The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-08
IN NEED OF MONEY
APPROPRIATION FOR PHILIP.
 PINES IS URGED.
-csident Sends to Congress Third Annual Report of Commission Accompanied by Letter
 of Recommendations.

Washington, Jan. 1.-The third annual report of the Philippine Commission was submitted to Congress by the President with extensive appendices. A strong let ter from Secretary Root urging imme- diate aid from Congress for the archipel- ago's inhabitants accompanied President Roosevelts letter of transmission. In his letter transmitting the report and endorsing Secretary Roots pea, the President says:
 i cali your special attention to the recommendations contained in tnis letter of the Secretary or War. 1 mosl earn estly feel that the enactment of the meas ures already pending in your body for the betterment of the phihppine Islands Is imperatiVely demanded Dy Ine situation m those islanus and seriouS cdiamIty may come from failure 10 enact them. Fur thelmore, 1 earnestly ask your attention to the recommendation of the Secretary Ct War in the accompanying letter ana
 uIge Us adoption so tAat the sum ol mon oy therein specified may be appropriated Tor the uses and III the manner likewise specified, in order that the present dis
 tress in tho islands may be remedled, Theodore Roosevelt. White House, January {. 19U5
 Secretary Root in his letter to the Pres ident, says:
 T beg to ask special consideration of
 the resolutions of the Commission, all of
 which have my hearty approval. 1t seems to me the conditions resulting from the destruction by reindeer pest of | 90 per cent of the caraboos, the draft ani-
 mals of the island and the consequent failure of the rice crop, followed by an epidemic of cholera, are so serious and distressing as to call for action by Con-
 gress beyond that for which the commits
 sion specifically asks. The removal under 1 the laws of Congress of export duties on goods shipped from the Philippines to the 1 United States has materially reduced the revenues of the islands, while the duties collected in the United States upon impor- I tations from the Philippines. which, under | the same laws, were to be turned over to I the Philippines treasury and were expect i ed to make good the deficit, have amount i ed to practically nothing At the same ! time the decline in the price of silver. ! the evils of a huctuating currency and 1 the impoverishment of the people have
 reduced the Government revenues when l they are most needed for relief of the peo- i He.
 | ''T think the occasion for relief in the 1 Philippines is now greater than 1t was ! in Cuba when Congress appropriated s. ] 0oe.OOO for the payment of the Cuban sol ] diers out of the treasury of the United ! States and more than a million dollars | paid out of the national treasury for the relief of the sufferers of the hurrican of | August 1898. An appropriation of not less i than SOO0.OO0 for the relief of the dis
 tless in the Philippine Islands from the
 Causes which I have mentioned would be
 in harmony with the course pursued by | Congress towards the people of the other
 Spanish islands, and practical evidence of i the sincere interest the people of the United States take in the welfare af the ! I hilippne people and of the kindly and ] generous treatment which they are to re- ctive, Previous experience indicates that such an appropriation could be made the
 most useful by giving the Philippine gov ernment dst retion to apply it in such proportions as they deem wise in tfe di- rect purchase and distribution and sale of supplies. or through the employment
 of labor in the construction of govern ment wagon roads, railroads or other
 public works"