Filipinas: La Gloriosa y Más Allá

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (continuation)

1901​

4 March:

In the Palace of Malacañang, the Governor-General asked Senate President Marcelino González y Blancaflor about the progress on the proposed amendments to the Philippine Copyright Law in the Upper House. The senator, in his part, told Ambrosio Rianzares Batista that his colleagues were doing its best to pass the proposed legislation within this week, particularly days before the formal dissolution of the two houses of Cortes de la Junta General this Friday. The pressure to pass the proposal in the Upper House intensified further after their colleagues in Cámara de los Delegados passed the proposal presented by Junta President Mariano Trias last Tuesday after months of debates, deliberations and committee meetings.​

5 March:

In the Kingdom of Spain, sources within Partido Cónservador told some members of the local press and foreign correspondents that President (and party leader) Francisco Silvela has finally allowed Foreign Minister Marcelo Ázcarraga to travel to the Dutch city of The Hague for the upcoming conference of the European foreign ministers in relation to the current situation in China and the political status of Mongolia. According to the said sources, Silvela finally realized that the presence of Ázcarraga as chief diplomat was necessary for such an important conference like in The Hague. The current Spanish Foreign Minister has missed four consecutive conferences since last 8th of February due to the formal dissolution of Cortes by His Majesty the King Leopold I and the subsequent campaign period as the country was preparing for the General Elections on the 8th of April; indeed according to the resolution that passed by Junta Electoral del Reino last year, the campaign period would end on Holy Wednesday, 4th of April.​

6 March:

Just almost two months after Junta President Mariano Trias presented the proposed amendments to Philippine Copyright Law of 1882 before the members of the Senate, insiders within the Upper House of Cortes de la Junta General finally confirmed that the senators has finally passed the proposal after more than half (65% of the senators present in the quorum) voted in favor of passing the said proposed legislation. According to the same sources, Senate President Marcelino González y Blancaflor was finally relieved that the Upper House would now be ready for its formal dissolution this coming Friday as the country was preparing for the campaign period of the four major national political parties, and consequently, the General Elections.​

7 March:

In the Hungarian capital Budapest, Prime Minister Kálmán Széll presented a copy of his proposed legislation of a unified Székely county to King (and Austrian Emperor) Francis Joseph in a private meeting in the former's formal residence, the Sándor Palace. After reading the copy of the proposal, the Hapsburg monarch commented that although the proposed legislation was indeed good, he reminded Széll to listen to the ethnic Romanian members of the Diet (Hungarian parliament) from Transylvania and their arguments in order to settle the differences between them and their Székely. According to the sources within the official residence of the Hungarian Prime Minister, the statesman was attempting to convince the two groups of MDs to meet with him without success; hence, he's considering the intervention of the King of Hungary (and Emperor of Austria).​

Francis Joseph I
Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary
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8 March:

In Intendencia in the federal capital Manila, almost all members of the two houses of Cortes de le Junta General (with the exception of the Socialists) formally attended and witnessed the formal dissolution of the legislature by the Governor-General of the Philippines himself, Ambrosio Rianzares Batista. In his speech before the members of the Senate and Cámara de los Delegados, the Governor-General has indicated that the said dissolution of the Cortes would "turn a new page in the history of the country" as the electorate would chose the members of the new Federal Congress (Senate and Cámara de los Representantes), the legislature of the Philippines under the new constitution, in which it maintained its federal-parliamentary form of government as an independent dominion of the Spanish Crown. In addition, the Governor-General highlighted the importance of the Cortes, and the Junta General as a whole, played an important part in the recent political history of the archipelago. Created in 1873, the Junta General de las Islas Filipinas was considered as the first true national government.​

9-10 March:

The four major political parties (Partido Nacionalista, Partido Progresista, Partido Patritota Nacional and Partido Socialista de Filipinas) has formally released and issued their respective electoral manifestos in preparation for the campaign period which would start on Monday, the 11th of March. Most of these manifestos suggested different programs that claimed to respond to the needs of the Filipino people; nonetheless, a provision from the Progresista manifesto has made a widespread attention: the local government reform, in which the barrios[1] outside the población[2] would form new municipalities and they, in turn, would form mini-regions called comarcas, while maintaining the responsibilities of Juntas Provinciales to manage the affairs related to the local governments. According to Juan Sumulong, who was the member of Partido Progresista's Executive Committee responsible for local government, the party felt that the municipal government needed an overhaul as they felt the current system was already antiquated.​

Juan Sumulong y Márquez
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11 March:

The campaign period across the country has already been started as pamphlets, posters and other campaign materials were posted in every street corner and distributed to potential voters in the whole archipelago. According to the sources from Guardia Civil, the situation in general was peaceful, with no or rare violent incidents that happened, usually involving the anarchosyndicalist trade union Movimiento Anarquista Filipina (MAF), who called for absolute abstention from the upcoming elections. For their part, the electoral body Junta Electoral Nacional has assured that the ongoing campaign period would be more peaceful and orderly than the previous years, and according to its chairman Alberto Fabián de Sosa, the electoral would still decide if the current synchronized campaign period would be extended to future General Elections.​

12 March:

In The Hague, Colonies Minister Jacob Theodoor Cremer sent telegrams to both Batavia (Dutch East Indies Governor-General Willam Rooseboom) and Ambón (Moluccan Governor-General Cornelis Fock) that the treaty regarding the definitive sovereignty of Halmahera island was already approved by the two houses of the States-General. The Colonies Minister added that copies of the treaty would be sent to both Dutch East Indies and self-governing colony of Moluccas to be reviewed before the definite signing. Meanwhile, according to the sources within the Colonies Ministry, Cremer was already aware that if the treaty was sent to Moluccas, it would be scrutinized and debated in the Legislative Council of the self-governing Dutch colony.​

