PROTEST BY FILIPINOS

Evening Star, Issue 18332, 20 July 1923, Page 6

PROTEST BY FILIPINOS

CABINET RESIGNS,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

MANILA, July 18. The whole of the Filipino Cabinet and the members of the Council of State have resigned following differences over the question of the authority of the GovernorGeneral in matters relating to internal government. The resignations have been accepted.—Reuter.

APPEAL TO PRESIDENT HARDING

MANILA, July 18. The leaders of the Legislature have appealed to Mr Harding declaring that they are protesting merely against General Wood’s eiiroacliment on rights which the Filipinos have long enjoyed. They add that they welcome the crisis because it will call attention to the need for defining the status of the Government of the Philippines.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

The government of the Philippine Islands is administered through three separate and co-ordinate departments—namely, the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. The Governor-General is the chief executive of the islands, and represents the sovereign power of the United States. Under him arc the secretaries of six executive departments—the Department of the Interior, the Department of Public Instruction, the Department of Finance, the Department 5f Justice, the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the Department of Commerce and Communications. Witli the exception of the Vice-Governor, who is appointed in the same way as the Governor-General, and who at the same time is Secretary of Public Instruction, all the secretaries are Filipinos, The Philippine legislative body is made up of two Houses, the Senate and the House Representatives. There are in all ninety-one representatives and twenty-four senators, representing the forty-eight provinces of the archipelago, all of whom are elected by popular vote, with the exception of nine representatives and two senators, who are. appointed by (he Governor-Genera! to represent Agasan, Bukidnon, Cotabato, Davao, Lanao. Zamboanga, Suln, Nucva Viseaya, _ and the Mountain Provinces. A Council of State forms the connecting link between 1 the executive and the legislative branches of the insular Government, am! represents the people’s counsel in the administration of the government. The Counsel of State is composed of the Governor-General (as President), the Presidents of both Houses of the Legislature, and the Secretaries of the Departments.