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Show MEETING TO DISCUSS PHILIPPINE BILL Alithorltles on Dependent Peoples to Consider Status of Nation's Charges Mphonk Lako, N. Y., Oct. 13. Home ot tho country's foremost authorities au-thorities on, Phlllpplno ntt'ulrs1 will nd-" droxs tho thirty-second annual Lake MohOnk conference on th? Indian and other dependent peoples, which meets here: tomorrow. The Phlllpplno bill now boforo congrew will be dlscupa-ed dlscupa-ed and one of tho , speakers will be tho author of tho. 11.1, IUi.wscntallvo William A. Joiuw of Warsaw, Va., chairman of tho lious.0 ctmimltteo on .rrulnv affairs. Among other speakers on this topic will bo Mnnuot L. Quezon, resident commissioner in congress iVom tho Philippines; W. Morgan shustor or Now York, formorly secrotnry of public pub-lic Instruction In tho Island; W. Cameron Forbes, formerly governor of tbo Philippines and Mnjor I. L. Hunt, U. S. A. assistant tfj tlio chle of the bureau of insular affairs. Tho conference will contlnuo for three days. Wednesday and Friday will be devoted to Indian affairs and Thursday to the Philippines. Representative Repre-sentative John J. Fitzgerald of Brook-lyn Brook-lyn will preside. Tho betterment of tho Indian's will bo discussed by government gov-ernment experts, .teachers, missionaries mission-aries and otherB Interested In the American nborigtnes from a purely philanthropic standpoint. Miss Kato Barnard, commissioner nf charities of CJtlahma nnd militant champion of tho Indians ot Hint stnto will dollver on ndrtrcss on "Tho Crisis Cris-is In Oklahoma Indian Affairs, a Chnllengo to Our National Honor," Other speakers wIV bo Arthur C. Parker; state archaeologist of Now; York stato; tho Right Ilev. Theodoro Payne Thurston of Muskogee, Episcopal Episco-pal bishop of cuBtorn Oklahoma; Dunoon Dun-oon O. Scott ot Ottawa, deputy superintendent super-intendent general ot Indian affairs of Canada nnd Dr. L. F. Michael, su-perlptendent su-perlptendent of tho United States Indian In-dian service. |