Show CONFERENCE WITH ROOT PHILIPPINE COMMISSION TALKS l WITH SECRETARY New Officers Will Have Much J3rndr Power in Dealing With Problems in Isles Than Predecessors Washington MardI 9By appointment t I appoint-ment the Philippine commission walled on Secretary Root about 3 1 oclock this afternoon and they spent three hjws behind closed doors In earnest confer erce At the last conolulon of the c n Jference the Secretary tnld the discus shell had covered limo probable scope o the work of tho commission for the next two years io far he had not beu able to present the commissioners wilt ten Instructions and what passed to day was rather preparatory to the rc ccnllon nf th re Instructions It was not the Intention at thin time to make tin Instructions public But It mljjht bo stated In general terms the Secretary said that the new commission commis-sion would hav much breader powers In dealing with the problems arising in I the Philippines than had its i prode cfesaor The primary purpose was the establishment of local civil government govern-ment throughout the Islands In the Kflcnlon tiC thVivil olllcers the committee com-mittee would havo a free hand When asKd helhir the ilvil author Hies would dominate the mllltaiy the Secretary contented himself with tIme rcplv thai as he aw It no question was likely to arise on that point there would be ro chance for friction The commission will meet again tomorrow to-morrow and will continue the confer once with Secretary Root In the after noon That will be the L last meeting of ilir m > full rommlssloji In Wnshlnclon be i fore the departure for Manila The members will ditto with the t President at the White Ilouse tomorrow evening anti tomorrow nIght three of them CJon Wrght Judg > Ido and Prof Worcester will go to their homes to t I prepare thplr t private affairs for a two I I yours absence in the Phillppnos Tudgo Taft Ihf chairman of the commission I crocs to New York Saturday but will J I return to Vashinglon before starling I i on his voyage Prof Mose also laVs I J Saturday going directly to his home In California The commission will gather j J at San Francisco on April 12th and will I Fall fur Manila on the loth on the army transport Hancock The personnel of the attaches and staff has been practhally completed but Judge Taft pieferre1 to defer the announcement ot their names until tomorrow to-morrow in order to comply With certain cer-tain necessary formalities |