Proceedings of the first Independence congress : held in the city of Manila, Philippine islands, February 22-26, 1930 / Published under the direction of Dean maximo M. Kalaw, executive secretary, University of the Philippines.

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and has at all times furnished the cooperation and services
necessary for the maintenance of the constituted government and
required by the public welfare, not only as an element subordinate to a foreign authority or supreme power, but as a factor
indispensable to national existence, with moral and material
powers and responsibilities of its own. And in the exercise of
these noble and important functions of government, the Philippine people, through its moral and constitutional representatives,
has given evidence of a simple austerity that shows continuous
and habitual use, just as a noble and distinguished bearing in
social life reveals the man who is well born.
After the scheduled speakers were through reading
their papers, the Chairman requested the Secretary of
the Section to read the resolution unanimously approved and submitted by the "Mabini" Dakilang Kalipunang Pangbansa, Manila, to the Independence
Congress. The attention of the Political Section was
called by the Chairman to the specific recommendations
urged in the resolution which relates to the governmental problems discussed by the speakers, Honorables
Laurel, Abad Santos and Ventura.
Mr. Cirilo Manat, of the University of Manila,
moved that the King Resolution and the Dyer Bill be
endorsed and that the Vandenberg measure in the
United States Senate be opposed. It was agreed to
indorse that stand of the section to the Committee on
Resolutions of the Independence Congress.
Ex-Senator De Vera moved that committees of the
Independence Congress be organized in all the provinces and that in such committees all the social elements
of the community, be they commercial, civic or otherwise, Catholic or Protestant, Nacionalista or Democrata, etc., be represented.