The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-22
PHOSPHOEU.


| Lieutenant Greeley aud party, Referred
| to the committee of the whole.
Holman moved 10 suspend the rulo, and
adopt the following;
| Resolved That In the Judgment a Tire
house all public lands heretofore granted
state and corpora ons IN aid ~ the ton.
struc Ion ,i rail Dads, 80 lar as the sam. a. I.
subject TO forfeiture by reason Of the non
iulii llment of tue conditions on which The
grants were made, ought 10 he dee ared tor.
! ielted TO tie United staies and ret tlred 10
| the public domain.
Resolved, That IL IL tho highest pa nlic
interest that the laws toHching public lands
he 80 framed ard administered hs to uit /.
mately secure lreeholds thereon to IN,
greatest number oi citiz'ns ard that % this
end all laws facilitating specializing IA
| public lands or authorizing or permit tlug
| the entry or purchase thereof Ia large
bodies ought to he repealed, ana all public
lands adapted TO agriculture and subject
to county grants and those to sid rducitlon
ought 10 be reserved Tor the beuriie Of nc
tuAl aud bona hda settlers and dispsscd Of
under the provisions Of the homestead law
only.
Resolved, That tho committee on public
! lands DC lurtructcd to report TO The huuse a
Ell TO carry into elect the views EXPIRE, sod
In the foregoing resolutions, ~ be author
/ tied % report such ball NJ any time, bahisct
and the same shall be in Ike order entitled
g. consideration.
Ksssnn expressed concurrence In the
ilr6t resolution, but thought the house
should not act hastily on the second,
which might work injury to the cattle in
dustry.
Reed thought 1t would be dangerous for
the house TO adnpt at u moments notice "A
resolution 30 sweeping In its provisions.
Bedford supported the r.aolu ion, rs.
pecially the second provision. He did not
propose that tour OF five cattle kings should
own he west. ne tour or i've railroad
mon irchs owned the east.
Horr opposed the resolution because Il
might do Injustice to some road earnestly
striving o earn its land.
Dunn aud Cobb supported Tho resolution
briefly, though the latter claims there was
no necessity for IL, as the committee on
public lands were ALREADY working hard In
the III after. The resolution was adopted
yeas, 25l; nays, 49,
Foiiowing ~ the negative vote. Banks
sale, Bingham, Blsbee, George, Horr,
keap, Libbock, Lyman, Morse, Muldrow,
Poland, R,nney, Reed, X CO, Russell,
Stone. Van Eaton, and Whiting.
Calkins moved to suspend the rules and
pass > he bill providing thht in any Of an AR
ticle manufactured in vocation oi the pat
ent law, II the plaintiff shall not recover so
or over, ne thnil recover no COSTS agreed 30.
Cox, OF New York, moved 90 suspend tho
ru'cs and pass the bill rcpe.llng laws pre-
sen,ing the iron.clad oath.
B1utelle opp,s Il ihe bIll IF lie repeal
vi the test Dash would hiyea tendency a..
ward hf,tCniug the ere at gosn feeling, hp
would favor 10, but believed hat an inter-
probation would be put upon that
acton that would be harn'u
20 The country. When every conce, ioD ~
This kind was interpreted south o., retro
erosion from The standpoint o. lpyAlv
sud sanction or cpndonatinu oiHo attempt
80 destroy the government, he must enter
a protest.
Cox explained that the bill only affected
jUrurs AMI men who take the i'ou.cld
oath. Mon who had been sece,s 'uniais dit
rot take this oath. rhsre'ora ~ dlA not 81
'oCt southern men. The iron cled oath uaq
but rotten reminder Of umsy hutiressee.
| Arbitrary power was nee ssdty during the
war as test bu' since the men who fought
agains. the union hnd been rrhubiiltated,
| the same privileges should he ex rnte 10
union men Which dis uniuns's enjoyed
Wbv keep up those old bitter hates Of the
psst Why not pour oil ON old wounds
He appealed for members to support the
bill. notfrom politics, from sectional hate,
from Old uHchari ablenoss, but 10 u batter
era OF good feeling.
The motion was agreed 10 and the bill
passed-lS5 TO IL.