New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-26

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4, possible by history, We have turnedto tn
legislation Of the period In the Unitet
States Statutes, Thirt -dfh Congress, frs
\ session. .ehaptass eishtysone and eiehty
.yo,lsSss ;Pass a95, gmy 'se found 4 sth'
| An act to provide for the location of Ger
tain confirmed privste land claims in tn,
State OF Missouri; and for other purposes
The first section recsteso and describe.
each separately and by name . number O
land titles in the State of Missouri 7 Thu
act confirms each of these titles. The
second section enacts: s,.s,s ,s5als |
That the decisions in favor of larl claim.
4 ants made by P. Grimes, Joshua Lewis and
Thomas b. Robertson. commissioners al
pointed 70 adjust private land claims in the
eastern district Of the Territory Of Orleans
communicated to the House OF Represents
tlves, by the Secretary of the Treasury,
on the ninth day OF january, 1912, and
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papers: Public Lands [Duff Green's adi.
toni, volume two, from page 224 to 367, in
| elusive, be and the same are hereby con-
frmed, saving and reserving, however. to
sll adverse claiinants the rightto assert the
validity of their claims in a court or courts
of justice; provided. however, that any
claim 30 recommended for confirmation,
I but which may have been rejected, in whole
or IN part, by any subsequent board Of
| commissioners, be and the same is hereby
specially excepted from confirmation.
! Subsequent sections provide for the
registry Of these titles and the issue Of
patents under them. eseat.,s .,-s.. iJ.s-
Such was the adroit Section amended
upon the actto provide for the location of
certain confirmed land, claims In the stcse
Of Missouri an amendment not based on
memorial not known TO. many who were
called to vote on it, confirming in certain
claimants title, to valuable lands. This
amendment is examined and vouched for
by one Louisiana Senator, chairman Of
the Committee on Public Lands Now if
this were an unobjectionable title, why
conceal it as above? Why not have called
it by name, as in the Missouri confrma.
ton? :, Those Senators from Louisiana
were either grossly negligent. OF in cor
rupt completely with the wrong. i
But TO the sequel: The public indigna.
ton at the outrage perpesrated on q
hundred settlers seems to have cul-
minated in convincing Congress Of the
fraud, for We ind in the United States
Statutes. Thirty-sixth Congress, first ses-
sion, chapter III, that it was on the
tvepty-dsst Of June. 1860. enacted as fol.
lows: -u- 7sr sapm 10. -la- s--3
That Che second section Of an ac. passed
the second day Of June, 1858, entitled an
act TO provide for the location of certain
confirmed private land claims in the State
Of Missouri, and for other purposes, and AL
other parts of said act which relate to lands
in Louisiana and confirmed by said second
section tsO far as said lands arc confirmed, j
be and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. !. And be it further enacted, That
Congress hereby refuses to confirm to the
claimants under the Houmas grant. the
lands embraced in certificates No. LIS. to
William Conway; No. l27, to Daniel Clark,
and No. i33 to Donaldson & Scott,
Approved June q 1860. '
u We ask i such scathing sebnke was
ever before administered 20 high and hon
orable representatives: :. fraud COM
mitted on Congress, with theft indorse.
ment and sanction, openly expurged from
the statute book befose their eyes-per.
haps in dead silence and with unbroken
unanimity! And We are told that the
frauds Of interpolating bills. and clerks !
Office enactments, are Of to-day. But the |
steady purpose Of the REPupl,cAN to ex. |
pose the domestic sascals seems to alarm |
the Slideu strikers, lest there should be |
some zip up sha: may bring item to the |
surface SEQ ~ IL IL "" !
. Speaking Of the Houmas claims, one
volunteers to say. we infer from intimate
kno wledge: ). -ass,. h.aa,.,. !
Mr.. S!deli had nos dollars ;n:eres, in |
its decision. Ifhehsd ever had any. it was I
long before parted with. |
Z, # tradition was mistaken in believing
Sidell to be co-partner in this nesarious
We will admit him to have
sold out, as stated Il is not material to
The matter. We are exposing the cog.
aizance of two attorneys in the Senate.
How OF whether they got their pay is !
neither known nor cared. They sold their
constituents. Of permitted item 20 be
'oid. which was the same:
But the defense Of Slidel proceeds: /
The Plaquemines frauds weye never more
eriOus in character than that of an increase
~ four or five hundred OF the usual vote !
't . single parish, and on careful iuves- !
!gation. it was shown that this increase in
Iolved IL the maio mere technical irre2u-
arities, commisted during a time OF high !
'oliticaf excitement: ~ 49, IL
And SO this ,wasa triaing fraud in those
laysb But With this example, how Pea.
opable that with the improvement Of the
'reech-loader ballot box, the patron saint
# the Herald should with ''thess fingers"
ave manipulated votes by the thousand,
$ John S.idell did by the hundred. The
efepder Of the "domestic rascals' dis.
utes ''the wholesale sobberies of the
fcDonogh. Touro. Girod and Fink