BY THE COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS
OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF
ITS INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERIOR DE-
PARTMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE GOVERN-
MENT TOUCHING THE ADMINISTRATION OF
PHILIPPINE LANDS AND ALL MATTERS OF
FACT AND LAW PERTAINING THERETO, IN
PURSUANCE OF HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 795

(IN TWO VOLUMES)

VOLUME 2

MARCH 3, 1911.—Submitted by Mr. OLMSTED, from the Committee on Insular
Affairs, and ordered to be printed. (To accompany H. Res. 795)

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INVESTIGATION OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE

GOVERNMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS,
Thursday, January 5, 1911.

The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Marlin E. Olmsted (chairman) presiding.

The following members of the committee were present: Messrs. Olmsted (chairman), Crumpacker, Hamilton, Parsons, Madison, Douglas, Jones, Fornes, Rucker, and Larrinaga.

TESTIMONY OF MR. DEAN C. WORCESTER Continued.

The CHAIRMAN. I think, Mr. Worcester, you said that you were ready now to submit some matters that were asked of you, but which you had not in hand at the last meeting?

Mr. WORCESTER. Yes, sir; I have now secured nearly all the additional information which was requested by the committee and not furnished prior to the recess, and I have also gone through the testimony and desire to call attention to one or two errors that have crept in there and to amplify in several cases the statements that I myself have made.

I have here to submit to the committee a statement up to September 30, 1910, showing the total sales and leases of friar lands, by number, the number of parcels, and areas of parcels in acres; also the same information in regard to sales and leases of such lands to other than natives of the Philippine Islands, and the ratio of both sales and leases of others than natives to the total sales and leases.

The first table includes all transactions; the Poole sale, the lease of the Isabela estate, which has now probably fallen through, and the Thayer leases, which have also now fallen through.

Believing that the purpose of the committee was to find to what extent these particular transactions had been followed by similar ones, or at least to what extent they had been supplemented by transactions with people other than natives of the Philippines, I have caused a second table to be prepared with these transactions omitted, and this shows that the ratio of total purchasers and lessees, other than natives, to the total number of purchasers and lessees is, as regards number, 0.29 per cent; as regards the number of parcels, 1.13 per cent; and as regards the area in acres, 6.82 per cent. In other words, the transactions have been very small.