[10] Vide Senate Document No. 331, Part I., 57th Congress, 1st Session.
[11] Mr. Luke E. Wright, the second Civil Governor and first Gov.-General of the Philippines, was born in Tennessee in 1847, the son of Judge Archibald Wright. At the age of sixteen he took arms in the Confederate interest in the War of Secession. Called to the bar in 1868, he became a partner in his fatherʼs firm and held several important legal appointments. At the age of twenty-four he became Attorney-General, and held this post for eight years. A Democrat in politics, he is a strong character, as generous and courteous as he is personally courageous.
[12] “Should we wish the Filipino people to judge of Americans by the drunken, truculent American loafers who infest the small towns of the Islands, living on the fruits of the labour of Filipino women, and who give us more trouble than any other element in the Islands? Should we wish the Filipino people to judge of American standards of honesty by reading the humiliating list of American official and unofficial defaulters in these Islands?”—Extract from Governor W. H. Taftʼs speech at the Union Reading College, Manila, in 1903, quoted in “Population of the Philippines,” Bulletin I, p. 9. Published by the Bureau of the Census, 1904.
[13] From a statement kindly furnished to me by the Adjutant-General, Colonel W. A. Simpson (Manila).
[14] A “contract” Surgeon or Dental Surgeon is a civilian who comes to the Islands on a three-yearsʼ contract. He is only temporarily an Army officer.
General Officersʼ pay is as follows; viz.:—
| Lieut.-General, Active Service | $11,000; retired | $8,250 gold. |
| Maj.-General, Active Service | $7,500; retired | $5,625 gold. |
| Brig.-General, Active Service | $5,500; retired | $4,125 gold. |
The monthly pay of a private serving in the Islands is $15.60 gold.