Show GOV TAFTS PHILIPPINE PLANt PLAN At First Would Give Oiva People 3 Qualified Suffrage Should Be Enlarged Through English Language Andin And in Theory of American Institutions Washington Feb Feh Taft In hili hii testimony the senate com corn committee on aim tIme the Philippine today stated more than haiti he hl has heretofore I done domme his hla which he lie said is also alo the of ot tIn tho Philippine slonas to what should do In time tho way a of oC supplying the tIme Philippine people with a it forum form of at government Ills plan is III first to give glo the Ihl he a Lu quail fled lieu suffrage t with a gradual growth In popular government which should b be enlarged through education In the Ing l lieu language and amid In tn American Institutions thins U ns second to tu Institute within a 1 rca rea reasonably short time a n loral local legislature to consist of ot two bodies one to bo ho chosen by vote tote anti and tIme the other to be appointive third to permit p the Islands Island to send two or three liter representatives to Iu Washington In III reply to 10 questions Gov br Taft mid said he agreed with Gen 1111 lou Funston J thAt he the en fOil or of a popular assemblage would give opportunity to demagogues demagogue to stir up UI the that people but that ht his h did nut not Include In this designation nit nil pet per persons sons who art are opposed 1 to 10 con tel There are oro he lie said many mony men In Iii the lie Islands sIn 1111 II who conscientiously l oppose the time domination ot of the lie United State To ro grant rAnt Independence would woul he ho thought have 1100 the effect of at consigning I tho M 90 O p Per IllIf r cent of 01 uneducated people In Inthe Inthe the time Island Islamic l to the tho saris sane servile lI position they held under Spanish rule ruie Ho lie thought there thero be n ii declaration on the part port of 01 tile the United States l of Its Intention to hold time tho Islands blands Indefinitely with the understanding that when they are aro suitable for such a n condition they may be bt given ulen n Il Such a II pronouncement by this country w bt be b welcomed by many and an would do nuch good Many illicit of time the common Ilea 10 do 10 not he lie Mid know the differ enlO Independence suit and ence nd many of ot the th better belter Informed have not hot at followed the agitation for tor In fn p to its ito lilt last analysis Sow SOI of oC the agitators seem he lie said mid td to count coUtt counton on a it protectorate by br the lie he United 1 If It the th government nt of the lh Islands should now nose no be turned over oel to the themselves there woul be nothing lees leva lion nn an oligarchy they the having no Idea lda of civil government |