He had also incurred the dislike of influential _caciques_ by defending the occupants of small holdings on friar estates from the rapacity of their rich neighbours, and by protecting free-patent applicants and homesteaders when large landowners opposed their applications in order to prevent their securing land, so that they might the more easily be held as peon labourers.
He had started in his bureau a practical school for Filipino surveyors which was training really well-qualified candidates for positions desired by the politicians for themselves or their incompetent friends.
Last, but not least, he had helped to upset the plans of the men primarily responsible for the so-called "friar lands investigation" conducted by the House Committee on Insular Affairs, which cost the United States government a very large sum, and resulted in demonstrating his uprightness and the efficiency of his administration.
Mr.John R.Wilson, the assistant director of lands, was absent at the moment, but his resignation was demanded on the day of his return.

He too was an active, efficient, upright man.
Both of these removals were political acts, pure and simple.Sr.

Manuel Tinio was appointed Director of Lands.

He is a bright young Ilocano of good character, who had become a "general" in the Insurgent army at twenty-one years of age.

He is unfit to hold the place, because, as he has himself frankly said, he knows nothing about the work.