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The report recommends that the present form of
Goverment should be continued until January 1904
when provisions might be made for a change in the
form of Government so that it should consist of a
civil Governor, a Legislative Council and a popular
Assembly chosen by a limited electorate.
The powers
of the latter to be limited in various ways and the
Legislative Council to be empowered to vote the sup-
plies if the Assembly failed to do so,
The collapse of the insurrection came in May
last and it is stated that outside the provinces of
Batangas, Cebu, Bohol, Samar and Mindoro, there is
peace in the Archipelago.
The Commission believe that the only way to
teach the Philippine people how to govern themselves
is to make a mixed Government of Americans and Philip-
pinos giving the control to Americans for some time
to come.
The Commissioners point out that after 400 years
of
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