Washington, Apr. 9.
The Philippines' demand for autonomy in the expenditure of the excise and export tax, funds for adjustment of Philippine economy and an independence status during the "adjustment period" today threatened to prevent the Joint Committee, investigating Philippine independence, from completing the body of its report within the next two weeks, it was reliably reported here.
Members of the committee will for the first time confer intensively on the week-end in an effort. to settle questions on which neither side has been willing to concede.
Meanwhile, it was understood here that the American members of the Committee had conferred with President Roosevelt by telephone, while the Filipino members consulted Sr.
Emmanuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commmonwealth by radio. Well informed sources believed the final decision no longer rested with members of the committee but with the chief executives of the two governments,
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