The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-01-05

! 9u4LerlhS IS that or nuctuatiOn in cur
Tency- Touching the organization o.
labor unions, the governor says that ii
properly directed the movement may
/ give TO the laboring classes a sense OF
the dignity Of labor and of their indie
! pendence- He regards the objection
made by the Filipinos TO the fntroduc-
! zion OF Chinese into the islands to be
( logical and justified, and SAYS:
Another phase of the labor question
/ winch does not seem to have had its
proper weight with the merchants OF
Manila in their demand for the ad-
mission Of Chinese coolies is the great
( obstacles which such a policy would
present 10 the opening by the United
states OF its markets to Philippine
| products
There is in Manila real estate and
improvements assessabIe for taxation
amounting to 81 COS, 109. White there is
/ worcestershire real property in the
city TO the amount of S25. 502, 329, of
which Sl3,5S4,3SS is public property and
I $lz,lll,94O is church property exempt
under the laws.
Governor Taft cOmmends 10 the com
mission the benefits that might accrue
from the establishment IN the islands
OF postal savings banks.
Report of the Commission.
The Philippines commission in its an
nual report, which is the third it has
mace, says at the outset:
Inc lnsurrectiOn as an organization
to suDVert the authority of the United
states in these islands is entirely at
an END. and the whole OF the Christian
FlhplnO population. with the exception
or few thousand people in the Moro
country isolated towns, are enjoying
civil govern sent.''
The report says the Filipino laborers
must be taught the independence and
dignity of labor under free govern
ment. and adds:
The organization of labor in Manila
Whlle brought about by a crack Drained
lnsurrectO agitator for political pur-
poses only. viii, it is hoped lead to an
organization which viii have much TO
DO with intoxicating this lesson.
The Filipino people of the better
class have read the passage of the
FhlHppine act with great satisfaction"
the report recites, and further along it
says; The coming year. under the
Trying circumstances which now pre-
vail, Will show how much we may de-
pend upon the conservative and law
abiding character of the controlling
elements of the Filipino people
Inc commission urges that it is the
duty of the United States to secure
the Philippines as stable d currency as
that used by the people of the United
States.
Takes a Crack at Silver.
The commission concludes with the
following recommendations which are
urged on the attention of congress:
F1rSt-The establishment of a gold
standard in the islands and of banking
corporations empowered 70 issue cir
culattng bank notes under proper safe
guards.
"Second-The reduction of at least IS
per cent Of the Dingley rates of duty
upon goods imported into the United
States from the Philippines.
'Third-An amendment OF the Phil
ippine act so that the additional limit
upon lands which may be sold to or be
held by individuals or corporations
from the public domain shall be in
creased to $4,000 acres, or in the alter
native so that the government shall be
given the power to lease for sixty years
upon competitive biddings from the
public lands aggregating in any indi-
Vidual or corporate lessee not more
than 10000 acres. 1t says this leg.sla-
ton is necessary to the development of
the islands, and as the government is
offering 65,000,000 out of "a, 900, 600 acres
in the archipelago there is no danger
OF concentration of ownership in
individuals or corporations.
Fourth-That the Philippine act
may be amended by repeating the linn
itation which fOrbids an individua or
corpora ton from holding an interest in
more than one mining claim.
"Fifth-That all bonds issued by the
insular government under the author
ity of the Philippine act shall be free
from state, county and municipal tax
alton in the United States.
'Sixth-That an amendment be made
to the Chinese exclusion act, giving the
power to the government by law to ad-
nit fixed and limited number of
Cinnamon into the Philippine islands,
who are certified to be skilled labor
ers, on the bond Of the employer that
for every Chinese skilled laborer en-
ployed he viii employ a Filipino ap-
prentice, and that he will return the
Chinese skilled laborer thus introduced
within five years after his admission to
the country, and that he shall pay a
head tax of not exceeding $50 for each
Chinaman so admitted 10 the insular
government, TO meet the expenses of
the enforcement of these regulations.
The commission thinks unlimited adj
mission of Chinese would be unwise."