The daily gazette., 1882-02-01
From the N. Y. World,
the story tine NOrth Paeins.

;. . "a NV passage OF IN
Northern Pacific land. swindling bill
OF The FOrty-tirst Congress. Thi
bill Mr.. Clarke, as a ConRressma,
. from Kansas, vigorously but unsuc.
J cessfully opposed, and his impressiy,
, picture Of the methods by which 4
was carried through is made more i'm
presslve by collation. with pages Of tn,
OongrssS'oDaI Record. These page,
testify to tue poWerful lobby aud th,
enormous legislative subsidies which
lay behind this bill. The notoriou,
Senator Howard, Of Michigan, cham
pioned IL in tho Senate, assisted main.
y by Pdmeroy, Of Kansas; Corbett.
Of Y 'sgon, ana Nye, of Nevada. VIM.
a. Wheeler pressed it through the
House With most suspicious yigor
against the earnest tiibustering ~
some OF his especial friends. The bill
or Joint resolution of whi.h Mr..
Clarke now revives the history was first
taken up in The Senate February 2S.
ls1V. u The slaL & OF the lobby il was
Instantly Jumped upon" by such
Sepators as Harlan, CaaserlS, Thur
n,an and B4yard. These Senators d..
nounced The measure aud its iuevita.
bie Results 10 language which now
seems prophetic. Seuator Harlan said
This an additional grant of half the
land for twenty more miles, making
one half the land In a stfip of 100
miles 10 width across half the conti-
neht. ! submit " che Senate whether
we can In good conscience ask the
Congress of the United States TO en-
large that grant p
Senator Casserly, then az ALWAYS
the champion OF sound law and popu-
lar rights, said ''fhis system of
tying up YAst tracts Of the puollc do
maiu Is mOrtmain more EVIL in its
nature than that which was struck
down in the early days of the common
law and far more reacning IN its onera-
tiOns. This company has already re-
ceived AZ, wv, OOO acres of the public
lands An empire in itself, / beg
Senators 70 Observe" Senator Thnr.
man significantly turned toward his
colleagues who were pressing the
measure and said "Without anv
memorial, without any recommends.
tion from the Government, witbuut
oae single fact verified and without
anything but the merest hearsay. We
are asked To make this donation--for
argue about IL as you will, the simple
naked effect is that the Government
builds and equips the road and gives
It to private corporation to be a
monopoly 10 the hands OF that corpo-
ration" Soon seeing, however, that |
the bill would certainly be driven
through the Senate, Senator Thurman |
Intellectually labored to inject an
amendment Obliging the road to sell
land in small quantities to settlera At
a limited price. This amendment the
apeoulators and their tools fought with
positive Yeuom. Senator Bayard, fore
casting the action which il behooyes
Congress under snch leadership as his
to take toSday, said "This whole
matter stands as Tree gift by the
Government OF this country to u Gers
tain favored corporation. Ii this SUBJ
ject were more thoroughly ventilated
think it wOald raise storm of poDu.
lar indignation and horror rather than
the approval with which IL is now met
at the hands of those few men who are
in this matter" Now oh
serve who these interested men,
we're ! During the several days Of de.
bate Senator Schulz persistently alb {
lented himself, as the Record shows.
1n all the interlocutory votes, even
iown to the last OF these votes taken
Jnly i've minutes before the bill came
up for final passage, when he Grant
nJo The Senale and finding forty votes
Or the bill and only eleven against il,
10 that It's passage was secured, slvlv
got his name recorded in the negative.
whether as blind or as bid NAV be-
eft to be considered in the light of
lis subsequent course as a Secretary
If the Interior.
Among the torty--a number made a.
niliar ib this conRection by an old I
Arabian tale-were Ames, OF Mississ-
ppi; Cameron the elder, Fenton, Flan-
lagan, Kellogg, Patterson, SAWYER. of
south Carolina; Spencer, OF Alabama. l
md Williams. The only OMEN opno'
rents Of the sw ndle were Bayard
foreman, CasserIy, Fowler, Harlan.
IoCreery, Morton, Pratt, Saulsburv
md Wiley. The Senate MEASURE was \
'assed April II and 1t went throuqh 4
he House Commi tee on Railroads dnr-
ng the ensuing week to be renorted
day 8 by William A, Wheeler, Chairman 8
u that committee, who, to the great
urprise of everybody not In the ring, I
aid, as be made his report, 81 desire 10 !
AVE the measure put upon its PASSAGE :,
dr. Wheeler had barely begun his
peech when he was interrupted bv :.
'amael J. Randall, who asked HIM: =
How many acres of land are donated =
y this grant p Mr.. Wheeler shame 4
essly answered; 1 am utterly unable 81
0 tell the gentleman now. but b
10 will understand what is the extent
t the grant before get tbroudb.' Mr.. e
randall at once responded: | am sur t
rised the gentleman should support II
his Dill when he Is unable to Il us the
Ium Der OF acres OF land granted by it," y
DR.. Van Wyck, then of New York, aud n
low Senator from Nebraska, who op- <
'osed this PARTICULAR grant very vie9r-
nsiy, also essayed an interruption when
DR.. Wheeler, who was speaking trip
hngy on the tongue as he had been o
aught, condescendingly replied: II il
lesire TO say without interruption, and Ii
Vhen have concluded shall call the ii
'leVious question, and II It shall bel Ii
us-taiRed | will then yield TO m
Gentlemen" As soon as be had finished d
lis language be yielded TO lMr. Wilson, Al
Il Minnesota, who, true TO the lobby, a
made another sat snaaph In favor of ,ha .