Show FILIPINO DELEGATE TO CONGRESS 4 4 M A A P M X att A WW n X wal V J UA AEA AE A 0 K 0 N t J copyright by waldon fawcett la wiett paolo ue lie leon the delegate selected by the filipino assembly Is like his colleague a lawyer by profession a native of manila and a member of a well to do family he was also a filipino patriot was imprisoned by the spaniards and afterwards exiled by the americans but after two years was wa 9 IIlo allowed wed to return to manila he gave up politics for a time and devoted him I 1 T L I 1 ll 11 to his law practice but he became director of la patria and drifted bad back into t public affairs and was elected to the assembly by the M mr ocampo Is practically a pure blooded filipino the majority of the assembly were anxious to have their delegate a true representative of their race mr ocampo was further favored both by his radically patriotic record and by his present conservatism the assembly leaders considered it good policy to send a moderate nationalist to washington these two delegates will endeavor to obtain from congress the reduction of the import duty on an filipino sugar and tobacco they say the cattle plague has killed off 90 per cent of the working animals and that the filipinos are in a worse position than they hey have been for 30 years they are also interested in the japanese question being like all the filipinos suspicious of the japanese |