The Philippine Congress and U.S. Senate
In the United States Senate, January 17, the following interesting facts were stated and comparisons made: “In November, 1898, when the Congress of Aguinaldo was assembled at Malolos, there were eighty members of the congress present; and out of that number, forty-three were graduates of the finest universities in Europe. There are not, of the89eighty-seven Senators present [in the United States Senate], forty-three university graduates, and there never have been in the Senate of the United States, the most august legislative assembly in the world. Yet in this little congress of eighty there were forty-three graduates, not of the colleges or universities of the Philippines, but of Europe; and Paterno, who was the president of the congress, was the man of honor, of two of the most ancient universities and seats of learning in the peninsula of Spain. Not only that, but he has written most valuable books: so valuable indeed that they have been translated into the tongues of Europe; and I do not believe we ever had a president of the Senate who has done that, either before or after he was forty-two years of age.”