During 1921 a study of Philippine conditions was made, at President Harding’s request, by Major-General Leonard Wood and the Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, former governor-general of the islands. These two eminent investigators, after a careful survey, found much to say in praise of the Filipinos; but their general conclusion was that the islanders needed further training in self-government under American supervision before they could wisely be given complete independence. The entire text of the Wood-Forbes report is printed in The Times “Current History” (January, 1922), pp. 678-694. Footnote 94: An area which is neither a state nor a territory, a zone nor an insular possession remains to be mentioned. This is Washington, or the District of Columbia as it is officially called, the home of the nation’s government. It has neither mayor nor aldermen. The government of the District is in the hands of three commissioners appointed by the President, one of them being an officer of the army. These three commissioners carry on all the work of municipal administration. Footnote 95: In some states, in Ohio, for example, the question of calling a constitutional convention must be voted upon every twenty years. Footnote 96: In some states the legislature, in proposing an amendment, must pass it in two successive sessions, or by a two-thirds vote, or must conform to some other special requirement. Footnote 97: See especially Art. I, Sec. 9; and Amendments I-XV, XIX. Footnote 98: These four propositions may perhaps be made more understandable by the accompanying table, which does not purport to be a complete enumeration but only an illustration of the way in which the propositions work out.