Evening star., 1902-03-31
TO GOVERN F|L|P|NOS
Bill Favored by the Senate
Committee.
A REPORT AUTHORIZED
FUTURE ESTABLISHMENT OF
PROVINCIAL AUTHORITIES.
The New Dollar and Provisions for the
Coinage of Silver Bullion at
Manila and San Francisco.
| REPORT AUTHORIZED

coinage OF SILVER Bull1On at
Manila and San Francisco.
The Senate committee on the PHILIPPINES
today completed consideration of the bill
prescribing form of government for the
Philippine Islands and authorized Senator
Lodge to report it to the Senate after vot-
ing down the democratic substitute by a
party vote
Census Of the Population.
The amendment providing for a census of
the population of the islands is as follows:
That whenever the existing insurrection in
the fhiiippine Islands shall have ceased and
condition of general and complete peace
shall have been established therein and the
facts shall be certified to the President by
the Phli1ppine commission, the President
upon being satisfied thereof, shall order a
census of the Philippine Islands to be taken;
such census in it's inquiries relating to the
population shall take and make SO far as
practicable full report for all the inhabi-
tants, OF name, age. sex, race, or tribe,
Whether native or foreign born literacy in
2panish' native dialect or language, or in
English, school attendance and ownership
OF homes, and such other information SEN
arateiy for each island, each province and
municipality or other civil division, needful
~ iiIioi III tue fTeS1Qent ana Congress
cernlng the capacity, fitness and readiness
OF all the people of the Philippine Islands.
and of particular islands, provinces and
municipalities and other civil divisions for
Inc estabhshment and maintenance in the
Philippine Islands or certain Of them of a
permanent popular representative govern
nient."
After the completion of the census the
Fnlilppine commission is required to re-
port fully to the President and to Congress
their recommendations based on such cen
suS and upon the operation of the local
governments provided for whether or not
alt or certain of the Philippine Islands, are
capable. tit and ready for the establishment
Of permanent popular representative gov
ernment."
Functions of the Commission.
The Philippine commission is continued
in effect and there is no further hint than
that above quoted of a possible change
The following provision is made for the
extension of the commissions authority:
That the Philippine commission, mean
time, are hereby authorized and directed
in their discretion, to continue to estab-
hsh additional municipal and provincial
governments in the Philippine Islands,
with popular representative government so
far and so fast as communities in such civil
divisions are capable, fit and ready for
the same, the qualification of electors in
elections in municipalities and provinces to
be the same as now provided by law for
electors in municipal elections; and said
Philippine commission whenever they find
other male Inhabitants of lawful age in
such municipalities and provinces capable,
fit and ready for such extension shall in
ciude the same among the electors with
the purpose Of gradually extending to
municipalities and provinces. permanent
popular representative government"
Other features of the bill relate to the de-
tails of the commissions administration,
and have been from to time been pub
lished.
The Proposed Currency.
The provision concerning the currency to
be used in the islands covers six pages of
the bill. After authorizing the Philippine
government 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 Sec
ton:
THAT the said Philippine government is
authorized to coin silver dollar which
shall contain 416 grains of standard silver,
and the standard of said silver coins shall
be such that of 600 parts by weight 900
shall be of pure metal and 100 Of alloy, and
the alloy shall be of copper. And upon the
said silver dollar there shall be devices and
inscriptions to be prescribed by the govern
ment of the Philippine Islands, with the ap-
proval of the Secretary of War of the
United States, which devices and inscrip-
tions shall express or symbolic the SOW
a coin of the Philippine Islands, together
with the denomination of the coin, ex-
pressed in English, Filipino and Chinese
characters. and the date of it's coinage.
Regulating Silver Coinage.
That any owner of silver bullion may
deposit the same at the mint in the Philip
pine Islands, to be coined as hereinbefore
provided Silver bullion brought to the
mint of the Philippine Islands for coinage
shall be received and coined by the proper
officers for the benefit of the depositor;
provided. that it shall be lawful to refuse
at any mint any deposit of less than 100
dollars and also any bullion so base as to
be unsuitable for the operations of the
mint; and, provided also, that when gold
Is combined with said bullion in such small
proportion that 1t cannot be separated ad-
Vantageously no allowance shall be made
for such gold to the depositor"
Inc silver dollar Is made legal tender
in the Philippines
There Is a further 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 COMA pe
at san Francisco, at the request of the
philippine government, of the silver dol
iars authorized by the act, but it is re-
qulred that the silver coined at the San
Francisco mint shall have been produced
In the United States.
Silver certificates of not less than $40 in
denomination are authorized.
Subsidiary Coinage.
Authority also is given for the coinage of
a subsidiary Philippine coinage, consisting
of half dollars and of 20 cents and 1o-cent
pieces. This coinage is to be conducted
under the authority of the Philippine gov
ernment with the approval of the Secre-
tary Of War Of the United States, and there
Is provision that the dollars and SUBJ
sidiary coins issued under Spanish author
irafn r1cfI
by the Philippine government without con-
sulting the Secretary of War. Minor coins
of one-half cent and Of one cent in copper
and of five cents in nickel are also au-
thorized. Provision Is made for the mimi
age of the subsidiary coinage at any mint
in the United States. Existing provisions
in force in the islands making any form of
money legal tender are repealed after De-