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Show executive council, composed largely ol Americans, la responsible entirely for the presont crisis, wero the declarations dec-larations made last night by Luis Munoz Rivera, chairman of tho commission com-mission now here. Tho commission was appointed by the houso' of delegates to lay bororo President Taft, congress and the American Am-erican people, the roasons Tor the ox-ifting ox-ifting conditions in the island, and to ask for concessions from thlB country, coun-try, both in regard to the form or government gov-ernment for the island and on the tariff tar-iff proposition. Commissioner Rivera claimed that all tho Porto Klcans ask for is Justice and that the Americans ere not Riving them this. He said that the house of delegates has been made practically a nonentity by tnc executive council, corresponding to tho upper house, and that the upper body refused to listen to the house of dele-pates dele-pates in tho recent extraordinary session ses-sion of tho Porto Rlcan cougross. Commissioner Larrlnaina. delegate from Porto Rico to congress, will endeavor en-deavor today to arrango for an Interview Inter-view for tho commission with President Presi-dent Taft. ,.; vIn regard to tariff on coffeo he do-clared do-clared that, as a result of the American Ameri-can occupation of the island, the prtco of the article had dropped from ?36 to $9 a lOO-pounds, all Its foreign markets mar-kets having been taken away as a result re-sult of the American tariff laws. PORTO RECANS ASK JUSTICE OF THE AMERICANS THEY CLAIM THEY HAVE BEEN j TREATED UNFAIRLY. i , Want Concessions In Regard to Form of Government and on the Tariff j Proposition. Washington, Mnrch 25. That Porro Ricans governed better under Spanish Span-ish rule than under American administration, admin-istration, that the Spaniuh-Amerlcan j war aud the consequent occupation ot J Ihe Islaad by the United States has I --ulnod the coffee Industry, the most ' important In the Island, and that the |