| Show S NI IW THAWING Bo So Testifies Gov J nl Senate I ii vest Iga I Ia ii Cri iii in I tee F web b hearing of ot lot Taft on 01 the Philippines by I I tho the committed on oil 01 Philippines begun began today with wih n a series of ot questions by b l Senator In ht regard to tho the fit ft ss of or tho lie Filipinos for tOI Jury duty luty Mr r Patterson asked whether tho the native population on 01 which the his voting yoUng fian lh HI IH Is II bestowed could not Mt bo hu trusted to 0 do JUI duty ditty TIm The gornor g replied In tho the negative they are lre HO so o 1111 used d to In II tho tim of at Justice that thul they could coul not lut b he be trusted They need to be bo trained ho sold said to tu have hac examples they are ure nut not ready for fur Jury duty Referring to the lie codo coth procedure In II tho Iho Islands Islamic Coy Gov Tuft wild uM 1 In reply to o a by tl Sonata Senator that It I Is II nn an ni American code rather thou than thal a Spanish code cods Under the tha Spanish reel regime me said Tuft Taft the tho courts were nut not lut only olly sluggish but ut notoriously corrupt and the first courts established by then tel Otis 10 no I better bolter Under nile itile 1110 theta there was no ito 10 substantial denial of or Justice JUIce Referring to tu the tha he petition petton of or the Fed Fel l el oral party hartY Gov Tuft raft said suid all ni tho of referred reI I to 11 they tilo w 9 ce for military and pot not civil civi Practically hero BIO ale no nu oh civi II tiona lons for tor political offenses at nt this tIme lov 10 O Taft Tar the original draft of the Federal party platform hail had been beel to tho till commission slon md l the declaration fur for statehood was waR then list more mort explicit antI and 1111 was ultimately adopted My recollectIon he lie said Is that lint we said to lie tho representative of tho ho p that hut thil must bo un fat far In Inthe II inthis the this and that we could make no 1 promises one way WiY or the other othel Is 11 not the commission lon responsible for the lie formation of the tha Federal par party pat party ty 1 asked Senator Senn tor Dubols No Nu It was WIH not hot tt Hoy ov Taft TaU ed ell He lie le gave 10 the names ct ne several severn I prominent Filipinos 1 who hail had In n the organization They had he hl said consulted the ito members lember of tho tim B Ion elan and tho the latter had encouraged tho the formation nn its tR far ns as possible because the for tor The party pori was WIO pence promise of oC lied had been no prominent part put ot of the tue mission work of the tho lead leaders ers era erl Toils Corn 1 1 Inn Groton Mass Fob Feb IS liTI The remark remarkable remarkable able progress made by y President Howe volts son In his hll recovery torn from lila Ills se so severe severo vero vere attack of or pneumonia continues continue and today announcement was made that last night was ras this the most satisfactory tory tor since the sickness bejan beian eul Today Dr Warren the Groton school chont phI physician clan cian cl l will wi dismiss his assistant and re reduce reo reduce duce duro his vista to one OM oit a gay day n V Mrs Roosevelt 1 said that she is planning to take her boy to Washington early next week wee herr Dead Copenhagen Feb heb l eb IS Herr tho the minister of public Works orl s who has been en suffering trout from frol Is dead |