13 March:

Sources within the Sándor Palace in the Hungarian capital Budapest has indicated that the ethnic Romanian MDs from Transylvania and their Székely counterparts were finally convinced that they really needed to meet with Prime Minister Kálmán Széll to settle any differences in relation to the proposed single Székely county. According to the same sources, it was the King of Hungary (and Emperor of Austria) himself, His Imperial Highness Francis Joseph I, who insisted that the rival groups should settle their differences and air their grievances to Prime Minister Széll. As a result, both MDs have agreed that the conference room of the palace, which was frequently used by the Cabinet of the Kingdom of Hungary, would be used in their meeting. The proposed legislation, which was presented in the Diet (Hungarian parliament) last year, called for a unified Székely county; it was deeply resented not just by the ethnic Romanian parliamentarians, but also in neighboring Bucharest.​

Cabinet Room, Sándor Palace
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14 March:

The Junta Electoral Nacional has confirmed that the campaign period would be suspended for a whole week from 1st to 7th of April in observance of the Holy Week. According to its chairman Alberto Fabián de Sosa, the decision was made unanimously by all seven members of the electoral body, in which they indicated that the temporary suspension of the campaign period would be "more helpful to all candidates to reflect more about their policies and to focus on different strategies to capture the support of the voters", while at the same time, "the observation of the Holy Week was considered sacred by the Filipinos, registered voters and not, especially in the rural parts of the country, thus the electoral body has always respected its sanctity". In addition, de Sosa said that the JEN had already sent notices to the four major national political parties regarding the decision. However, the chairman of the electoral body never indicated if the temporal suspension of the campaign period within the Holy Week would be extended into the future elections. As mentioned earlier, the campaign period would be resume on Easter Monday, 8th of April.​

15 March:

The current General Manager of Ferrocarriles de las Islas Filipinas said that every employee of a state enterprise were free to vote their preferred candidate in the upcoming General Elections, which would be held on the 13th of May. In addition, Eduardo López Navarro has assured that state enterprises like the FIF (Ferrocarriles) and Agencia Telegrafica Nacional de Filipinas (ATNF) are independent from Junta General/Gobierno Federal as indicated in their statutes that was passed by the Cortes de la Junta General. However, the General Manager of the FIF reminded that bringing campaign materials to the workplace were strictly prohibited as agreed with his counterparts in other state enterprises last weekend.​

NOTES:
[1] OTL: Barrios are rural parts of a typical Philippine municipality.
[2] OTL: Población is the central and urban part of a typical Philippine municipality.

 

[ramones1986]

Recap: Camara Baja

Before the upcoming General Elections on May 1901, let's recap the composition of Cámara de los Delegados, the lower chamber of Cortes de la Junta General, from the very first nationwide elections back in 1875.

Legend:
BLUE: Partido Progresista
RED: Frente Insular (pre-1889); Partido Socialista Filipina (post-1889)
ORANGE: Independents (pre-1889); Partido Nacionalista (post-1889)
GREEN: Independents (since 1892)

 

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (continuation)

1901​

18 March:

In the federal capital Manila, the Junta Electoral Nacional has affirmed the declarations made last Friday by the General Manager of Ferrocarriles de las Islas Filipinas in relation to the prohibition of bringing campaign materials by the employees of state enterprises to their workplace until the election day itself. According to its chairman Alberto Fabián de Sosa, the said clause was already affirmed in the statutes of such enterprises, citing their relative autonomy from the Junta General/Gobierno Federal as enacted by the legislation of the Cortes de la Junta General, although the chairman of the electoral body has said that he would recommend to the next legislature to create a proposed legislation that would extend the clause to future state enterprises.​

19 March:

In the Palace of Malacañang, the Governor-General received a letter from his Australian counterpart, inviting him to pay an official visit to Melbourne. According to the said letter, Sir John Hope asked Ambrosio Rianzares Batista to accompany with a member of the Council of Ministers, particularly either the President or the Minister of Foreign and Territorial Affairs, for an official visit, in which include the formal inauguration of the Philippine embassy in the Australian capital and a speech in the Commonwealth Parliament. As a parting shot, the Australian Governor-General understood that Manila is now under a "very important transition period", as he described the upcoming General Elections, so he told his Philippine counterpart to consider his visit a few months after the elections and the subsequent establishment of new administration, most preferably in the middle of the current year.​

20 March:

In the Italian capital Rome, sources in both Quirinale and Palazzo Chigi said that King Victor Emmanuel III told Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanadrelli in a private meeting in the royal residence that he was fine playing the patriotic song "Fratelli d'Italia"[1] in the latter's inauguration instead of the Savoyard Royal March, the country's national anthem. According to both sources, the Savoyard monarch explained to the elderly stateman that such errors were common across the Italian peninsula, and the King added that he actually recognized its popularity among the Italians to the point that it was mistakenly identified by outsiders as the national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy. Zachanelli succeeded Giuseppe Saracco as the head of the Italian government after the latter's administration ended because of the failure to respond to the strike in the docks of Genoa. Meanwhile, the patriotic song "Fratelli d'Italia" was written and composed in 1847 by Goffredo Mameli and Michele Novala respectively.​

Original text of "Fratelli d'Italia"
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21 March:

