Local Agitation Revived After Close Voting in U.S. Senate CDN, SPECIAL semvicR
Manila, Oct, 12, A spectacular revival of the local Jagitation for Philippine independ-fence from the United. States: has with, Senate in Washington has, during the. past two days, des feated the King independence' bill and a similar measure known as: tHe Broussard Bill.
The King bill was defeated by 45 to 86; the Broussard measure by 68 to 19. The close margin of the former was due, it was declared, to the {act that several Senators voted against it because it was mixed with the sugar tariff issue; other~ wise, it is declared by Filipino spokesmen, it might have carried, This revelation of the pros independence trend in Washington has resulted in action by Senator Sergio Osmena, president pro tem of the Philippine Senate in the absence of Senator Manuel Quezony who is now in Shanghai, toward Commission, revising the Filipino Independence
Senator Osmena now plans to send an Independence Mission' to Washington next December, when the King measure will again come up before the regular session of Congress.
Local political leaders are attack= ing the resident Commissioners in Washington for failing to inform the Manila chiefs of the fact that votes on indepenilence were ims pending, so that a concerted campaign might have been put on in support of the bills, Quezon Ready to Serv Senator Quezon is willing to go to Washington as head of " mission to sock independence if it is the desire bf the Philippine Legislature that he should do so, he revealed to the United Press here.
Senator Osmena has cabled to Shanghai asking if Senator Quezon would accept leadership of such a. mission, and Senator Quezon has replied that he will consider' him—self subject to the desires of the"
A refusal would be "dictated by: considerations of Senator Quezon's' own health requirements and pi since he is making the present trip to recover his strength, but it is the view of the Senate President' that the present opportunity Washington is too good to be allow.
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