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51 been sick, but was better. She wanted to get home, she wrote, to let them all see, father and all, how much better she was, how happy she was. She was so happy she could not express it in words, if she tried all the rest of the days of her life; but they should all see, father and all, father above all, how she loved them, how she loved the Father of the whole universe, and how happy she was.

Knowing that her last letter from her home, and especially the long silence since, had made her brother Herbert uneasy about her, she wrote to him, a long, loving letter, telling him what hope she felt for their poor father, and for everybody; urging him to take a great deal of pains to be kind to such as had lost their way, and had none to help them find it.

CHAPTER XV.

“Sue looks like death. I declare, she does look like death; but I don’t like to wake her and see what it is.”

So, on the following morning, muttered old aunt Hester, slowly shaking her head, slowly going about to prepare her and Maggie’s break- fast. “If I know what death looks like, and I guess Ido. Oh! but what is your mistress trou- bling her old head about, puss? Puss, wiser- headed than her mistress!”

She could not, however, resist the inclination she felt to go softly, every few minutes, to look at the young girl sleeping with such heavy rings round her eyes, with eyes so sunken, mouth and cheeks so drawn.

At last she moaned, and with difficulty and agitation waked out of her heavy slumber.

In reply to aunt Hester’s inquiries, she could only look up piteously, heavy-eyed, drawing, hard breaths, saying, ‘Oh! I don’t know. I don’t know what does ail me, aunt Hester. You mustn’t be frightened; but I do feel so—so sad. I never in all my life felt so sad—never, never! It aches so here, aunt Hester!” tremblingly rub- bing her heart with her finger-points; ‘and you know how happy I was last night. I thought it was going to last forever; but it is gone; God is gone—I can’t find him; he is gone—gone.”

And then once again rose that cry, heard eighteen hundred years ago on Calvary—heard many times since, “‘ My God, why hast thou for- saken me? If—if——” if mother was here, if father, and Anna, and Herbert, were here, she was going to say; but afraid of alarming, or, in Some way, wounding aunt Hester, she sup- Pressed the utterance, and felt the longing settle back on her heart, as it were, a great load, hard, indeed, in her weak, dark state to bear.

But aunt Hester read the wish and the heart- ache. Arranging her pillows so as to bring her head higher; she patted her cheek, was shocked to find how cold and rigid it felt; covered the great fear with a pleasant smile, a pleasant, “There, you dear! you patient darling! Let me go into the kitchen a moment.”

Now in Maggie’s former visits at aunt IHes- ter’s, she had seen Mr. and Mrs. Brown at church; and from aunt Hester’s windows and garden, through the trees and beautifully- flowering shrubs, and in the walks of the Browns’ yard, had seen the good, choerful pa- rents sitting in the piazzas, or under the trees, reading, or talking, and often looking to see what the children were doing; had seen the children, beautiful fairies! running up to them with some wonderful pebble, or bit of moss, or to drag them by their fingers, or skirts, to see some flower, some butterfly, or, perhaps, some worm or bug, exquisitely colored; or, while the mother sat plying her faithful needle, had seen the father with the children at play, with ring, ball, kite, or shuttlecock; and had heard him say to her, ‘Come, Brownie—Effie, leave off pricking your fingers, and come and play with us wise-heads;” had seen her come, perhaps; had heard her voice, so beautiful in speaking to him, or to the children; and had said to her- self and to aunt Hester that she was an angel. Since she came this time, looking to see her go out through her gate, she had, with tears in her eyes half-blinding their sight, said that she looked like a good angel; that if she was alone in the world, without a friend to go to, she. would go to Mrs. Brown and tell her all, and be comforted by her.

Remembering it, and herself sharing Maggie's excellent opinion of her neighbor, aunt Hester threw on hood and shawl, and hurried across to bring her; and she came.

Looking into the poor girl’s large, troubled eyes with her large, calm, inspired ones, she saw Maggie settle at once into peace. Her eyes no more wandered or shone with half-delirium. She did not weep—tears were not for her, lying there at such ending of her earthly life;about to cross over to the other side, where she would meet her God, her Saviour. Ah, yes! there again was ‘‘the name above all other names,” the dear name, that brought the sudden rain of tears to put out the fires of remorse and dread. He, on the cross, tortured, forsaken, crying out in His great agony that brought the sweat, as it were great drops of blood—was not He the one

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to be with her then in her dread hour, to turn it into one of peace, even of triumph, through Him, through His agony in His last hour? With what clearness she now understood the intention and uses of that death, that whole blessed life ; how her tears ran, and yet how great was her comfort! Verily, if such things could once in awhile be said in our pulpits, (and out of them, when lay members meet to talk over matters, ) as Effie Brown heard, at intervals, that morning, through that day, and that night, until the beautiful dawn of the next-day morning, from the lips almost done with earth. I think those who heard could not fail to understand that there is something in this Christ, this cross, this agony and crying out, that they as yet understand but dimly, and that it certainly behooves them to look into.

At intervals, I said ; for the physician was sent for, and came-a humane man, who had his brows knit with anger toward the world, so filled with wrongs and dangers for such as Maggie ; but at the same time had on his features the light of a heavenly compassion for his patient. In a few rugged sentences, wrung out of him by Maggie's request, and by his own burning sympathies, he let Mrs. Brown see the whole matter.

"A sudden sickness, with fever and threatened delirium;" this was all Mrs. Brown told Maggie's family in her hurried morning dispatch. It was about all the physician told them when they came; all they were ever to know; for this was Mrs. Brown's command to physician and nurse.

The mother, the father, (his heart broken) came on the next train; Anna, and one whom the dying one little expected, Herbert, came later.

Herbert knew the world better than our poor, truthful, innocent Maggie did ; and he had besides, quick, refined intuitions, which were nearly equal to the gift of prophecy. He was, therefore, uneasy about Maggie, even before the last, so greatly changed letter, and the long silence afterward; and it was this that started him off on the long, tedious journey.

He reached home on the day before; and each particular he heard there went to build up his alarm.

In the rooms, at aunt Hester's, his misery and dread stifled him. He could endure what he saw, and especially what he dreaded, only by going out often, and letting the keen north wind strike with hard blows his forehead, his breast.

One time, on returning, at the side door he saw talking with the nurse, a gentleman with a face like a dead man's for pallor, and with such anguish depicted in it as it had never before entered into his heart to conceive. He saw Mr. Brown come over from his own house, take the gentleman's hand and held it clasped in silence; saw Mrs. Brown appearing from within to join them.

Convinced from these particulars, that, whatever the circumstances of the case were, they were known to the Browns, he, upon their entrance, wormed a little out of them; and for an hour was like one gone mad; could not see the poor one ; did not, until, going out to find Mr. Butler at his hotel, the latter showing him his face of misery, assuaged Herbert's rage and pain by something like this, out of Mrs. Browning's "Drama of Exile:"

"Were ye wronged by me, Hated, and tempted, and undone by me Still what's your hurt to mine of doing hurt, Of hating, tempting, and so ruining? This sword's hilt is the sharpest, and cuts through The hand that wields it;"

then they wept together, like two brothers, in each other's arms; and Herbert was trying with his might to comfort the other.

And now could he hasten with swift feet to see his darling ; could kiss her again, again and again, calling her by all the dearest names he could find in his heart, that was overflowing with them ; could tell her that he felt all this love for her—a love, he told her, compared with which the old affection was as a feather, because he knew how she had suffered. He had seen him, (speaking it softly at her ear) and he had told him all.

Upon this profounder became her gratitude and peace. Only- only one moment she was shaken, in giving Herbert the last message for him.

She died as her birthday was dawning; and Herbert, remembering what she had said of the day in one of her letters to him, brought flowers, when they had "laid her out," to crown her with them; and a simple evergreen-wreath, such as he had so many times seen her twining, to hang on the wall above her.

The parents and Anna went up next day; Herbert remained to go up with "the body."

Another, a haggard man, muffled high, went up on the night-train, left the cars at the upper station; and when the villages were asleep, went down the country road, and to the house where, through the curtains, a light shone dimly, and lay there with his heart and forehead to the snow, so prostrate was his spirit, so goaded. Tearing him limb from limb would have been as nothing to it, he said within himself, lying there, cursing the day on which he was born.

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THE WIFE'S SONG.

Old aunt Hester and the Browns went up on the day of the burial.

