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CONGRESS. (THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.) 



or inhabiants of said archipelago who have been 

 deported shall be returned to the place whence 

 they were so deported; J'ror'nlwl. That such am- 

 nesty shall not apply to any who have violated 

 the rules of civilized warfare or who have been 

 guilty of murder or torture; that the latter, if 

 any, shall be afforded a speedy trial for their 

 offenses in the civil courts of said archipelago 

 and be punished or acquitted, as the facts and 

 law may warrant. 



" SEC. 7. That within sixty days from the elec- 

 tion of officers under the temporary government 

 to be formed by the people of the Philippine 

 Archipelago, in accordance with the provisions of 

 this act, and the inauguration of said officers, 

 the President shall cause the armed forces of the 

 United States to be withdrawn from said archi- 

 pelago as speedily as may be, except such forces 

 as may be maintained in such parts thereof 

 as have been retained by the United States for 

 naval, military, and coaling stations and termi- 

 nal facilities for cables, and the President of the 

 United States and the Secretary of War shall 

 make all needful regulations to carry into effect 

 the provisions of this section. 



" SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the Phil- 

 ippine congress herein provided for to prescribe 

 rules and regulations and qualifications for elect- 

 ors for the election and holding of a constitu- 

 tional convention which shall be charged with 

 the duty of framing a permanent government for 

 the people of the Philippine Archipelago. Said 

 constitutional convention shall be called to meet 

 at such place and at such time, not later than 

 the first Monday of January, 1905, as may be 

 prescribed by said Philippine congress. Upon the 

 completion of the labors of said convention and 

 the inauguration of the government consequent 

 thereupon, it shall be the duty of the President 

 of the United States to issue his proclamation 

 declaring the absoltue and unqualified inde- 

 pendence of the people of the Philippine Archipel- 

 ago and that they constitute an independent state 

 and nation, and upon the issuance of said procla- 

 mation the United States Government and the 

 Philippine government shall become and be as fully 

 separate and independent as any other separate 

 and independent nations are: Provided, however, 

 That if the Philippine government request it, the 

 United States Government hereby agrees to as- 

 sume a protectorate over the Philippine Archi- 

 pelago for a period additional to the period of the 

 temporary government herein provided for, said 

 additional period of protectorate not to exceed, 

 however, the period of sixteen years: Provided 

 furtlirr. That the said Philippine government 

 agree during the said period of additional pro- 

 tectorate to surrender to the keeping of the 

 United States Government the regulation and 

 control of the foreign affairs of the Philippine 

 Archipelago. 



" SEC. 9. That all terms of office of legislative, 

 executive, and judicial officers of the temporary 

 government hereinbefore provided for, including 

 the term of office of the president, and the terms 

 of office of the senators and representatives in 

 congress hereinbefore prescribed, shall terminate 

 with the existence of the temporary government 

 herein provided for, and said temporary govern- 

 ment shall ipxit fm-to cease to exist upon the 

 inauguration of the permanent government to be 

 called into existence by the constitutional con- 

 vention herein provided for: and nothing herein 

 contained shall be so construed as to prevent the 

 congress of the Philippine Archipelago from call- 

 ing the said constitutional convention at a date 

 earlier than the date herein fixed." 



The substitute was rejected by a vote of 48 

 to 28. 



Mr. McLaurin, of Mississippi, proposed the fol- 

 lowing amendment: 



" It is the policy of the Government to pre- 

 serve the agricultural public lands in the archi- 

 pelago for homes for the people of the archi- 

 pelago, and no part of said agricultural lands 

 shall be sold under this act except for such 

 homes, nor to any except a natural person, a citi- 

 zen of said archipelago." 



It was beaten by a vote of 47 to 28. 



The vote on the passage of the measure was as 

 follows : 



YEAS Allison, Bard, Beveridge, Burnham, 

 Burrows, Burton, Clapp, Clark of Wyoming. C.'ul- 

 lom, Deboe, Dietrich, Dillingham, Dolliver, Elkins, 

 Fairbanks, Foraker, Foster of Washington, Frye, 

 Gallinger, Gamble, Hanna, Hawley, Jones of Ne- 

 vada, Kean, Kearns, Kittredge, Lodge, McComas, 

 McCumber, McLaurin of South Carolina, McMil- 

 lan, Millard, Mitchell, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins, 

 Platt of Connecticut, Platt of New York, Pritch- 

 ard, Proctor, Quarles, Quay, Scott, Simon, Spoon- 

 er, Stewart, Warren, Wetmore 48. 



NAYS Bacon, Bailey, Bate, Berry, Blackburn, 

 Carmack, Clark of Montana, Clay, Cockrell, Cul- 

 berson, Dubois, Foster of Louisiana, Gibson. 

 Harris, Heitfeld, Hoar, McEenery. McLaurin of 

 Mississsippi, Mallory, Martin, Mason. Money. 

 Morgan, Patterson, Simmons, Taliaferro, Teller. 

 Tillman, Vest, Wellington 30. 



NOT VOTING Aldrich, Daniel, Depew, Dryden. 

 Hale, Hansbrough. Jones of Arkansas, Pettu>. 

 Rawlins, Turner 10. 



In the House of Representatives the usual de- 

 vice of a special rule, under which that body ha> 

 become, in recent years, executive rather than 

 deliberative, was adopted, June 16, to bring the 

 bill to a prompt vote. It was ordered that it 

 should be considered in Committee of the Whole, 

 Wednesday, June 25, reported to the House with 

 amendments at four o'clock, Thursday, June 2t3, 

 and then put to passage under the previous qne.-- 

 tion. It was amended and passed that day by 

 a vote of 140 to 97. 



The amendment, in the way of a substitute, 

 reported by the Republican majority of the Com 

 mittee on Insular Affairs, and adopted by the 

 majority of the House, was radical in its changes, 

 and their character may be best understood by 

 the report of the managers appointed to repre- 

 sent the House on a conference committee, after 

 the Senate had non-concurred in the amendment. 

 The differences are thus stated, in reporting the 

 substitute measure of the Conference Committee: 



" There were three important points of differ- 

 ence between the two Houses, namely. prov 

 sions in the House bill for a legislature: another 

 in relation to lands: and another in relation 

 to coinage. The Senate recedes trom its di*-' 

 agreement to the provision for a legislature, and 

 agrees to it with an amendment providing that 

 within two years after the census, provided f < r 

 in the House bill, has been completed, if. in the 

 meanwhile, a condition of general peace and good 

 order shall have prevailed, the President shall 

 order the Philippine Commission to call, and tie 

 commission shall call, a general election for tie 

 elmire of delegates to a popular assembly of tl.e 

 people of that portion of the island- not inhab- 

 ited by Moros and pagan tribes, which shall be 

 known as the Philippine assembly. As to the 

 qualification of voters, the power of the assem- 

 bly, and of the legislature, and the qualification 

 of the members of the assembly, the Senate baa 

 agreed substantially to the House provisions. 



