Governor Smith--1907-9 524-557
Describes divers matters, including a certificate made March 28,
1907, declaring that a state of general and complete peace had
prevailed for the two years immediately the preceding. Describes
also the formal opening of First Philippine Assembly by Secretary
of War Taft in October, 1907, and his final announcement to them
that he had no authority to end the uncertainty concerning their
future which is the corner-stone of the Taft policy of Indefinite
Tutelage, and that Congress only could end that uncertainty.