Later in the afternoon, Mr. Fleming was served with another warrant for criminal libel, issued on the application of Mr. H. D. Rodger, as Acting District Attorney, on the sworn information "f Manuel S. Concepcion. Mr. Fleming was again admitted to bail in the sum of $1.000. 7 The libel is alleged on the basis of a communication dated July 20, this year, addressed by Mr. Fleming to Messrs. F. J. Schuhl and H. D. Rodger. The part complained of is as follow:
"Before entering upon any discussion of the different allegations that have been made by Mr, Concepcion, I wish to call your attention to the fact that this man is a Filipino, 23 years of age, with little experience in business and certainly.not one who should have been entrusted) with the management Shanghai" of an affair of such serious importance as the disaster with which the Philippine National Bank was faced in January and February last and from which it has not yet extricated itself. Ti you are not already informed, you can readily learn that the probable losses which this Bank would have sustained had it been compelled by its creditors to liquidate its exchange contracts falling due before the end of June this ar would have been between seven and 10 million taels and yet a young Filipino, with limited banking and business experience, was sent to Shanghai_as the head of a commission to inquire into and adjust one of the most serious and critical affairs in which any Bank could have been involved, "The character of this young man became apparent at once during his examination before you, when he arose from his chair and, in a burst of intense anger. stated to me: 'You are a sou of a gun. mu talk that way, I will stick a knife in your belly.' Thus we have an intimate view of the real nature of the man who so easily and naturally reverts to the savage type from which he so recently sprung. His proper environment is among the cockfighters idders of the Philip-ju ing to him is an ac-
"This man's conclusions and opinions been cepted by on and upon word the nvestig: ion proceeding. Tf he represents the type of young patriot who is ity of governing the Philippine Islands, the independence sought for by the Filipino politicians is to come about, then we may look forward to the future vf that country with nothing but despair."
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