Governor Taft and General Wright were towers of strength in the early days.

The rest of us did what we could, and I, for one, am very proud of the result.

Certainly no one can ever claim that the commission was not industrious.

Before it finally ceased to be the legislative body of the islands it had passed some eighteen hundred acts.

Obviously, as it is not my purpose to write an encyclopedia of law, I cannot discuss them in detail, and must content myself with here barely mentioning a few of the more important results obtained, leaving the more detailed discussion of some of them for later chapters.
In general, it may be said that the additional bureaus necessary for the work of the Insular government were created, and given proper powers.