, 1870-06-04
LAND FOR THE LANpLESS,

bills now pending before Congress unde
twenty-one different heads OF genera, high
" indicative of tie progress which land
grabbing is making, from fine art to the
higher standard of a science. They are as
follows:
L. Near grants, asking for from siz to
forty sections per mile of track, with the
prospect of rise in the demand to fifty OF
SIXTY sections of G40 acres each, per mile Of
track, as Congress grows more induIgert.
2 Extending the time on old grants, go
as to enable the march of population to
surround the lands granted, and bring up
the price to point which will enable the
company to build the road out of the grant
without calling in outside capital
3. Retiring er>inet grants, which have
lapsed because the jobbers had no money,
and could not build the rond without.
4. 'Butterlng n former grants, as in
the case Of the Northern Pacific, which,
finding that some CT the sections it e.
pected to have got have been taken up by
actual settleras gets Congress to give it as
many new sections somewhere else as il
l -A0t1As As "e0 k5S+4@Eo ~ AAsGs
s. Explaining old grants into new ones,
as in the case Of the Central Brunch Union
Pacific, which runs from Atchison 100
miles west to nowhere, the object of the
explanation being to satisfy the stockhold-
e1s TINT a railroad running nowhere shall
have its land just as if it ran somewhere.
6. Granting ldnds in the Nfstern States
in aid Of RAILROADS IN Eastern States, as for
| instance, a million acres in Montana to
| build 4 road IN Massachusetts, very
| happy idea that, showing remarkable in
! genuity as the Apostle enjoins, "Not ench
one his own, but every man anothers
| wealth.
{. Southern grants, of, say, ten Sec
lions per mile, in such manner that, if the
land can be found down South, well if
not, take it where it can be found
s. Aanoridl grants for establishing d
local aristocracy in localities where first
class gentlemen are greatly needed to exert
missionary influence. One of these
grants, the Florida Archipelago, to canal
company, and another presents huge
county in Louisiana to railroad company.
9. Granting rights IF 4rdy, only,
which never pass because they have no
money in them.
10. agreeing that the government 1siz
run the road if the company, after selling
its lands cannot make it pay. r.
II. Granting lands already sold, with
a proviso TINT, On finding them sold, the
government VIII pay out Of the Treasury
Sl.25 per acre for every acre intended to
have been granted. This is money de-
mand Instantly, and very ingenious.
12. Granting the proceeds Of the sale Of
land, the government having the trouble
and expense OF selling, and the railroads
being relieved OF all risk and: trouble, ex-
cept to receive the cash.
13, Paying railroads ont of tho Treas
MY for widening their gauge, say $4,000
acres of land, or the proceeds, for twenty
miles of truck widened. This is very
smart!
IA. Enabling grantees who cannot raise
the money necessary to get title to their
grants. to mortgage them in advance Of
getting title, SO as to ralse the money to buy
them with-a capital idea for those who
have no other capital but ideas.
Is. Suindlin9 the indians, by provid-
| ing that railroad companies may buy the
land of the Indians direct, without the IN
terposition Of government officers.
1G. Confseaaing Indian rsseroationsb b
granting to railroad companies lands which
have been set apart for the Indians, on the
,,rofopoe 4hak 41,a Tn l;o-, hove ,-n;,.a ~
claims, and are anxious to sell.
Il. Expanding former grants, as where
company in its modesty only asked ten
sections, and now having built the road and
finding it costs more than it might have
cost, they ask to have their grant s'nadc
equal to that of the Northern Pacidc.'
Is. Grants Of land between the Rocky
Mountains and the Sier1as to aid in building
the 1evees Of the Mississippi, an objec1
which, Ike the poor, 1--WE have always
with US"
10. For building tedgon roads, SO many
sections for 80 many miles, brought up to
such a standard that two-wheeled con-
veyance carrying boy can be driven over
it without upsetting, if one man travels
on each side OF the conveyance, holding
down the shafts with stout rope.
20. For aiding canals, building bitches
for irrigation, and so on
/ 81 For special services, IS, for instance,
to one man who found a spring IN desert;
to'nnother who explored a canon; to third
who found a mine
The correspondent doubtless intended
this design to be complete, but We believe
there are still some grants of lands for
building mining tunnels, besides the glo-
nous land grant to the Mediterranean
Steamship and Emigration Company, which
is going to afford market for American
Goals, by purchasing with money from the
United States Treasury the coal it burns in
its steame1s- Also, land grants to dig out
harbo1s, and to lay telegraph cables The
motto Of these land beggars seems
to be that everything is to be had for the
asking, and nothing without. The govern
ment is supposed to have assumed the
functions Of Divine Providence for the
whole people, and to have written over the
doors of the National Treasury: "Ask and
ye shall receive; knock and it shall be
opened unto you" Bnt those who hold
the governments overdne and protested
promises to pay, may keep On holding
than, as the Treasury has suspended pay
ment Of its debts, having no more money
on hand tlan it needs for purposes OF
charity, and for the purchase of outposts- E
THE CASE or WH1TTEM0RE.
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Of Congress, was accused Of having sold al