Scope and content Correspondence, reports, cables in cipher, and some articles concerning U.S. administration of and aims in the Philippines, conduct of the war against Filipino insurgents, and possible future independence of the Philippines. Much of the correspondence is between Secretary of State John Hay and Jacob Gould Schurman, President of the Commission. Other correspondents include J. E. Sawyer, Thomas W. Cridler, J. H. McGowan, A. E. Buck, Seretary of the Commission John R. MacArthur, Acting...