Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — GIVES PEN TO FILIPINO. [ARTICLE]

GIVES PEN TO FILIPINO.

Senor Buencamino Secures Precious Bit of Steel. Washington dispatch: Senor .imencamino, who has been sojourning in this country, called upon President Roosevelt and requested the pen with which he signed the Philippine government bill, as he desired to preserve it and eventually place it in some public library in the Philippines. The pen already had been given to Senator Lodge, chairman of the Philippine committee, but as he happened to be present at the time, he presented it to Senor Buencamino When the latter left the White Hous| he remarked that the Philippine bil\ initiated self-government in the islands. He also paid a hijgh tribute to President Roosevelt.