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Show WOULD INVESTIGATE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS WASHINGTON Dec IT A resolution providing for investigation of the Ph I lop ne government and conditions in the archipelago by a. special house comm t tee was ntroduced today toy Representative Representa-tive MBIer of M nnesota, who recen Ij visited the slanda. The resolution says that a con petent authority has assorted that Span sh American war veterans n the Phil ppine civil service have been removed vr tho t rause tha there have been gross abuses of the civil service rules and that the Philippine government is demoralized and incompetent. Bepresenta ve Sabath of THIno s introduced intro-duced a Joint reso utkm for neutral iza tlon of the Philippines in wh ch it is proposed that all interested maritime powers give guaranty for the islands perpetual neutral zatlon under the r protection- |