[7] See Senate Document 331, 1902, p. 887.
[8] Appalling, because there are forty-nine other provinces besides Batangas.
[9] Vol. ii., p. 123.
[10] See page 78 of the special report of the Secretary of War Taft on the Philippines, January 23, 1908, transmitted by President Roosevelt to Congress, January 27, 1908, Senate Document 200, 60th Cong., 1st Sess.
Chapter XXVI
Congressional Legislation
Taxation without representation is good cause for revolt.
American Speech of 1776.
As a colony of Spain the Philippines enjoyed certain special privileges in the way of trade with the “mother country.” When at the beginning of our military occupation in 1898 General Otis detailed an army officer to take charge of the Customs House, he continued for the time being the Spanish tariff laws concerning imports and exports. On September 17, 1901, the Philippine Commission passed a tariff act[1] fixing the duties on imports into the Islands and also continuing to a considerable extent the system of duties on Philippine exports inherited from the Spanish régime. Among the products of the Philippine Islands on which the Act of September 17, 1901, imposed an export tax were the following: