To inject new life into the campaign, Quezon created the Supreame National Council. Designed yo replace the Commission on Independence, the council was empowered "to direct Filipino policy on all matters that concern the campaign for independence, on all matters which may affect the relations between the Philippines and the United States, and on all matter affecting the administration of the interests of the country in general. "the council was made up of five Nationalist as and five Democrats. While it endeavored to present a united front in the campaign for independence, it achieved little by way of curbing Wood's efforts to diminish Filipino autonomy or to restrain congress from presenting bills inimical to the interests of the Filipino people, as in the case of the Becon bill, which intended to convert the Moro Province(Mindanao) into an unincorporated territory of the United States to be governed independently of the rest of the Philippines.