GOVERNOR GENERAL FORBES' ADMINISTRA-
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Spirited Reply to Congressman Jones Charges.
Following his resignation, Governor General Forbes of thej Philippines made public a very lengthy reply to the charges against hia administration made by Congressman Jon's He leads off по follows:
“I resent the false charge made in the House of Representatives by Hen. William A. Jones, of Virginia, against me and against the American administration of the Philippine Islands. I resent Them in my own behuifs in be-- half of my associat, and in behalf of iny prodecussors in the jueulur government. I do not disparage Lonest criticism, but I submit to the American people that we who represent you here are entitled, at least, to justice] and inirness, from those who re-i present you in Congress."' lej goes on to admit that Mr Jones has. aright to express and support his opinion on Phillipine indepen dence, an adds: "But I insist that he may not pervert the facts nor say what is Inteo, that he may not, in malica or in disregard, elander me or any other American official, to support his contention."
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INTERPORT SWIMMing contests.
SHANGHAI VICTORIOUS THROUGH WINNING POLO.
Deciding Goal Scored in Last Minute.
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Shanghai. Received Sept. 1.
The Interport Swimming Contests were concluded in the Public Bath on Saturdný afternoon..
The Quarter Mile Rass was won by J. C. Finoli (Hong- kong) quite easily. R. Berthet (Shanghai) being second. The winner's time was 66 seconds.
The One Length Team Race was won" by Shanghai, the time being. 2 minutes 13 seconds.
Everything depended on the result of the Water Folo match, for which the winnths would secure seven points.. It was a very close tussle, Shanghai eventually winning by 3 gouls to 2, thus securing the Interport honours. The winning goal was scored in the last minute.
The total points for the whole contests were:-
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and it was this surplus, lying idle while the Philippines needed roads and other public works, (Continued from page 1) whigh was transferred to the Para and other vatielies had to general treasury and made avail-to resorted to and there had not able for useful purposes." yet come into bearing. And, in addition, the principal rubber Inspiration from
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work of the Imperial Institute. great changes had taken place in There are the factsThe
ite organisation and activities in and Intereating experiment in provision of law to which. Mr. colonial government. We serve Jones refers is found in section 7
regarded by the public as nothing but the home of ebow-casse. I among a suspicious and credulous of the Act of Congress of July 1,
"Sore-Heads." people, to whom the falso state-1902 (the Philippines Bill), and
was known to-day, at all eveuls ments, made by our own country-reads as follows: It. at the In concluding, the Governor
among the mercantile community, 88 À busy hive of scientific men in high position, would sure termication of any session the ap. General says: "There remain to Jy come to weaken their confi lence propriations necessary for the be considered the documents"
inquiry all over our Dominions.-
Tropical Agriculture. in us and in the American people. support of government aball, not which Mr. Jones has printed in prevention, the commercial assets
Mr. Harcourt, replying Surely it bзhoovod Mr. Jones to have been made, an amount equal support of his speech and to of that region were gravely im- various points raised in the couree speak the truth of us-pot to to the supus appropriated in the which he referees authoritica paired. Nyasaland was much of the debate, faid he sympathiced malign bis countrymen without last appropriation bills for such There are newspaper interviews more promising in this respect. Its with the proposal for the eff good grounds-not to accuse us purposes shall be deemed to be ap of Charlea B. Elliott and Dr. export in pounde bad rias from blishment of a college of tropical in had fath or without knowlege propriated; and until the Legielu John R. McDill and letters of 18,000 to 48,000. Wild rubber agricultore, but it must not k3.
