The Portland daily press., 1884-07-07
MALICIOUSLY FALSE.
Campaign ISLANDERS Met and Re-
futed by Gen. Logan.
FALSETY OF THE STORIES ABOUT
LAND GRABBING FULLY
EXPOSED.

WASHINGTON, July 5-Shortly after the Senate
had been called to order Mr. Logan rose and said:
Mr.. President,-I deem it due to my friends that
/ call attention to certain statements that find
copied in the public press we'll as In the Con-
gressional Record of the 9th of June. First, am
set down in list of what is termed Gland grab
bers, as having in some mysterious way accumu-
lated the vast amount of $4,000 acres of land.
This statement is utterly without foundation in
fact. The New York Herald of the 29th of June
adds 10000 head of cattle. wish this were true,
but there is no foundation for the statement. I
would take no notice of this, however, were it not
for the charge that follows. Second, the person
who made the statement, after finding that 1t was
untrue, instead of doing justice to one against
whom he might by his erroneous statements have
done injury, proceeded to put another false
statement on record, follows: 81 might have
said to the deluded soldiers of this land, what do
you think of great Senator VINO in his greed tried
to absorb the territory which belongs to the actual
settler in a land that made for independent
free holders and small farmers? What do you
think of man who poses as statesman and
patriot, as the friend par excellence of the soldier,
and who, under the cover of his brother-in-law,
went to New Mexico and tried to pre-empt the most
valuable land lying along her streams, and was
only estopped by the public officer finding out that
it belonged to another class which he professed the
utmost friendship for, and who, from his manner
and appearance rumor says has their blood in his
VEINS tried to steal from his own kith and kin
hundreds OF thousands of acres of land taken from
the unfortunate savage who was unable to protect
himself until an honest Secretary Of the Interior
went there with the surveyor and took back the
land for the Zunis.' Now, Mr.. President, this
statement is so far as am concerned, or any one
else, of whom have any knowledge, maliciously
false.
Sir, what are the facts out of which this attack
has been made? Captain Lawton, Major Tucker
and Mr.. Stout located claims at Neutria Springs
and lands adjacent in New Mexico, not however,
until after ascertaining from the General Land
Office that the land subject to location, being
outside the Indian reservation, being five miles
from the Indian line and some twenty five thirty
miles from the town of ''Zuni''-so it will be seen
that the hundreds of thousands of acres of land'
that this man says that was stealing from the
Indians resolves itself into three homesteads or
desert act claims, located by two army officers and
one citizen on public land, open to such entry, with
which location, however, had nothing to do.
Mr.. Logan then read a letter from Commissioner
Mcfarland of the General Land Office showing that
the land referred to was subject to location and
entry as public land at the time and, if not that
the locStion would have been subject to cancela-
tion MIR. Logan also read long letter from Major
w. f. Tucker, United states Army, addressed to
the Secretary of the Interior in which the writer
complains that there is disposition to inter-
fere and change the location of the Zuni reserva-
ton surveying, under executive order OF Presl-
dent Hayes, and concludes with the statement:
These entries in wise affect the interests of the
Indians, and we cannot why the rights of other
people should be disturbed merely to satisfy the
wailings of some disappointed persons who did not
get the land themselves, and now wish to put the
Indians forward to do injury to others merely TO
crafty their own vindictive feelings
l. Additional letters were presented by Mr.. Logan,
one from Capt. Lawson of the 4th Cavalry, dated