Filipinas: La Gloriosa y Más Allá

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

1901​


3 June:
In the federal capital Manila, Infrastructure Minister Edmundo Sykes has announced that the railway system in Luzon would be expanded further to connect the eastern coast with the main railway lines. In addition, the former general manager of the state railway enterprise said that there'd be a possibility that the Cordillera regional railway system would be connected to the main railway lines in both north and south. According to the plan presented by the Ministry of Infrastructure, the two railways would be connected in the Comintano town of Lucena de Tayabas[1].​

4 June:
In response to the questions raised by the members of the press about the possible changes to the territory of País Igorot, Foreign and Territorial Affairs Minister Felipe Agoncillo said that he'd collaborate with the Minister of Internal Affairs Juan Sumulong as the proposed changes would involve two neighboring provinces, Cagayán and Pangasinan. Agoncillo has also clarified that the regional infrastructures would still be existing in those areas once the proposed changes continued and approved in both houses of Congreso Federal. The previous months, the development and propagation of a lingua francain the central part of País Igorot raised questions about the future of the territory.​

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Felipe Agoncillo
Minister of Foreign and Territorial Affairs
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5 June:
In Mexico, the House of Representatives has passed the proposed legislation the would consolidate the Mexican railway system under a state enterprise after more than half of the delegates voted in favor of the said legislation. The proposal, said to be inspired by the Philippine legislation that was passed on the year 1882, was part of the program of Mexican President José Yves Limantour and his administration, in which the major public utilities across the country (e.g. telephone, telegraph and railways) would be under state enterprises as the country's economy expanded and increasingly industrialized.​

6 June:
Rumors circulated within both Cámara de los Delegados and that the Nacionalista delegates and senators were planning to convene in Teatro de Binondo in the next few weeks to chose a new party leader. According to the said rumors, one of the popular candidates for being president of the party's National Executive Committee included Antonio Mª Regidor, the current Nacionalista party chief in the province of Manila and former president of the Manileño provincial government (1883-1895). As of the moment, neither the Leader of the Opposition Mariano Trias nor the current leader of the Nacionalista senators Marcelo H. del Pilar neither confirmed nor denied the said rumors.​

7 June:
In the British capital London, it was rumored that the Home Office already knew that both the Irish nationalists and Home Rule supporters were now increasingly fluent in Irish Gaelic to the point of adopting it as the official tongue of the both movements, and that's the reason why the Home Secretary Gerald William Balfour secretly proposed to Prime Minister Sir Robert Cecil (The Marquess of Salisbury) that spies and informers would be trained to infiltrate both Irish nationalists and Home Rule supporters. According to the secret plan proposed by Home Secretary Balfour, the police would secretly hire spies and informers from the Protestant-dominated parts of Ulster, with fluency in the Irish Gaelic language as most important requirement. According to both modern-day British and Irish historians, the Home Office already knew that Gaelic speakers, educated by rebel priests in clandestine schools across the Emerald Isle, were joining both movements in a pace that even the veterans were not expected, thus the popularity of Irish Gaelic among both nationalists and Home Rule supporters accelerated.​

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Gerald William Balfour
Home Secretary
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
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10 June:
In the Palace of Malacañang, the Governor-General received a letter from his Australian counterpart John Adrian Hope, in which the latter invited Ambrosio Rianzares Batista to come to Australia to pay a state visit. In the said letter, the Australian Governor-General understood that once his Philippine counterpart received his letter, Rianzares Batista was preparing for the Independence Day celebrations on the 12th of June, so he's hoping that either the Philippine Governor-General or a member of the Council of Ministers, most especially the President of the Federal Government. Months earlier, the Australian Governor-General invited his Philippine counterpart to pay an official visit to Australia, but it politely declined because of ongoing campaign period for the last parliamentary and provincial elections.​

11 June:
In the Montenegrin capital Podgorica, representatives of Serbian embassy talked to Prince Nicolas about the possibility of taking the Serbian throne if the current Serbian monarch Alexander died unexpectedly without an issue. According to some courtiers, the Montenegrin sovereign was said to agreed to the proposed Union of Two Crowns, but with a condition: If he died within days to months of his Serbian counterpart, his elder daughter Zorka, the wife of Peter Karađorđević, would took over the throne as joint monarchs of a future United Kingdom of Serbia and Montenegro.​

