The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1902-02-14
THE PHILIPPINE MEMORIAL
Presented to the S~enate-The Fed
eraI Party Asks for Annexation to
thc United States.

Washington, February 1.-THE me-
mortal of the federal party of the hill
ippine islands was transmitted to the
senate his afternoon by the secretary
of war. together with a letter of trans
initial by Governor Taft. in whose
charge the document was given. The
memorial was adopted at an ~extraordi-
nary session of the federal party held
in Manila in November. 1t sets forth
that the performance of that obligation
. of the treaty Of Paris which gave the
United States congress authority to fix
the status of the Philippine islands has
been deferred to this time because of
the attack by the F%ilipinos upon the
sovereignty of the United States. an
act brought about, the memorial says,
through a misunderstanding and not
through hatred of the American over
eighty. 1t further states that out or
the sixty provinces and districts war
exists only in two-Batangas n Sa-
mar.
The memorial makes a presentation
of the deduction OF the federal party
that congress should proceed to carry
iato effect its intention of defining the
future of the Philippines in their rela-
tons to the United States and asserts
tina there is no reason for not replac-
ing the military regime by a civil rule
of a popular character In conformity
witha The decisive words or the never
to be forgotten President Mckinley
The memorial prope is divided into
two mrts. The first of these is a petit
ton fer annexation and a presentation
of the form OF government desired. In
tnIS Subdivision the federal party sets
forth, tina il has made an exhaustive
study OF both the Filipinos and the
Americans and concludes that from the
mass of data collected, il is the inten-
.tfon of the two peoples that they should
never be- disunited."
-The memorial then proceeds:
ITO make of the Philippines a colony
at the United States or to grant indc-
~pendence 30 the Philippines would be
to tand the islands over to disorder.
anarchy and to chaos
The memorialists then pray a dec
faration by II congress of the United
States to the effect that the Philippine
Islands as sthey are described in the
treaty of Paris and the subsequent con-
yentiGn with Spain are an integral part
of the United States. the said Philip
pine stands constituting a territory
with tie rights and provinces which
the CONSTITUTION Of h United States
grants 10 the ether territories. such as
that Ct becoming a state CT the union
A preliminary form OF government
similar to that OF the territories OF the
United States is outlined as suitable
for the Philippines. The plan provides
for a governor and four executive Sec
retaries to be appointed by the presi-
dent of the United States and for a ter
ritorial senate in addition to a house
of representatives, consisting Of thirty
members, sixteen Of whom are to be
by the people and the othrs ap-
pointd by b governor. The memorial
asks h the islands be represented in
the United States ~ Of representa-
tvs by two delegates
The second part of the memorial sets
forth the aspirations of a social and
economical character, the principal OF
which the memorial represents to be
the securing of a remedy for b an
cient evil know as the friar."