What Maggie's minister felt, standing in sight of the white robe, the flowers, the white, white face, the folded hands, on which lay an air of such heavenly repose as to keep him inwardly weeping, was that life had gone too hard with her, as it does with thousands upon thousands of tender souls, and had worn her out. So he said about the right things concerning the dear one, concerning life, properly so -called. If he had known all that one there could have told him the stranger sitting at the still one's feet, constantly weeping beneath her veil- I doubt if he could have spoken at all, the fate would have seemed so cruel.

CHAPTER XVII.

FROM this time Herbert returned to Kansas no more, but had his home and business at Manchester, (as John had, who returned soon after;) and Herbert and Mr. Butler were friends, in the best meaning of the oft-perverted term. The latter began to paint the human face divine"-the human face as yet undivine; painted such a Magdalen as you never saw, unless you have seen his- and such a Christ ! His paintings, as all the world saw, were chiefly of sorrowful women, hungry women, women burdened heavily in body, women with no burden perceptible, but, in looking, you felt how drear the weight was on their spirits.

I hardly know how it was with Mrs. Butler, but I think if we were to ask any of her acquaintances about her, they would shrug their shoulders, and answer, "Oh! I guess she's Mrs. Butler still. I guess you would find her so!"

Not a weed can the mother, or Anna, or Charley Edgerly, (Squire Edgerly now) ever find on the grave of Maggie; the father, a good, sober man now, picks the first leaves of them all. But they and Anna's children, one of whom they call Maggie, may often be seen laying flowers upon the grave, hanging wreaths upon the stone. And not once do they omit it when her birth and burial-day comes round, even if paths must be opened through the deep snow-drifts to admit them to the spot. Then it is, “Aunt Maggie, aunt Maggie!" At no time is her name heard so often among them as in that season when with joy they are already welcoming the approaching seasons of Christmas and New-Year.

"There are the elms aunt Maggie used to think were so beautiful- and they are," the children say, nothing but their hats and their glowing faces showing above the sleigh-robes. This is on Christmas or New-Year mornings, when their father, making best use of that pause in his busy life, is taking Anna and the children out for a drive in the frosty air. "And there's the hill where she and mamma, and uncle Herbert used to go after berries, with the little baskets we've got now. Only we don't use aunt Maggie's," they add, with lowered tones. "That hangs up with a beautiful wreath on it—a beautiful wreath the beautiful Mrs. Brown made."

In Mrs. Brown's garden, in the summer, in her conservatory, in the winter, blooms one plant she cherishes more tenderly than all the rest: it is the rose that used to be Maggie's.

In aunt Hester's rooms, (which are hardly lonely now, with her two great boys," as she calls John and Herbert, coming and going, and with Irish Ellinor at work in kitchen and dining room) the quaint-hearted old lady sits at her knitting or her hemming, and saying to her cat, "You knew her, puss. You've lain more than once, with your sleepy head on your paws, in her lap, dozing and purring in great comfort. You never had such frolics with anybody as you had with her one time, when you were a kitten, and she was a young girl, as full of play as a kitten. This is what makes the boys like you so ; what made Herbert bring home that handsome necklace to you the other day? We all make a queen of you, you see; but you mustn't think it is all on account of your being so amazing clever, for it isn't."

THE WIFE'S SONG. I LIVE today on yesterday, Since my true-love's away; The morning red, so bright o'erhead, Ere long will shade to gray ; But naught mind I, or clock or sky, Too long the minutes stay.

I live today on yesterday, Suce my true-love's away; He whistled long his parting song, Full sweet was his delay; Anon he put his sandals on, And vanished in the gray.

I live today on yesterday, Since my true-love's away; But, hark! I hear him caroling, "Sweet wife, be always gay;" Il ear no mere, at the open door, He kisses my words away!

D. K. A.

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Rh will concur in this opinion, that there is any necessity for argument to shew the futility of such assertions. SimiliarSimilar [sic] objections were made to the imposition of the Income Tax, and they are as groundless in the one case as in the other.

“In the North-Western Provinces, in the Punjab, and in Oude, the proprietors of land pay on this account a tax amounting to one per cent, on the Government demand. They pay the same in the permanently-settled districts of the Benares Division. In the Central Provinces they pay two per cent. In Madras the rate may be as much as 3 per cent. In Bombay, assuming that one-half of the cess lately imposed is devoted to roads, the proprietors of land pay at the rate of 3 per cent. In Bengal they pay nothing, although there is no part of India in which the means of the landholders are so large, in which the construction of roads and other works of local improvement is more urgently required, or in which such works have hitherto made so little progress.

“It was pointed out in my letter of the 28th October last, that in the permanently-settled districts of the Benares Division of the North-Western Provinces, between which and the permanently-settled districts of the Lower Provinces the most complete analogy exists, the proprietors of the soil had voluntarily agreed to the imposition of an educational cess on condition that the Government should give an equal amount; it was added that the Governor General in Council would be glad if the Zemindars of Bengal could be similarly brought to tax themselves for Vernacular education, and that in such case, without pledging the Government to any specific condition. His Excellency would willingly give such aid as the finances of the empire could, from time to time, fairly afford. Those remarks are equally applicable to the question of local taxation for the construction and maintenance of roads.

“If, however, in either or both of these cases, it should be found impracticable to provide, by any such voluntary arrangement, the means of meeting the necessary expenditure, the Governor General in Council is decidedly of opinion that recourse should be had to legislation, and that a special tax should be imposed for these purposes upon the landholders of Bengal.”

The following letter on the best mode of extending Vernacular Education has been sent to the Government of Bengal for their consideration by the Governor General:—

“From Revd. J. Long, to His Excellency Sir, , and , Governor General of India,—Dated Simla, the 24th August 1867.

“Sir,—, the Private Secretary, has informed me that your Excellency is pleased with the general principles relating to Vernacular Education laid down in my letter of the 14th instant, and wishes to have my views as to a practical scheme for imparting Vernacular Education in Bengal.

“2. I beg to submit the following sketch of the measures I would recommend as urgent in the existing crisis in Bengal. Additional measures can be adopted after these are in successful operation.

“3. It would be well, I believe, to take as a basis the existing system of Vernacular education in Bengal, which has worked well on the whole, and has been tested by experience; now it mainly needs development and expansion with more decided efforts to work downwards from the upper middle class to the masses.

“The following are the chief features in the existing system in Bengal and Behar:—

“(a.) A Director General in correspondence on one side with the Government of Bengal, and on the other with European Inspectors and Native Sub-Inspectors.

“(b.) Twenty Normal Schools established in various parts of the country, in which natives receive an education qualifying them to convey superior Vernacular instruction, but almost exclusively in schools of the middle classes. The supply of these is only limited by the want of money to augment the number of teachers under training and the opening of additional Vernacular Schools.


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212 I don't believe so. I might have walked over to Supreme Court, but I don't think I participated in an event.

So there was an event at the Supreme Court on December 12th?

My guess is that there could have been one, you know, because there's all kinds of groups, you know.

But not one that Stop the Steal had organized?

No.

Okay.

Not to—no.

How did you and the Jericho March, how did you all fundraise for the December 12th event?

That was weird. Again, it was like Stop the Steal needed to fundraise money for travel for our people, hotels for our people, expenses for our people.

And then we also helped Jericho March fundraise. And they had a link on their page, you know, I think jerichomarch.org or whatever. And so we helped them fundraise by making—because they—again, Stop the Steal is a popular brand, and not a lot of people knew who Jericho March was.

When you say "our people," do you mean the speakers that you coordinated to have speak on December 12th?

I mean the influencers that associate themselves with the Stop the Steal movement.

The ones that you kind of listed out earlier chosen—

Yes.

Okay.

Ms. Real quick. That was December 12th, after you had created Stop the


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215 D.C. on January 6th. Do you remember that they—

No, I don't. I thought theirs was also December 19th.

No.

It's news to me.

So when the President released or did the wild protest, did you have any foreknowledge he was going to do that?

No.

Okay. And, afterwards, did you ever hear from someone whether—when he tweeted on the 19th for the wild protest—whether he was referring to Stop the Steal or the Kremers or anyone in particular?

I assumed just until this moment that it could only be Stop the Steal, because I was—literally everyone was going to capitals, and I had had a conversation—a direct conversation with, you know, Paul Gosar. And so I just figured the President had to be tweeting about, you know, our presence or us.

And that's the coalition broadly, or you in particular and the people you were with?

The Stop the Steal Coalition and the influencers that I mentioned that, you know, we deployed to these various States.

Okay. And then, you know, understand how Ms. Wren comes onto the scene. She texted you, and you had that conversation. And just in brief, it sounds like it was just a continuing conversation trying to work out how the coalition will work together for all of these events on the 5th and 6th. Is that fair?

