Arizona republican., 1915-11-30

number separated had increased to l 476, and that all of these were off cially reported to have rendered sat tisfactOry service.
 Tn addition to these. I am in formed by Dan R. Williams. that MT. Taylor director of agriculture, Mr. l Stewart, director of prisons; Ar. Cot Itcrman, director of posts; MT. Hast lings. member of the Manila munici- lpaI board: MT. Bowditch. secretary of ithe Moro province; MT. Robertson,
 director of the Philippine library; MT Smith chief of the mining division of ] the bureau of science; MT. Robelln,
 chemist of the bureau of science; MT. 1 Kearney, chief clerk of the bureau of posts; Mr Beardsley, chief of the postal savings bank division; Mir. Gee, ] chief clerk of the division of puhhc
 works bureau MT. Cobb, supreme court recorder. and Judge Crossfield, 1 of the court of first instance, resigned because of cuts in salaries and un- i icertainty of tenure.
 i ..Tbe policy of eliminating these 1 strong and effectively Americans ere late damoralization which showed it. self almost at once. l have not spac' Ito elaborate the instances. By trans , 1 Sleeper an expert who was rapidly
 making certain the creation of sink
 ing fund to meet the seven millions
 F-riars lands bonds to a Filipino in | surrecto general named TiniO, who had
 no experience of any kind and who in six months had to be relieved after a trial for malpractice and acquittaL this i imuortant achievement is made very | raj in collections from leases of friars lands are said to have exceeded 50O,OOO pesos due to i inefficiency.
 1 similar cases of inefficiency oc- cured in the bureaus engaged in at
 tempting to suppress the dangerous rhinderpest. in conducting the hospital and in collecting internal revenue. It usually takes some time to show in
 efficiency due to changes because of 1 original momentum. but these were al- | most immediate. A reorganization of the judiciary entirely unnecessary and
 most wasteful was affected to give more places for Filipinos. My author ] ity for these results is in statements of Dean Worcester. Vice Governor Gill bert and Dan F. Williams, all of whom are in the islands and know them well.
 Tn addition, many others have con ] firmed these views.
 T am utterly opposed to the Jones ! bill and have always been opposed to
 it. Its promise of independence is cer- | tain to mislead the F'ilipinos into l thinking it is near at hand. Its cleo tive senate will diminish the power of 1 the American executive most injuri- ously Its requirement that appoint ments be confirmed by the senate will make the governor general completely ! subservient to the Filipino politicians 1 and will eliminate all American guid- | ance in the bureaus and departments. l 'I was personally engaged in Philip 1 pine work for four years and super vised it for eight years more and I cannot, of course rid myself of a per sonal relation to it. I am profoundly anxious to avoid the disaster toward
 which I believe the present policy is 1 tending. But, Mir. Garrison charges i that I am partisan in the sense that
 this is part of the republican cam i paign. This is a great injustice to me 1 I hope for a republican administrations l to reverse the present policy, but I never would seek a political issue in 1 the Philippines if it could be avoided 1 "I had no party when 1 was in the Philippines at that work. We ap- pointed as many democrats as .republi- 1 cans. We were working for the F'il- Dinos and the credit of our country and my deep interest in the Philippine problem has never had the slightest ! tinge of party feeling. I do not think I am much of a partisan generally. | think I have given fairly substantial evidence by my appointments and my treatment of party opponents when in office, that my partisanship is not l blind.
 Tt seems to me that have not been unnindful of the necessity for standing by this democra tic administration in national crisis without regard to party consideration MT Garrison's language is unjust, vehement and unmeasured.
 I think when he recurs to it in the future he will regret it."