Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-04
AMES TO THE FORE.
Echoes Of the Battle in the FOv.rtl1
District.
wAsHBURN PROVEN A LIAR

WASMBURN PROVEN A LIAR.
The Gigantic Plot to Steal Pine Lands
Worth $4O,OOO.0 900.
EXTRACT FROM ORIGINAL BILL.
DIR. A. A. Ames, Democr: stic candidate
for congress of the Fourth. district in a
speech at Music hell in Saltwater last
evening gave Mr.. Wsshbu IN, his apponea4,
a blow below the belt wb ich he will not be;
apt to recover from ur til after electien.
When Dr. Ames ressrre'i to Mr.. Washbnrn,s
bill whereby it was co ntemplated to place
the waluable pine lands of the north within!
stealing distance of the pine land thieves
hessaid:
Ever since gas nominated as the Dem
orcatic candidese for congress FROM this
district I haves&one my utmost to secure a;
copy of Mr. Washburn's bill to removel
certain bands of Indians upon the White
earth reservation. When have asked Mr..
Washburn's friends whersI could get g.
copy of 1t, they have told me he had the.
only copy .@f it there was I'm the state; that.
he gave a,true version Of its provisions in
little speech he made recently in the city!
of Minneapolis. tried Washington, but
was unsuccessful. In the mail received by
me since arriving in your city to-day,I
found a. copy of the Grand Forks Herald,
(Dakote) of March 3, 1882, which contains
a COPY of the bill. have Pc
rused this document carefully, and have no
hesitancy in pronouneing it as a bare-faced
attempt to organize forty -million-dollar
steal. When I first took the stump in this
campaign from the general information
had of the bill characterized it in mild
language as scheme by which -scheming
Land grabbers might get in their work. I
now say after reading the original bill
that it was plot to steal sac. 100000 worth
of pine lands, which ought to conslgn its
originator to a secluded home in his
$l25, 900 house for the balance of his life,
there to enjoy miserable existence upon
G4kc u VI d 0ih41lOA etok1tifS OOCo1AO0
under false pretences from the city of
Minneapolis. Mr.. Washburn denied the
charge 1 made that the bill was to allow
the pine lands in the Red lake reservation
to be sold to the highest bidder in
lots to suit the purchaser. He said this
in speech and it was reiterated in his
subsidized press throughout the district
with the evident intent of creating the
impression that lied. Here is the clause
as it appears in the original bill as intro
duced by Mr.. Washburn. If it has been
amended since it was not his fault. This
is as he intended it should be at first:
Sec. 3. That after the said lands en-
braced in any of said reservations have
been appraised as herein provided, the
secretary of the interior shall be, and here
by is, authorized to offer the same at pub
lie sale, through the United States land
Office for the district where the land is sit
uated, to the highest bidder, for cash only,
for not less than the appraised
value of the same, which shall in
no case be less than $1,25 per acre,
in tracts not exceeding 1GO acres
to any one person where the lands are
chiefly valuable for agricultural purposes;
and where the lands are chiefly valuable
for their pine or other valuable timber,
the character of the land in all cases to be
determined by the report of the appraisers.
the same shall be sold for cash to the
highest bidder, as herein provided, in
tracts of not more than 160 acres: Pro
vIDED, That NO LIMIT SHALL BE FIXED AS TO
THE AMOUNT OF THIS CHARACTER OF
LAND TO BE PURCHASED By ANY ONE INDIyID-
UAL."
Now, this is exactly what charged, and
Mr.. Washburn denied it emphatically.
throw the lie back into the teeth of Mr..
Washburn and his subsidized press. Mr..
Washburn may intend to amend his bill;
give the ''thieving clause" as he intended
it should go through when he introduced
it. An earnest protest to the bill, from the
chamber of commerce of Grand Forks,
Dakota, dated March 4, 1882, against the
bill, stayed it from passage, and as the game
is large do not wonder at Mr.. Washburn's
anxiety to be returned to congress that he
may try and get this gigantic steal consum-
ated that he may realize pin-money suf-
icient to meet current and campaign ex-
penses.
The lands comprised within the terms of
the bill are those of the Red lake, Leech
lake, Cass lake, Mile Laos, Fond du Lac,
Grand Portage, Bots Fort, Lake Winneba-
goshish and White Oak in Minnesota; also
lands occupied by the Chippewa Indians
in Otter Tail and Todd counties of this
state, also the lands occupied by the Turtle
Mountain bands of Pembina Chippewas in
Dakota territory.
The objections urged by the Grand
Forks chamber of commerce were:
First 1t puts it within the power
of rings" or combinations of capitalists
and spectators, to purchase from
the government vast areas of pine TIM
Der lands at one-tenth of their market
value.
Second-It virtually abrogates the
homestead and presumption acts over
nearly one-half of northern Dakota, in
Guiding the finest portions of the territory,
and throws the land open to nonresident
spectators and bonanza farmers"
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