CHAPTER XV

“THE CONSTITUTION ACT”

 NOVEMBER 17, 1898
IN THE CAPITAL OF OCCIDENTAL NEGROS ISLAND

• THE SECOND DAY OF THE SURRENDER OF THE SPANISH ARMY.

• THE LEADERS OF THE GREATER PORTION OF THE LIBERATING ARMY

(SURRENDERED)

• THEY GATHERED TOGETHER IN ASSEMBLY FOR THE GOOD GOVERNMENT OF

THE ISLAND

• AND JOINTLY APPROVED ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROVISIONAL

REVOLUTIONARY JUNTA AND VIVA VOCE VOTE CONFIRMED THE ELECTION OF
THE GENTLEMEN.
 PRESIDENT
ANECITO LACSON
WAR DELEGATE JUAN ARANETA

FINANCE DELEGATE EUSEBIO LUZURRIAGA

EXECUTIVE DELEGATE SIMOEN LIZARES

DEVELOPMENT NICOLAS GOLES

JUSTICE ANTONIO JAYME

AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE AGUSTINE AMENABAR

SECRETARY MAELCIO SEVERINO

UNDER SECRETARY FOTUNATO HUGO

MILITARY COMMANDER RAFAEL RAMOS

• Copies of the original transcript of minutes of
the constitution of the Rebel Government of
the Occidental Negros are being made in
duplicate

• One was forwarded to the Phil. Rebel

Government and other to the Central
Committee for Visayas and Mindanao.

• Immediately after the designation of those

who were to constitute thE governing body
We are informing you that cablegrams greetin the alien resident consuls in the
iloilo have been forwarded. Tom health and fraternity, f greetings.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE NEGROS GOVERNMENT

“ANECITO LACSON”

SIR:
Accept the most cordial felicitations of this superior
Government of Visayas and Mindanao and those of the army for the
brilliant action of the troops which had established in that island the
Provisional Government, after having brought about the surrender of the
constituted Spanish government

THE PRESIDENT OF THE SUPERIOR REBEL

GOVERNMENT OF VISAYAS AND MINDANAO

ROQUE LOPEZ
GENERAL
 TWO MESSAGES
• The foregoing account shows that the triumphant revolution to dislodge Spanish sovereignty could be
attributed to the hacenderos who also set out immediately to organized its government with such
independent self possession and executive know-how that is with such a gesture of self sufficiency that
they did not bother a whit to consult the steps they were contempting to take with the authorities of
Malolos, or with the regional body in Visayas and Mindanao seated in Iloilo.

• However the proof that the Negros rebels had not entered or entertained any idea
of ignoring said superior authorities

• The transcript of minutes contained instructions of the secretary to furnish a copy

of the said agreements to the “Rebel Government of the Philippines” and another
to the “Central Rebel Committee of Visayas and Mindanao”
Besides this cite copies, in a separate communique exuding that style of cordial
pompousness typical of the Negrense, President Lacson sent a message to
General Emilio Aguinaldo worked in the following terms:

Sir:
Dominated by the immense satisfaction, I am informing you of
the establishment of the “The Revolutionary Junta of Occidental Negros
constituted at the moment in Bacolod, has the honor of greeting the consular
corps of the foreign countries in that capital andmanifesting its cordial
symphaty.

to health and fraternity, greetings.

Bacolod, Nov. 7,1898
The President,Anecito Lacson
• A communique in the same vien was sent to at the time of Gen. Roque Lopea,
President of the Central Rebel committee, of the Visayas and Mindanao.

• Laconic as the rote is , the reader will note that aside from relaying
information the establishment of the Provisional Government the President of
the Negros Occ. Government did not ask for any instruction or expect an order
from President Aguinaldo.

• The reader will also note the simpke and plain “Sir” (Muy Senor mio) and the is
use of the formal third person singular (usted) in the Spanish vocabulary with
to which Lacson addressed the message to the leader of the wole country.
• During that era , when a week before the
“Excellency sir”, “Your Reverend Sir” was
usage imposed by the former regime, the
simple style of message was tantamount to
deliberate expression of the rebels in the filed
to emphasize the new democracy which they
had won and were proud of as rebels and as
men closer in contact with the mother earth.
• NO REPLY FROM AGUINALDO----

• Due to the prevalent difficulties in communication

b/w Luzon and Negros, Aguinaldo failed to
acknowledge on time with a reply to Pres. Lacson’s
message.
• And upon realization that the source of its income from the
transportation of sugar naturally depended on the foreign firms
established in Iloilo and Manila

• The new Provisional Government addressed to England, the

United States, Switzerland and Portugal the following commique:

So we have the provisional Government of Negros

with its Cabinet duly elected, with its ministers each
THANK YOU!