Commissioner Araneta moved that the report be received and that the matter be laid on the table. The motion prevailed. FRIAR LAND REPORT. The Secretary then submitted for the information of the Commission the report of the Director of Lands on the administration of the friar lands estates for the quarter ending September 30, 1911. Ordered filed. EXECUTIVE SESSION. The Commission then proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After the consideration of executive business the Commission returned to regular session. (For appointments confirmed in executive session see p. 971.) ADJOURNMENT. Thereupon, at 11 o'clock and 5 minutes antemeridian, On motion by Commissioner Araneta, The Commission adjourned to meet at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes antemeridian on Thursday, October 26, 1911. Attest: GEO. C. SCHWEICKERT, Secretary. Second Philippine. Legislature. Second Session. JOURNAL OF THE COMMISSION. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1911. The Commission met pursuant to adjournment. Present: Commissioners Gilbert, Luzuriaga, Araneta, Palma, Sumulong, and Branagan. Absent: The President, and Commissioners Worcester and Elliott (on official business). Commissioner Gilbert in the chair. READING OF JOURNAL. The Journal of Wednesday, October 25, 1911, was read and approved. MESSAGE FROM THE ASSEMBLY. OCTOBER 23, 1911. MR. PRESIDENT: I have been directed to inform your honorable body that the Assembly on October 23, 1911, passed the following bill (A. B. No. 587) in which it requests the concurrence of the Commission: An Act amending Act Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-nine known as the Internal Revenue Act and Acts amendatory thereof, by exempting small manufacturers, merchants, and dealers in tuba, bassi, tapuy or like domestic beverages from the internal revenue tax, and for other purposes. Very respectfully, To the Honorable, RAMÓN DIOKNO, Secretary, Philippine Assembly. the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. By unanimous consent Assembly Bill No. 587 was read the first time by title only and referred to the Committee on Matters Pertaining to the Department of Finance and Justice. POSTPONEMENT OF CONSIDERATION OF C. B. NO. 114. Commission Bill No. 114, entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Police with the approval of the Governor-General to contract with any railroad company in the Philippine Islands for the construction and maintenance of joint railroad and highway bridges on its lines of railroad, appropriating the sum of five hundred thousand pesos to pay the Government's proportion of the cost of construction and maintenance of the bridges so contracted for, and providing for the apportionment by the Governor-General of the expense of maintenance of such bridges between the provinces and municipalities concerned," appearing on the calendar for consideration on this date, consideration was postponed until the next meeting of the Commission. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES. [Committee Report No. 249.] MR. PRESIDENT: The Committee on Rules, to which was referred on motion made by Commissioner Sumulong on October 18, requesting a recommendation from the Committee as to the advisability of adopting a rule authorizing the Secretary to refer to the proper committee, immediately upon receipt thereof, certain petitions, memorials, etc., has examined the same and has the honor to report it back to the Commission with the following recommendation, viz: That subsection (b) of Rule XVI of the Standing Rules of the Philippine Commission be amended by adding thereto the following: "Provided, however, That petitions, memorials, and other communications, looking to the enactment of legislation, which are addressed to the Commission and the subject matter of which is clearly within the jurisdiction of a standing committee of the Commission, may be referred by the Secretary to the proper committee before presentation to the Commission. In the event of such reference the Secretary shall submit for approval at the next ensuing meeting of the Commission a list of petitions, and so forth, so referred, stating briefly the subject matter of the same and the committee to which referred." Respectfully submitted. To the Honorable, NEWTON W. GILBERT, RAFAEL PALMA, JUAN SUMULONG, Committee on Rules. the PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINE COMMISSION. The report was unanimously adopted. FRIAR LANDS REPORT. The Secretary submitted for the information of the Commission the report of the Director of Lands on the administration of the friar lands estates for the month of September, 1911. Ordered filed. MISCELLANEOUS. Commissioner Sumulong submitted to the Commission certain documents containing the plan of organization and by-laws of a proposed corporation to be known as "Credito Territorial de Filipinas." Ordered referred to the Secretary of Finance and Justice. EXECUTIVE SESSION. The Commission then proceeded to the consideration of executive business. After the consideration of executive business, the Commission returned to regular session. (For appointment confirmed in executive session see p. 971.) ADJOURNMENT. Thereupon, at 11 o'clock and 5 minutes antemeridian, On motion by Commissioner Palma, The Commission adjourned to meet at the call of the Chair. Attest: GEO. C. SCHWEICKERT, Secretary. Second Philippine Legislature. Second Session. JOURNAL OF THE COMMISSION. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1911. The Commission met at the call of the Chair at 10 o'clock and 30 minutes antemeridian. Present: Commissioners Gilbert, Luzuriaga, Araneta, Palma, Sumulong, and Branagan. Absent: The President, and Commissioners Worcester and Elliott (on official business). Commissioner Gilbert in the chair. READING OF JOURNAL. The Journal of Thursday, October 26, 1911, was read and approved. POSTPONEMENT OF CONSIDERATION OF C. B. NO. 114. Commission Bill No. 114, entitled "An Act authorizing the Secretary of Commerce and Police with the approval of the Governor-General to contract with any railroad company in the Philippine Islands for the construction and maintenance of joint railroad and highway bridges on its lines of railroad, appropriating the sum of five hundred thousand pesos to pay the Government's proportion of the cost of construction and maintenance of the bridges so contracted for, and providing for the apportionment by the Governor-General of the expense of maintenance of such bridges between the provinces and municipalities con |