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...Finance Department (TIME, June 20), he had briskly vetoed an anti-graft bill that made it a crime for the wife, or any other near relative of the President, Vice President or other top officials to "intervene directly or indirectly" in any transaction with the government. But Garcia controls Nacionalista Party purse strings, pressured Congress to set up a committee to investigate Osmeňa's accusations...
...that Osmeňa had "profaned the sanctity and degraded the dignity of the House," suspended him for 15 months. Delighted by his victory, Garcia used the occasion to push through a toothless anti-graft bill. But there were others who questioned Garcia's good intentions. Said loyal Nacionalista Arturo Modesto Tolentino: "When relatives of a President are able to construct mansions overnight after that President comes to power, can we prevent suspicion on the part of the people that such sudden opulence has been acquired through that President? The effect is the weakening of public faith in that...
...answer just might be discouraging. So Garcia began acting differently. When his Defense Secretary, Alejo Santos, was charged with smuggling gifts past customs after a trip abroad. Garcia ordered an investigation instead of brushing it away with his usual benign air. Then he called Nacionalista leaders together to say that corruption was so common that "no less than a total effort is necessary to reduce this social cancer to a minimum...
...polls to elect eight senators and close to 13,000 city and provincial officials. At his home in Bohol, chess-playing President Carlos Garcia alternated between rejoicing over the birth of his first grandchild and fretting over the electoral prospects. Though neither his own office nor his Nacionalista Party's control of the 24-man Philippine Senate was at stake, Garcia knew that the off-year vote would be a test of his chances for re-election...
What finally turned the tide in the Nacionalistas' favor was the vote from the barrios, the impoverished rural villages where an avalanche of government money proved helpful. By week's end the Nacionalistas seemed certain to elect five Senators-including Ramon Magsaysay's younger brother, Genaro, who, on the strength of his name, was running right behind Liberal Marcos. Although the defeat of handpicked Candidate Pajo suggested that a good many Filipinos had had their fill of Carlos Garcia, the Nacionalista Party as a whole had apparently profited from one cynical popular argument: "The mosquitoes inside...