Chapter XIX
[Governor Wright]—1905 499–514
Shows the prompt ordering of the army to the scene of the disturbances after the presidential election of 1904 was safely over, and the nature and extent of the insurrections of 1905.
Chapter XX
[Governor Ide]—1906 515–523
Describes the last outbreak prior to the final establishment of a state of general and complete peace.
Chapter XXI
[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.
Chapter XXII