Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1903-01-08
ASKS FOR GOLD BASIS.
The Philippine Commission Urges
Congress to Give the Islands
a Stable Currency.
WANTS BANKS OF ISSUE ESTABLISHED,
Admission of Limited Number of
Chinese Skilled LabOrers Is Rec
Omme nde Is Ended
and People Are Enjoying Civil
Government.

+ Washington, Dec. 6.-The Philip
pine commission in it's annual re-
port made public here urges congress
to establish a gold standard in the
islands at once and to authorize the
establishment of banks empowered to
issue circulating notes. -
The commissions report is &C
companied by . separate report by
Gov. Taft, who reviews the results
accomplished by the civil administra-
ton of the islands during the fiscal
year 1902. =.
Recommendations. q.
The report of the commission con-
cludes with the following recommend
atoms:
The ablishment of gold stand
ard in the islands, and of banking cor
porations empowered to issue circulat-
ing bank notes under proper safe
guards.
The reduction of at least rs per cent.
of the Dingley rates of duty upon
goods imported into the United States
from the Philippines.
An amendment of the Philippine act
so that the limit upon lands which may
be sold or be held by individuals or cor
porations from the public domain shall
be increased to $4,000 acres, or in the
alternative so that the government
shall be given the power to lease for
60 years upon competitive bidding
tracts from the public land aggregat-
ing in any individual or corporate
lessee not more than 10000. 1t says
this legislation is necessary to the de-
velopment of the islands, and that as
the government owns g., 100000 out of
100000 acres in the archipelago,
there is no danger of concentration of
ownership in individuals or corpora
tions.
Chinese Labor Needed.
That an amendment be made to the
Chinese exclusion act giving power to
the government by law to admit fixed
and limited number of Cinnamon into
the Philippine islands, who are certi-
fed to be skilled laborers, on the bond
of the employer that for every Chinese
skilled laborer employed he will en-
ploy a Filipino apprentice, and that
he will return the Chinese skilled la bor-.
er thus introduced within five years
after his admission to the country.
InsurrectiOn Over. -
Referring to conditions in the islands
the commission report says: i
1.-THE instruction as an organized
attempt to subvert the authority of
the United States in these islands is
entirely at an end, and the whole of
the Christian Filipino population, with
the exception of few thousand peo-
pie in the Moro country in isolated.
towns, are enjoying civil government.
Much remains to be done in perfecting:
civil government, in marshalling the
forces of the law against the lawless-t
ness and disturbances, and in teaching
the people of the Philippines not only
that they have rights under the law.
but also that they cannot hope to en-
joy such rights unless they acquire
courage and independence sufficient to
assert them against attempts by their
fellow Filipinos to perpetuate the sys-
tenn of 'caciqueism,' or, literally trans
lated, 'bossism.'
American Soldiers Idle.
Since the civil government was CON-
pletely established in the Philippine
provinces throughout the archipelago
in July of last year, the governor says,
an American soldier has not been
called on once to fire gun, the coun-
try having been policed by the constab-