The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-01
ADDR ESso.
HON., J. R. WEST,
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that cana1 Wa@ -. Ia.
h.d more time to locate IT. ,a 10
tmean the 18th OF August, 1910
and tho 2sth Of. that month, Mr.
1l~ entered up sixty two hun
1 1vs1 W." acres. Tie message Of the
@ mev.r 's, Of the State Of Louisiana
a1l the attention Of the lesls'a:
tare to the fact that it was neees 81 !.
'4 to e ezprepiiote maitland for. The
! ; ys0 Of f, he government, bore date
.nsuuary 9Th. On the 9th OF Feb
,,sry. 1871 the Legislature OF Lou
|. ;,;ana passed an act giving the
United States Jurisdiction over all
the territory required for the pro
yoscd St. Philip Canal. In section
:, the Legislature conveyed all the
lands by the State within tho limit
Of the canal size had very little to
convey, because Immediately follow
inc tho accommodation of the gov
ornor; notifying tho community OF
what was the prospective action OF
the legislature, one of your repre-
seutativcs at Washington, within
,so weeks after the governor had an
uouueol that fact, stepped down there
eul for twenty fvo cents an acre
yr~spea up oil tho land that remained
there.
voice: Who was it ? Give his name
Senator WEsT-
I lind from tho records of tho Land
Omce-mark me, gentlcmcn-lct ME
repeat again that on the eth day Of
January, Governor Kellogg said to the
legislature "cede this land to the United
Sa,tcs"-and on the nineteenth day of
January, Caleb G.. Forshey, as Us
s;sncc and agent for Joseph s. Copes,
entered up two Thousand acres Of land
there. Before the State could protect
ITSELF, before it had an opportunity to
deed this laud to the United States, that
tho interest of the citizens. of Louisiana
might be protected, this gentlemen steps
forward and volunteers his protection.
Professor FoRsHEY-
Is ny unmc has been mentioned, I do
sirs 10 reply.
Tho President called Professor Forshey
b, order.
Senator WEsr-
If the gentleman will take his seat .
moment I will give him an opportunity to
reply after l get through with him. Now.
gentlemen, did the thing stop there? NJ.
Bat after this property had been conveyed
to tho United States, us the Legislature of
Lcaiaiana thought and you thought, and
mr.. So: e fec simple and title to that pros
lsrity were vested in the government in
trust for %you-after the act was passed,
Mis- man bought more lnnd at tho State
land Office, as the records of that office
show. Not satisfied with intcrposing in
indecent haste in the interval that was
necessary for the legislature to net upon
se suggestions of the governor. Caleb G.
f'rshey, subsequent to that act becoming
a solid st~tue, went to that Office and
bought more land, and I have the evi
dcncc Of it here in my possession. On
the sixth Of April, 1874, sixty days after
the passage Of that act, Mr.. Beckwith steps
forward and takes up 47S acres in one fiat
and l62S in another-two thousand acres
dland. These patents must have been
presented to Governor Kellogg, We oil
know hatin the multifarious dutiessof his
ofacc he must sometimes rely upon subor-
d'nate officers. But there is one fact that
MUST command yonr attention: that sub
sequent to the passage of that act, not
satisfied with what they had, they must
s'ep forward and buy more. Now, siz,
l will give way to the gentleman.
Professor FoRsHEy-
1 have to state to this audience
tn''' without any knowledge what
ever OF what the Legislature was
DONG, l, as a surveyor, was en-
ployed by parties, and I entered
lands there, which are there yet. I
urged upon those parties, and they
Promised they would grant to the
(nlted States all the lands they
wanted without charge, should the
canal ever be located upon their /.
nnds or near them. I will state at
Tue same timo that all the lands !:
'a's | entered are four or five miles
,son the location Of the survey of {
,tA!or Howell. I will state in ad- 3,
'''on that I entered five thousand /;
@tes nearer the city. The owner {
'a'p Of the land always considered i
" De IN somebody, and it was i'm
material in whom-whether it was !