The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-27
INQUIRY BY CONGRESS.
Representative miller Predicted
outbreak After Trip 10 IsIa nts.

'N,eIIiNGToN. Dec 26.-The War De-
Parchment was stil without any official
Information Tonight in regard to the
J.. 'iupiues situation. Members OF Con-
! - are beginning t. show interest in
rr,ru' dispatches from Manila, and they
..ttud TO conduct AN Investigation next
week which will probably be confined 10
calling for the Information in tho War
Department relating to the uprising. Sem
stors resent reports that the revolution
IL being started for the object of defeat
ing pending legislation looking to a
greater degree of lf-government for the
FlipInos
Representative Miller OF Duluth. a Re-
publican member of the House Committee
on lnsuar Affairs. said to-day that III
there is an instruction in the Philippine
Islands as news dispatches OF to-day
claim. the Democratic Administration is
largely responsible for It,"
Mr.. Miller spent three months an the
archipelago taking observations in his
official capacity. Upon his return here
last fall he predicted a revolution He as
sorted to-day that he had received private
advices from the islands that an out
break occurred some weeks ago and that
news OF II had been withheld from the
public by Governor General Harrison.
II do not regard the present outbreak
As seTious In itself" said Mr.. Miller to-
day 1T simply shows, however, what
this talk OF Independence for the Fill
p1os may lead TO. The Filipinos are in
capable OF governing themselves. They
can no led like children by such ire
sponsible persons as tSs individual Ri
carte.
He is a hrebrand and has been on
tral before for stirring up trouble among
his people, trying to organize revolt
Part of his game is TO sell commissions
among the F'ilipinos telling them that
there is going to be revolt and offering
them y chance to become officers For
-" man can get to be a general under
THIS Kind OF arrangement and there il no
doubt that this is what Rcarti has been
dong.
"l,ioart was guilty Of melting insur-
r'yt'uu three or four years ago When
tho matter came before the courts he was
TO- ont on a $1,000 bond, which he
Jumped and went to Hongkong. When
'\'rHdltion proceedings were Instituted to
get him back England refused to rccog
, 4" them on the ground that Ricarti mad
h"ry indicted for political offence and
Mat america would never recognize eX-
r1d,ton proceedir rs in such case. So
IT,. adopted the same course ana Ricartl
w. not brought back.
ro-day's desUatchts indicate that RI
'.I Is uOW playing the game No dlu
'o." He u able tn get O following
sI. because OF the talk of proposed IN
&C. ouG nee ny the Democratic Admin
tr.I..
"N- matter OF fact, the Filipinos
;r ru more ready for independence than
i.e I.lJnos of Alaska, the Apache
j. iaus in our own country or the Hot
'c.to's oc Africa. Thy are simply ir-
''-puu..hle children, and the fact that
''r ear T." lei astIHv by u man lk'
U.s. Hoort and his sale 81 commissions
sd mu n a head, It seems 10 me- proves
'vnle M Mill,r beu'ves the present
"..'s.olE is not SERIOUS, he said ioat tf
V,,c taken up by the native constabu-
lN" h nigh, easily assume serious pro-
portions.
The consta bularN arc armed soldiers
't.n"I iG warfare" said Nj. Miller. "anG
'.' outcome might certainly hc cNcee =.
..a.N troublesome. Possibilities of this
.".' were recognized by army officers on
"si, Nheu | was in the islands last year
'N told me that IL things went the way
"E had started under the present rule
..' anticipated that there might bc real
'.'. for tho army IN the Philippine Is
..u."
" Miller said further that II all the
.''I' IN possession Of Gov Gen. Harrison
'' Known 10 the American public they
''uI not for a moment entertain the pro-
.'N OF stantiEY independence to The