Show secretary kooff durffee enactment of lion e lead for il secretary root lay appeared before the house insular stairs coin to urge the enactment of i homestead law for the philippines lie said there should be legislation to enable the Filipino to acquire title to property and that denial of that right was in his opinion the cause of much 0 the present d cec he cited the anti rent new york and the riots in ireland as evidence of what follow ed sui h denial lie thought a homestead law should be passed to per nit the natives to arake entry of of land as tl e maximum the local government to fix the minimum urged the repeal of the amendment the cutting of timber and the granting of franchises lie said that industry in the islands should be promoted not prevented ahe islands needed railroads to de celop their abundant resources of tim ber coal and othel mineral |