Show SENATOR IS RATHER IRONICAL wants to know how much of free speech free press self government etc exists in the philippines washington may 2 general macarthur was today by cn ator culberson of texas in lather ironical vein at the hearin hc arin lefore the ihil appino committee the general had referred to the advantage of iiii la ting republican institutions in the island mr culberson asked if the tion of independence and the tion were not the foundations for 10 publican institutions general macarthur answered that he whole constitutional history of ha country with the sh history together with the declaration of independence together with tie ion ution had to bo mr culberton Culb ereon took each of the principal pl s of republicanism free speech ane pr ss self government trial by jury e c and asked how far these hid boscn im planted in the philippines As to free speech general macarthur said he had told the filipinos Filip inoa that if they would give him their auni they could have a mass melting on every corner he said soldiers wiio quartered in private houses aa an i aident to war this led to a discussion as to whether war was in cc general macarthur insisted that had been a great upheaval and the ground swell was stilt app rent of the incidents of war continuing even after the pacification of a licali y senator culberson went through most of the bill of rights his quest oa seeking to develop abit the an fn damen tal rights had not been implant cd in the islands general hur birin however that all of the fundamental rights except trial by jury and the right to bear arnis were in operation as far as conditions boull pc mit lie read a proclamation 1 c bad issued most of the constitutional rights |