Who is benito legarda

Publication Timeline. Most widely held works by Benito J Legarda. It starts with students preparing for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8, , the day war came to the country, and ends on the last day of with Filipino officials bowing in subjection towards the imperial palace in Tokyo"--P.

Occupation : the later years by Benito J Legarda Book 2 editions published in in English and held by 21 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. Occupation, by Benito J Legarda Book 2 editions published in in English and held by 19 WorldCat member libraries worldwide. For Legarda, political independence for the Philippines was a worthy, but long-term, goal—a discussion for another time. Legarda took his seat in Congress in early February Without protected access to U. Legarda also had an ace up his sleeve.

He planned to lean on his old friend, William H. Legarda had additional support among the press. Congress, however, could not agree on how best to categorize the islands. For a decade it had gone back and forth, unable to decide if the Philippines was a domestic or international trading partner. McIntyre had written the bulk of the amendments and did most of the talking. Legarda contributed every now and then, but for the most part, he sat quietly while the committee questioned the Insular Bureau officials.

After word reached the Philippines, businesses back home clamored to know the details. When the measure went to the floor on May 27, the resulting debate distilled the larger tariff question. Democrats criticized it and the GOP majority for ignoring the immediate trade concerns at home and for applying different standards to the Philippines.

Legarda, for his part, did not speak up during debate. The bill passed that day and went to the Senate, where it was referred to the Committee on the Philippines, but it never came up for a vote. About a year later, in the 61st Congress — , the Ways and Means Committee took up the issue again, only this time in the form of two separate bills.

Despite the earlier struggle for reform, a lot had changed over the preceding months. It promised to be a huge undertaking. At the time, the United States had no income tax, meaning the federal Treasury generated vast sums of revenue from fees placed on imported goods.

They asked that the United States help the islands adjust over the next three years. Like the tariff legislation the year before, the new Payne measure dealt with a number of contingencies both in the United States and in the Pacific. For the last 10 years, the Philippines had assumed that the United States would open free trade, removing tariffs and costing the islands vast sums of revenue.

To prepare for such a sudden loss of funding, the insular government levied direct taxes on its citizens. Even though the taxes went into effect, free trade never did, leaving the Philippines with a surplus.

To put that money back into circulation, the insular government funded infrastructure projects to help industrialize the economy. With taxes fueling construction, tariffs helped run the government.

On April 3, , Legarda used the debate over what would become the Payne—Aldrich bill to make his first address on the House Floor. Ocampo had spoken the day before, protesting adamantly against the inequitable free trade proposal. A major sticking point for the insular legislature and, thus, the Resident Commissioners was how the Payne bill treated Philippine sugar and tobacco imported to the mainland.

If maintaining fees on goods imported to the Philippines promised to help the insular treasury, removing tariffs from Philippine goods imported to the mainland would have far-reaching benefits for Filipino farmers.

As they had in the past, Big Sugar and Big Tobacco saw Philippine producers as a threat to their market share at home and vigorously sought to maintain the fees on Philippine imports. Legarda concluded his lengthy remarks by turning back to the situation at home. See full disclaimer. From Wikipilipinas. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in.

Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history. We will miss you in our meetings at Memorare, and I will truly miss our almost weekly phone calls. Glad though that I was still able to talk to you last Sunday. While many people remember Mr. Legarda for his wealth of knowledge on history and economics, JC Punongbayan, a teaching fellow at the University of the Philippines Diliman School of Economics, remembered Mr.

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