Rumors of possible merger between Partido Demócratico de Agusán (PDA) and Partido Patriota Nacional (PPN) surfaced after the latter's party leader Florencio Interencherado went to Agusán provincial capital Prosperidad to meet Diomedes Cantalapiedra y Ponpón, the current Presidente de la Junta Provincial and leader of Agusán Demócratas. According to the sources in both political parties, Cantalapiedra and Interencherado was negotiating for an electoral alliance with a possibility of a merger between PDA and PPN under the latter's banner. The same sources also said that if such pact would be successful, Cantalapiedra would be automatically promoted to PPN's Executive Committee while maintaining his position as Secretary-General of PDA in his home province. The Agusán Democrats was formed by the pro-nationalist (former) Socialists in 1898 immediately after their resignation from the party following their ideological differences; it was also revealed that the PDA received the Aguinaldista faction of Partido Nacionalista as their new members.​

22 March:

Insiders within Palazzo Chigi in the Italian capital Rome reported that Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanadrelli was actually thinking of an immediate resignation from his post and immediate retirement from serving in the government. According to the insiders, the statesman attributed his wish to resign as the head of the Italian government to his poor health and old age of 74. Zanadrelli admitted to both his fellow members of the Council of Ministers and to King Victor Emmanuel III that he would not be able to achieve what they would expected as the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Italy. Before his ascension as head of the Italian government, Guiseppe Zanadrelli was the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the Italian Parliament, in three different occasions.​

Giuseppe Zanadrelli
Prime Minister, Kingdom of Italy
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25 March:

In the Hungarian capital Budapest, ethnic Romanian MDs from Transylvania and their Székely counterparts met in the Cabinet Room of Sándor Palace to attend a special conference called by Prime Minister Kálmán Széll based on the recommendation of the King of Hungary (and Emperor of Austria) Franz Joseph. According to the insiders in the official residence of the Prime Minister, the ethnic Romanian MDs argued that a unified Székely county could affect the territorial composition of the rest of Transylvanian region, thus they requested to Prime Minister Széll to shelve his proposed legislation temporarily. On their part, the Székely MDs argued on the necessity of passing such proposal, claiming the possible consequences of possible shelving of the legislation, including a possible worst-case scenario. In the end, the Prime Minister ended the conference with a possibility of forging a compromise between the Székely and ethnic Romanian MDs.​

26 March:

The Vice-President of the Executive Committee of Partido Patriota Nacional finally responded to the questions raised by the members of the press in relation to the possible merger between the former and the Prosperidad-based Partido Demócratico de Agusán (PDA). Baldomero Aguinaldo told the newspaper reporters and some foreign correspondents that the final decision has yet to be announced as the final part of the negotiations between party leader Florencio Interencherado and his PDA counterpart Diomedes Cantalapiedra y Ponpón. He, however, denied that the current Presidente de la Junta Provincial de Agusán would be elevated as member of its Executive Committee, saying that he personally would retain the autonomy of the Agusán Democrats.​

27 March:

It was confirmed from Kneuterdijk Palace in Dutch city of The Hague through newspaper reports that Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Muravyov finally agreed to the motion raised by his Western counterparts in relation to the recognition to Mongolia as an independent nation-state. According to the said reports, Muravyov has already recognized that other European foreign minister would only recognize Mongolian independence after the ongoing Boxer Rebellion in neighboring China has ended. The decision of the Russian Foreign Minister formally ended months of conferences in the seat of the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.​

NOTE:
[1]"Fratelli d' Italia" is another name for "Il Canto degli Italiani", the national anthem of Italy; the other one is "Inno di Mameli".

 

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Announcement

Apologies for not posting for a very long time. I'm so very busy in the last couple of weeks, job hunting included. I promise that I still continuing this TL as long as I can.

You can still comment on the recent updates, the TL in general or both.

Seeyah then

 

[kasumigenx]

You should do a No Spanish Philippines TL after your finished with this.

 

[ramones1986]

You should do a No Spanish Philippines TL after your finished with this.

Personally, I found no Spanish Philippines TL very difficult. Instead, I either reboot my Taiwan TL (different from the first "Ilha Formosa") or 1823 Philippine scenario.

 

[kasumigenx]

Personally, I found no Spanish Philippines TL very difficult. Instead, I either reboot my Taiwan TL (different from the first "Ilha Formosa") or 1823 Philippine scenario.

Or perhaps you should do a Dutch Philippines instead, that would be interesting.

 

[ramones1986]

Or perhaps you should do a Dutch Philippines instead, that would be interesting.

Interesting, yeah. But, more often than not, the ATL conquerors were actually Iberian Calvinists.

 

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (continuation)

1901​

7-8 April:

General Elections in the Kingdom of Spain. According to the returned election returns collected by Junta Electoral del Reino from all over the country, 89.45% of the registered Spanish electorate actually went to the polling station to cast your vote. Of the 352 contested seats in Congreso de los Diputados, the governing Partido Cónservador gained 10 more seats, earning them 200 seats in the Lower House of Cortes Generales. The opposition Partido Demócrata, meanwhile, gained only 107 seats, thus losing 9 seats, and Liberal-Federalistas earned an additional seat, for a total of 15 seats. For the Socialists and regionalists, they retained what they've gained in the last General Elections. Indeed, the current President Francisco Silvela was directly asked by His Majesty the King through a telephone call to form a new government and report immediately to El Pardo Palace.​

8 April:

In the Philippine archipelago, the electoral campaign for the upcoming General Elections resumed after a week-long break, which coincided with the Holy Week commemorations, as decreed by the Junta Electoral Nacional, who supervised the elections, referendums and plebiscites in the Philippines. It was believed that the four major political parties in the country (Partido Nacionalista, Partido Progresista, Partido Patriota Nacional and Partido Socialista de las Filipinas) already reevaluated their electoral strategies that could help their individual campaign in the remaining weeks of the campaign period. Indeed, election-related materials such as pamphlets and posters circulated once again in the street of every town and/or city in the country.​

