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Show mmi ro nut PHILIPPINE AFFAIRS """WAHMNUTON. May 18. A pfltTIrm to congnrss sijEned by piibliBhers, clergymen, cler-gymen, professors, scientists and oilers oil-ers requesting a special inquiry into the manner in which P. C. Worcester Worces-ter has discharged his duties as commissioner com-missioner of the Philippine islands was submitted to the house today by Bop renentative 81ayden of Texas. The petition is in the form of a reso lution- and charges that Commissioner Worcester "has become notoriously unpopular un-popular among the natives, the final evidence of which was given by a resolution reso-lution adopted by the general -assembly of the Philippine islands aa the closing act of its last session." Among the petitioners are R. H. Clement, former editor of the Boston Transcript; John Ritchie, Boston Scien- tifie society; Frederick ftarr, University Univer-sity of Chicago; Lucius F. C. fiarvin. ex-governor of Bbode Island; Oswald ( villad. New York, and Rov. A. A. Berle, People's church, Boston. In submitting the petition- Representative Repre-sentative Hlayden'ssid he believed there sbonld be a searching, critical examination exami-nation of the affairs of the Philippine islands. |