Uprisings during Spanish Régime 190 The Organized Movement 193 The Philippine Assembly of 1907 193 America's Policy and Promise to the Filipinos 194 Pronouncements of McKinley, Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson 195 Jones Law, the Formal Pledge that Independence Will Be Granted 196 Executive Recommendation for the Fulfillment of America's Promise 197 Missions to the United States 197 The Commission of Independence and Its Purposes 198 The Declaration of Purposes 198 The First Mission 198 Letter of President Wilson 199 Statement of Secretary of War Baker 199 Hearing before Joint Committee of Congress 200 The Second Mission 200 The Memorial to President Harding 201 Reply of the President 205 Petition for a Constitutional Convention--Text 205 XV. Appendices--Tables of Statistics 207 Where to Go in Manila 207 List of Hotels 207 Garages and Stables 208 Steamship Agencies 208 Foreign Consulates 209 Cable Offices 211 List of Banks in the Philippines Doing Business in 1923 211 Chambers of Commerce 211 Cinematographs and Theatres 212 Clubs 212 Booksellers and Stationers 213 Embroideries 213 Philippine Hats 214 List of Churches Holding Services in English 215 Rates of Fare for Public Vehicles 215 Postal, Telegraph, and Cable Rates 216 Interisland Sailings 219 Values of foreign coins expressed in terms of Philippine money 220 Banking: Combined condition of all the commercial banks in the Philippine Islands, in pesos 221