The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-04-25
wAsHIHoroH coRREsPoNDENcE.
WASHINGTON, 4. &C, April l6, 1871.
IKE lanes SURVEY.

nouncing the fact that Senator Stew
arts amendment to the appropriation
bill accepting James survey of the
eastern boundary of Nevada, would
meet close investigation i'll the House.
(The proposed amendment provides
that the Commissioner of the General
Land Office is authorized to approve
the survey, Notwithstanding any de-
parture from instructions which, in
the opinion of said Commissioner,
does not materially impair the accu-
racv of the work. When the matter
came up on Friday, Mr.. Kendall adj
vocated its acceptance, on the ground
that the people of Nevada as well as
those of Utah were anxious to have
the line fixed and settled; that it has
been in dispute a long time, and large
vested interests have grown up within
the disputed territory; a large popula-
ton has gathered there, and the I'M
certainty Of the jurisdiction of the
Courts, affecting titles to property,
creates confusion, disorder, and re-
tards the growth of the whole section.
He expressed the opinion on the IL
thority of an army engineer that the
line defined by Acts of Congress as
the eastern boundary longitude III
| degrees vest has been marked with
quite sufficient accuracy by this sur
vey. and hoped this unfortunate ques-
ton of boundary and jurisdiction,
affecting Courts, officers, tenure of
property and elections, would be set
at rest. But Mr.. Dawes, Chairman of
the Appropriation Committee, con
tended that the proposition was one of
the most unsafe that he had ever seen
inserted in Il bill of this kind. That 1t
was not proper to be inserted in an
appropriation bill. The provision, he
said, proposes to set mp the opinion of
| Office in place of a law to which every
survey since the land system of the
| United states was established has
been required to conform.
The amendment was not ~concurred
in, and Isaac will have TO rely on a
special Act for relief.
II ELKo LAND DISTRICT.
Mr.. Kendall made an effort to OBJ
tain unanimous consent to take up, on
Friday, his bill creating a new Land
District, locating the office at Elko. He
stated that the bill was recommended
bv the Commissioner of the General
Land Office. and he had received
many letters from his constituents
urging its formation As IA matter of alb
SOlute necessity to meet the wants OF
a large section of that State. which
was rapidly filling up with settlers.
and who now have to travel from 100
to 200 miles To make their entries OF
land, and cannot afford to wait nearly
a wear for the passage OF a small local
measure. MIR. HaNley, of Illinois,
objected, stating that within the last
TWO Years Il great many new Land
Districts had bee created, and he
wanted to see a letter from the Com
missioner of the General Land Office
showing the necessity for this District.
1t went over, under the rules, and the
PRAYERS of The Elko settlers are So
iiciied i'll behalf Of Mr.. Hawley, who
will probably himself have IA hard
road to travel over one of these days,
to enter a homestead.
KUKLUN y VIGILANTEs.
While the venerable Senator Nye
was engaged in a fearful appeal to the
upper house of Congress, last Friday
tevening session., to know whether 1t
was becoming Senators to stand there
discussing the Constitution upon lime
points when walls OF woe came on
every Southern breeze from ~shrieklng
victims of the ku kluN Khan; and
declaring with a blow of his fist upon
his desk that would have left 4 man
sard roof, had there been 4 human
head there) that every blow upon
the back of the humbleSt citizen hould
cause each Senator's back TO twinge
with >hame!" lit is properto remark.
right here, that Uncle JIM had an
outside engagement for that evening
to address IL meeting of Germans, (the
Senator being "A Mohawk Dutchnnan)-
and he was merely working himself
up-"chewing SOAP so to Speak-for
the approaching effort He continu-
ed: land Vet here We are. day and
night, hearing the Democratic party,
through their organization here, apol-
oriZinr for and eXcusing these out
RACES till our action has become our
shame in the eyes of the enlightened
nations of the earth. Now sir, l have
doner'
And now ome Frank Blair, Sena-
tor from Missouri, who pulls from his
sleeve or out of his boots, an article
from the Carson Stale Register, OF
March 18th, relating to the action OF
the Vigilance Committee of Virginia
| City. and sent it to the Clerk to be
read, in order TO divert the Nevada
Senator's attention from the sad theme
which excited his grief for the suffer
erS in North Carolina.
: 1t was a sort of Wintry shOwer-bath,
for a moment, and provoked the old
gentleman to assert that the Vigilance
Committee of Nevada we're all Demo-