Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 1 | Another Inquiry by Colorado Man

ANOTHER mm INQUIRY MAN Representative Martin Wants to Know All About the Friar L Lands Washington Wasl May 14 His ninth daily dally resolution r sll ti n of Inquiry regarding the government government sale to ta the sugar of friar lands land in jn the Philippines was Introduced today by tive Martin Dem Colo Cob resolution calls for t r information in connection with the th sale of the Cal Calamba Calamba amba estate located a few miles from Manila said to be one of the richest pieces of the friar lands The war department advised Con Congress Congress Congress gress or on May 5 that an application had been made to purchase acres of this land by a man named Thay but Mr Martin cited that American merican newspaper news newspaper newspaper paper dispatches during April showed that acres of at the Calamba estate had been sold by the government to the sugar interests of Honolulu In a statement accompanying his resolution Mr Martin recalls that the Calamba estate was the cause of the Philippine rebellion in 1895 1896 G which led to a bloody slaughter of or natives in a contest over the ownership Mr r Mar Martin Martin Martin tin says that the avowed purpose of the United States government in mak tusk making makIng ing lug the purchase of the friar lands was to break them up Into small hold Ings for tenants and concludes his i statement as follows The evident failure to get this land Ian into the hands of ot the Who sacrificed d lire life for it places the stamp of incompetence or worse upon the administration in the Philippines and the sale of a single acre of or this blood bought estate to foreign sugar Inter Interests interests interests ests is nothing short of a crime Washington May Ia 14 Attorney Gen General General General eral Wickersham today toda disclaimed having had any knowledge of the prospective pros prospective prospective purchasers of the San Jose Tose es estate estate estate tate in the island of Mindanao when he rendered an opinion to the secretary of war wa that the friar lands could be besold besold besold sold in excess of the amount limited inthe in inthe Inthe the Philippine organic act He also advised the house that the settlement between the government and the American Sugar Refining com company company company pany for the short sh rt weight frauds was approved by the secretary of the treas treasury treasury treasury ury May lay 19 1909