The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-25
FILIPlNOS COME IN
COL. ZURBANO, WITH OVER FIVE
HUNDRED MEN TAKES OATH
OF ALLEGIANCE
NEWS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Combinations for Quarters for
Army Officers Are to BE Dis
cOntinued-The Judi
cial Oath.

MANILA, July 24-Col Zurbano, with
20 officers, SIS men, 243 rifles and 100 boi2s,
! has surrendered to Lieut. Hickman Of
! the First cavalry, in Tayabas province.
! These former insurgents have taken the
oath of allegiance to the United States,
and their surrender clears the district of
the revolutionary element.
A civilian named Finnick has been SEN
fenced to one years imprisonment and to
| pay $1,000 for receiving supplies stolen
from the commissary department.
United States army officers and their
| families are disturbed at the announce
ment made by Gen. Chaffee that the
combinations of officers quarters hish-
erto allowed will be abolished. This &C
ton practically cOmpels the officers to
live in public buildings.
the headquarters of the department
of the Southern Luzon will be removed
to Santa Ana Con the Pasig river, a few
miles north of Manila. The headquar-
tiers of Gen Simmer will be removed
from Santa Ana to Lipa, in Batangas
province.
Capt. Hazards Macabebe scouts, who
participated in the capture Of Aguinaldo,
are to accompany a battalion of the
Th.rtieth infantry in lie island of Min
doro
junta dated June "a and addressed to
the insurgent leader, Bellarmino, which
has been recently captured, says the
junta has received messages of sympathy
and assurances of support from Mess s.
Winslow and Levison, anti-imperialists,
urging the Filipinos to continue their re-
sistance in the hope of eventual indie
pendence, saying the American people
are grooming under the war taxes and
hot IO1,,, a..
election.
CONSTITUTION NOT IN IT
Correspondence of the Associated Press
MANILA June 12.-The passage today
by the Philippine commission of the act
organizing the courts of the archipelago
was preceded by two interesting Incl
dents, both of which brought out author
itative statements from President Taft.
The first was in reference to the wording
of the oath of Office to be taken by
judges. Support of the constitution of
the United States (Which all officials in
the United States subscribe to in their
oaths of office was purposeIy omitted
from this oath, but recognition of the
supreme authority of the United States
was included.
Judge Ide, author of the judiciary bills,
held that swearing to support the United
States constitution when it had already
been decided that at least one feature
of that instrument uniformity of duties
clause does not apply in the Philippines,
would be improper. He considered that
discussion of the meaning of the consti-
tuition as affecting powers and duties of
the United States officials in the Phil
ippines would be of no service here, since
these questions are in process of settle
ment in tne United States supreme court.
Replying to a question of Senior Pa
terno CORNER secretary of state in the
Aguinaldo cabineD as to whether, since
1t was generally assumed that the con-
stitution follows the flag, the paths Of Of
flee of Philippine officials should not in
clude support of the constitution, Judge
Taft said:
THE oath to support the laws of the
Philippine islands, if the validity of these
laws depends upon the constitution of the
United States, is an oath to support laws
enacted In accordance with the cOnsti-
tuition of the United States. There has
been so much discussion of the issue pre-
Sented in this form. does the constitu-
ton of the United States follow the flag
OF the United States?' that it was thought
best not to invite discussion by changing
the form of oath from that which had
originally been adopted by the military
government when the commission came
here.
Personally, I think that statement of
the issue is exceedingly misleading Every
person who comes to these islands ac-
credited as an officer or agent of the
United States government, derives his
authority from an officer who was ap-
pointed under the constitution of the
United States; therefore it seems to me
to say that the constitution has no oper-
alton in these islands. is to say something
Which logically cannot be sustained and
the real question is not whether the con-
st1tution extends to these islands, but
what clauses of the constitution affect the
government of them. In other words
the real issue is whether congress or the
president acting under the constitution
in asserting authority of the United
States in these islands, is restricted by
certain limitation by that constitution
which certainly apply to the president
and apply to the action of the congress
in dealing with the state.
Now the constitution contains clause
which requires all duties on imports TO
be uniform throughout the United States.
The supreme court has, in a recent de-
ciston, news of which came yesterday.
decided that that clause of the constitu-
ton does not apply to government Great
ed by congress in Porto Rico and these
islands. The statement that the consti-
tuition is In operation in these islands
may thus mean one thing to one person
and another thing to another. Why, the e.
fore, introduce into an oath of office a
form of statement which might lead to
demonstration? Why not follow the
old form which serves every purpose?"