Show TO BUY OUT THE TRE FRIARS Secretary Root Boot of PurchasIng in Ing Tn Their r Lands t Washington Jan Jari Ja IS Secretary Root w n 8 a heard beard on the Ute question J tin of the friar Boos amis inthe In the Philippines before the house committee on Insular affairs today He Heald ald akl these land holdings constituted one of the chief causes W tt discontent among the people they ui were we the hotbeds of In Insurrection and had furnished Aguinaldo SOs nis chief appeal to popular prejudice i iThe The secretary said saki the orders so o fully recognized the bad condition of affairs allaire that tbt they were disposed to sell seit sellout out wit and aad he urged that the government take advantage of ot the opportunity to re ia remove move the chief causes BUSts of oC discontent in the i leland Islands He did not believe condemnation pro prore re would be necessary ss so there were indications II that a fair price could bf be bt agreed upon A rough estimate e of the too value of the Ulf lands land he said was from to American money mone |