9 April:

In the federal capital Manila, Baldomero Aguinaldo had confirmed before the members of the press that Partido Patriota Nacional (PPN) and Partido Demócratico de Agusán (PDA) has agreed for a common electoral alliance that would help each other's efforts throughout the rest of the campaign period, with the possibility of a formal coalition in the upcoming federal government after the elections. The deputy party leader reasoned out the fact that most of PDA's electoral program were compatible with their electoral manifesto, and pointed out the synergy of their respective leaders Florencio Intencherado and Diomedes Cantalapiedra y Ponpón, the current head of Agusán provincial government. In weeks before the Holy Week commemorations, the press have noticed the frequent meetings between Intencherado and Cantalapiedra, particularly the latter's visit to Manila to meet the Executive Committee of the PPN.​

10 April:

In the Spanish capital Madrid, President Francisco Silvela submitted his list of the members of Council of Ministers before His Majesty the King Leopold I. According to the insiders within El Pardo Palace, Silvela had retained most of his previous ministers, with an exception: Germán Gamazo, newly-elected Cónservador senator from Valladolid and former President of Junta Foral de Castilla-la Vieja for six years (1895-1901), was named Minister of Finance, the first time in the modern Spanish history that a member of the upper house of Cortes Generales was named a part of Council of Ministers; according to the current Spanish Constitution of 1869, the President would represent a member of Council of Ministers who was also a senator of the Kingdom in the sessions of control in Congreso de los Diputados.​

Senator Germán Gamazo
Minister of Finance
Kingdom of Spain
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11 April:

According to the insiders within Junta Electoral Nacional, the members of the electoral body was advised by the Governor-General back in the palace of Malacañang that any possible extension of already existing resolutions would be delayed until after the elections. According to the same sources, its chairman Alberto Fabián de Sosa was personally advised by Ambrosio Rianzares Batista to concentrate more on supervising the upcoming General Elections in the 13th of May, saying that the existing resolutions in relation to the current electoral campaign period could be extended to future elections once the current polls were finished, with "three months to one year" after it was celebrated.​

12 April:

In the Hungarian capital Budapest, ethnic Romanian MDs from Transylvania and their Székely counterparts met once again in the Cabinet Room of Sándor Palace, the official residence of the Prime Minister of Hungary. Presided by Kálmán Széll, the said meeting once again attempted to settle the difference between the two groups over the proposed unified Székely country within the Kingdom of Hungary. According to insiders within the Sándor Palace, both the ethnic Romanian and Székely MDs had explained their arguments in favor and against the proposal. In the end, the Prime Minister finally decided that he would modify his proposed legislation of creating a single Székely county.​

13 April:

Sources close to Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Zanadrelli said that the statesman was convinced by King Victor Emmanuel III to remain as head of government in a private meeting in Rome's Quirinal Palace. According to the same sources, while the Savoyard monarch understood the reason why Zanadrelli wanted to resign as Prime Minister, he insisted that the the statesman should continue his job as head of Italian government. Already in poor health and his old age of 74, Giuseppe Zanadrelli already recognized the fact that he would do little in his term as Prime Minister of Italy.​

Victor Emmanuel III
King of Italy
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15 April:

In the federal capital Manila, insiders within Partido Patriota Nacional told the members of the press that the leader of Partido Demócrata de Agusán leader Diomedes Cantalapiedra y Ponpón was named one of the members of its Executive Committee, naming him responsible for the provincial chapters of the party. According to the same sources, the said post was offered to him by party leader Florencio Intencherado while retaining his post as Secretary-General of PDA/Agusán Democrats. It was confirmed last week by deputy party leader Baldomero Aguinaldo that the two parties were entering an electoral alliance/coalition after weeks of negotiations between its two leaders, although rumors of future absorption of PDA by PPN still persisted until today.​

16-17 April:

In the town of Bontoc in the central part of País Igorot, the Jesuit missionaries finished their project, which was the construction of a common lingua franca for the said part of the territory. According to Fr. Juan Ángel Gurruchaga, the leader of the missionaries-linguists, they planned to publish the book containing the grammar rules and regulations of the new Igorot lingua franca and then distribute to the central part of País Igorot. In addition, the Spanish-born Jesuit was planning to translate junior high school textbooks to the new lingua franca and train new teachers who were fluent speaking in the said language. The following day, the Jesuit missionaries presented their proposal to the territorial Department of Education in the Igorot capital Pamplona. The newly-concocted Igorot lingua franca combined elements of Central Cordilleran languages like Tingguian, Kalinga, Ifugao, Bontoc and Kankana-ey.​

18 April:

In the Spanish capital Madrid, Germán Gamazo formally accepted the post of Minister of Finance days after President Francisco Silvela presented his list before His Majesty the King Leopold I in El Pardo. The newly-elected senator from Valladolid and former Presidente de la Junta Foral de Castilla-la Vieja for six consecutive years (1895-1901) felt privileged that a member of the Upper House of Cortes Generales would be part of the Council of Ministers, especially for a newly-elected senator like him. The appointment of senator Gamazo was the first time in the Spanish constitutional history.​

 

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (continuation)

1901​

22 April:

In the Spanish capital Madrid, President Francisco Silvela personally told his Finance Minister Germán Gamazo about his concern on the latter's personal health and capability to handle the responsibilities of a member of the Council of Ministers. The senator from Valladolid has assured to the head of the Spanish government that he's still indeed take the responsibilities as head of the Ministry of Finance in spite of his age, telling President Silvela that he should not be preoccupied with his own health, reminding the head of government of the upcoming inauguration in El PardoPalace instead. At the time of his appointment as Minister of Finance and his election as a senator, Gamazo was 60 years old and his health was starting to decline.​