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Nikola I
Prince of Montenegro
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12 June:
The three branches of the Junta General, the Chiefs of Staff of the two branches of the Royal Philippine Armed Forces, some of the most prominent personalities in the Philippine society, foreign diplomats and the Governor-General gathered together in Luneta to celebrate and commemorate the third anniversary of formal Philippine independence. Ambrosio Rianzares Batista reviewed every soldier that marched and saluted the representative of the Spanish Crown, the actual chief of state in the country. After the review, Federal President Pedro Paterno joined the Governor-General on laying flowers to the tombs of Andrés Novales and Luis Rodríguez Varela, now considered as the highest among the hierarchy of Filipino national heroes. Afterwards, in his speech, the Presidente del Gobierno Federal said that the Philippines should be prepared in any uncertainty that affected its neighbors, especially the rise of the Japanese Empire and the disintegration of China into spheres of influence; Paterno added that the Royal Philippine Armed Forces was more than ready to defend the country when needed.​

13-14 June:
In the private meeting in the Palace of Malacañang, the Governor-General presented the letter sent by his Australian counterpart from Melbourne to the President of the Federal Government. When Ambrosio Rianzares Batista asked Pedro Paterno if he wanted to go to the Australian capital to pay an official visit, the Presidente del Gobierno Federal said that he's more than willing to go to Australia to meet both Governor-General John Hope (Marquess of Linlithgow) and the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth Edmund Barton. As the letter sent by the Governor-General indicated, the purpose of the upcoming official visit to Melbourne was to strengthen the cultural and economic ties between Melbourne and Manila,as the British Foreign office in London handled and managed the former's diplomatic missions because of its status as a dominion within the British Empire.​



NOTE:
[1] OTL: Lucena City, Quezon
 
kasumigenx

kasumigenx

Captain Orange said:
In a sense, yes. But that was supposed to be the direction of the Philippines, if the Yanks never came.
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But to tell you, I think the faction of Andres Bonifacio was stronger than Emilio that is why the revolution got disorganized after he died, we could end up in a similar situation to Myanmar, Indonesia or Malaysia, there was inner fighting in Katipunan because the majority hated Emilio.

I think it would have been better if Koxinga and the people of Luzon led by Malong and Maniago helped each other in expelling the Spanish, Koxinga would be granted land in Luzon by the rebels - most likely it is manila which would have been given, it would have ended in a similar situation to Sulawesi where the Spanish were expelled.

I think the people of Luzon would have handed over Koxinga to the Qing or the Qing would have isolated Koxinga forcing his substate to go native in future generations.
 

Alferiz

kasumigenx said:
But to tell you, I think the faction of Andres Bonifacio was stronger than Emilio that is why the revolution got disorganized after he died, we could end up in a similar situation to Myanmar, Indonesia or Malaysia, there was inner fighting in Katipunan because the majority hated Emilio.
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A much better analogue would be Latin America.
 
kasumigenx

kasumigenx

General Luna said:
And so is Bolivar to South America.



They won't survive that long, I tell you. The three island groups will need each other later on. And do you think a federal structure won't work?
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I don't think so...the Luzon, Mindanao and Sulu were tributaries of Majapahit while they did not give a shit for the Visayans which they have low opinions of and Luzon had close relations with Java.

Sulawesi, Palau, guam, marianas and Northern Borneo are technically parts of the Philippines but did not end up as a part of the Philippines, any Philippines wank should include these territories.
 
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ramones1986

ramones1986

kasumigenx said:
Sulawesi, Palau, guam, marianas and Northern Borneo are technically parts of the Philippines but did not end up as a part of the Philippines, any Philippines wank should include these territories.
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Northern Borneo is part of the Philippines in this TL, that's for sure.

However, there are issues on other territories that you've mentioned:
1. Guam, Marianas and Palau: While historically part of the Philippines (Spanish East Indies), the distance itself, as well as the archipelagic nature of the three, is a big obstacle.

2. Celebes: Sure, the northern part is linguistically related to the Philippines, the problem is they're under the rule of a different country (Netherlands).
 
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