power plants and conduits for the transmission of power to Manila will not be more expensive than in the case of similar plants in the United States.

Manila and all other cities of the Archipelago using coal find their source of supplies in Japan and Australia. These coals are of an inferior quality, and yet they range in price, at wholesale, from $5 to $7 gold a ton and sometimes even higher. This is a heavy burden upon all manufacturing enterprises. With the introduction of cheap electrical power removing this obstacle, it is believed that a great impetus will be given manufacturing enterprises and to the construction of electric railroads and other plants in Manila and throughout the large and densely populated territory adjacent thereto. As soon as complete and definite information upon this subject is secured the Commission will probably grant one or more franchises for the development of this power. A number of foreign capitalists, having large interests in the islands, have already made application for a franchise to develop the water power of the Angat River above referred to, and several other inquiries and tentative propositions from other responsible sources have been received. It seems assured that there will be no difficulty in procuring all the capital necessary to develop these enterprises. It would probably be most to the public interest if a franchise were granted to one strong company with restrictions and requirements as to the furnishing of power to all applicants and upon a reasonable schedule of rates.

HIGHWAYS.

The bureau pursuant to the various acts of the Commission, has also been engaged in surveying several highways in the islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros, Leyte, and Panay, which are of more than local or even provincial importance and which are either too expensive for the provinces in which they are to be located to construct, and which connect towns in the different provinces.

The details of these projects need not here be set forth, inasmuch as they are fully explained in the report of Mr. J. W. Beardsley, chief of the bureau, which is attached hereto and made a part of this report.

BUREAU OF COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

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The work of this office has been vigorously prosecuted during the past year. A very considerable amount of field work has been done. A number of surveys of the more important harbors and gulfs along the coast of Luzon and the southern islands have been completed. A continuous topographic survey, with triangulations, has been carried on along the northern coast of Luzon, from San Fernando to Cape Bojeador and eastward along the northern coast of Luzon. A triangulation has been carried across Manila Bay, locating prominent points about the bay, the islands at the entrance, and hills and mountains in the neighborhood. The work of determining the latitudes and longitudes of important base points has been continued throughout the year. Quite a number of places have been determined. Magnetic observations at twelve places have been made to supply needed information for charts. Tidal observations have also been taken at 14 stations, and at Manila this record has been continued throughout the year.

Sailing directions and notices to mariners have been prepared, printed, and distributed from time to time. The work of chart preparation has been pressed forward and charts have been distributed to masters of vessels and others interested. The report of the assistant of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey in charge of this bureau will be found hereto attached, giving a synopsis of the work of the bureau for the past year.

Respectfully submitted.

LUKE E. WRIGHT, Secretary of Commerce and Police.

APPENDICES.

ANNUAL REPORT OF BRIG. GEN. H. T. ALLEN, U. S. ARMY, CHIEF OF PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY.

HEADQUARTERS PHILIPPINE CONSTABULARY,

Manila, P. I., July 31, 1903.

The SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND POLICE,

Manila, P. I.

SIR: I have the honor to submit this report of the conditions and operations of the constabulary for the second year of its existence, ending July 31, 1903, and of the scouts that have been turned over to the civil government by virtue of the following act of Congress, approved January 30, 1903:

AN ACT to promote the efficiency of the Philippine Constabulary, to establish the rank and pay of its commanding officers, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That officers of the Army of the United States may be detailed to serve as chief and assistant chiefs, the said assistant chiefs not to exceed in number four, of the Philippine Constabulary, and that during the continuance of such details the officer serving as chief shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of a brigadier-general, and the officers serving as assistant chiefs shall have the rank, pay, and allowances of colonel: Provided, That the difference between the pay and allowances of brigadier-general and colonel, as herein provided, and the pay and allowances of officers so detailed in the grades from which they are detailed shall be paid out of the Philippine treasury.

SEC. 2. That any companies of Philippine Scouts ordered to assist the Philippine Constabulary in the maintenance of order in the Philippine Islands may be placed under the command of officers serving as chief or assistant chiefs of the Philippine Constabulary, as herein provided: Provided, That when the Philippine Scouts shall be ordered to assist the Philippine Constabulary said scouts shall not at any time be placed under the command of inspectors or other officers of the constabulary below the grade of assistant chief of constabulary.

Attention is invited to the following list of enactments of the Philippine Commission relating to the constabulary during the period referred to. The enactments are appended and show the changes necessitated, in part by a more intimate knowledge of the duties required, in part by changed conditions in the country, but largely by the growth of the bureau.

Act No. 461, enacted September 15, 1902, providing for the organization of a telegraphic division.

Act No. 568, enacted December 23, 1902, changing the titles of inspectors.

Act No. 610, enacted February 2, 1903, providing for the bonding of firearms and taking over of provincial jails by constabulary.

Act No. 618, enacted February 6, 1903, providing for five instead of four assistant chiefs.

