The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-09-05
From the Ohio Democrat.
THE MONTANA FRAUD MIR.
BINGHAM GIVING AWAY
PUBLIC LANDS AND PUBLIC
MONEY

MONEY.
On the 9TH day Of june, the Bill gran
ting 20 the New York q Montana lndina
grant Co, a large tract Of mineral lands
passed the House of Representatives, the
yeas and nays not being called, and no vote
or speech being made against 1t by Mr..
Bingham, Thaa. Stevens advocated the
Passage of the Bill which had previously
PASSED the Senate, without the yeas and
nays being called.
Ii is a notorious fact that the yeas and
nl2s were omitted to be recorded last ses-
81 n in Congress, when voting on plunder
BIZ.
On tie 18th of June, President John
son vetoed the Bill, and among other things
said:
The pubic domain isl National trust,
lat ap ri AMI held for the general welfare
upun PRINCIPLES of equal justice, and not to
he bestowed as "A special privilege upon any
favored class. BY progressive steps 1t has
been surveyed off and sold or donated as
homesttads, securing to every head Of a
family, widow, and single man, and 10
every soldier who has borne arms, one hun
drcd and sixty acres. actual residence aud
cultivation being necessary Ito hold tt
Mineral Lands We're expressly excluded
from settlement BIZ individuals, but III 1863,
these mineral lands we're ordered to be sold
to individuals at not less than $50 per acre,
and no one person being allowed to own
more than 100 acres thereof. BY this
Montana Bill, three sections Of coal aud iron
land were given to this company at SID
| YER acre. in violation of the Law OF 1860;
and seventeen sections Of additional land
were given to said company for tlhiber and
othe purposes at $I,25 per acre. For the
| the coal sections, the Government was to
receive $500, being a speculation to the
company over individual %preemptors OF
$50, 900"
The President further says that by the
Bill this company, Are to have possession
for two years of more than $4,000 acres OF
the choice land of the Territory, Of which
nearly 1000 are to contain IRON and coal
and over 1000 acres to be thinner land, Sc
| lectcd by themselves. They viii thus have
the first and exclusive choice. In TACT, they
are the only parties who at this time Wouic
have any privilege in the way Of obtaining
titles in that Territory; in as much as Mon
tana has not yet been organized into a Lane
| District, nor has a single acre III the Terri
tory vet been surveyed. With such exclu
sivc and extraordinary privileges over thu
ordinary preemptor, this Bill would be bu
the precursor Of a system Of land distribI
ton to a privileged class, unequal, unjust
and which ought not to receive the Sanction
of the general Government. Many thou
sand pioneers have turned their steps to
ward the Western Territories, seeking witt
| their wives and children, homCsteads to bt
| acquired by sturdy industry under the pre-
cmption laws. On their arrival they SHOULD
not find the timber and coal lands already
surveyed and claimed by corporations, ia
vored by special acts of Congress. q.
lie sums up his objections to the Bill a.
follows: .
list. That it gives to the New York 4
Montana Mining Co., prcemption privilege
to iron and coal lands on a large scale, anl
at one sixteenth Of the minimum price re
CURED from individuals.
''2nd. 1t giyes to the company double tn
time for payment granted to preemptors.
'3rd. Presumption rights or such a seal
to private cOrpOrators, are unequal and no:
tile to the public we'll fare. :,
18th. That it allows the company to tax
possession and use land, acquire a NatcI
thereto, before lle lllIlau lll'G Is cAtlISulHI
ed, and thus violate the good faith Of tn
Government towards the aboriginal tribes.
Just before Congress adjourned, thes
. SPECTATORS got up this bill again under
new name. and rushed it through bot
Houses. Mr.. Bingham neither speakin
nor recording his vote against it, but Il
President ~intorposed his second veto to Il
plumber scheme, and thus inallydefeated i
f w have in this Congressional Distric
, hundreds of young men and soldiers WI
intend emigrating and selecting HOMESTEAD
upon the public lands and they are no
asked to r%c-eloct MIR. Bingham who san
toned the above bill to steal from them Il
; most valuable lands in the Territory =.
Montana. and at one sixteenth the pri,
, they would be compelled to pay for it.
= viii you send such a man back to Congress
VIII the Chronicle, Mr.. Bingbam's orga
e please inform the people where his man W
! when this p'under scheme was concoctet
and whether or no he had a hand in it,
"Stand up and answer like men"