That sounds fair.

All right. And in terms of the working dynamic, again, just so I know, you weren't communicating with the Kremers. You were going through Caroline Wren.


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216 Yes.

And that's a reflection of what had happened back in November at that first event?

Yes.

And the plan—we talked about right when we started the deposition about how you walked, marched, whatever you want to call it, from the Ellipse to the Capitol, and that when it actually happened you were with Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer. Am I right?

[Nonverbal response.]

When did you come to know that you were going to make that movement, walk with them, those two particular men? Was it just the morning of January 6th, or had that always been the plan, that the three of you together would walk up there?

There was no plan for Owen to walk with us.

Okay.

I don't know when there was a plan. I wouldn't even call it a plan. The idea that Roger Stone, myself, and Alex Jones would go at the end of Trump's speech and position ourselves at the front of the overflow crowd and figuring out how logistically that worked so we didn't have to go out the same exit as everybody was something that Caroline Wren first proposed to me—don't know when—and I thought, okay, cool idea.

But before the morning of the 6th?

Certainly we talked about the idea, yeah.

Okay. And did you ever talk with Mr. Jones about this before the morning of the 6th, this plan to march or walk, whatever you call it?

I'm not sure.

Is it possible you did and you just don't remember?


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217 It's possible.

Is Mr. Jones someone you would speak to on the phone, only in person, or what was the nature of the relationship?

Yeah, I would speak on the phone. I appeared on his show a few times. I could call a security guard if I couldn't get ahold of his head of security. I could call if I didn't get ahold of Alex.

Is that Tim Enlow?

I know his name is Tim.

Okay. And for the record, E-n-l-o-w.

And so what do you remember before January 6th about Mr. Jones telling you, if you do remember anything, about walking from the Ellipse to the Capitol? Do you remember him saying anything about that event?

No.

All right. So you've never heard it from his lips to you that he spoke with someone in the White House or Trump about him walking from the Ellipse to the Capitol?

I don't recall anything like that.

Okay. Now, are you aware that he said publicly that that happened, that he had—that he was told by Trump to walk from the Capitol—from the Ellipse to the Capitol?

I'm not aware of that. Alex is prone to exaggeration and/or could have been referencing Caroline Wren.

Understood. When it comes to Mr. Stone, do you know—he has said publicly that he was told, whether by Trump or the White House, that he was going to lead or be a part of leading the walk from the Ellipse to the Capitol. Are you aware that he said that publicly?


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218 I believe so.

All right. Did he ever talk to you about that before January 6th, what his thoughts or what his beliefs were about what was going to happen in terms of that march?

Not to the best of my recollection.

So whether anybody—whether Trump or the White House told him that he was going to be part of that march?

Again, I think this was an idea, as best that I understood it, that originated with Caroline, pinged off me, I said okay, and then was given to Alex and Roger, if it was given to them at all. I could have given—I could have talked to them about it.

That's why we're asking.

Okay. Yeah, I don't know.

We're trying to understand.

Yeah. And I don't know what the play by play of all of that was.

Was it your understanding that Mr. Jones, from what you observed, that on the morning of January 6th thought that he was going to be speaking that day?

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222 and then some will create a new policy and then implement it.

But you believe there may have been emails from the platforms to you explaining the why of why you were deplatformed?

Some of them.

Okay.

Like, I know, for example, I believe that YouTube did. You know, what you'll do is you'll get—I went from zero strikes to three strikes in an hour, and it was a retroactive way of punishing me and having plausible deniability.

Were you fundraising on YouTube, or was that just—

No.

—content?

No. I lost it because I'm—I'm me.

No. I'm sorry. What I mean is if you were deplatformed from content, from posting—I'm asking about, like, the fundraising deplatform. So were you fundraising on YouTube, or that was just you couldn't post videos?

Yeah, I believe I couldn't post videos—

Okay.

—or something like that.

Did you ever have any conversations verbally—I—not emails, with any of the payment processors as to why you were deplatformed?

I don't remember.

Okay. Do you remember using the fundraising site GiveSendGo after January 6th?

Yes.

And why did you start fundraising with them?


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223 It was a Christian—it was a Christian site. DonorBox had cut us off, but Stripe had not, and so my—your Stripe—you know what Stripe is? Yeah. Okay. So I had to move it somewhere.

And did you ever have any issues with GiveSendGo in terms of them deplatforming you?

I lost access to my Stripe account, so I couldn't process donations, and they've—they've either come up with a secondary process that I haven't used, or they haven't figured that out.

Okay. So, when you lost your Stripe account, you couldn't raise funds, but you could still stay on there and get, like, the prayers and, like, the—

Yep.

—the nonfund things?

Okay. So do you still have that, the GiveSendGo?

Yes. I believe so.

And it's related to Stop the Steal specifically?

No. It was related to my personal safety.

Were you using—so was there a time period where you were on GiveSendGo using Stripe before Stripe got cut off?

I would have had to use Stripe to process the donation.

During that time, were the funds from Stripe going to you personally, or just Stop the Steal?

I think I—I think I lost two Stripe accounts, one for Stop the Steal, and one for myself.

Okay. At some point—and I'm not sure when—let me check—you started putting—let me pull it up. I don't want to get it wrong.


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224 There was a ways to donate, and I actually don't—this may have been as of—sometime right after January 6th. I think you said that the payment processors had cut you off from receiving money, and you would only be able to accept cryptocurrency? Do you know how you started doing that?

No, I don't recall.

There was a—I think a ways to donate link that included Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, Money Button, PayPal, Cash App, and an Amazon Wish List.

So that sounds like the donate page to my personal site, alialexander.org, you know, that's a few years old.

It's a few years old?

Yeah, I believe so. My personal site? That's, again, where my content locker was, where, if my existing customers and people who liked my content wanted to give me extra money or whatever, they had different ways to donate.

You've been taking cryptocurrency for years?

Yeah.

Not everyone's that knowledgeable about cryptocurrency. Sorry. That was just a moment of marvel.

Did you—would you have been the person to process these—the—your personal donations to the alialexander.com website, or did anybody else process the funds that were donated?

I don't know. I'm actually really horrible with—with all of that stuff. My intention was to just provide optionality for people. Most of the time, they don't use it.

Did you ever collect any funds raised from the cryptocurrency?

Related to Stop the Steal?

Uh-huh.


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225 I don't—I don't believe so.

Did you ever end up using any exchanges at all for—related to cryptocurrency?

Related to Stop the Steal? I do not believe so.

So that would have been just like personal financial activity to the extent that you used it?

Yeah, I believe so.

Was that coin-based?

I—I—yeah, I have a—I still have a coin-based account.

Do you have any idea how much money Stop the Steal has raised since it was created in November 2020?

I unfortunately don't. And, in trying to come up with this information, we didn't even discover that our bank account at SunTrust was shut down. So I found that out a few weeks—well, 4 or 5 weeks ago. And I was told that it was shut down October 24th, I believe so.

And so, you know, it survived the FBI investigation and didn't survive this committee's investigation.

Do you have any—do you have any cold storage wallets, paper wallets, or public addresses that contain funds related to Stop the Steal?

I don't know. I know that I, like, have, like, really outdated, like, ledger USB things, and—and I've never used it. I may have had like a friend set it up for me. But, you know, I can't—I can't recall past that. I buy a lot of little gadgets, you know. I think I bought this thing called Everykey once that John McAfee came up with, and it's—you know, they just sit and collect dust.

When you say these "sit and collect dust," so you're not using them?


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226 Certainly not actively. And, if I would have used it, then I wouldn't have recalled using it. It's—seems like a risky endeavor, like—and I'm scared to screw it up. And so, you know, sometimes—you know, it's like something I want to sit down and take 6 hours to make sure I bulletproof now, but—but yeah.

Well, I guess let me ask: To the extent that any of the funds were raised when you were using these links for crypto, where did that go, or who was administering that for you?

I administer my personal crypto. I don't know that Stop the Steal, or January 6th, or anything like that raised crypto. I know that—again, after I'm deplatformed and you read that message that, you know, I guess is from me, that's not Stop the Steal-related. I'm not raising money for election integrity or politics, I was raising money for my safety, relocation, et cetera, et cetera.

So, after the events on January 6th, are you raising money for Stop the Steal, LLC?

After January 6th? I believe that we tried to or attempted to, but we've run into problems with SMS sending or email sending, and I'm not sure. I don't want to speak out of turn. We could have gone through multiple credit card processors. I'm not sure. And so, you know, it—it's all kind of like a blurry line. Yeah, it's all kind of—it's all kind of blurry.