ture shall not in such behalf the Charles B. Elliott, L. M. Southprincipally of the Ladelphia asumed that that sympathy car "1n Mr. Jones' speeches of Jan-treasurer may, with the advice of worll. and Wm. S. Lyon. Mr. pecies as diminishing by ex-ried with it financial assistance unry 28 and February 13, 1913, the Governor General, make the Elliott isex-secretary of commerce, baustion, but plantation rubra (sughter.) He was quite sure bafore the House of Representa payment necessary for the purposes and police; President Taft re-bough extrusive in exes, was not that cientific litquity into tropical tives, he has traduced me and my aforesaid. I was Congress not quested his resignation upon my yet sufliciently mature for mer associates in the government of the Governor-General that or representation that his service cantile production, The East Rticulture bad added greatly to the prosperity of tropical jelanda. the Philippines. Those speeches, dered the appropriation and pro were unentisfactor. Mr. Lyon Africa Protectorate had managed With regard to indentured labour, ao far as they refer to the insular vided bow its total amount should was once an official of the burean to maintain a fair average of ex-
nothing could give more satisfac- administration, contain few che determined. The function of of agriculture. Mr. Southworthportation, it was, however, in tion than the steps which bad curate statements, much suppres- the Governor-General is limited has been prosecuting attorney Ceylon and the Malay Peninsula en taken by the Indian Govern
city of Manila; 1 tbst the great development of rion of the true, much suggestion to advising the payments after of the
appropriation 19 of the false, "and not a litle the
made thought beat to disappoint this production had taken place, ment with his full concurrencǝ I could not, if I him in bis aspirations for a From Ceylon and the Malay MR KNOLL'S A CIDENT, Many things available. outright untruth,
in 1905 the concerning which Mr. Jones spoke wished, prevent thesppropriation, judgeship, and he bas recently Peninsula
How the Mishap Actually were inatters of public record; and I could not increase its ag-suffered further disappointment exports were 6,500,000 lbs., in
Occurred, ail of the facts were readily a greate amount over the ictal our in his ambition to serve on the 1912 they were 31.03.000 lbs. Touching the unfortunate ac cessible to any member of Con-ried by the last appropriation Philippine Commission, or the The value was, in 1905; £665,- gress, and especially to the chair- bills for like purposes. Mr Jones Supreme Court, or somewhere: 003, and in 1912 £13.700,000 cident to Mr Kabll at the Gymk. man of the ammitire of insular bus sought to fix upon the Gover- Dr. John R. McDill has bean chief With rubber should be included bans, on Saturday, we have made affairs. We have no recourse for nor-General a responsibility which surgeon of the Philippine gene-autta perche from the Malay enquiries to-day with a
to eliciting where, and how, our vindication except this: to belongs to Congrose, and to give ral hospital and professor in the Peninsula, where the export had the mishap actually occurred. A present the fuurs to the American an impression of arbitary action Philippine medical college; his grown in value by 50 1er cent., definite statement as to the point the service and balats from British Guiana at which the accident occurred people and let them judge bet where, in fact, as he must have reparation from ween Mr. Jones and us,
known, there was no action was not of his own volition, a substitute for gutta pochs,.
from the asp All these witness bave personal obtained whatever." An Unfit Representation.
Further on, Governor Forbes grievances and reeeniments which Mimusopa globosa. The export "I charge that. & member of
of this material had grown in Congress who, having the means refers to the following allegation affect their credibility.
"Mr Jones bas bien a willing value from £40,000 to £140,000 of knowing the truth, maliciously of Mr. Jones:-"This reckless or recklessly slandera American extravagance and studied dis- and credulous listener to these in six years.
Glancing at the minerals of the public servants, is unfit to repre- regard for the interenta of the oreheads. Obviously his whole sent the State of Virginia. I poor and defenceless Filipinos has purpose, has he sa to diecredit Crown Colonies, he said that in greatly mistake the temper of the led, as might have been expected, the Philippines government, the baser metals the production cellent authority, that Mr. Knoll furtherance he of tin in the Malay Peninsula met with his accident near the American people if they, knowing to a deficit, or perhaps, it would fand in its
accepted and . used showed an increase in the value
three-quarter mile post. There the facts, do not rebuke an un-be more accurate to ear a deficit bes warranted attack upon the honour was only averted during the past anything injurious that offered, of ite export form £15,000,000 to is, a well-known local jockey as of the Philippines government, fiscal year by the transference of testing his material, not for tiub £21,000,000. Irop, in small, and surce us, a piece of rail jutting out a little at the spot where which is, before the world, the $1,698,513 82 from the gold but for effect. His misrepresenta-almost stationary quantities, came the accident took place, and i honour of the American nation." standard fund to the general funde tins are plainly malicions, for be from the Straits Sattlements, and
appears that Mr Knoll, in trying The Governor General then in the treasury. Unless, therefore, has made them either knowing copper and lead from the same to gain a position on the rails, hit g038 on to analyse Mr Jones's great reduction in expenditures in the truth or deliberately avoiding Colony but in decreasinganronto this pics) of rail and broke his allegatione, presenting the case in made during the year 1913 thereits koowledge...
