San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-09
COOPERATION
IS SUBJECT Of
MANILA JUDGE
Asks Americans and Fill
pinos to Work
Together.
LAWS ARE DISCUSSED
Says Quezon and Wood
Trying to Do Too
Much.
LAWS ARE DISCUSSED
BY WALTER j. ROBB
Special Cable to The San Antonio Light
and The Chicago Daily News.
CopVrieht 1924

Copyright 1928.
Manila, Oct. 9.-Addressing boil
: Filipinos and Americans at a Cham
Der of Commerce meeting on the sub
: ject of the present governmental am
. political subject, Justice George 4
: Malcom, of the Island Supreme Couft,
: and author of the Philippine consti-
: tational law, declared definitely that
: the council of state is an extra large
body. unsanctioned by the organic law
Of the islands.
> Justice Malcolm also declared that
: the organic law practically continued
the American foIm of government for
: merly existing here.
He added that Filipinos who estab-
dish parliamentary government unGer
the old Malcolm constitution have nat
urally gravitated in legislative pro-
! cedure toward parliamentary form,
p. passing some laws recognizing the
council of state with others of various
nature which are merely assumed TO
! be lesal because they have gone I'M
contested in the courts.
These laws, he said, encroach OH
Legislative authority, particularly as
conceived by Americans, whose prece-
dents are solidly constitutional forms
of government.
Justice Malcolm analysed the weak
ness of the Philippine organic act as
well as the divergent paths of the
? chief executive and the legislature, de-
scribing the present situation as IAN
acute interlude in n struggle which
: will end either in America using an
: iron hand to suppress non-co-opera-
: ton or granting complete independ-
ence, or third course of reaching a
: mutually satisfactory relation by each
: side making, concessions"
: Faults of Pair.
: The speaker said that the only
: faults which might be attributed 10
: either Senator Quezon or Governor
: General Wood is that each is possibly
. endeavoring TO do too much, each be-
:. ing convinced from the tenor of their
: public utterances that they consider
: themselves wholly right.
: He said that if the situation con-
: tinues to drift in the present direction
! with legislative and executive author.
: ity deadlOcked, neither the governor
: general nor the president of the SEN
late would suffer. but all people of the
islands, both Americans and Filipinos,
: would be the ones affected.
The final result. he forecasted.
would be sharp racial clashes with all
Americans standing squarely Denlnd
Governor Wood and Filipinos behind
! Senator Quezon, while feeling would
= be one of mutual hatred and dis
: trust.
Justice Malcolm, who formerly was
dean of the Philippine Law College and
whose words bear equal weight with
{ both Filipinos and Americans, sug-
gested that Congress authorize COM
!. mittee of fifteen members, seven of
! whom shall be Americans and seven
EFilipinos, who shall be enjoined by
: Congress to confer over the situation
( with view to reaching an agreement
which will be mutually satisfactory
until island economics catch up with
political progress and government sta
1 bility is established.
8 He limited that Governor General
Wood should be named as chairman of
the joint commission.
Reviewing the aspect of the dead
: lock, which is imminent when the
> island legislature convenes on October
: 16, Justice Malcolm said that through
= policy Of liberal voting, the governor
general could thwart the aims Of the
: legislature while equally effective or,
-@structive powers could be exercised b.
: the law-making body.
: He cited the present policy of non
: corporation in contrast with the WON
: derful progress toward independence
:: made through cooperative efforts be-
! tween 1900 and the time of the recent
: cabinet crisis and urged Filipinos not
: to be duDed. but 10 think twice before
: embarking upon course designed to
: split community relationships.
; Remarks Are Sanctioned.
: Following Justice Malcolm's adj
: dress, John ". Hausserman. director
: of the Chamber OF Commerce. declar-
: ed the speaker had stated exactly the
: viewpoints of both Americans and
: Fiipinos who desire inter-racial good
will and a permanent, satisfactory
status of government.
: Because the suggestion for n Joint
: commission TO settle the present dead
: lock comes from a man who is the
; highest possible authority of Philip-
: pine constitutional law and whose