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The Charter

The few intense moment before a city is born, like those few intense moments a father paces back and forth awaiting the first faint cry of a babe, are great moments of history.

The birth of the City of San Carlos was characterized with such a travail. Few will ever realize the pain, fear and frustration felt by the founding fathers which presaged the birth of a city.
Years ago, on the last night of the session of Congress when hundreds of bills vie for priority of legislation, the drama took place. Everyone had already given up hope of the possibility for the passage of the bill that would create San Carlos a city-everyone, except those few obstinate men who painstakingly labored and believed that something real good must be done to the people of San Carlos.

In spite of the unselfish efforts of Senator Dioscoro Rosales, Senator Jose Locsin, Congressman Lorenzo Teves, Congressman Agustin Gatuslao and Congressman Inocencio Ferrer, the San Carlos bill met a standstill. Sensing the predicament, the late Congressman Vicente Gustilo, main author of the bill, vowed to leave no stone unturned until the bill became a law. San Carlos Mayor Sofronio C. Carmona, like an anxious father watching every wave of circumstance that imperil the passage of the bill, stayed awake all night. He has been in the halls of Congress since 10:00 P.M. that evening and was greatly dismayed upon knowing the avalanche of bills that was to go through the legislative mill. For Congress, as everyone knows, like the gods, grinds slowly, and like a funnel, has always a bottle-neck concentrate of its bills in the last hours of its session.

Congressman Gustilo and Mayor Carmona realized too late the bill has to be certified as "urgent" by the president if it has to be treated by Congress with priority. The next move then was a lightning trip to Malacañang. Was the President there? The nation's chief executive was there, but he could not be met; he was presiding over a cabinet meeting. The two gentlemen waited for some time. Seeing no prospect, they went back to Congress. It was already two o'clock at dawn and what has remained as the flickering embers of hope threatened to have gone out, burdening their souls with a stinging sense of loss and frustration.

Mayor Carmona decided to go home-to San Carlos. He had his ticket for the return flight scheduled at 5:40 that dawn. It was now 4:30 A.M. and he started to pack up his thing. Mayor Carmona must have known at the time a thousand and one thing of the San Carlos bill, but he never must have known the fact that when he packed up his things for home, he was, indeed, packing up the dreams and aspirations of the 124,000 citizens of San Carlos.
It was 5:00 A.M., and hence, the dash to the airport. But can't he take a cup of coffee? A man who tried his best, though miserably failed, at least deserves a cup of coffee, nevertheless. For one thing Doroy Valencia might make a lot of crowing over this incident but the fact remains that a lot of histories had been made over a cup of coffee.

He settled himself cozily on a seat on a coffee canteen. The driver would not care waiting for another five minutes, he mused. The man, suddenly grown old, was sipping dreamingly the spiralling aroma of the plain, black stuff, idly dreaming no longer of the bill but of the flight home. And then the thing happened. There was a phone call. For Mayor Sofronio Carmona of San Carlos, the charming creature at the desk announced. The other end of the line was held by the tense hands of Congressman Gustilo."The bill has been passed," the voice blurled out jubilantly. The mayor, stunned in disbelief, painfully managed to ask, "How did you do it?" "I had to force my way through to the President," the voice on the other end falteringly answered," and had him certify the bill as "urgent." The mayor could not say another word. Unconsciously, he dropped the phone on the receiver. Is it a thing to wonder? Hadn't all fathers, the worlds over, behaved the same way after realizing the birth of a child?

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