Show A ESS MUZZLED uJ TAFT DECLARES t I kernor of Philippines Says ays Newspapers Are Not at at Liberty to fo AdI Advocate Ad- Ad I ocate Inq Independence of Islands Islands While While- they th War Va Continues Continues 1 t ington Feb l 19 Among 19 Among T-Among mOng other otherl Philippines t t l ons pertaining to the ed b bj by Go Gov Taft Taft today In his mony before the Senate Committee attitude of the h Philippines waS different t prent religious sects toward on one he that g generally the ther l He lIe said and that friendly one r rI is a Angelical angeliCal churches are seeking to toI toa toa a a. foothold in the Islands lIe He I referred referred to the e ecclesiastical saying saying that under the Spanish i ivie e members of the religious or orr tf elect to ha e civil cases inthey in Ii they were Were concerned tried in courts rather ier than in the regular u al ls s. s DEPORTED I ROM FROM ISLES ply ply t to qu questions he said that J wenty lVe wenty Jl e to fifty persons had ported from the Philippines and andre w wall sent re all sent to Guam by the mil mil- because Lecause they are cone con- con e whose presence Il tit rious He said in reply to that so far as thene the ne advocates of Independence expressed themselves all of them that the United States should n nu its prote protection tion of the islands h r words they wanted th a a. United States prot CONSTITUTION w was asked a great num- num f about the Malolos l j I I ution uti on He said the convention t 1 adopted it was made up largely i Merits a of Manila although b by Aguinaldo to represent the theus us Comparatively few fe fen he said are familiar r rt t United States and he did not ehat what at Aguinaldo is among among- tia a this familiarity PRESS ESS OF ISLANDS lIe aft ft also alo gave Information con- con ig 19 the newspaper press of the pines e newspapers there at liberty v te the independence of the thes I s asked ed Senator Culberson eare are under restrictions imby imy imf im- im by y f the statutes which we dis- dis I ju just t as others are I ess replied they y are prohibited from froma a nurse s at is the effect of the the statute Krar r continues s. s HEALTH HEALTH CONDITIONS ar r ng ng to the climatic and andi andl health foils S of the islands Gov Got Taft health of the troops there ot- ot engaged t In campaigning is is' is Kg- Kg rF good as It would be in the I United States Slates The climate is not severe se severe se- se vere nor is it a disagreeable place In which to live but the continued high temperature becomes becomes' after a time Americans and Europeans Euro Euro- tearing upon It is a bad place in which to tor r recuperate There is he said no malaria malaria malaria ma ma- laria In l Manila but there is much o oa of ofa ofa a a malignant character in ht the higher al altitudes al- al |