23 April:

In the Igorot capital Pamplona, the Jesuit missionaries led by Fr. Juan Ángel Gurruchaga learned from the territorial education department that their proposed plan for a common lingua franca to be taught in the territory's central region was finally approved. According to the secretary himself, Tomás Diomedes Balweg, they discussed the said plan with Chief Minister Manuel Rafael Fuenzalida y Bomasang for four days after the missionaries sent the plan to the department. In addition, Balweg said that the department allowed the Jesuits to publish and print educational materials such as textbooks and grammar books and its distribution across the central region of País Igorot; for their part, the territorial government would cooperate with the missionaries on training junior high school teachers who were not just fluent in the new lingua franca, but also capable of instructing subjects in the said language.​

24 April:

In Mexico, President José Yves Limantour revealed that his administration would nationalize the railway system of the country. In effect, he assigned Transportation and Communication Secretary Emilio Rabasa to meet with the owners of the private railway companies across the Mexican territory to discuss the possible nationalization of the railway system under a state-owned autonomous enterprise as he's preparing his allies in the two houses of the Congress to prepare a proposed legislation for the creation of such enterprise. Under the Limantour administration, new railroad lines has increased through the initiative of the private companies with the cooperation of the national government; however, this reality has created a number of problems, particularly in transporting products and people from one part of the Mexican territory to other.​

Emilio Rabasa
Secretary of Transportation and Communication
United Mexican States
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25 April:

In the Igorot capital Pamplona, the territorial Education Secretary Tomás Diomedes Balweg was reminded by the Chief Minister in relation to the report that would be send to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Manila. Manuel Rafael Fuenzalida y Bomasang told his fellow member of the territorial Cabinet that the current minister, Deodato Arellano, was currently campaigning for his seat in the Lower House of Cortes/Federal Congress under Partido Nacionalista, and advised that the report to Manila would be delayed until days or weeks after the General Elections, either with the current administration or a new government. The report that the territorial Department of Education was preparing included its approval of the plan for the propagation of the new lingua franca developed by the Jesuit missionaries in the central region of País Igorot.​

26 April:

In the Palace of El Pardo in the Spanish capital Madrid, the new Council of Ministers, led by President Francisco Silvela, took their oath before the Prince of Asturias, who substituted his father as His Majesty the King Leopold I was advised by the palace doctor to rest for a few more days because of his sickness. The new Cabinet, who represented the executive branch of the government, included Finance Minister Germán Gamazo, the first senator to held a post in the Council of Ministers. The 2nd Silvela government was still the seventh since the La Gloriosa revolution of 1868, which was considered as the birth of a modern, democratic Spain.​

Crown of Spain
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27 April:

In Colombia, more than two months after the approval of the proposed constitutional amendments by the two houses of the National Congress, President José Manuel Marroquín finally announced that a referendum would be held in a few months to decide if the country's electorate would accept the changes to the Colombian local government. According to the statesman, it took more than two months to made a final decision not just because of constant Cabinet meetings in relation to the amendments, but also assuring cooperation and support from their Panamanian counterparts to the proposed referendum. The constitutional amendments, if the electorate voted in favor of its enactment in an upcoming referendum, would transform the current Colombian Constitution, enacted in 1886, from unitary-presidential to federal-presidential form of government​

29 April:

In the Palace of Malacañang, the Governor-General received a letter from the Department of Education of the Territory of País Igorot, in which it told about the report that should be sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Manila. Ambrosio Rianzares Batista responded to the letter sent from the territorial capital Pamplona, saying that although it's still advisable to sent a report to the ministry in the federal capital Manila, sending it in a middle of a electoral campaign period would be more difficult because the man who currently held the said ministry was busy campaigning in his own province. Thus, as the Governor-General concluded, it's better to sent the report after the General Elections, and the report of the territorial education department should be included in the general monthly report of the territorial government of País Igorot.​

30 April:

Insiders within Chapultepec Castle in the Mexican capital said that the allies of President José Yves Limantour in both houses of the Congress suggested to both Limantour himself and Transportation and Communication Secretary Emilio Rabasa to consider the law that was enacted in the Philippines back in 1883 in relation to the proposed nationalization of the national railway system. According to the same insiders, the allies of the administration, both delegates and senators, considered the said legislation as an inspiration to the proposed unified railway system to the point of calling the Philippine embassy to be consulted on the creation of a proposed state-owned railway company. The Philippine legislation that the Limantour administration purportedly studying was the statute of creation of Ferrocarriles de las Islas Filipinas, considered as the first state-owned enterprise in the said Asian country.​

2 May:

The Movimiento Feminista Filipina confirmed that its leader Trinidad Tecsón was meeting with the leaders of the major political parties in the past few weeks to discuss the issues that affected the welfare of the Filipino women. The meetings, as the women's rights movement indicated, included the issue of a fair wages and salaries, safe workplace, improvement of opportunities through education, and the most important, as Tecsón insisted, was female suffrage. In a meeting, the chief of Partido Patriota Nacional Florencio Intencherado assured to Tecsón that Gremio de Mujeres Patrioticas (GMP), another feminist group headed by Hilaria del Rosaria, was completely autonomous and independent from the decisions made by his party.​

 

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (continuation)

1901​

3-4 May:

The National Electoral Commission of the Republic of Colombia has finally announced the definite date for the nationwide referendum in relation to the constitutional amendments passed by the two houses of the country's National Congress. As reported by the leading national newspapers the following day, the electoral body has chosen the 7th of July as the definite date of the referendum as agreed by the National Electoral Commission and the executive branch of the Colombian government. The electoral body added that before the day of the referendum itself, there would be a campaign period for both sides ("Yes" and "No") that would start on Monday, 20th of May and would end on the 5th of July, two days before the voting day itself. The referendum was said to be the culmination of the talks between the administration of Colombian president José Manuel Marroquín and Panamanian nationalists headed by Manuel Amador Guerrero.​

6 May:

In Madrid, President Francisco Silvela assigned his chief diplomat Marcelo Ázcarraga to deal with the ongoing crisis in Venezuela by meeting with the Venezuelan ambassador Juan Calcaño Mathieu. Like his other European counterparts, particularly in Britain, France and Germany, the head of the Spanish government was preoccupied by the increasingly nationalistic policy of the administration of Venezuelan president Cipriano Castro, which would not just endanger the business interests of Spain in the said South American country, but also its citizens living and conducting business there, especially in cities like Caracas and Maracaibo.​

7 May:

Insiders within the presidential residence of Chapultepec Castle in the Mexican capital confirmed that the allies of President José Yves Limantour in the two houses of the Mexican General Congress agreed for a creation of state-owned railway company through a proposed legislation that would be presented in the House of the Representatives, the lower chamber of the Mexican national legislature. The same sources also said that the legislators generally agreed that the creation of the a state railroad company would be possible by combining the existing railroad enterprises that operated throughout the Mexican territory. Meanwhile, sources from the offices of Department of Transportation and Communication reported that Secretary Emiio Rabasa has presented copies of the 1883 Railways Law from the Philippines to the owners of the private rail companies in their meeting to explain its possible influence in the future nationalization of the railway system in the country.​

8 May:

In the Igorot capital Pamplona, the territorial Department of Education decided to help the Jesuit missionaries in printing and distributing textbooks in Igorot lingua franca to senior high schools across the territory's central region. In addition, as said by Tomás Diomedes Balweg to the members of the territorial press, the Department of Education of País Igorot and the missionaries would collaborate in training senior high teachers who were willing and capable of teaching their students in the so-called Igorot Común, as they called the new lingua franca. Igorot Común was developed by Jesuits led by Spanish-born priest Juan Ángel Gurruchaga in the town of Bontoc, and it contained the elements of Central Cordilleran languages.​

 

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Timeline of Events, 1898-1901: Independencia,entre victoria y tragedia (last chapter)

1901​

9 May:

Sources within the Department of Transportation and Communication in the Mexican capital told the members the local press and some foreign correspondents that the owners of private railway companies expressed their support to the proposed nationalization of the Mexican railway system in their meeting with Emilio Rabasa. According to the same sources, the owners were convinced to the explanation of the proposal as presented by the secretary Rabasa, in which include the formation of the hypothetical state enterprise's Board of Administration, which would formed by the private railway company owners. The increasing industrialization of Mexico, combined with the increasing power of the central government, under the administration of President José Yves Limantour saw the necessity of nationalizing key industries like railway system and telegraph/telephone services.​

10 May:

In Manila, the Supreme Bishop of Iglesia Filipina Independiente has reiterated that he would respect the freedom of his follower's choice to select their candidate in the upcoming elections on Monday. Gregorio Aglipay wrote in his letter to the members of his church across in the country that every Aglipayan follower valued responsibility and civics of a citizen of the dominion of the Philippines, in which include the freedom to choose their preferred party and vote for them, reflecting the lesson that he learned from the recent fiasco in which he endorsed the Filipino Socialist Party and their leader, fellow Ilocano and close friend Isabelo de los Reyes.​

13-14 May:

The highly-anticipated election day in the Philippines. According to Junta Electoral Nacional, 91% of the electorate actually went to the polling stations to cast their vote. Of the 145 contested seats in Cámara de los Delegados, the Nacionalistas lost a large number of their seats, thus relegating themselves to 55 seats. In their stead, the Progresistas won 60 seats, the combined Partido Patriota Nacional-Partido Deócrata de Agusán coalition gained 20 new seats as a result of newly-found popular support not just in their stalwart provinces of Agusán and Cavite, but also in the rest of the Philippines. The Socialists, led by Isabelo de los Reyes, found themselves reduced to just three seats, a big reduction from the last General Elections (1898 - 9 seats in the Lower House) and the remaining seven seats were reserved for the independent candidates.

Meanwhile in the provincial level, the Nacionalistas remained the majority in the Juntas Provinciales of Kumintang/Comintán, Manila, Bulacán, Pampanga, Ilocos, Zamboanga and Nueva Ecija, while snatched La Isabela and Pangasinan from the Progresistas. On the other part, the Progresistas snatched victories in Pangasinan, Batanes, Aklán, Antique, Iloilo, Negros and Albay while they retained their electoral predominance in the Juntas Provinciales of País Subanen, Paragua, Cebu and Camarines. In their part, new party Partido Progresista Nacional (PPN) score major victories in Cavite, Agusán (under the Democrats), Samar and Leyte.
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Pedro Paterno
The new President of Federal Government
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15 May:

Sources in both Partido Progresista and Partido Progresista Nacional told the major national newspapers that their respective leaders Pedro Paterno and Baldomero Aguinaldo talked immediately after they've known the results of the recent General and Provincial Elections. According to both sources, both Paterno and Aguinaldo have been working together in forming the new Council of Ministers before they've presented the final list before the Governor-General in the Palace of Malacañang in the following days, most preferably in upcoming Friday. The PPN and Progresistas sweep major victories in the recent elections, resulting in the scenario where the Senate was divided in thirds (each party got almost a third of their seats) and a possibility of a bi-party government as a result of the talks between Aguinaldo and Paterno, with eighty seats in the Lower House of Congreso Federal (60 for Progresistas, 20 for Partido Progresista Nacional).​

