Evening star., 1932-12-19

JOY reigns unconfined at the head
quarters of the Philippine Mission il
Washington, now that both houses OF
the United States Congress have paved
the way to the islands independence
Speaker Manuel RoxaS of the insular
House at Manila. who has mainly led
the battle here. comes in for the lions
share of praise at the hands of his
jubilant compatriots. For the better
part of Is years. Manuel Quezon and
other Filipino "politicos" have labored
and lobbied at the national conventions
of the Republican and Democratic
parties and in the halls of Congress
and at length have lived to see these
missionary efforts crowned with success
on Capitol Hill Probably the fly in the
ointment from the Filipinos' standpoint
is the provision. inserted into the Sem
ate bill by Hill am johnson OF California
that puts immigrants from the Philip
pine Islands on virtually the same basis
as Asiatics ineligible to American
citizenship. and IN effect excludes them
from the United States. Senator HaWes
of Missouri is destined some day to have
his statue erected at M2nia. Hes
looked upon as the Edmund Burke OF
their fight for freedom by most OF the
little brown brothers.
In Washington and all over the
country admirers are receiving from
Gov. Roosevelt letters OF acknowledge
inert of letters and kilograms sent him
after his election to the presidency.
Authorities familiar with such inunda-
tions say that few successful candi-
dates for office in America ever had
such a colossal mass of fan mail and
wires. Acknowledgements are accom-
panied by he following form memo
randum sqnod: Louis McH. Howe.
personal : Io;ary to Gov. Roosevelt
1t is -. Roosevelt's desire to an
swer as promptly as possible all of the
many thousands of letters which have
been received since his recent election.
1t has been found that to hold his
replies until such time as he could add
his personal signature to the letters
which have been read and dictated
results in very long additional delay.
He trusts, therefore, YOU will urder-
stand the necessity of the use OF his
personal stamp in place Of the usual
signature. Later the Governor. OF
course. hopes to be able to resume the
actual signing of his personal mail.
While OeIldlOl IluSl AOAiS
Of Louisiana was filibustering on the
Philippines bill he disclosed TACT
which admittedly was news to many OF
his colleagues and doubtless is not pop
ularly known. 1t. was to the effect that
when Thomas Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of independence there was
incorporated into 1t the statement that
the slavery system was an lncuman
system forced upon the American peo-
pie by ng George III. Queried Huey:
'Hcw many of MS sitting in the United
States Senate ;cuay know that Jeffer-
son condemned human slavery ano
committed the Thirteen Colonies to the
declaration that upon being freed from
the rule of the tyrant, King George III,
America would never allow slavery to
be foisted upon the human race? The
proposal to free the slaves was not first
written in 1861 or 1858. 1t was writ
ten by the hand of Thomas Jefferson
into the Declaration of Independence,
and it was voted out. not solely by the
South, but by the votes Of some of the
Northeastern States, the citizens of
which were engaged in the slave trafhc
in the South. When the Continental
Congress adopted the Declaration, 1t
was by tie vote that they failed to
include in it a provision condemning
human slavery in America"
~ X
David Stock, Philadelphia lawyer,
who functioned as expert cf the Senate
Banking and Currency Committee this
year when it was X-raying Wall Street,
was noticed at the Capitol last week
hobnobbing with Senator Norbeck,
chairman, and other members of the
committee. The talk on the Hill is that
serious consideration is being given to
the advisability of a Senate investiga-
tion of the insult crash. James E.
Stewart. the committees investigator.
has just returned from Chicago. Opin
ion differs as to the wisdom of a Sem
ate probe on top of the legal proceed
ings pending against the insults in the
Cook County Criminal Court.