Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-23
FIGHTING THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
The Question of Disturbing the Land Grant
Referred to q Sub-Committee-AC Com
mittee Not Hostile to the Company.

The house committee on public lands has
assigned the consideration of bills and resolu-
tions relating to land grants and forfeitures to
subcommittee consisting of Messrs. Hep
burn, of Iowa; Strait, of Minnesota, and
alone being what is called an independent dem
ocrat. Mr.. Hepburn, who is chairman. says
that the subcommittee is working commit
tee, and that measures submitted to it will
surely be disposed of with the least possible
delay. Mr.. Robeson's resolution to declare
the forfeiture of lapsed grants will probably
be referred to them. They will deal
almost exclusively with corporation
grants, those which affect Individual
rights taking another reference.
MR.. STRAITS POSITION.
Mr.. Horace B. Strait, the second member
on the public lands subcommittee, is Penn
sylvanian who, on reaching his majority. went
to Minnesota. He served through the war,
principally as q staff inspector general. After
the war became engaged in manufacturing and
mercantile business. He has been three times
mayor of Shakopee, where he lives. He
founded the First National bank of that city
and Is It's president. He was a member Of the
forty third, forty.fourth and forty-fifth con-
crosses, and was beaten by democrat for the
forty-sixth at the polls. During his previous
service IN congress Mr.. Strait has scarcely ever
figured on the floor, but he has been industri-
GUS in introducing bills relating to the price of
lands within railroad limits. At the third
session of the Forty-fifth congress he intro
duced bill granting additional rights to
homestead settlers upon railway lands-a bill
plainly tending to the benefit of the railways
in general and the Northern Pacific railroad in
~ Rv fn fha falioizod
clause in this bill here given it will be seen
that Mr.. Straits object was to give an adj
vantage to settlers buying of the railway COM
pany over settlers dealing directly with the
government, and, in fact, to set premium on
the railway lands In the market The bill
reads:
Be It enacted, etc., That from and after the pas
sage Of this act the even sections within the limits
Of any grant of public lands to any railroad compa
ny, or to any military road company or to any state
In aid of any railroad military road, shall be open
to settlers under the homestead laws to the extent Of
l6O acres to each settler. and any person who has,
under existing laws, taken homestead on any even
section within the limits OF any raroaa OF military
been restricted to eighty acress may enter under the
homestead laws additional eighty acres adjoining
the land embraced in BIS original entry. II such ad-
donal land be subject to entry, II such person
elect he may surrender his entry to the United States
for cancellations and thereapon be entitled to enter
lands under the homestead laws the same as If
the surrendered entry had not been made; and any
person making additional entry Of eighty acres or
new entry after the surrender and cancellation OF his
orgna entIy saa Dc 30 70 3 40
ng cntv.on Of snc mon anv Of the Land
embraced in his original entry shall be considered
residence and cultivation for the same length Of
time upon and OF the land embraced in his add
i've years. residence and cultivation required by law,
provided that in no case shall patent issue upon an
act until the person has actually, and in con-
upon and cultivated the land embraced therein at
least one year; ;u...,,
hin sitS hic s wss 1ess fortnnste oine to the
iateness Of the presentation. but which he has rein
troduced ct this session, and which is also In the
railway interest. 1t Ia as follows
"a bill to reduce the price OF public lands within
railroad limits BE It enacted by tne sensts ana
LOUISE Oh neprese. ss. ~ tst o tSs sh,;a
lands within railroad limits which have heretofore
been subject to presumption entry at So per acre
are hereby reduced to $126 per acre, and al bona
de settlers under the homesteaa laws on said isnds
snail DC showed 70 eneeI 10y acies .neteo
tnat WIN govern hi ~ ~ .ne ploSeS:lnes ~
Inc suo-commit.e oe,,exe ~ oe dant ,dtl
Dy corpoIauons, anu ~ oe,ng I hans VIII VIII
ialry Dy Gnem; Wy PeoII ., acso navS Dse4
cnieny IN the lnteless .. sS..,eLs, " mnoa. :
9oia tne iuiless pro'ec'lon snouia ov
gu ny tEuJ W ~ ss;t;s ,aoa
serveoiy 20 tne poncy VI ioiielung apsG9
raliroao grams, OF 10 inovenene .naI w9,lu
seek 70 Apply tne same laws 70 colporasioH Us
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support sucn an EXERCISE VI
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racine, somenS may W sda In b3t H. eu ~:
nave never hae any reason 70 uouot Ina. s!e
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olo not apprec,ate tne ulhcu5'ies Will Nnlc u,
the panic OF 1910 peset tnao anu oInel leaas az
over the country. l 40 noI Kno" oen lti
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the consideratlon 81 an cases snaii enaeavor
70 give que "elgn1 10 eAt 1 Glrcun-
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pnyslca! ocieS. 'ne S S an t,ne oan rs
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