16 May:

Partido Nacionalista leader Mariano Trías has assured to his fellow party members that he would remain as party chief in a meeting in their headquarters in the federal capital Manila. The former Junta President has reiterated that he could try his best to be a good Leader of the Opposition in the next legislature. The Caviteño statsman took over as Presidente de le Junta General de Filipinas in 1899 immediately after the arrest of his predecessor Emilio Aguinaldo for his role in the assassination of Andrés Bonifacio in his own office two years earlier (1897); Trías served as head of the Philippine federal government for only two years (1899-1901). in which he saw the disintegration of the Nacionalistas in the aftermath of the trial of Aguinaldo.​

 

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SUMMARY​

Twelfth of June, year 1898: the Philippines finally gained independence from Spain, but the bonds between the two countries remained as it made clear that the Philippines was an independent dominion of the Spanish Crown, especially the role of Governor-General. On less than a year, however, an old crime would haunt, and eventually, caught with Emilio Aguinaldo: in 1899, he was arrested for masterminding the murder of Andrés Bonifacio two years earlier. As a result, his deputy Mariano Trías immediately replaced him as head of Philippine government. For more than a year, hundreds of witness, unknown and well-known, went to the courthouse in Cavite City to testify before the jury in the trial that followed; the final verdict served as the breaking point for the ruling Partido Nacionalista: the Aguinaldo loyalist broke up from the rest of the party and formed their own political part: Partido Patriota Nacional. At the same time, their Progresista rivals took advantage of such events in order to strengthen their membership and won the support of the electorate across the country.

During this period, a new constitution for the Philippines was written and ratified in 1899; the said document harked the transition of the Philippine government from that of a self-governing Spanish colony ("Junta General de las Islas Filipinas") to an independent and sovereign dominion of the Spanish Crown ("Gobierno Federal de Filipinas"), with national self-confidence and pride, supported by a strong economy and an active armed forces.

Nevertheless, times were uncertain for the Philippines as its location in the Far East accidentally dragged to the geopolitical conflicts that engulfed its neighboring lands: the rise of the Japanese Empire, the disintegration of China, accompanied by the rising anti-Manchu sentiment both within China and among the diaspora, centralization of Siamese monarchy and the intensified colonization in Indochina and Malay Archipelago.

 

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I've recently created and wrote the first few updates of the "full" (read: ASB) version of this Philippine-wank, and that's why I'm not updating the regular version for weeks. At least, I could balance writing here (the "regular" version) and in the "full"/ASB version.

I hope that someone would help me in relation to the ASB versions of islands like Northwest Hawaiian Islands/Midways and Marianas Islands because I badly needed them for the full/ASB version of my Philippine-wank.

 

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Timeline of Events, 1901-07: El Regreso de los Progresistas

1901​

17 May:

The new President of the Federal Government Pedro Paterno presented the list of his Council of Ministers before the Governor-General in the former's visit to the Palace of Malacañang days after recent general and provincial elections. According to the sources in both Malacañang and Palacio del Gobernador, Partido Patriota Nacional leader Baldomero Aguinaldo was secured a very important ministerial post in the new Council of Ministers. Here's the list that Pedro Paterno presented to Governor-General Ambrosio Rianzares Batista:

• Baldomero Aguinaldo, Cavite - Defense and Military Affairs/Vice-President
• Juan Sumulong, Manila - Internal Affairs
• Raimundo Gatmaitán, Bulacán - Education
• Edmundo Sykes, Sierra Madre - Infrastructure
• José Alejandrino, Sierra Madre - Agriculture
• Felipe Agoncillo, Comintán - Foreign and Territorial Affairs
• Gregorio Araneta y Soriano, Iloilo - Transportation, Trade and Industry
• Antonio Luna, Ilocos - Health
• Horacio Ballesteros y Sumulong, Nueva Ecija - Finance
• Victorino Mapa y Montano, Aklán - Justice (Attorney General/Abogado General)

The appointment of former General Manager of Ferrocarriles de las Islas Filipinas and recently-elected senator Edmundo Sykes was significant in the political history of the country: according to the new Federal Constitution, a senator could have a chance of holding a ministerial post and attend the meetings of the Council of Ministers, but the senator-minister would not be allowed to attend the sessions in the Cámara de los Delegados: in his stead, the President of the Federal Government would present and defend his proposed legislation/policies before the members of the lower house of Federal Congress.
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18-19 May:

In Ireland, it was rumored that the nationalist movement was now attracted new members who were secretly taught in the Irish Gaelic language by foreign-trained priests, who also have the same ideology as their students. According to the anonymous sources in both Irish nationalist and Home Rule groups, that their numbers and their increasing influence have forced the leaders to recognize the need of learning Irish Gaelic as one of the important part of their movements, to the point of funding clandestine schools across the Emerald Isle, most especially in the western coast. The priests who taught Gaelic language secretly were studied in countries like Spain, France, Italy and recently Corsica, were ideologically independent from the higher clergy, and actually concerned about the injustices that existed in Ireland after the Famine of 1848, both in the countryside and in cities like Dublin.[1]​

