The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-01
CENSUS OF FILIpINOS
GOVERNMENT BILL PROVIDES FOR
ONE.
COINAGE ALSO PROVIDED FOR.
TO PAVE WAY FOR POPULAR GOV
ERNMENT.

PurpOrt of the Census Is to Ascer-
tain the Fitness of FiIipinos for
Permanent Popular Representa-
tive Government-Autho of
Commission Is increased and 1t Is
Given Right to Extend Franchise
in It's Discretion-Philipp to
Have Free Coinage of silver.
Washington, March 31.-The Senate
Committee on the Philippines to-day
completed consideration of the bill pre-
scribing a form of government for the
Philippine Islands and authorized
Senator Lodge to report it to the Sem
ate after voting down the Democratic
substitute by party vote. The amend
ment providing for census of the pop
ulation of the island is as follows:
That whenever the existing insur-
rection in the Philippine Islands shall
have ceased and a condition of general
and complete peace shall have been
established therein and the fact shall
be certified to the President by the
Philippine Commission, the President,
upon being satisfied thereof, shall or
der census of the Philippine Islands
to be taken such census in ITS inquir-
les relating to the population shall take
and make so far as practicable full
report for all the inhabitants, of name,
age, sex, race, or tribe, whether native
or foreign born, literacy in Spanish,
native dialect, or language, or in Eng
lish, school attendance and ownership
of homes, and such other information
separately for each island, each prov
ince, and municipality, or other civil
division, needful to inform the
President and Congress concerning the
capacity, fitness and readiness of all
the people of the Philippine Islands.
and of particular islands, provinces,
and municipalities, and other civil di-
visions for the establishment and
maintenance in the Philippine Islands,
or certain of them, of a permanent
popular representative government"
After the completion of the census
the Philippine commission is required
to report fully to the President and TO
Congress their commentators
based on such census and upon the
operation of the local governments
provided for, whether or not all or
Fttttrill u. Liz IHtlDDlllC IStduQS, are
capable, fit and ready for the estab-
lishment OF a permanent. popular rep.
resentative government.
More Authority for Commission.
The Philippine Commission is contin-
ued in effect and there is no further
hint than that above quoted of pos
is made for the extension of the com
missions authority:
That the Philippine Commission
meantime are hereby authorized and
directed, in their discretion, to con-
tinue to establish additional munich
pal and provincial governments in he
Philippine Islands, with popular rep
resentative government so far and so
fast as communities in such civil divis-
ions are capable, fit and ready for the
same, the qualification of electors, in
elections in municipalities and prov
inces to be the same as now provided
by law for electors in municipal
elections; and said Philippine Com
mission whenever they find other male
inhabitants of lawful age in such mu-
inequalities and provinces capable, fit
and ready for such extension shall in
clude- the same among the electors,
with the purpose of gradually extend
ing to municipalities and provinces
permanent popular representative gov
eminent.
To Coin Silver Dollars.
After authorizing the Philippine gov
eminent to establish a mint at Manila
and extending the coinage laws of the
United States so far as applicable to
the islands, the following is inserted as
a section:
THAT the said Philippine government
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which shall contain 416 grains of stand
ard silver coins shall be such that Of
1000 parts of weight, 900 shall be CT
pure metal and 100 of alloy. and the
alloy shall be of copper. And upon the
said silver dollar there shall be devices
AMI inscriptions to be prescribed by
the government of the Philippine ISL
ands, with the approval of the Secre-
tary of War of the United States,
which devices and inscriptions shall eN-
press or symbolic the sovereignty of
the United States and that it is coin
OF the Philippine Islands, together with
the denomination of the coin expressed
in English, Filipino and Chinese char
acters, and the date of its coinage.
Free Coinage for Philippines.
THAT any owner of silver bullion
may deposit the same at the mint IN
the Philippine Islands, to be coined as
hereinhefore provided. Silver bullion
brought to the mint of the Philippine
Islands for coinage shall be receIv III
and coired by the proper officers for
the benefit of the depositor; provided,
that it shall be lawful to refuse at the
mint any deposit of less than 800, snI
also any bullion-so base as 10 be ur-
suitable for the operations of the mint;
and. provided, also, that when gold is
combined with said bullion in SUCH
small pre- portion that ii cannot b. sep
arated advantageously, no allowance
shall be made for such gold to the de-
position"
The silver dollar is made a legal ten.
der in the Philippines. There is a fur
Their requirement that the depositor of
bullion to be coined shall be required
to pay one cent for each piece coined.
Authority is given for the coinage at
San Francisco at the request of the
Philippine government of the silver
dollars authorized by the act, but it is
required that the silver coined at the
San Francisco mint shall have been
produced in the United States.
Silver certificates of not less than SO
in denomination are authorized.
Authority is also given for the coin
age OF a subsidiary Philippine coinage
consisting Of half-dollars and Of z0-cent
and 10cent pieces. This coinage Is to
be conducted under the authority of
the Philippine government with the
approval of the Secretary of War OF
the United Stat es, and there is a pro-
vision that the dollars and subsidiary
coins Issued under Spanish authority
may be recoined into subsidiary coins
BY the Philippine government without