Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1856-01-17


This 10 nm Increase of c, 693750,8l acres over
the previous year, of lands sold for cash, ana a
decrease of 81 ,l22, 226 acres located with scrip
and warrants, The quantity that will be ntef-
ed the present fiscal year with land warrants
will he r4rsh larger under the recent bounty iaho
law.
The unit of lands sold during the second
and third quarters of the present calender year
is about 6,26.. 1863 acres. being and increas OF
about S27 ,625 acres Tin cash $i7l,44S,Gb) on
that of tho corresponding quarter OF the prece-
ding year.
The quantity Of land covered by warrants, Is
sued to soldiers of all the wars in which tfe
United States has been engaged is 1885,, 442
acres For the BatisfastieTr of Virginia, war
rsnts there have been taken of l,46o,oOo acres
Recently scrip has been issued to satisfy this
class of warrants.
In 1910 q quantity of land one aud half sec
tons in width, on each side of the Fox River
and the lakes through which it passes, was grant
ed the State of Wisconsin for improving tho
Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, aud cornsctlng them
by canal! This grant included 263,4S5 acres %
The Land Office, under subsequent acts, gave
Wisconsin Il width of five sections, ana increa,
sed the length at the grant SO as TO make 1t 2o4
269 acres, but when the Company which sue
ceeded to the rights Of the State, asks for ths
same grant along the Wisconsin, the Depart
/ ment oddly enough, thinks the company unrea-
sonable, aud elects the PROJECT OF giving 'her2'
$50, 900 acres more
The Secretary recommends that officers con
nccted with the sale and survey OF the pubic
lands should be prohibited from becoming pur-
chascrs.
The swamp-land grants create considerable
difficulty but i'll this, as in other instances, The
Secretary advises generous peIcy The Cal.
fornia Land Commission are making very good
time, and will not want any mere money
A new Commission must be issued to ADJUST
IL L. al In al npo mot Ian Z
work.
The Pension Office has done q very heavy
business and clerks have been detailed from
the Land Office. Tho number of applications
under the recent act were, up to Nov. ~, 2<5,-
944 Of which "a, 500 have been examined, and
} Sc, S92 allowed The number ofwarrants issued
was So, 9l7, covering 6,5T5,329 acres. The
Secretary thinks it strange that pensioners VINO
caught the fever in Mexico. and are drawing
pension only so long as they have the fever,
never got we'll. He mildly advises that the old
principle of indulgence be fallen back upon. lie
does not like the statutes OF limiting pfosecu.
tons for perjury and forgery IN pension and
lard warrant cases to two years. The pension
roll mustered Ia, 453 on the Both of jane, and
the amount disbursed for the year previous was
ST 5G5l12 The sums in the hands OF Pension
agents had been cut down 10 S23U,GC9 from
S94a. ATS on the lst OF March, 1907. II had
been customary for them under appropriation
clauses attached 10 pension DluS W hCCGthuiUt"
large amounts of money in their hands, which
has only Just been drained off. He advises that
the appropriation clauses be cut oil and those
bills placed on the same footing as others. He
recommends revolution in the process Of au-
diting pension accounts SIS TO secure greater
uniformity.
The field work of the Mexican boundary limo
has been complctcd-twenty millions of acres
have been acquired, the eastern portion of
which is rich in wheat, corn and tobacco, gold,
silver and copper, while the west is a desert
The Indians are friendly and agriculturay in
cl;ncd. The Secretary advises that something
be done for them; he recommends that the
Northwest line bo run out--the one which we
did not fight about because il was "A . 40 min
some islands between Vancouvcrs and the con-
tinent are desirable.
The Patent Office is happily re-organred.
and tho years work has been about 1900 pat
ents. The Secretary gives reasons for using
part of the Patent Office building for the In
dian Bureau. In the first place they want il,
and then the Patent flee clerks can bear little
crowding; then, thirdly, the Patent Fund did
not pay for the building
Another appropriation is wanted for the west
wing of the Patent Office building, and tho
north part should he commenced. The curosi-
tics in the National Gallery in that building
should be cleared out TO make room for the dis
play of rejected, mcdels. 1.-The appropriations
for agricultural purposes are dismissed in iivo
lines