The Grange advance., 1874-03-11
HOMER, March 4th, 1874.
Editors Grange Advance:

agtsEI+ AVW0A1 VAOSIA 1sAAs Aot1.
Editors Grange Adpance:
my correspondence Of February 10th,
+ mot think of creating controversy
s Aly one, much less you editors, yet I
that any one who is legislator,
Ut sler in or out Of the order of P. Of H.,
will be led into accepting amendments
I'll or o substitute which kills its vitali-
{ r. suffers himself to be brow beaten by
| i monopolist, shall feel it my duty to
J prove him. (Good-Ed.) Reprove the
Use and they will learn. On the other
\ nand, if do or say any thing worthy of
5reproof, will stand it, no matter how it
comes. You said you failed to see the
point II wrong committed by our Bro. DON
nelly in relation to his substitute or bill
referred to- l supposed you were we'll
posted in our legislative proceedings or
should have made minute Of the entire
bill and the Drake amendments. You SEEM
ed to understand the memorial so I will only
refer to Donnelly's bill and amendments.
The original bill was that if the time was
extended for building the St. Paul & Pacific
railroad that the land grant should be re-
newed back to the State, and not to the
railroad company, and that was just right.
but brakes amendments killed it. Here
they are:
Mr.. Drake to Mr.. Donnelly, " hadn't you
better make an exception so that if the road
runs through valuable timber lands the
railroads might have the privilege of hold
ing some of its own land for its own use in
order to secure material for building the
road?" Mr.. Donnelly at once incorpora-
ted the idea in his substitute.
Mr.. Drake next suggested to MIR. Donnel-
ly the idea of excepting water powers
man, he said, might settle upon a quarter
section of land which was perhaps, on &C.
count of a water privilege, the only valuable
piece Of property within large area, and
allows the railroad company to own for a
hundred years thousand acres Of worth
less sand hills surrounding him. Mr.. Don
nelly was momentarily perplexed at this
idea, but he promptly inserted that amend
ment ALSO Now Mr.. Editor please don't fail
to give US all the important legislative
proceedings to favor friend or foe, but let US
have all the light we can get.
Drake was pretty sharp. The idea of
man owing water privilege in the midst
Of large area of worthless sand hills. I
would like to know where the man would pet
his custom unless he ground sand. I will
say that our Bro. Donnelly has said great
many good things, but think that if he
had thought more and said less he would
have done a great deal more. But fail to
see where any of our present legislature
has done much for the whole people. They
seemed to have done something for them
selves by voting fifteen dollars for postage.
Dear Bro. Of the ADVANCE let us avoid con-
troversy as much as possible and stand up
for the right under all circumstances. Hop
ing we are on good terms again, will
give you an item of our home doings. Last
Friday evening we had full Grange; we
have fifty members, and besides Homer
Valley and Wytoca Oranges were repre-
sented there, and after having received
four members into full connection we were
helped by the committee to plentiful har-
vest feast in mid-winter. So much for being
Granger. We were not hungry and didn't
have to be to partake Of those bounties of
a Granger's providence. Our Worthy Lee
turer relishes good things, and so do we.
By the way, worthy editors, come down
some time with full stomach and try them.
(We fear our correspondent is not familiar
with the stomach capacity Of the ADVANCE
editors, or he would scarcely have made
such a reckless invitation.-Ed.) We have
lately received some documents purporting
to be from our State Grange and should be
private, and were not accompanied by any
official Specification, and we are at loss to
know as to the true source. Hope our
State Grange will come down to business.
D. COOK. P. H.
Either our correspondent is very much
mistaken or we are, and we are Of course
inclined to think that it is him. We know
Of no such bill as he refers to. We have
seen nothing of it, nor heard any thing Of
it except from Bro. Cook. We cannot un-
derstand why such bill should be intro
duced, because it could have no effect what
ever if it passed. The State Legislature
could not fix any conditions upon the sale Of
lands belonging to the United States.