20 May:

In the self-governing colony of South Moluccas, the Colonial Council held a special meeting in relation to the proliferation of the four-colored flag across the colony. According to the sources within Fort William in the South Moluccan capital Ambón, the President of the Colonial Council Nuno Marcos Salampesi told his fellow ministers that while they recognized the need of a flag to represent the government of South Moluccas, he reminded them that they should consult both the Legislative Council and the Governor-General Cornelis Fock if the four-colored flag could be used officially. For the past few months, the four-colored flag had became the de facto flag for the self-governing Dutch colony.​

Flag of South Moluccas
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21-22 May:

In the federal capital Manila, the new Council of Ministers met in the private residence of the new head of Federal Government Pedro Paterno, where they discussed the new program for the country under a future administration composed of a coalition between Partido Progresista and Partido Patriota Nacional. According to the sources close to Paterno, for two daysthe proposed common program set up by soon-to-be-inaugurated Cabinet includes the expansion of the national railway network, reforms in the municipal government, the establishment of an academy for the future members (officers included) in the Royal Philippine Armed Forces and adequate management of natural resources. Days earlier, Pedro Paterno has reiterated before the members of the local press and foreign correspondents that his administration would maintain the independence of state enterprises like Ferrocarriles and Telefónica y Telegramas.​

23 May:

In the Colombian capital Bogotá, Charles Burdett Hart wrote a letter to both the State Department and the Office of President of the United States in the American capital Washington in relation to the ongoing campaign period for the upcoming referendum. The chief American envoy to the Colombian Republic wrote in his letters that he was informed that more than half of the Colombian electorate would vote in favor of constitutional amendments presented by President José Manuel Marroquín, which called for the change of national government from presidential-unitary to presidential-federal form of government, harking back to the era when the official names of the country were the Granadine Confederation and United States of Colombia (1858-86).​

Charles Burdett Hart
United States Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Colombia
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24 May:

In the province of Cavite, Severino de las Alas was formally confirmed as Presidente de la Junta Provincial after his fellow members of Partido Progresista Nacional in the Legislative Council, who held a near-absolute majority, voted unanimously in favor of his appointment as the chief of Caviteño provincial government. The 60-year-old teacher, lawyer and statesman was formerly part of Partido Nacionalista in the province; being a part of the Aguinaldo faction, he was part of those who formally broke up from the party in the aftermath of the trials and final verdict on the case of former Junta President. His predecessor, provincial Nacionalista leader Ladislao Diwa, officially became the Leader of Provincial Opposition.​

27 May:

Led by the President of the Federal Government Pedro Paterno, the new Council of Ministers had sworn in before the Governor-General in the palace of Malacañang in the federal capital Manila. The ceremony includes the Chiefs of Staff of the two branches of the Royal Philippine Armed Forces, the families of the ministers and some of the well-known personalities in the Manila high society. In his speech as the chief of the Federal Government, Paterno has promised that he would do his best to govern the country with the help of his fellow members of the Council of Ministers. Pedro Paterno, a journalist by profession, was the eight head of the Philippine government since the self-government was finally granted by Spain to the Philippines in 1875.​

28 May:

In the Spanish capital Madrid, sources within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told some members of the press and foreign correspondents that Marcelo Azcárraga was interested on reviving the plan postulated by the Count of Aranda in the 18th century. According to the same sources, Azcárraga would possibly modify the plan to fit the geopolitical realities of Latin American countries, most especially Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador and even Colombia. The original plan as proposed by the Count of Aranda (Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea) in the 18th century was to make the then-extensive Spanish Empire a commonwealth, with the Spanish monarch as the head of state, something that unconsciously revived in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Quisqueya and the Philippines; it was formed during his time in the French capital Paris in the time were the American War of Independence[2] was occuring in the present-day United States.​

Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea
Count of Aranda
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29 May:

In Fort William in the South Moluccan capital Ambón, Governor-General Cornelis Fock told Colonial Council President Nuno Marcos Salampesi that having the four-colored flag for official use in the government would be fine for him. According to the sources in the residence of the Governor-General, Fock even encouraged his chief minister to create and pass a special legislation that would allow the use of the de facto South Moluccan flag in all government departments and local governments across the self-governing Dutch colony. Just last week, Salampesi suggested to his fellow Colonial Executive Council members that they needed authorization from both the Governor-General and Legislative Council in relation to the de facto South Moluccan flag​

30 May:

In a special session of Cámara de los Delegados before the formal opening on Monday, the delegates has chosen Partido Progresista's Fernando Mª Guerrero as the new president of the Lower House replacing his predecessor, fellow Manileño and Nacionalista delegate Pablo Ocampo. The selection of Guerrero as the leader of Cámara de los Delegados was through a secret ballot, where the delegates would chose the candidate of their choice by writing in a piece of paper that looked liked an election ballot and then the secretary of the Lower House would openly cast the vote.​

NOTES:
[1] I know this is quite implausible to the point of ASB, but I'll love to see an Ireland who loved their native language with such passion.
[2] Another name for Revolutionary War/American Revolution.

 

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Update

Presidente de la Junta General de Filipinas​

Joaquín Pardo de Tavera
Partido Reformista
1st March,1873 - 4th July, 1880

Marcelo H. del Pilar
Partido Reformista
5th July, 1880 - 24th January, 1886

Marcelo Ázcarraga Palmero
Frente Insular/Partido Progresista
25th January, 1886 - 5th June, 1892

Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro
Partido Nacionalista
6th June, 1892 - 11th May, 1897

Dr. José Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso
Partido Nacionalista
12th May, 1897 - 5th June, 1898

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy
Partido Nacionalista
6th June, 1898 - 31st January, 1899

Mariano Trias y Closas
Partido Nacionalista
1st February, 1899 - 26th May, 1901

Pedro Alejandro Paterno
Partido Progresista
27th May, 1901 -
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