THE PHILIPPINES
RATIFICATION OF INDEPENDENCE PRESSED FOR. (Rec. January 29, 9.15 p.m.) Washington, January 27. It is reported that Mr. Francis Burton Harrison, Governor-General of the Philippines, is coming to Washington to press for the ratification of tho plan to give independence to the Philippines. He expects to obtain President Wilson's sup-port.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. [By an Act of Congress approved on August 29, 1916, the Thilippine Commission was abolished, there being substituted as the Upper House of the Legislature a Senate composed of 2i members, and instead of the Assembly a House of Representatives of 90 members, all of whom are to Iμ elected at triennial elections, excepting two senators and nine representatives who are to be appointed by the' Goyernor-Genoral, to represent the non-Christian provinces. This Act gen-, erally enlarged the powers of the Ineular Government!
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 5
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137THE PHILIPPINES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 107, 30 January 1919, Page 5
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