Show OPPOSITION AT MANILA Heads of Departments Threaten to Resign i Beckman Winthrop Succeeds Gov Taft I Manila Oct 22A committee appointed by the American Chamber of Commerce in this I city appeared before the Philippine Philip-pine commission and submitted a cablegram cable-gram to President Roosevelt recommending recommend-ing the appointment of a business man of the United 1 Stales as a member of Ihe commission upon tlm retirement of Coy Tai The commissioners present while they raised no objection to the cable being be-ing forwarded lo the t President declined to I oxpreHJi any opinion upon Its I merits There is i n pronounced objection here to the proposal that I the President appoint Beekman int limp exassistant executive execu-tive scGrelary to tIm vaeancy and several sev-eral I heads of departments say they will resign If I i Winthrop gets the position It Is I said that the commission favors Gen George AT Davis I |