Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1916 — House Kills Phillipine Independence Bill. [ARTICLE]

House Kills Phillipine Independence Bill.

Washington, May I.—Sitting as a committee of the whole, the house tonight voted, 193 to 151, to eliminate the provision of the Phillipines bill authorizing the President to grant independence to the islands in four years. This was accepted as meaning defeat for the section on a final vote. On the 18th anniversary of the battle of Manila bay the Phillipine independence bill was taken up in the house by unanimous consent. There was no resort to a special rule.