<P> Woodrow Wilson said , during the 1912 election campaign which made him US President , `` The Philippines are at present our frontier but I hope we presently are to deprive ourselves of that frontier . '' Even before the 1912 elections , U.S. House Committee on Insular Affairs Chairman William Atkinson Jones attempted to launch a bill which set a fixed date for Philippine independence . Manuel L. Quezon was one of the Philippines ' two resident commissioners to the US House of Representatives . Jones delayed to launch his bill , so Quezon drafted the first of two `` Jones Bills . '' He drafted a second Jones Bill in early 1914 after the election of Wilson as president and his appointment of Francis Burton Harrison as President of the Philippine Commission and Governor General of the Philippines . </P>
<P> Woodrow Wilson said , during the 1912 election campaign which made him US President , `` The Philippines are at present our frontier but I hope we presently are to deprive ourselves of that frontier . '' Even before the 1912 elections , U.S. House Committee on Insular Affairs Chairman William Atkinson Jones attempted to launch a bill which set a fixed date for Philippine independence . Manuel L. Quezon was one of the Philippines ' two resident commissioners to the US House of Representatives . Jones delayed to launch his bill , so Quezon drafted the first of two `` Jones Bills . '' He drafted a second Jones Bill in early 1914 after the election of Wilson as president and his appointment of Francis Burton Harrison as President of the Philippine Commission and Governor General of the Philippines . </P>
who proposed the idea of the philippine autonomy act
who proposed the idea of the philippine autonomy act
Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel L. Quezon