sentences:  The Central Government of Madrid proclaimed that they want to deprive the friars of all the power of intervention in matters of civil government and direction and management of educational institutions.The friars feared that their dominance in the country will become a thing of a past, and that they needed something to justify their perpetuation, with the mutiny providing such an opportunity .However, the Philippine Institute was introduced by the Spanish government as an educational decree fusing sectarian schools once ran by the friars.