The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-01-21

physician at Helena, Ark, during the war,
and had the sum of $l,729 in current
funds in the Louisiana State bank, which
was seized and conveyed into the treasury,
The ground on which the president vetoed
the bill was that this sum was confederate
money, for which misinformation the treas
ury department is responsible.
The House on yesterday passed the bill
alluded to in the Times dispatches of Fri
day night to quiet certain land titles in
Iowa, and as it is believed to be the first
land grab or lobby scheme of the session,
the opponents of the same are endeavor-
ing to secure the Presidents veto. The
bill has been before Congress for several
years, and its history is of interest, as fol
lows In 1856 a grant of land was made
to build the Rock Island and Pacific rail
road across the State of Iowa. This was
a grant of six sections to the mile. with
an indemnity limit of Is miles on each
side of the road. In 1864 that company
came to Congress and asked for additional
legislation. 1t asked in the first place to
be permitted to change its line of loca-
ton. to make detection southwark about
20 or % miles from the line first located
1t also asked congress to increase its grant
from six sections to the mile to ten sec
tons to the mile, and to extend the indem-
nity limit from Is to 30 miles The com
pany also proposed that instead of confn-
ing itself to alternate sections, it should
| take both odd and even numbered see
/ tons, so far as might be necessary to give
/ it ten sections to the mile This is the
whole legislation from the beginning to
the end. They did slocate their lands in
! 1864; they did obtain the additional land /:
they did obtain the privilege of going to
indemnify themselves 20 miles on either
side of the road instead of Is; they did
obtain the privilege of selecting, in refer
ence to the odd and even number Of sec
tions. And in making this new location
there were 90. 900 acres Of land which had
been embraced in the first location Now
it is in reference to these 80, ZOO acres, oI
perhaps it would be more correct to say
100000 acres, that this question arises
These 100000 acres Of land, then, liz
north Of the exterior limits Of 25 miles d
the line of this road as located and con
structed Now this company comes t
congress, long after it completed this road
long after the road has become paying
for the stock has been quoted all the wal
from 10 to lis and ll9 and asks a gran
of these 100000 acres which were EN-
braeed in the first survey of the road, al,
which would have belonged to them i
they had not changed the original location
, of the line of their road, There are
great number of citizens in that countr
who are desirous of obtaining lands an,
, building up homes for themselves. Set
; tiers have gone there and settled upon tn
lands embraced in this controversy; it is i
effect contest between the poor men Q
: Iowa who want homes for themselves an
; their families, and this railroad corpora
: ton which has already grant from tn
r government of the United States, All
: which is now prosperous company, if "
. are TO Judge by the value Of its stock !
. the market. 1t was charged on the foe
f Of the house that the memorial Of citizen
protesting against the passage Of this bi
: had been suppressed, when the facts WEI
: notorious that after it passed numeroU
: members rushed into the lobby in the rea
Of the chair and congratulated a not0riou
e lobby agent, who, it is openly charged
! paid $4,000 for the measure.
This is the bin of which the Hon. job
t B. Hawley, of Rock Island, was the chan
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