When you were deplatformed from the payment processors, what made you turn to cryptocurrency?

Well, I—like I said, personally, I, you know, have been a big fan of crypto for—for years, and—and so, you know, if you can't—if you can't process in, you know, cash or credit card or whatever, then all you have is, you know, crypto.

And there are a lot of people around the country who were concerned about my


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213 Steal. So to the extent that you were fundraising for that, would it have gone through the Donorbox link?

The Witness. Yes, it should have?

Ms. Okay.

The Witness. I can't see why it wouldn't.

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Were you aware—or you remember President Trump flying over the protests on December 12th in his helicopter.

I do.

Did you have any advance notice that that was going to happen?

I think it's weird. It's like I'm trying to figure out how I would have heard that, or if someone heard it and then told me, because then I started telling everybody.

And so, yeah, I definitely was spreading the word around and backstage prior to the—to Marine One actually flying over.

So you were aware before Marine One—

Yes.

—flew over that it was going to happen?

Yes.

Do you recall around what time you became aware that President Trump was going to fly over in Marine One? Was it morning? Early afternoon? Do you know when?

I think shortly right before it happened.

And you don't recall who told you?

I don't. I don't know if I heard in person or text or whatever. But I was—I remember being super excited. I remember General Mike Flynn was speaking on our


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219 :BY MS.

Really quickly, do you know a woman named Cindy Chafian?

Yes.

And did you have any conversations with her about the events on January 5th or 6th?

Yeah. She was the main organizer for the 5th.

When you say, like, main organizer, what do you mean? Like, how would you describe her role? What does she do?

You know, she—she took care of all the vendors. And I, again, provided the committee with documentation showing an agreement between Stop the Steal; her group, 80 Percent Coalition; and a pastoral group called, I think, called Peaceably Assemble, and we divided the stage times up, but essentially, Cindy was the head honcho. You know, the permit was under her name. And—and then I believe the Trump campaign was represented for all of our blocks by Katrina Pierson and some other people that—again, better documented in what I've provided you all.

What's your understanding of who paid for or funded January 5th?

Well, I know we had to pay our own bill, so the Stop the Steal portion of—of our—of our—of our thing, we paid for. And, you know, Cindy made reference to a donor, a client. Maybe she said client and not donor. I'm not—I'm not really sure, but—but—and then Alex had teamed up with her to make sure that Alex would have speaking time.

This is separate from any conversations about—brokering a deal about the Ellipse, because I've read press reports that people were given the 5th as a consolation prize. And that's just ridiculous—ridiculous according to my understanding of the events.


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228 And so—because we didn't have like multiple cards floating around. It was more like, you know, like just get flights, get hotels, get signs, keep moving, you know, faster than we could.

 * BY

And I apologize. I have not seen your production, but did you produce the Stop the Steal, LLC accounting expenditures?

I don't have access to a SunTrust—the SunTrust online banking or anything like that. I don't have access to any—I never got mailed a statement—a monthly statement or anything like that. So—so I provided 100 percent of everything I have with SunTrust, which is—which was the piece of paper that I had, and yeah.

Am I—you didn't have access to the SunTrust bank account for Stop the Steal, LLC, or you don't have it now?

Before the—when I tried logging in—

Right, because it's shut down now?

Yeah, to comply with this—

But you had access before October, right? You were on the account?

Yeah. I—I was on—yeah.

Was there anyone else who had access to that account?

I initially authorized my friend, Daniel Bostic, to open it up, and—and so he opened it up, and there -- you know, there is not a SunTrust in Texas, so that's why I didn't have immediate access. I didn't have an online login, and why I was in the dark.

 * BY MR. :

And, Mr. Alexander, just following up on a comment you made—and apologies if you talked about this, but I don't think so. Have you had interactions with the FBI or DOJ over January 6th?


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221 [Recess.]

Mr. . So it's 5:25, and we're back on the record.

 * BY MS.

If we can turn really quickly to Exhibit 26, and if we could turn to page 113. think it's the big text string. There is a text in the middle of the page to Ed Martin, and it looks like—I believe this is Mr. Alexander. You say, can you check to see if we had a $6,000 wire tomorrow to the C3. What is the C3?

His group, the Eagle Forum, was acting as a sponsor for collecting Stop the Steal funds that could be appropriated for that use, and so, all of that money, you know, was kept at Eagle Forum.

So that's the Eagle Forum's 501(c)(3)? That's what you're referencing?

Yeah, I believe so.

Okay.

I—they have a—they have, like, an umbrella of organizations there, but, yeah, I believe so.

Okay. No. That makes sense.

Earlier, when we were talking about the deplatforming, I want to be clear there, what I'm talking about isn't Twitter or social media. I'm talking about when we were talking about, like, the payment processors. I think you said donations couldn't be processed.

Did they tell you why you were being deplatformed?

I—January 6 was a traumatic event. And then, as I was being obliterated online, I didn't read most of the emails that were coming in. I've watched these type of campaigns go on before, and, you know, they're partisan, so some organizations will send you an email, and then others won't. And some will make it up in their terms of service,


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227 safety. I was concerned about my safety, and I obviously wasn't working, and so, you know—you know, people say, Oh, you know, do you have this? Do you have that? And a lot of times the people who say that don't do anything for you. They're like, you better have a—like I hate Ethereum, and everybody was like, you better have a, you know, Ether Wallet, and I'm just like, you know, what am I going to do with it?

Did you ever have any crypto other than Bitcoin, Litecoin, or Ether?

I'm not sure.

Did you ever own any Monero, Zcash or Dash?

Related to Stop the Steal, no. I don't believe so. Not at all.

Personally?

Personally? I may have, but most of that list would have to be a no.

I think earlier you said that Stop the Steal was at SunTrust, and they shut you down in October. Was that the only bank that you ever used for Stop the Steal funds?

I'm not sure.

Is that the primary one that you're familiar with?

That is the primary one I'm familiar with.

Okay. Who was responsible for tracking the accounting for Stop the Steal, LLC?

Ms. Did you already ask—I'm sorry.

Mr. No.

The Witness. Unfortunately, like, no, we were moving too fast, so it's something that falls under—under my purview, and—but oftentimes, like, if Stop the Steal couldn't do something, then I would say, Okay, well, I'll loan the money, or I'll pay for this, and—and, you know, like small things, like, you know, posters or an Uber ride or something like that.


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220 So just to make sure. Did you produce records regarding your payments related to January 5th and what Stop the Steal—

I believe so.

—paid for? Okay. I'm just asking, because I haven't seen it.

And it's your understanding that Cindy had a donor or a client, but do you know who that was?

I—I—I don't know definitively who it is. I have seen press reports recently of who it may be, but I did not know at the time, and I did not ask.

Okay. And it's your understanding that Alex Jones also paid for events on the 5th?

Yes. And—yeah. That—that was what he said, actually, is what I should say. That was what he said.

Okay. And do you know a woman named Julie Fancelli?

I don't know her.

You don't know her. Were you—was her name mentioned to you by anyone?

If—I don't believe so. I don't believe so, but, if it was, it would have been in passing. I know that I, you know, didn't probe, haven't done a call to my knowledge with her. I haven't done a call with someone where I—where she may have secretly been on the phone call that I'm aware of. I've stayed away from all of that.

We did small-dollar fundraising on Twitter using DonorBox, and I paid for my crap, and everyone else had to pay for theirs.

Ms. Okay.

Mr. We can take a break.

Mr. Yeah, we can take a break.


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214 stage. And so I think I found out contemporaneously during his long speech.

Okay.

 * BY MR.

Were you a witness personally to any of the what I'll call the drama between the Kremers and Alex Jones around December, just yes or no?

I don't believe so.

Do you know anything about that?

I think I've read a report recently on it.

But you weren't personally witness to any of it?

I don't believe so.

Okay.

Ms. Do you—oh, sorry.

Mr. Yeah.

When did you—are you still on December?

Ms. Uh-huh.

Mr. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead. That was all I had.

Ms. Oh, actually, I think mine was funding related to January, so—

Mr. Yeah. I was just going to—just to square it off—you tell me if you've covered this already.

 * BY MR.

Did we—we saw I think a tweet around December 16th where you said Stop the Steal is coming back to D.C.

Does that timing sound about right, before the President said the "wild" protest?

Yes.

Okay. And the Kremers, also that same day, said they were coming back to


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I WOULD be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king; But I can talk plainly to you, you little blue flower of the Spring!

