Uprisings during Spanish Régime 190
The Organized Movement 193
The Philippine Assembly of 1907 193
America's Policy and Promise to the Filipinos 194
Pronouncements of McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson 195
Jones Law, the Formal Pledge that Independence Will Be
Granted 196
Executive Recommendation for the Fulfillment of America's
Promise 197
Missions to the United States 197
The Commission of Independence and Its Purposes 198
The Declaration of Purposes 198
The First Mission 198
Letter of President Wilson 199
Statement of Secretary of War Baker 199
Hearing before Joint Committee of Congress 200
The Second Mission 200
The Memorial to President Harding 201
Reply of the President 205
Petition for a Constitutional Convention--Text 205