Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-29

Tie President has issued the following
executive order calling for a general cleo
tIon of delegates to a popular assembly in
the Philippines
Whereas, by the sixth section of the act
of Congress approved July 1. 1902. entitled
An act temporarily to provide for the ad-
of affairs of civil government
In the Philippine Islands. and for other pur-
poses it was provided:
That whenever the existing insurrec-
rection in the Philippine Islands shall have
ceased and condition of general and
complete peace shall have been establish
ed therein and the fact shall be certified
to the President by the Philippine commits
sion. the President, upon being satisfied
thereof. shall order a census of the Phil
ippinc Islands to be taken by said Philip
pine commission.
That two years after the completion
and publication of the census in case Such
condition of general and complete peace
with recognition of the authority of the
United States shall have continued III the
territory of said islands not inhabited by
MorOS or other mont Tristan tribes and
such facts shall have been certified TO the
President by the Philippine comm .sson.
the President upon being satisfied thereof
shall direct said commission to call, and
the commission shall call, a general cleo
ton for the choice of delegates to a popu-
lar assembly of the people of said territory
In the Philippine Islands. which shall be
known as the Philippine assembly. After
said assembly shall have convened and or
ganiZed all the legislative power hereto
fore conferred on the Philippine commits
sion In all that part of said islands not
Inhabited by Moros or other non-Chrlstlan
tribes shall be vested in legislature con-
sisting of two houses-the Philippine com
mission and the Philippine assembly. Said
assembly shall consist of not less than
fifty nor more than one hundred members
to be appOrtioned by said commission
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cable according to population. provided,
that no province shall have less than one
member. and provided further. that prov
inces entitled by population 10 more than
one member may be divided into such con-
venient districts as the said commission
may deem best. And
whereas. on September IL. 1872 the Phil
ippine commission certified TO me that the
in the Philippine Islands had
ceased and that a condition of general and
complete peace had been established there
in. and uoo 80 ,ba ,ror.;sops
of the law above quoted and upon the fore
going due certifiCation. and being satlShed
of the facts therein stated. on the 18th day
of September. 1902. l ordered census OF
the Philippine Islands to be taken by the
Philippine commission, and
Whereas. the census so ordered was
taken and announcement of its completion
and publication made to the people OF the
Philippine Islands on March ~, 1900. ana
wv herpdS, Inc Hml!pplnc COLhiiilSSiVA nos
now certified to me the following resolu-
tons:
Islands was completed and published on
the nth day of March 1903. which said
completion and publication of said census
was on the 18th day of March, 1900. duiy
published and proclaimed to the people
by the governor general of the Phllippine
Islands with the announcement that the
President of the United States of America
would direct the Philippine commission TO
call a general election for the choice oil
delegates to a popular assembly, PROVIDED
that condition of general and complete
peace with recognition of the authority .
of the United States should be certified
BY the Philippine commission to have
continued in the territory of the Philip
pine Islands for period of two years
after said completion and puDhcatlon OF
said census and
Whereas since the completion and pub
hcation of said census there have been no
serious disturbances of the public order
save and except those caused by the
noted outlaws and bandit chieftains Feliz-
ardO and MOntalon and their followers in
the provinces of Cavite and Batangas.
and those caused in the provinces or
Samar and Leyte by the non-Christian
and fanatic Pulaj james resident in the
mountain districts of said provinces and
the barrios contiguous thereto, and
Whereas the overwhelming majority
of the people OF said provinces of Cavite,
taken part in said disturbances. and have
not aided nor abetted the Iawless acts of
said bandits and Pulajanes. and
" Whereas the great mass and body OF
the Filipino people have during said
period of two years continued to be law
abiding, peaceful and loyal to the United
States and have continued 70 recognize
and do now recognize the authority and
sovereignty Of the United States in the
territory of said Philippine Islands:
Now. therefore. be it resolved by the
Philippine commission in formal session
duly assembled. that it. said Philippine
commission. do certify and 1t does hereby
certify TO the President of the United
States that for period of two years
after the completion and publication of
the census a condition of general and
complete peace with recognition of the
authority of the United States has con-
tinued to exist and now exists in the ter
ritory of said Philippine Islands not in
habited by Moros or other non-Christian
tribes.
g BE it further resolved by said Philip
pine commission, That the President of the
United States be requested and is hereby
requested to direct said Philippine com
mission TO Can a general election for the
choice Of delegates to a popular ssembly
OF the people of said territory in the
Philippine Islands which assembly shall
be known as the Philippine assembly
Now. therefore. l. Theodore Roosevelt,
President of the United States, in pursu-
ance of the provisions of the law above
cited, and being satisfied of the facts certi-
fed 10 me by the Philippine commission
do hereby direct said Philippine commits
sion to call general election for the choice
OF delegates TO popular assembly of the
people of the territory of the Philippine
Islands not inhabited by Moros or other
mont Christian tribes. which shall be known
as the Philippine assembly,
Though no date for the election is named
in the Presidents order. the Philippine
commission has already fixed upon July 30
next as that date.