Here in the heart of September the world that I walk in is full Of the hot happy sound of the shearing, the rude heavy scent of the wool.

Soon would I tire of all riches or honours or power that they fling; But you are my own, of my own folk, you little blue flower of the Spring!

I was around by the cherries to-day; all the cherries are pale: The world is a woman in velvet: the air is the colour of ale.

I would be dismal with all the fine pearls of the crown of a king; But I can give love-talk to you, you little blue flower of the Spring!

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You, and Yellow Air

I DREAM of an old kissing-time
 * And the flowered follies there;

In the dim place of cherry-trees,
 * Of you, and yellow air.

It was an age of babbling,
 * When the players would play

Mad with the wine and miracles
 * Of a charmed holiday.

Bewildered was the warm earth
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And a young foal spoke all his heart
 * With diamonds for eyes.

You were of Love's own colour
 * In eyes and heart and hair;

In the dim place of cherry-trees
 * Ridden by yellow air.

It was the time when red lovers
 * With the red fevers burn;

A time of bells and silver seeds
 * And cherries on the turn.

Children looked into tall trees
 * And old eyes looked behind;

God in His glad October
 * No sullen man could find.

Out of your eyes a magic
 * Fell lazily as dew,

And every lad with lad's eyes
 * Made summer love to you.

It was a reign of roses,
 * Of blue flowers for the eye,

And the rustling of green girls
 * Under a white sky.

I dream of an old kissing-time
 * And the flowered follies there,

In the dim place of cherry-trees,
 * Of you, and yellow air.

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Rh pass from the dwelling of this world, and permit him to be associated with the company of thine elect, that together with them he may remain in everlasting bliss without end."

"Eternal who in  thine only begotten Son our Lord hast given unto us the hope of a blessed resurrection; grant, we beseech thee, that the souls for which we offer this sacrifice of our redemption unto thy Majesty, may of thy mercy attain unto the rest of a blessed resurrection with thy saints."

"Let this communion, we beseech thee, O Lord, purge us from sin; and give unto the soul of thy servant N. a portion in the heavenly joy, that being set apart before the throne of the glory of thy with those that are upon the right hand, it may have nothing common with those that are upon the left."

"Through our Lord: at whose coming, when thou shalt command both the peoples to appear, command thy servant also to be severed from the number of the evil; and grant unto him that he may both escape the flames of everlasting punishment, and obtain the rewards of a righteous life," &c.

Lastly, Abbot Berengosius, speaking of Constantine the Great,

In these and other prayers of the like kind, we may descry evident footsteps of the primary intentions of the Church in her supplications for the dead; which was, that the whole man, not the soul separated only, might receive public remission of sins and a solemn acquittal in the judgment of that great day, and so obtain both a full escape from all the consequences of sin, the last enemy being now destroyed, and death swallowed up in victory, and a perfect consummation of bliss and happiness. All which are comprised in that short prayer of St. Paul for Onesiphorus, though made for him while he was alive. The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day. Yea, divers prayers for the dead of this kind are still retained in the Roman Offices; of which the great Spanish doctor, Johannes Medina, thus writeth:


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522 fold up their limbs in such a way as to form an oval or globular figure: so in like manner embryos, passing as they do the greater part of their time in sleep, dispose their limbs in the position in which they are formed, as being most natural and best adapted for their state of rest. So too the infant in utero is generally found disposed after this manner: the knees are drawn up towards the abdomen, the legs flexed, the feet crossed, and the hands directed to the head, one of them usually resting on the temples or ears, the other on the chin, in which situation white spots are discernible on the skin as the result of friction; the spine, moreover, is curved into a circle, and the neck being bowed, the head falls upon the knees. In such a position is the embryo usually found, as that which we naturally take in sleep; the head being situated superiorly, and the face usually turned towards the back of the mother. A short time, however, before birth the head is bent downwards towards the orifice of the uterus, and the fœtus, as it were, in search of an outlet, dives to the bottom. Thus Aristotle: "All animals naturally come forth with the head foremost; but cross and foot presentations are unnatural." This, however, does not hold universally; but as the position in utero varies, so too does the mode of exit; this may be observed in the case of dogs, swine, and other multiparous animals. The human fœtus even has not always the same position; and this is well known to pregnant women, who feel its movements in very different parts of the uterus, sometimes in the upper part, sometimes in the lower, or on either side.

In like manner the uterus, when the term of gestation is completed, descends lower (in the pelvis), the whole organ becomes softer, and its orifice patent. The "waters" also, as they are vulgarly called, "gather;" that is, a portion of the chorion, in which the watery matter is contained, gets in front of the fœtus, and falls from the uterus into the vagina; at the same time the neighbouring parts become relaxed and dilatable; in addition to which the cartilaginous attachments of the pelvic bones so lose their rigidity that the bones themselves yield readily to the passage of the fœtus, and thus greatly in-


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 crease the area of the hypogastric region. When all these circumstances concur, it is quite clear that delivery is not far distant. Nature, in her provident care, contrives this dilatation of the parts in order that the fœtus may come into the world like the ripe fruit of a tree; just as she fills the breasts of the mother with milk that the being who is soon to enjoy an independent existence may have whereon to subsist. These, then, are the circumstances which immediately precede birth; and thus it happens that the presence of milk has especially been regarded as a sign of approaching delivery—milk, I mean, of a character suitable for the sustenance of the offspring; and this, according to Aristotle, is only visible at the period of birth; it is therefore never observed before the seventh month of pregnancy.

Fabricius maintains that on the subject of parturition there were two special heads of inquiry, viz. the time at which and the manner in which the process took place. Under the first of these heads he considers the term of utero-gestation; under the second, the way in which the fœtus comes into the world.

Aristotle thought that the term of utero-gestation varied much. "There is," he says, "a certain definite term to each animal, determined in the majority of cases by the animal's duration of life; for it follows of necessity that a longer period is required for the production of the longer-lived animals." He attributes, however, the chief cause to the size of the animal; "for it is scarcely possible," he continues, "that the vast frames of animals or of aught else can be brought to perfection in a short period of time. Hence it is that in the case of mares and animals of cognate species, though their duration of life is small, their term of utero-gestation is considerable; and thus the elephant carries its young for the space of two years, the reason being its enormous size, for each animal has a definite magnitude, beyond which it cannot pass." I would add, that the material of which each is formed has also its fixed limit in point of quantity. He says, moreover, "There is good reason why animals should have the periods of gestation, generation, and duration of life in certain cycles—I mean by cycle, a day, night, month, and year, and


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Resolved by the Batasang Pambansa in session assembled pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution and its Rules to propose as it hereby proposes to amend Sections Two and Four of Article Eight of the Constitution:

SECTION 1. Section Two, Article Eight of the Constitution is hereby amended to read as follows:

 * "Sec. 2. The Batasang Pambansa which shall be composed of not more than 200 Members unless otherwise provided by law, shall include representatives elected from the different [regions] PROVINCES WITH THEIR COMPONENT CITIES, HIGHLY URBANIZED CITIES AS MAY BE DECLARED BY LAW, AND METROPOLITAN MANILA, those elected or selected from the various sectors as may be provided by law, and those chosen by the President from Members of the Cabinet. METROPOLITAN MANILA SHALL BY LAW BE DIVIDED INTO DISTRICTS. [Regional] THE ELECTIVE representatives shall be apportioned BY LAW among the [regions] PROVINCES WITH THEIR COMPONENT CITIES, HIGHLY URBANIZED CITIES, AND THE DISTRICTS OF METROPOLITAN MANILA in accordance with the number of their respective inhabitants and on the basis of a uniform and progressive ratio, BUT THE PROVINCES WITH THEIR COMPONENT CITIES AND HIGHLY URBANIIZED CITIES SHALL HAVE AT LEAST ONE REPRESENTATIVE EACH. THE PROVINCES AND CITIES SHALL HAVE AT LEAST THE SAME TOTAL NUMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES UNDER THE 1935 CONSTITUTION.

 * [The number of representatives from each region and] The manner of [their] THE election of the REPRESENTATIVES shall be prescribed by law. The number of representatives from each sector and manner of their election shall be provided by law."

SEC. 2. Section Four, Article Eight of the Constitution is hereby amended to read as follows:

 * "Sec. 4. No person shall be a Member of the Batasang Pambansa as a [regional] PROVINCIAL, CITY OR DISTRICT representative unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines and, on the day of the election, is at least twenty-five years of age, able to read and write, a registered voter in the [Region] POLITICAL SUBDIVISION in which he shall be elected, and a resident thereof for a period of not less than [one year] SIX MONTHS immediately preceding the day of the election.

