CO129-314 - Public Offices - 1902 — Page 179

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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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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