Evening star., 1925-09-07
OFFICIAL D|SCORD
RE|GNS IN MANILA
Legislative and Executive
Branches of Government
Fail to Harmonize.
BY WALTER ROEB.

Correspondence Of Tho star and Chicago
Daily News.
MANILA. p. l., July 16.-The public
has small expectations from the 100
day session of the LEGISLATURE AS
soon as the magnificent public library
building on Bagumbayan drive is
completed the Legislature. not the
library now housed i'm a reeking artil-
lcry barracks. will occupy it. 1t is
already being called the Senate build
ing. though the Senate Of . members
has ample quarters in Il fine old Span
lsh structure.
There is 10 hope of accord between
The Legislature and the executive
branch of the government. Until re
Gently politicians had been working
sedulously 10 get Gov. Gen. Wood
and Manuel Quezon. president of
the Philippine Senate. together, so
that q maximum quantity of pie
might be distributed to the faithful.
if for no other reason. Many declare
they desired accord for the public
welfare
Gov. Woods Discovery.
Iut bad fortune pursued them. Gov
Gen. Wood found out that the Ma
Jional Bank, which he floatcd so many
millions OF bonds in the United States
TO nurse along. had allowed a sugar
mill company in Negros a loan OF A.
900 900 pesos where only two had been
authorized There had been no budget
account of the big transaction. and
now every official and employe. it
seems, is running to cover and point
ing to the other fellow. All who are
in any way involved deny responsible
ity for what the governor general
angry just now, says was 'iniquitous
and criminal"
He says he will hale them into court
and prove his words. As they are
high in majority party councils. this
does not make for harmony. Stormy
days are upon Manila. This squabble
is of typhoniC character and may move
into the limbo of mere Investigations.
or ii may not.
At the outset of his administration
Gov. Gen. Wood announced his in
tention to get the government out
of business. Now it is i'll as deep
as when he made the announcement.
even the sugar mills owing what they
owed then, $4,000, 900.
Worthy Project i'm District
Another project it would be natural
for politicians TO keep going is that
of the National Coal Co. This COM
pany is working deposits on United
States public domain in NIndanao.
where it has found 100, 900 900 tons
of semf-anthracite coal, which some
day is destined to be a supply for the
Pacific coast.
This infant government enterprise
has spent nearly $3,0o0,000 during
eight years. II has built extensive
mine works, office buildings, railways,
etc, but done comparatively little ex-
ploraton work. Last year it lost 272,-
90 pesos, which Gov. Gen. Wood
does not enjoy reporting to Wash
ington. Coal which costs it 1861
pesos ton, the governor general has
been told, sells at about 10. The ques-
tion now is whether to sink more mill
lions in it or close it. The company
has marketed $4,000 tons of coal in
eight years.
It's labor is unframed and comes
from Cebu. each man taken to the
mines costing $40 in subsistence and
transportation. This is a great con
venience for the lumber industry in
the mine region, for the men usually
lind they don't like mining. so they
take to the woods. From the politi
Clans point of view it is fine thing
70 have the money rolling out of the
treasury. There is, therefore likely
TO be a division between the governor
general and the Legislature over the
coal company.
Examples of Real Obstacles.
These are only one or two examples
of the real obstacles to re-establish-
ment of harmony. Congress may have
foreseen something of the sort in
creating the Legislature, for it pro-
vided that in case revenue act was
not passed the old should hold over.
The revenue bill, however, is the
one thing sure to pass. 1t is the
constructive legislative" measures
providing for deyelonment af re-
sources by other than public capital
that Gov. Gen. Wood has fears for
as he goes to deliver his message
10 the Legislature, where Manuel
Quezon's word is still absolute II
is believed here that legislation to
encourage the rubber industry will
have to be undertaken at Washing
ton. as it will fail here.
Copyright, 1926. by Chicago Daily News co..