 * A sectoral representative shall be a natural-born citizen, able to read and write, and shall have such other qualifications as may be provided by law."

SEC. 3. Effectivity. - The proposed amendments shall take effect on the date the President of the Philippines shall proclaim that they have been ratified by a majority of the votes cast in the plebiscite held for the purpose, but not later than three months from the approval of the amendments.

Be it resolved, as it is hereby resolved by the Batasang Pambansa, sitting as a Constituent assembly in session assembled, by a majority of all the Members, To propose as it hereby proposes:

(1) To amend Section 11 of Article XIV of the same Constitution to read as follows:

 * "Section 11. The Batasang Pambansa, taking into account conservation, ecological, and developmental requirements of the natural resources, shall determine by law the size of lands of the public domain which may be developed, held or acquired by, or leased to, any qualified individual, corporation, or association, and the conditions therefor. No private corporation or association may hold alienable lands of the public domain except by lease not to exceed one thousand hectares in area; nor may any citizen hold such lands by lease in excess of five hundred hectares or acquire by purchase [or] homestead OR GRANT, in excess of twenty four hectares. No private corporation or association may hold by lease, concession, license, or permit, timber or forest lands and other timber or forest resources in excess of one hundred thousand hectares; however, such area may be increased by the Batasang Pambansa upon recommendation of the National Economic and Development Authority."

(2) To amend Section 12 of the same Constitution to read as follows:

 * "Section 12. The State shall formulate and implement an agrarian AND URBAN LAND reform program aimed at emancipating the tenant from the bondage of the soil, PROVIDING LAND FOR THE LANDLESS, and achieving the goals enunciated in this Constitution.

 * SUCH PROGRAM MAY INCLUDE THE GRANT OR DISTRIBUTION TO QUALIFIED TENANTS AND FARMERS IN AREAS NOT EXCEEDING THOSE FIXED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING SECTION OF ALIENABLE AND DISPOSABLE LANDS OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN WHICH THE PRESIDENT SHALL BY LAW RESERVE FROM TIME TO TIME."

These amendments shall be valid as a part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast in an election/plebiscite at which it is submitted to the people for their ratification pursuant to Section 2 of Article XIV of the Constitution, as amended.

Resolved by the Batasang Pambansa, by a vote of not less than three-fourths of all its Members, to propose as it hereby proposes:

SECTION 1. There are hereby proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Philippines new sections of Article VII to be known as Sections 2 and 3 to read as follows:

 * "SEC. 2. THERE SHALL BE A VICE-PRESIDENT WHO SHALL HAVE THE SAME QUALIFICATIONS AND TERM OF OFFICE AS THE PRESIDENT.

 * "THE PRESIDENT MAY APPOINT THE VICE-PRESIDENT AS A MEMBER OF THE CABINET.

 * "THE VICE-PRESIDENT SHALL BE ELECTED WITH THE PRESIDENT IN 1987 AND EVERY SIX YEARS THEREAFTER."

 * SEC. 3. WHEN THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT ARE RUNNING UNDER THE SAME TICKET OF A POLITICAL PARTY, A VOTE FOR THE PRESIDENT SHALL ALSO BE A VOTE FOR THE VICE-PRESIDENT, UNLESS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW."

SEC. 2. Article VII, Section 2 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [2] 4. No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of the Philippines, a registered voter, able to read and write, at least [fifty] FORTY years of age on the day of THE election, [for President] and a resident of the Philippines for at least ten years immediately preceding such election."

SEC. 3. Article VII, Section 4 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [4] 6. If, at the time fixed for the beginning of his term, the President-elect shall have died, THE VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT SHALL BECOME PRESIDENT. [or shall have failed to qualify or] If [the] A President shall not have been chosen BEFORE THE TIME FIXED FOR THE BEGINNING OF HIS TERM, OR IF THE PRESIDENT SHALL HAVE FAILED TO QUALIFY, THEN THE VICE-PRESIDENT SHALL ACT AS PRESIDENT UNTIL A PRESIDENT SHALL HAVE QUALIFIED, AND THE BATASANG PAMBANSA SHALL BY LAW PROVIDE FOR THE CASE WHEREIN NEITHER A PRESIDENT-ELECT NOR A VICEPRESIDENT-ELECT SHALL HAVE QUALIFIED, DECLARING WHO SHALL THEN ACT AS PRESIDENT OR THE MANNER IN WHICH ONE WHO IS TO ACT SHALL BE SELECTED, AND SUCH PERSON SHALL ACT ACCORDINGLY UNTIL A PRESIDENT OR VICE-PRESIDENT SHALL HAVE QUALIFIED. [the Executive Committee, headed by the Prime Minister, as hereinafter provided, shall exercise the powers and discharge the duties of the President until a President shall have been elected and qualified. If the Batasang Pambansa withdraws its confidence in the Prime Minister, the Speaker shall preside over the Executive Committee. In the absence of an Executive Committee, the Speaker of the Batasang Pambansa shall act as President until a President shall have been elected and qualified.]"

 * "[In the event of death or failure to qualify as herein provided, the Batasang Pambansa shall call a special election in the manner prescribed in Section 7 hereof.]"

SEC. 4. Article VII, Section 6 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [6] 8. (1) The President shall have an official residence and shall receive a compensation to be fixed by law, which shall not be increased or decreased during his term of office. He shall not receive during his tenure any other emolument from the Government or any other source. Until the Batasang Pambansa shall provide otherwise, the President shall receive an annual salary of one hundred thousand pesos. THE VICE-PRESIDENT, WHEN NOT ACTING AS PRESIDENT, SHALL RECEIVE AN ANNUAL COMPENSATION OF EIGHTY THOUSAND PESOS.

 * "(2) The President AND THE VICE-PRESIDENT shall not, during [his] THEIR tenure, hold any other office, practice any profession, participate directly or indirectly in the management of any business, or be financially interested directly or indirectly in any contract with, or in any franchise or special privilege granted by, the Government or any subdivision, agency, or instrumentality thereof, including any government-owned or controlled corporation."

SEC. 5. Article VII, Section 7 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [7] 9. In case of permanent disability, death, removal from office or resignation of the President, THE VICE-PRESIDENT SHALL BECOME THE PRESIDENT, AND THE BATASANG PAMBANSA SHALL BY LAW PROVIDE FOR THE CASE OF PERMANENT DISABILITY, DEATH, REMOVAL FROM OFFICE OR RESIGNATION OF BOTH THE PRESIDENT AND VICE-PRESIDENT, DECLARING WHAT OFFICER SHALL THEN BECOME PRESIDENT OR THE MANNER IN WHICH ONE SHALL BE SELECTED. IN CASE A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OCCURS BEFORE 1987, THE SPEAKER OF THE BATASANG PAMBANSA SHALL BECOME PRESIDENT FOR THE UNEXPIRED TERM. THE SPEAKER WHO BECOMES PRESIDENT SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 1987. [the Executive Committee headed by the Prime Minister as hereinafter provided shall exercise the powers of the President until a President shall have been elected and qualified. If the permanent disability, death, removal from office or resignation of the President occurs earlier than eighteen (18) months before the expiration of his term, the Batasang Pambansa shall, within thirty days from the time the vacancy occurs, call a special election to be held not earlier than forty-five days nor later than sixty days from the time of such call, to elect a President to serve the unexpired term.]

 * "[In the absence of an Executive Committee, the Speaker shall act as President until the President shall have been elected and qualified.]"

SEC. 6. Article VII, Section 10 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [10] 12. The President shall appoint the heads of bureaus and offices, the officers of the armed forces of the Philippines from the rank of brigadier general or commodore, and all other officers of the Government whose appointments are not otherwise provided for, and those whom he may be authorized by law to appoint. However, the Batasang Pambansa may by law vest in the Prime Minister, members of the Cabinet, [the Executive Committee,] courts, heads of agencies, commissions, and boards the power to appoint inferior officers."

SEC. 7. As a consequence of the foregoing amendments, the numbering of the Sections of Article VII of the Constitution shall be adjusted as follows: Section 3 shall become Section 5; Section 5 shall become Section 7; Section 8 shall become Section 10; Section 9 shall become Section 11; Section 11 shall become Section 13; Section 12 shall become Section 14; Section 13 shall become Section 15; Section 14 shall become Section 16; Section 15 shall become Section 17; and Section 16 shall become Section 18.

