The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-30

commission would return as soon as order was re-established and civil au- thority was supreme.
 On a Tour of the Orient
 Time passed and the military au- thority could not be displaced. Pep perman was sent on an inspection tour of the Far East, where he studied the systems of government in vogue. He visited Japan, China and the straits settlements, and many other colonies, and en route to this country stopped in Paris for a short time. A cablegram reached him there. telling him of the appointment of the second Philippine commission, with William H. Taft as it's head, and asked him to return to Manila for service with that commits sion.
 As soon as 1t was organized he was appointed commissioner of civil ser vice, and under the direction of the commission he devised the system and drafted the laws which are still in vogue and which has taken the man. agement of Philippine affairs entirely out of politics and placed 1t where, ever since, there has been no question of politics or favoritism. or spells, made by even the most pronounced of the opponents of the two last adminis- trations in the management of insular affairs. That service covered, in short time, no less than 1000 employees, of whom not more than 2,000 are white people from the United States.
 After four years in the service there, Pepperman returned to the United | States and entered the insular bureau in a minor capacity. In few months | his qualifications so commended him | to Colonel Edwards head of the bu- reau, that he was made assistant to the chief. Now he retains that same posi- ton under Colonel Edwards, but Is given charge of the Washington office | of the canal commission, in which po- sition he will have the great responsi- l bility already indicated.
 People unacquainted with the system l in vogue now, and what has been in- volved in our handling of insular af l fairs, can not realize the school Pep perman has been through in the insu lar bureau. Into that bureau have | been crowded in miniature all of the l general and vast functions of govern ment. More than $15,000,000 worth of bonds have been issued in behalf of the l Philippine Government, under the usual safeguards of open bidding and l competitive award; a new coinage sys- | tenn has been devised and put into ef- feet, a new system of postal laws, reg | ulations and rates, has been adopted; form and basis for paper money has | been devised, and the money is now in l general use; a tariff system has been l devised, with schedules that protect the islanders and at the same time bring no harm to our own protected in- | dustries.
 Some of the Things Done.
 These are but a part of the things which have been done by the Insular | Bureau and a part of the task at which | Pepperman got his schooling. The | famine in the islands was taken care of from here; the breed of horses and | jacks and all domestic animals was either improved or introduced through the efforts of the Insular Bureau. Ev- | erything in the way of supplies had to sent half way around the world, and for a long time there was no cable to simplify the work of the Bureau.
 Pepperman had many experiences which bordered on the realm of fic- tion. There was the time when the first shipment of the new silver pesos was made. Fear was expressed for the safety of the ship load of money. It was Pepperman who went to New York city and arranged that the ships crew should be given a holiday and secret service men in overalls or jumpers should act as longshoremen and load the casks of silver coin. Pepperman himself had the casks filled at the Phil adelphia mint and marked white lead" and Pepperman was in personal charge of the train of six express cars which pulled the coins from Philadelphia to the wharf of the ship that was to take it half way around the world to the Philippine treasury.
 Before Pepperman took hold of the matter it had long been the custom to insure securities and send them by ex- press at a cost of hundreds of dollars. When the first issue of bonds. worth $4,000 000, was awarded to a New York city concern. and it was proposed to send them to New York city at a cost of $200. Pepperman sniffed contempt uously, went downtown and bought two dress-suit cases. He packed the securities in the two put loaded re- volver in his back pocket, took a mid day train to New York city and just before the closing hour passed the se- curitles over the counter of a big New York banking house.
 Festus ]. Wade of St. Louis can tell the sort of man Pepperman is. Wade bid in the last issue of Philippine bonds. Pepperman took them up to New York to deliver them to Mir. Wade The bid was at a certain figure less the accrued interest" The S'crued in terest was from the 1st of the month to the 14th, as the bonds were dated on the first and not delivered until the 14th Pepperman figured the interest for fourteen days at the rate of 360 in year, just as interest is figured on the "street in New York city. Wade used the system used In computing the rate only on Government bonds, which divides the year into quarters and takes the exact number of days in each quar- ter as a basis. (Be 1t said as tribute to the shrewdness of MT. Wade that the quarter on which he was figuring included the month of February with it's only twenty-eight days). The diff ference in method of calculation made a difference of about $50. Pepperman thought only a minute, and quickly ac- cepted the St. Louis mans method, re- marking:
 You see. while it is we'll understood that these bonds are the same as Gov ernment bonds, you know, we all know that they are Governments only in the ory. It's worth more than $50 to the Philippine Government to have them treated and handled as though they were Government bonds. so your figure goes, and we settle on that basis"
 The Persecuted Beef Trust.