The Cairo bulletin., 1908-12-21
|NSULAR AFFAIRS
IN GOOD ORDER
CHIEF OF BUREAU SAYS PHILIP
PIN ISLANDERS ENDORSE
TARIFF ACT.
FREE TRADE FAvO RED
Island Railroads Have Good Pros.
pects Expenses Exceeded
Revenues Cost Of
Cuban Intervention.

Washington, Dee. 20.-The Phi =
Ipine scouts are highly commelded,
1.-THE bill to amend the Philippine
tariff act now pending in the senate
/ Is endorsed, encouraging prosr ss
in the Philippines and the maintcn-
Iancc of peace and order in Cusa
Throughout the year are announced
in the annual report Of Orig. Gen.
| Clarence R. Edwards. chief of the
bureau Of Insular Affairs which was
made public tonight General Ed
wards says the Philippine scouts afe
an important factor in the education
Eof the Filipino people and In the
creation of a his or standard CT
, living in tie sands as we'll as IN
! the extension Of American infiue ACC.
For Free Trade.
The report reeounts the settle
lment of the Catholic church claims,
and refers to the bill which passed
the house at the last session. but
was still pending In the senate be-
fore committee when congress adj
| iourned, to provide free entry into
the United tSates of Philippine pro
ducts, with certain exceptions. and
| free entry of United States products
into the philippine Islands anil 90
trade between the United Stat and
the Philippines without except = !
after April II. 1909 The report says
q n.t. sfr. ,,f hs. stph ..rx.
| t!rely agreeable to the inclusion uf
a clause limiting Philippine sugar
to be admitted under its provisions
TO 100000 tons annually. This this
sugar people admit you'd be suffl.
cient to restore some of the former
prosperity to the sugar interests in
the islands, A reduction of the
present duties on tobacco, the report
suggests, would afford the moral eiE
'ouragement OF which producers In
the islands now stand so seriously II
need The other principal products
IN the Philippine islands, hemp.
copra and rice, have the advantages
over sugar of not requiring such
enormous capital for development
and of not entering into competition
with interests in this country.
Island Railroads.
The passenger outlook is es-
pecially bright on the railroads OF
those islands. The average density
# population in the different pro.
yinces compares very favorahly with
some Of the countries of Europe In
Cbd 1t Is greater than the density ui
population of Japan, italy. Germany
or France. The Visayan lines, accord
ing to the report. should pay fair in
tercst on the Investment above the
four per cent guaranteed by the
Philippine government for they
should develop an increasing freight
traffic from the fertile country. The
postal savings bank. a part of the
bureau of posts. shows a steady in
crease Of business and the institution
has been we'll received by all
classes. OF the depositors fifty per
rent are Americans and forty FIJI
lipos. The separate deposits rangl
from a few centavos to over five
Thousand pesos.
Revenues and Expenses.
The excess Of insular expenditures
over revenues during the past fiscal
vear was s57052i and the excesf
of receipts over expenditures in the
city Of Manila was s32S 3G7 The
work Of the Philippine students i1
this country has been on an averag'
very good and In one of two eases
= an exceptionally high ord r. Tfe
value o. the movement as a whole
90 the Philippine government and
nerplo saws General Edwards. mrs.
.tiU De- left to the Tumre n d.sclcsi
bat every sign points to its imweni
importance.
Cost Of Cuban Intervention.
The expenditures Of the republic
u Cuba on account of American in
.oravution from October T. 1896 to
JUNE 80. last we're S157.3f5. thcs'
being made from funds
allotted by the provisional govern
uent from time to time for amS cV
-Fnditures due directly % the armv
service in Cuba. The statement -
rxtraoriinary expenditure on 30
-ounf oi the army of paeihcstion %
"ub- which ruicr cougrC IS ons
legislation are go hs Reimbursed
from the Cuban TREASURY shows
.7taf cf s5gl1SzZ. Of which tss5e.
-1z sas from October l. 1e'-;. toe
lulH 60 1907. ard the balance frou
.rn until June En- last