Arizona citizen., 1872-03-02
THE DELEGATES AT WORK.

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 measures outside of Congress, as we'll
 as to act harmoniously together in
 promoting legislation affecting all.
 The great railway and land measures
 are each of special interest to the
 Territories, and none understand their
 practical effects better than the Dele
 gates or can give better opinions on
 provisions of such laws than they.
 They meet every Monday for brfsi-
 ness-with Hon. R. c. Mccormick as
 Chairman and J. H. Riley, of Cali
 fornia, Secretary. At their meeting
 of January 20, the bills pending for fix
 ing the pay of members of Territorial Legislatures, clerks, &c., providing for
 mileage and compensation of United
 States Judges, District Attorneys, Marshals, Clerks of Courts, &c.,, were
 considered and amended, and a res olution was adopted to endeavor to
 have the bills made general in their operation in the several Territories. The Education bill and its provisions for the application of the proceeds of the sale of public lands in the Terri tories toward educational purposes in the several States was discussed; as was also the revision of the laws affecting appeals from United States Courts to the Supreme Court.
 Another most important measure was discussed relating to the public land law. Particular attention was called to the fact that the law only provides for homesteads for actual settlers on surveyed public lands, and also to the injustice done to many of the settlers, who had in good faith made locations upon unsurveyed lands, and who were after wards, when the lands were surveyed, | compelled to relinquish their houses and improvements when happening to be within the scope of railroad and other land grants covering surveyed lands. MT. Garfeld's suggestions that homestead bills be so amended that the date of settlement on unsur- veyed lands may count after the survey as part of the period of five years actual occupation requisite towards establishing a homestead claim, was unanimously concurred in, and Messrs. Garfield, Claggett and Merritt were selected as sub-com- mittee of the Delegates to confer with the Committees on the Territories and on Public Lands upon the subject.
 Although the Delegates have no votes, and thereby their influence Is diminished, they probably do more to shape important legisla- ton than four-ffths or more of the voting members of the House.
 GENERAL JUAN LUNA, of Fronte- ras, has been i'll command of troops It and near that place since December 16. Fronteras is in the midst of a lovely section of superior land, wa cred by fine mountain streams, md plenty of pine timber is near sbout. With these essential merits, he peoEe there cannot prosper, be- ,ause of the incessant raids of the oo Apaches from the Chiricahua and f other mountains in proximity. MT. ?. R. Fully, of this town, doubts if A here is place on earth with more natural merits than section of country [ ome fifteen miles in extent at Fron- eras, just across our border about lue south of Camp Bowie. MT. T. ecently received letter from General Luna who informed him that while . he Indians had been stealing ill De- ember and January, he had inflicted ( ome punishment on the savages, and