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Show Philippines Must Wait a While for Independence WASHINGTON. Republican leaders In congress have reached a decision t postpone indefinitely the question of grunting independence to the Philippines. The decision of the Republican lenders against consideration ofi HAVE WUR Ts tho Filipinos' plen for Independent followed the recent hearing accorttod tlie rhilip)ine commission at a joint session of the house and senate committees com-mittees on insular affairs. It transpired trans-pired that few, if any, of the Republican Repub-lican or Democratic members of those committees hud been sufficiently impressed im-pressed by the representations of the delegates to take a stand in favor of freeing the islands fit this time. The general conclusion was Hint no step in this direction should be taken until more convincing proof has been ottered of the ability of the Filipinos Fili-pinos to stand alone and to continue to maintain the institutions of government and education established by the United Stales which have wrought such beneficent changes in the islands in 20 years. Moreover, it was deemed Inadvisable Inad-visable to take a step of such great moment to these wards of the American "epublie until the equilibrium of world conditions is restored. It Is now taken for granted that the question of liberating the Philippines will not be considered seriously until the congressional committees shall have visited the islands and made an exhaustive investigation and report to congress. The Filipino delegation was advised of this status of the matter before leaving Washington, and made no protest. In fact, it transpires that the delegation did not expect to obtain favorable action at this time. The dispatch of the commission by the Philippine legislature' was forced by the minority party in the island, which accused the majority party of lack of aggressiveness in seeking independence. y |