In Manila, a bill was proposed in the territorial legislature forbidding sending through the mails: "Photographs, engravings, lithographs, books or any kind of printed matter depicting any inhabitant of the Philippine Islands belonging to the so-called non-Christian tribes and to the tribes inhabiting the provinces of northern Luzon."
The Director of Posts recommended the bill as follows:
"The government and the people of the Philippine Islands are annually spending large sums of money to show the people of the United States and other foreign countries...
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