SEC. 8. All of Section 3, Article IX of the Constitution is hereby repealed.

SEC. 9. Article IX, Section 4 of the Constitution of the Philippines is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [4] 3. The term of office of the Prime Minister shall commence from the date of his election by the Batasang Pambansa and shall end on the date that the nomination of his successor is submitted by the President to the Batasang Pambansa. Any other member of the Cabinet [or Executive Committee] may be removed at the discretion of the President.”

SEC. 10. Article IX, Section 6 of the Constitution of the Philippines is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [6] 5. The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister AND the Members of the Cabinet [and Members of the Executive Committee] on assuming office, shall take the following oath or affirmation:

 * "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully and conscientiously fulfill my duties as (name of position) of the Philippines, preserve and defend its Constitution, execute its laws, do justice to every man and consecrate myself to the service of the Nation. So help me God. (In case of affirmation, the last sentence will be omitted.)"

SEC. 11. Article IX, Section 7 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [7] 6. The salaries and emoluments of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister AND Members of the Cabinet [and of the Executive Committee] shall be fixed by law which shall not be increased or decreased during their tenure of office. Until otherwise provided by law, the Prime Minister shall receive the same salary as that of the President."

SEC. 12. Article IX, Section 8 of the Constitution of the Philippines is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [8] 7. The Prime Minister AND the Members of the Cabinet [and the Members of the Executive Committee] shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11, Article VIII hereof and may not appear as counsel before any court or administrative body, or manage any business, or practice any profession, and shall also be subject to such other disqualifications as may be provided by law."

SEC. 13. Article IX, Section 9 of the Constitution of the Philippines is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. [9] 8. The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister OR any Member of the Cabinet [or the Executive Committee ] may resign for any cause without vacating his seat as Provincial, City, District or Sectoral Representative in the Batasang Pambansa, or any other government position."

SEC. 14. As a consequence of the foregoing amendments, Section 5 of Article IX shall become Section 4 and Section 10 shall become Section 9.

SEC. 15. Article VIII, Section 10 of the Constitution of the Philippines is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. 10. A Member of the Batasang Pambansa shall not hold any other office of employment in the Government or any subdivision, agency or instrumentality thereof, including Government-owned or controlled corporations, during his tenure except that of Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Member of the Cabinet [or the Executive Committee] OR Deputy Minister. Neither shall he, during the term for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office which may have been created or emoluments thereof increased while he was a Member of the Batasang Pambansa."

SEC. 16. Article VIII, Section 13, Paragraph (2) of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "(2) The Prime Minister may advise the President in writing to dissolve the Batasang Pambansa whenever the need arises for a popular vote of confidence on fundamental issues, but not on a matter involving his own personal integrity. Whereupon, the President may dissolve the Batasang Pambansa not earlier than seven nor later than fourteen days from his receipt of the advice, and call for an election on a date set by him which shall not be earlier than forty-five nor later than sixty days from the date of such dissolution. However, no dissolution of the Batasang Pambansa shall take place within eighteen months immediately preceding a regular election of the Batasang Pambansa or within eighteen months immediately following such election, or during the pendency of impeachment proceedings against the President. [or when the powers of the President are exercised by the Executive Committee or the Speaker.] The Batasang Pambansa shall not be dissolved oftener than once every twelve (12) months."

SEC. 17. Article XII (B), Section 4 of the Constitution is hereby proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

 * "SEC. 4. (1) Unless otherwise provided by law no elective official shall be eligible for appointment to any office or position during his tenure except as Member of the [Executive Committee referred to in Section 3, Article IX hereof.] CABINET.

 * "(2) No candidate who lost in an election shall be eligible for appointment or reappointment to any office in the Government, or in government-owned or controlled corporation, within one year following such election."

SEC. 18. The title of Article VII of the Constitution is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 19. The title of Article IX of the Constitution is proposed to be amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 20. The foregoing amendments shall become effective on the date the President of the Philippines shall proclaim that they have been ratified in a plebiscite in accordance with Section 2, Article XVI of the Constitution of the Philippines.

WHEREAS, the approval by the Batasang Pambansa of a resolution proposing to amend certain sections of Article VIII by providing for the election of its Members from provinces, highly urbanized cities and districts necessitates a proposal to amend certain sections of Article IX so as to harmonize the provisions of both Articles on the membership of the Batasang Pambansa: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Batasang Pambansa, by a vote of three-fourths of all its Members, to propose, as it hereby proposes:

SECTION 1. The first paragraph, Section 1, Article IX of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:

"SECTION 1. There shall be a Cabinet which shall be composed of Ministers with or without portfolio appointed by the President. At least a majority of the Members of the Cabinet who are heads of ministries shall come from the provincial, city or district Representatives of the Batasang Pambansa."

SEC. 2. Section 9, Article IX of the Constitution is amended to read as follows:

"SEC. 9. The Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, any Member of the Cabinet or the Executive Committee may resign for any cause without vacating his seat as provincial, city, district or sectoral representative in the Batasang Pambansa, or any other government position."

SEC. 3. These amendments shall be valid as part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite to be held pursuant to Section 2, Article XVI of the Constitution.

Resolved by the Batasang Pambansa:

SECTION 1. For purposes of the election of Members of the regular Batasang Pambansa on the second Monday of May 1984 and subsequent elections and until otherwise provided by law, the Members of the Batasang Pambansa shall be apportioned to the different provinces with their component cities, highly urbanized cities and the representative districts of Metropolitan Manila as follows:

Manila, 6; Quezon City, 4; Caloocan, 2; Pasay, 1; Pasig and Marikina, 2; Las Piñas and Parañaque, 1; Makati, 1; Malabon, Navotas and Valenzuela, 2; San Juan and Mandaluyong, 1; Taguig, Pateros and Muntinglupa, 1.

Abra, 1; Benguet, 1; Ilocos Norte, 2; Ilocos Sur, 2; La Union, 2; Mountain Province, 1; Pangasinan, 6; Baguio City, 1. Batanes, 1; Cagayan, 3; Ifugao, 1; Isabela, 4; Kalinga-Apayao, 1; Nueva Vizcaya, 1; Quirino, 1.

Bataan, 1; Bulacan, 4; Nueva Ecija, 4; Pampanga, 4; Tarlac, 2; Zambales, 1; Olongapo City, 1;

Aurora, 1; Batangas, 4; Cavite, 3; Laguna, 4; Marinduque, 1; Occidental Mindoro, 1; Oriental Mindoro, 2; Palawan, 1; Quezon, 4; Romblon, 1; Rizal, 2.

Albay, 3; Camarines Norte, 1; Camarines Sur, 4; Catanduanes, 1; Masbate, 2; Sorsogon, 2.

Aklan, 1; Antique, 1; Capiz, 2; Iloilo, 5; Negros Occidental, 7.

Bohol, 3; Cebu, 6; Negros Oriental, 3; Siquijor, 1; Cebu City, 2.

Leyte, 5; Southern Leyte, 1; Eastern Samar, 1; Northern Samar, 1; Samar, 2.

Basilan, 1; Sulu, 1; Tawi-Tawi, 1; Zamboanga del Norte, 2; Zamboanga del Sur, 3; Zamboanga City, 1.

Agusan del Norte, 1; Agusan del Sur, 1; Bukidnon, 2; Camiguin, 1; Misamis Occidental, 1; Misamis Oriental, 2; Surigao del Norte, 1; Cagayan de Oro, 1.

Surigao del Sur, 1; Davao del Norte, 3; Davao Oriental, 1; Davao del Sur, 2; South Cotabato, 3; Davao City, 2.

Lanao del Norte, 1; Lanao del Sur, 1; Maguindanao, 2; North Cotabato, 2; Sultan Kudarat, 1; Iligan City, 1.

SEC. 2. Any province that may hereafter be created or any component city that may hereafter be declared by or pursuant to law as a highly urbanized city, shall be entitled in the next election following such creation or reclassification to at least one Member pending a new apportionment, unless each is entitled to more than one Member on the basis of the number of its inhabitants and on the same uniform and progressive ratio-used in the last preceding apportionment. The number of Members of the province out of which the new province was created or where the component city was formerly geographically located shall be apportioned accordingly by the Commission on Elections.

SEC. 3. The foregoing Ordinance to be appended to the Constitution shall take effect on the date the President of the Philippines shall proclaim that they have been ratified by a majority of the votes cast in the plebiscite held for that purpose.

