The Daily state register. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1870-1872, 1871-06-13
ITAK SWAMP LA1Ds-TW RENO
CRESCENT'S CASE.

grant wrongs yet inflicted upon the
people of this State, involved in the
Withholding of the swamp and over
flowed lands, was evidently not writ
ten in the most amiable mood. There
are some expressions contained in
the article which could have been
omitted without diminishing its
force; expressions which now appear
as witnesses againstthe editors good
taste. If We were to make a dag
nosis of the mental condition in
which the article was written we
should be disposed to regard them
as 1.-The self-inficted hurts of genius"
struggling yer al exposed incon-
sistency and logical debility. Cam
didlv we believe the editor of the
Crescent finds himself occupying a
position in this matter which he
never intended to fill. Il, therefore,
his hand Is occasionally a little TN
steady, We shall let it pass as one of
the accidents OF the occasion.
The Crescents defense is elaborate.
and as it is the only argument vet
enunciatcd in defense of this extra.
ordinary policy by which this State
has lost its best lands, it is deserving
Of attention.
Boiled down, however, we find
that 1t is limited to a denial Of only
that portion of Il previous state
ment which asserted that the railroad
obtained the benefit of the lands
which should have been granted to
the State. 1t sets up in reply two
facts: First. that the Act OF Con
gress granting a land subsidy to the
railroad antedated the Act enabling
the Territory OF Nevada TO form a
State Government; and again, that
the Enabling Act authorizing a State
Government was passed at a time
when u population did not entitle
US to one-half of a representation in
Congress.
These two points are set up by
way Of justification for that proceed
ing by which Nevada, alone among
the Pacific States. plunges landless
into the financial future: We admit
both as facts, but fail to see their
Pertinency. Il IS true thar the Act
Of Congress granting a land subsidy
to the railroad a~ntelatc,l the State
Government; but the tile to these
lands did NOT. That title vested in
the railroad company only after the
the completion OF the railroad
through these lands. and the fling
and acceptance Of It's survey at
Washington. It IS not long since
that survey was accaptel-manv
Years after the organization of the
State Government. What we're orr
Senators and Representatives doing
duri2s all those wears: The Cres-
cent appears to imagine that We cen
sure Ncvala's Senators simply for
the opposition made by at least one
Of them last Spring. This falls far
short Of the facts. M. Stewards
speech il opposition 70 the memo
rial Of the Legislature of Nevada
asking for an appropriation of these
swamp lands, was Of itself unim-
portant. It was only single mal,i-!
/est2ti0,1 OF al opposition rs cid as
z Hiqts g~0rerHDselt. 1t was simply
on attempted apology ior q policy
pursued for years, antedating even
that Act Of Congress alluded to by
the Crescent. 1t was the duty of
representatives to have had az
act passed granting these lands to
State long yearsago-lonG before
any title vested in the railroad COM
pany to lands along the Humboldt.
Il has been held in the case OF
swamp lands granted TO California
that the State took It's title to these