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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ru. · 1923.
TROUBLE IN THE
PHILIPPINES. :
A CONFLICT OF AUTHORITY.
U.S. GOVERNOR'S POSITION,
COMPANY REPORT.
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAŃ LINE.
KEENER COMPETITION AND
DECLINING TRADE..
In their annual report for 1022 the
at Austenlamı, say -
The Manila correspondent of the Thursdirectors of the Java-China-Japan Line, has contributed to the journal the follow- ing account of the couliet of authority in the Philippines between the Legislature and the Governor-General; —
growing convict an There i
abong Ameriega residents in the Philippines that a crisis is imminent in the political status of the islands. This conviction is share! by many of the more enlightened Filipinos and by a majority of the prominent repre❘ sentatives of the foreign communities.
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United States tunnage, and later also by The been cubetition, by Japanese and
Chinese ships, increased even further in 1929, and the frights continued to de cline on all rentes, the Itsiness of the company suffered severely by the strik of soamien at Hongkong which broke out į in January last year and lasted seven weeks. Passenger trade als diminished considerably.
Cina-
For some time past an attitle of asta-
Trude on the Java-Pacific Line declined ganism has been developing on the part of further, and the ships in this service bod the Philippi Legislative towards the to sail with a considerable dead freight. pelicies and methods of the Chief Exec The large decline in the trade from the tive. There are signs that matters may Netherlands Fast Indies to the West rach climax.
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at no distant date. On more than one occasion Manuel Quran Coast of America is chiefly due to the President of the Philippine Senate, has entire stoppage of exports of copra cakes, delivered direct attacks against the nues coura oil and day suger. thority of the floversar-General. An impensation was to a certain degree foaid: pression has browvereated that the position in the ingreased shipments, of sugar 'aud of tieneral Leamed Wood as representative vil from the Philippines to the West Coast of the Sovereign Pawer is anything but of Anurica. It was, however, decided t impregnable.
'reduce the unasher of sailings in 1992, 'anil Recency Me. Quezou issued a nuanifesto the service is now carried out by four to the Press which he challenged the steamers, the "sailings being monthly. moral right of the Gureriior General to in-. The sites at Tandjong Priok briere, by use of the veto power or by any j nearly completed at the end of last year. other
means, with domestic measures a The services of the United Netherlands acted by the Legislature. He asserted | Shipping Co. are developing satisfne: that the yeto should is fined salely legislation that night affect foreign relatorily, and the long is considerably less than in the providiis year. A definite Liens 05 enernach upon United States decision relative to the completion of the steamer Tjanrara has not yet been taken. The steamer Tiber was completed in Oktober, 1922, bus was laid up until Jammary, 1923, when employment was fund for her outside the ordinary trade of the company. The steamer Tikundi
wvereignty,
were
It is true that the Governor-fleveral is in Manila, as the supreme representative, of the United States and is responsible to the American fiovernment alone, On the ther hand the Legidature the Semite and the Assembly is composed of the elected, representatives of the Filiping in on tits charter to the United people and is responsible to the Filipino Netherlands Shipping Company through-
out the whole year. people. Mr. Quezon described this situ tion as one of divided authority and divid vi rokponsibility.
As the building programie has been practically completed, the name of the reserve fund für new tonge was altered as the repair fand was renamed repair to reserve for depreviation and renewal,
and survey fund.
· After Allowing for taxes, the habincé
In the Philippines (he declared) the Governor-General can never hope to chan the makeup of the Legislature because in the elections a (legislatiers in opposition to an American Governor Gearral woulil in- svitably have the support of the people,
virtually impossible for the Gunthe miscellaneous reserve amounts to
support of the Fili-guilders, and the directors "pr
prose to write off loss on last year's pe, people in ontroversy with the trading. Legislature," The time u come when!
Geral to have the
the United States Government must make either the representatives of the Filipino people or the GovernaTM-Cirneral wholly res ponsible for the government of the Islands, THE JONES SUT.
Me, Quezon goes so far as to challenge the right of the Governor-General to make use of an authority--the veto power-spezi- feally given hun by the Organic Act for the Philippine Islands, commonly known as the Jines, Art, Won the Chief execu tive deprived of this poker he would be eume little under than a figurehend. · Al-
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No dividend will be paid, and a balance of 4.162 guilders furried forward,
SOVIET CASH FIRST.
BRITISH TOOL-MAKERS REFUSE „CREDIT ORDERS.
- Thẻ collapse of Sheffield's trade in teols sumpled for Russian engineering, agricul- tural and forestry induktries, saya u Lou-
vendy the fioverrer-Genera!
cral Lawre todon paper. has followed the refusal of the wing whic
ubject to confirmation by Savict Government to pay cash before the Philippine Senate, has est inuch of the goods are despatched. its value as a buttress of administrative authority. The Senate has not hesitated. of several occasions, to withhold or refuse it approval of appointments where those natuated were not of its own choosing or political complexion...
The Governor-General véns this to be placed in a position where he is unable to fropeand policy or carry through n measure without the roueurmmos of the Philippine Senate, while the Senate is be coming more and more reluctant to lend its confidence and support, At almost every turn in the game General Wood
ennfronted with "stale mats.”!
Unofficial American opinion is inclined at least to sympathize with the President of the Senate to the extent of admitting that divided responsibility engenders irre
Nainerous orders have been received, But the Soviet no longer agrees to the cash-down condition which it recently observed when buying a barge quantity
ef kawa.
Shefeld innafacturers are not likely to undertake Isiness with Russin on
edit terms.
established in the Philippine Islands a situation which would leave the United States in a position of responsibility with- out authority.
devising some compromise that will satisfy There. remains, therefore, the problem of the legitimate aspirations of the Filipine
tansibility, that the present nule, as manifested by-their- chosen)
Miluation" cannt continue much and that the sooner a permanent ment is arrival at the outer political and venuemic conditions will become her, indi. Meanwhile the tendency of the Administration is to avoid any appearance. of rupture with the Legislature, which has
conre to all intents and purposes" "the, Opposition.
Such an attitude is at times bound to involve retreat from important administra- tive positions, General Wood finds himself in the impossible position of a Prime Min ister unable to count upon the support of even a fighting minority His voice does not reach the cars of the people, who have no wish to hear. His moterests are blocked at every turn,
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THE INDEPENDENCE CRY." The Filipino political leaders have been persistent in their demands" for national independence. It may be taken for grant- of that for instaure with a form be sati-fed with a would be
of autonomous government that would them unrestricted control of all domestic issues, including control of the exchequer, with a constitution based moren op less qu that of the Dominion of Canada, or of the Union of South Afrien.
It must not be suppose that the Presi alent of the Binate, and Senator Osmeña, beth, then of the world and shrewd poli- sicians, are blind to the military impotency of the Philippines, or to the dangers that menace the lands owing to their vast antural resouress, which offer a tempting bais to neighbouring countries, already and hard pressed to find elbow-room, fexxl,
for their tling millions. employment Neither is it to be credited that the Fii- pino lenders are prepared to expose the islands to such jeopardy merely for the gratification of a whim, or for the sake of fatuous sentiment, however.remote the menace may appear today.
Were the Filipines granted an expanded form of autonomous govermaent it is safe to say they would be willing, and eager to confide the management of their relations to the Washingbio, Govern
Under such an arrangement the United States would automatically continue to bo responsible for the military protection of the islanda". But the. Wood-Forbes Mission, in its
report, maintained in no uncertain terms that under no circumstances should. the American Government permit to be (Continued on next column.).
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