...people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein, ' '2T in section 5 of the organic act for Porto Rico, approved by President Wilson on November 2, 1917,...

...Congress pledged itself solemnly to withdraw its "sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable Government can be established therein." The only condition laid down has long since been fulfilled. Since, however, the men at the helm of...

...purpose of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein." Most of the opposition to this bill consists of objections to these words in the preamble; the preamble,...

...sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable govern-^ ment can be established therein; and Whereas for the speedy...people of the Philippines as large a control of their affairs as can be given them, without, in the meantime, impairing the exercise of the rights of sovereignty...

...$33,194 912 Coffee 397.761 492,883 824,512 2,948,733 4,055,622 5,061,525 ippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein. This declaration was in the form of a preamble, which was followed by an organic act providing a government...

...people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government...is desirable to place in the hands of the people of 204 the Philippines as large a control of their domestic affairs as can be given them without, in the...

...words in the preamble were afterwards changed in the Senate Committee to read as follows: " Whereas it Is desirable to place in the hands of the people of the Philippines such an increasing control of their domestic affairs as can be given them without, in the meantime,...

...people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein" and that this should be done by giving as much of the powers of govemment to the Filipinos as possible,...

...declared that purpose to be "to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein." That this bill was drawn in harmony with the Baltimore platform must be conceded. The bill provided...

...their constitutional spokesman, the Congress, that it is their purpose to grant the Philippine Islands their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein. In order that this grant of independence may be expedited, the Filipino people are allowed to assume...