Act No. 619, enacted February 6, 1903, promoting good order and discipline in the Philippine Constabulary (summary court act).

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Act No. 706, enacted March 28, 1903, providing for commutation of quarters for officers of the constabulary on duty in Manila.

Act No. 711, enacted March 30, 1903, providing for an assistant attorney-general for the Philippine Constabulary.

Act No. 723, enacted April 7, 1903, providing for an increase in the number of telegraph operators, not to exceed 20, of linemen, not to exceed 10, and of 5 officers in each grade of provincial inspectors.

Act No. 781, enacted June 1, 1903, providing that the municipal police of any province may, when the public service demands it, be placed under the senior inspector of constabulary of said province, and providing also for the pay of an assistant chief and lieutenant-colonel and four majors and senior inspectors of constabulary. Capt. W. S. Scott, First U. S. Cavalry, was appointed colonel and assistant chief of constabulary February 10, 1903.

Capt. D. J. Baker, jr., Twenty-sixth U. S. Infantry, was appointed colonel and assistant chief of constabulary February 10, 1903.

Capt. H. H. Bandholtz, Second U. S. Infantry, was appointed colonel and assistant chief of constabulary April 9, 1903.

Assistant Chief Taylor was given the rank of lieutenant-colonel under Act No. 781, to date February 10, 1903. Asst. Chiefs Howard Atkinson and J. S. Garwood were given the rank of major on the same date.

Of the four majors and senior inspectors authorized by Act No. 781, from the most meritorious captains and inspectors, so far no promotions have been made.

The former division of the Archipelago into three constabulary districts was changed by taking the three provinces, Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas, from the second district and adding them to the first under Col. W. S. Scott, and by creating a fourth district comprising the northern provinces of Luzon-Cagayan, Isabela, Ilocos Sur, flocos Norte, Abra, Lepanto-Bontoc, Benguet, and Union, with headquarters at Vigan, Ilocos Sur. As Major Garwood did not take command of this district until July 9 the report of these provinces is included in that of the first district chief.

The third district has remained unchanged, excepting that Paragua was transferred to it from the second district, and is still under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, with headquarters transferred from Cebu to Iloilo.

The second district, formerly commanded by Major Garwood, was temporarily under the control of Colonel Baker while the latter was in charge of operations in Albay, but is now under Colonel Bandholtz, with headquarters at Lucena, Tayabas.

Colonel Baker was designated on his appointment as chief supply officer, charged, as far as relates to supplies, construction, and transportation, with the following divisions of the constabulary: Pay, quartermaster, commissary, ordnance, telegraph, and medical. He was interrupted, however, in this most important work to take the field in Albay for more than two months.

Special attention is invited to the full and complete reports of the district chiefs, which set forth in detail the work that devolved upon the constabulary during the past year in their respective spheres. It is but fair to say that by reason of their excessive field work and, in some cases, by reason of having been in command of their districts only a part of the year, they have had much difficulty in submitting the reports required of them.

Major Atkinson has been intrusted for several months past, since his return from the States, with special duty under the first district chief.

By virtue of the creation of the so-called Moro Province, in which is included Mindanao (excepting the two northern provinces of Misamis and Surigao), Jolo, Basilan, and other smaller islands, provision is made for another assistant chief of constabulary. He has not yet been appointed. When this takes place I recommend that for constabulary purposes the provinces of Surigao and Misamis be taken from the third district and assigned to this new assistant chief, who, in order to command also the scout companies in those provinces, should be an army officer. This will have an important advantage in unifying the work cut out for the civil-military governor of the Moro Province.

By virtue of Act No. 711, enacted March 30, 1903, Mr. George R. Harvey was appointed assistant attorney-general for the constabulary. His duties are set forth in the following extract from the act:

The assistant attorney-general thus authorized shall be the legal adviser of the chief of Philippine constabulary, and shall assist the chief and the other officers of the bureau in the collection and preparation of evidence for criminal prosecutions; he shall appear on behalf of the chief of the bureau, and other officers thereof, in habeas corpus and other proceedings, to which the chief of the bureau or any officer thereof may be a party as such chief or officer; he shall take part in any criminal trials when ordered by the civil governor or the attorney-general, and shall discharge such other duties in the bureau of justice as the attorney-general may direct.

SEC. 2. The attorney-general may assign to assist the assistant attorney-general for the bureau of Philippines constabulary such officers or employees of the bureau of justice as from time to time may seem necessary.

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Up to the present time 29 companies of scouts, as shown by the following list, giving the names of officers and stations, have been turned over to the governor of the Archipelago for duty under the chief of constabulary in accordance with the Congressional act above mentioned. These companies have been asked for from time to time as necessity arose for their assistance. They are concentrated in nine provinces, where they are working in complete cooperation with the various constabulary forces. It is suggestive that the greater number of these companies have been required in Tagalo provinces, or in provinces where Tagalos have caused or incited disturbances.

Philippines scouts turned over to the constabulary.