"I know that there are A meri rare metals, which now come to leg. At the time he had no ides parallel columns-on (ne side will be a very large deficit, for I Mr Jones' statement, and on the cannot believe that the Commie- cans; who believe with Mr. us in increasing quantities from that anything asrious had occur opposite a recital of the facte with sion will again invade the stand-Jones that, whatever fate may the Malay Peninsula. Wolfram red, and not until he bad entered bis (the Governor General's) com- ard fand, although I confess that befall the Filipinos, the United or tungsten was the essential base the straight did he feel his leg going numb. From that point he ments. A big space is taken up I am prepared for anything it States would be justified, for its of the new metal filament lamps, felt it of no use to him.
own interate, in abandoning the which have revolutionised eleotrio with the question of general sp-may do
"Mr. Knoll anys that the fault "propriation for the support of the Replying to this point, he says, Philipping Islands and thus es- lighting. Speaking of tea, be Rovernment, upon which the two inter alia" The transfer of caping & responsibility. There said the tea of Ceylon, famous the was entirely bia," said our infor- Philippine Bouses twice failed $1,698,513.82 from the gold are some, no doubt, who agrea world over, had increased its ex-mant, "and that no one else was to agree. The Governor General standard fund to the general funde with him that the Filipinos are port from 170,000,000 lbs. to in the slightest degree to blame.". ! It does seems, however, 59 characterizes many of Mr. Jones's was not made by the Commission, entirely capable of maintaining,186,000,000 lbs, and the export statements made under this head as Mr Jones implies, nor by me, unaided by us, a satisfactory from the Straits Cattlements had though that piece of jatting out Bat. I think be increased from 3.5000,000 lbs. to rail might have been planod ne extravagant misstatements. but by Act No. 2083 of the government,
before now. Dealing with one matter, he 16. Philippine Legislature, with of, will have scant success in bis 5,500,000 lbs. Mr. Harcourt con
course. the concurrence of the effort to persuade brd-headed oluded by remarking that the Mr. Knoll is certainly a plucky merke
"Mr. Jones says:Whether Assembly. The transfer was Americans that they who lead the figures be bad given showed how young follow to ride for three
4 enter great and growing was our saps quarter of a mile, with a broken or not the Commission deliberately suggested by the secretary of world in industrial planned to bring about this un-war, and was in no sense an in-prises, are incompetent to city for production, This wonder leg, ride so well as to be accorded
government entarful growth in quantity, value, and second place at the finish. GANDE, PRICE CO. LTD fortunate condition of affairs vasion of the gold standard fend, manage a in order to deprive the Filipinos which is still maintained intact prise. And I believe that even quality was largely the result of The older residents will recall of any control over their revenues at the figure provided by law and those who support bis cause must the patient and pains taking that in 1887 H.E. Sir Henry May met with a similar accident the result bas been the sume, deamed sufficient to support condemn his effort to advance it work of men both in and outstriking his tos against a post. Acting under the authority of the the Saarlor purtadoy, Daring by an unpatriotic and unwarrant. of the Colonial Service, whose The force of the impact turned | duty it was to his leg book breaking it badly; provision of law which I have several years the earnings of ed esault upon the good" names special just quoted the Governor General,' the fund bad accumulatod a sur-t of the Americans who represent earpervise and improve the cirhe too, finiabéd the race and was has ordered the appropriation of plya abaya the amaust negudaary their country in the government Loumstances of production. As to lifted in a Minting condition in sum equal to the total appro and required for this purpur, of the t'hilippino Telande.”
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