WHEREAS, significant numbers of residents in urban areas in various parts of the country are without residential land of their own and do not have the means to provide themselves with decent shelter;

WHEREAS, this deplorable situation is caused in great measure by the traditional concept of land ownership in Philippine society which has resulted in great misery among the urban poor, thereby hampering economic development and threatening the social and political stability of the nation;

WHEREAS, under the New Society the government has proclaimed urban land reform and has enacted laws and implemented programs pursuant thereto;

WHEREAS, there is need to continue developing and improving the urban land reform program in order to adequately meet the needs of ever-growing segments or urban communities;

WHEREAS, there is a corresponding need to emphasize and strengthen the constitutional base for urban land reform consistent with the constitutional provisions on social justice, bridging the gap between the rich and the poor, and other provisions of the Constitution: Now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the Batasang Pambansa, by a vote of three-fourths of all its Members, To propose, as it hereby proposes:

SECTION 1. To amend Section XIV of the Philippine Constitution by inserting between Sections 12 and 13 thereof a new section which shall read as follows:

 * "Section 12-A. THE STATE SHALL FORMULATE AND IMPLEMENT AN URBAN LAND REFORM AND HOUSING PROGRAM TO PROVIDE DESERVING LANDLESS AND HOMELESS OR INADEQUATELY SHELTERED RESIDENT CITIZENS REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE LAND AND DECENT HOUSING CONSISTENT WITH THE GOALS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE ENUNCIATED IN THIS CONSTITUTION."

SEC. 2. This amendment shall be valid as part of the Constitution when approved by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite held pursuant to Section two, Article Sixteen of the Constitution.


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157Rh unwillingness to evacuate Vladivostok and the Maritime Province; all that they were willing to give was a vague promise to evacuate some day, which would have had no more value than Mr. Gladstone's promise to evacuate Egypt.

It will be observed that the Conference went well for Chita until the Senate had ratified the Washington treaties. After that, the Japanese felt that they had a free hand in all Far Eastern matters not dealt with at Washington. The practical effect of the Washington decisions will naturally be to make the Japanese seek compensation, at the expense of the Far Eastern Republic, for what they have had to surrender in China. This result was to be expected, and was presumably foreseen by the assembled peacemakers.

It will be seen that the Japanese policy involves hostility to Russia. This is no doubt one reason for the friendship between Japan and France. Another reason is that both are the champions of nationalistic capitalism, as against the international capitalism aimed at by Messrs. Morgan and Mr. Lloyd George, because France and Japan look to their armaments as the chief source of their income, while England and America look rather to their commerce and industry. It would be interesting to compute how much coal and iron France and Japan have acquired in recent years by means of their armies. England and America already possessed


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158Rh coal and iron; hence their different policy. An uninvited delegation from the Far Eastern Republic at Washington produced documents tending to show that France and Japan came there as secret allies. Although the authenticity of the documents was denied, most people, apparently, believed them to be genuine. In any case, it is to be expected that France and Japan will stand together, now that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance has come to an end and the Anglo-French Entente has become anything but cordial. Thus it is to be feared that Washington and Genoa have sown the seeds of future wars—unless, by some miracle, the "civilized" nations should grow weary of suicide.


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lived, once upon a time, a man who was as rich as he could be; but as no happiness in this world is ever quite complete, he had an only son who was such a simpleton that he could barely add two and two together. At last his father determined to put up with his stupidity no longer, and giving him a purse full of gold, he sent him off to seek his fortune in foreign lands, mindful of the adage:

Moscione, for this was the youth’s name, mounted a horse, and set out for Venice, hoping to find a ship there that would take him to Cairo. After he had ridden for some time he saw a man standing at the foot of a poplar tree, and said to him: ‘What’s your name, my friend; where do you come from, and what can you do?’

The man replied, ‘My name is Quick-as-Thought, I come from Fleet-town, and I can run like lightning.’

‘I should like to see you,’ returned Moscione.

‘Just wait a minute, then,’ said Quick-as-Thought, ‘and I will soon show you that I am speaking the truth.’

The words were hardly out of his mouth when a young doe ran right across the field they were standing in.

Quick-as-Thought let her run on a short distance, in order to give her a start, and then pursued her so quickly

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310 and so lightly that you could not have tracked his footsteps if the field had been strewn with flour. In a very few springs he had overtaken the doe, and had so impressed Moscione with his fleetness of foot that he begged Quick-as-Thought to go with him, promising at the same time to reward him handsomely.

Quick-as-Thought agreed to his proposal, and they continued on their journey together. They had hardly gone a mile when they met a young man, and Moscione stopped and asked him: ‘What’s your name, my friend; where do you come from, and what can you do?’

The man thus addressed answered promptly, ‘I am called Hare’s-ear, I come from Curiosity Valley, and if I lay my ear on the ground, without moving from the spot, I can hear everything that goes on in the world, the plots and intrigues of court and cottage, and all the plans of mice and men.’

‘If that’s the case,’ replied Moscione, ‘just tell me what’s going on in my own home at present.’

The youth laid his ear to the ground and at once reported: ‘An old man is saying to his wife, “Heaven be praised that we have got rid of Moscione, for perhaps, when he has been out in the world a little, he may gain some common sense, and return home less of a fool than when he set out.

‘Enough, enough,’ cried Moscione. ‘You speak the truth, and I believe you. Come with us, and your fortune’s made.’

The young man consented; and after they had gone about ten miles, they met a third man, to whom Moscione said: ‘What’s your name, my brave fellow; where were you born, and what can you do?’

The man replied, ‘I am called Hit-the-Point, I come from the city of Perfect-aim, and I draw my bow so exactly that I can shoot a pea off a stone.’

‘I should like to see you do it, if you’ve no objection,’ said Moscione.

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 The man at once placed a pea on a stone, and, drawing his bow, he shot it in the middle with the greatest possible ease.

When Moscione saw that he had spoken the truth, he immediately asked Hit-the-Point to join his party.

After they had all travelled together for some days, they came upon a number of people who were digging a trench in the blazing sun.

Moscione felt so sorry for them, that he said: ‘My dear friends, how can you endure working so hard in heat that would cook an egg in a minute?”

But one of the workmen answered: ‘We are as fresh as daisies, for we have a young man among us who blows on our backs like the west wind.’

‘Let me see him,’ said Moscione.

The youth was called, and Moscione asked him: ‘What’s your name; where do you come from, and what can you do?’

He answered: ‘I am called Blow-Blast, I come from Wind-town, and with my mouth I can make any winds you please. If you wish a west wind I can raise it for you in a second, but if you prefer a north wind I can blow these houses down before your eyes.’

‘Seeing is believing,’ returned the cautious Moscione.

Blow-Blast at once began to convince him of the truth of his assertion. First he blew so softly that it seemed like the gentle breeze at evening, and then he turned round and raised such a mighty storm, that he blew down a whole row of oak trees.

When Moscione saw this he was delighted, and begged Blow-Blast to join his company. And as they went on their way they met another man, whom Moscione addressed as usual: ‘What’s your name; where do you come from, and what can you do?’

‘I am called Strong-Back; I come from Power-borough, and I possess such strength that I can take a mountain on my back, and it seems a feather to me.’

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 ‘If that’s the case,’ said Moscione, ‘you are a clever fellow; but I should like some proof of your strength.’

Then Strong-Back loaded himself with great boulders of rock and trunks of trees, so that a hundred waggons could not have taken away all that he carried on his back.

When Moscione saw this he prevailed on Strong-Back to join his troop, and they all continued their journey till they came to a country called Flower Vale. Here there reigned a king whose only daughter ran as quickly as the wind, and so lightly that she could run over a field of young oats without bending a single blade. The king had given out a proclamation that anyone who could beat the princess in a race should have her for a wife, but that all who failed in the competition should lose their head.

As soon as Moscione heard of the Royal Proclamation, he hastened to the king and challenged the princess to race with him. But on the morning appointed for the trial he sent word to the king that he was not feeling well, and that as he could not run himself he would supply someone to take his place.

‘It’s just the same to me,’ said Canetella, the princess; ‘let anyone come forward that likes, I am quite prepared to meet him.’

At the time appointed for the race the whole place was crowded with people anxious to see the contest, and, punctual to the moment, Quick-as-Thought, and Canetella dressed in a short skirt and very lightly shod, appeared at the starting-point.

Then a silver trumpet sounded, and the two rivals started on their race, looking for all the world like a greyhound chasing a hare.

But Quick-as-Thought, true to his name, outran the princess, and when the goal was reached the people all clapped their hands and shouted, ‘Long live the stranger!’

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