF the people, said the
speaker. is to come forward and accept
the government ofiored by Americn as
soon aslfie contest In the island Of Isu-
zon iS9A
Just h6p 10 would be as much as their
lives are crth for the natives to make
such nl1e for the Tagalos having
taken bwAJ their arms, would come
down from the north and in ambush,
assassinate many, It Is only this fer
that keeps the sYisayan tribe from uh-
animOusiy and voluntarily becoming
the active allies of the United States.