Show HOMESTEAD LAW FOR ISLES washington jan 24 secretary boot yesterdays appeared before the house insular affairs committee to urge the enactment of a homestead law for the philippines he said there should lio legislation to enable the filipino to acquire title to property and that denial of that was in his opinion the cause of much of the present disturbance tur bance he cited the anti rent riots in ew york and the riots in ireland as evidence of what followed lucli denial he thought a homestead law should bo passed to permit the natives to make entry of acre of land as the maximum the local government to fix the minimum ho urged the repeal of the spooner amendment prohibiting the cutting of timber and ane granting of franchises he raid anat industry in the islands should bo promoted not prevented the islands needed railroads to develop their abundant resources of timber coal and other minerals |