In considering this table it must be remembered that the relationship given between the number of delegates assigned to a given people and the number of individuals composing it is only approximate, as no one of these peoples is strictly limited to the provinces where it predominates.

I have classified the provinces as Tagalog, Visayan, etc., according to census returns showing the people who form a majority of their inhabitants in each case. [382]

People          Number          Elected     Appointed
Delegates   Delegates
Visayans        3,219,030        0           68
Tagalogs        1,460,695       18           19
Ilocanos          803,942        7           11
Bicols            566,365        4            7
Pangasinans       343,686        2            2
Pampangans        280,984        2            2
Cagayans          159,648        4            6
Zambalans          48,823        1            2
Non-Christians    647,740        4           34
42          151

It will be noted that the Tagalog provinces had eighteen out of a total of forty-two elected delegates.  The Visayans, by far the most numerous people in the islands, did not have one.  The non-Christian provinces had a very disproportionately large total of delegates, of whom four are put down as elected, but on examination we find that one of these is from Lepanto, the capital of which was an Ilocano town; one is from Nueva Vizcaya, where there is a considerable Cagayan-Ilocano population; one is from Benguet, the capital of which was an Ilocano town, and one from Tiagan, which was an Iloeano settlement.  These delegates should therefore really be credited to the Ilocanos.

If the individual relationships of the several members are considered, the result is even more striking.  Of the thirty-eight delegates assigned to the non-Christian provinces, one only, good old Lino Abaya of Tiagan, was a non-Christian.  Many of the non-Christian comandancias were given a number of delegates wholly disproportionate to their population, and in this way the congress was stuffed full of Tagalogs.

Think of Filipe Buencamino, of Aguinaldo’s cabinet, representing the Moros of Zamboanga; of the mild, scholarly botanist Leon Guerrero representing the Moros, Bagobos, Mandayas and Manobos of Davao; of Jose M. Lerma, the unscrupulous politician of the province of Bataan, just across the bay from Manila, representing the wild Moros of Cotabato; of Juan Tuason, a timid Chinese mestizo Manila business man, representing the Yacan and Samal Moros of Basilan; of my good friend Benito Legarda, since a member of the Philippine Commission, and a resident delegate from the Philippines to the congress of the United States, representing the bloody Moros of Jolo!  Yet they appear as representatives of these several regions.

Few, indeed, of the delegates from non-Christian territory had ever set foot in the provinces or comandancias from which they were appointed, or would have been able to so much as name the wild tribe or tribes inhabiting them.