This congress was therefore not an elective body.

Was it in any sense representative?
The following table, showing the distribution of delegates between the several peoples, will enable us to answer this question.
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.