Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — TO CONTROL ISLANDS. [ARTICLE]

TO CONTROL ISLANDS.

Philippine Commission Will < Take Charge Sept. 1. On Sept. 1 the commission headed by Judge Taft will become the legislative body of the Philippines, with power to take and appropriate insular moneys, to establish judicial and educational systems, and to make and pass all laws. No money will be permitted to be drawn from the insular funds except by authorization of the committee. Judge Taft and his colleagues will also exercise certain executive functions. For instance, they will appoint judges, officials in the educational department and officers of municipalities which the commission‘establish pending elections. Gen. MacArthur will be the executive head to enforce the laws of the commission, and he will conduct the government in accordance with the same until the commission recommends to President McKinley the appointment of a civil governor. There has been an increase of insurgent activity during the last three weeks, especially in the way of ambushes and attacks upon small parties.