Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-01-22
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Holman moved to suspend the rule.
and adopt the following:
Resolved, that in the judgment Of
the house all public lands heretofor,
granted to states and corporations t.
aid IN the construction of railroads
80 tar AS the same are subject to for.
fixture by reason of non-fulfiIlment Of
the conditions under which the grants
were made, ought to be declared for
feited to the United States, and re
stored to the public domain.
Resolved, 1t is of the highest public
interest that laws touching the publ,
| lands be so framed and administered
as ultimately tosecure freeholds there
in to the greatest number of citizens
and to this end all laws facilitating
speculation in public lands or author
izing or permitting entry or purchase
thereof in large bodies ought to be re-
pealed; all public lands adapted TO ag-
| riculture should be made subject to
bounty grants. and those in aid of ed
ucatiUn ought to be reserved for
the benefit of actual and bona fide set
tiers and disposed of under the provis-
| ions of the homestead law only.
Resolved that the committee on pub
lie lands be instructed To report house
bills which will carry into effect the
views expressed in the foregoing reso
lutions, aud be authorized to report
such bills ut any time, subject only to
the revenue and appropriation bills,
and The same shall be in like order en-
titled to consideration.
KassOn expressed concurrence in the
first resolution, but thought the house
should not act hastily on the second,
which might work injury to the cat
tie industry.
Reed thought it dangerous for the
house 10 adopt, at moments notice,
Il resolution so sweeping in its pro-
visions.
Bedford supported the resolution, es-
pecially the second provision. He did
not propose that five cattle kings
should own the West, as four or five
raj DAD monarchs owned the East
Hoar opposed the resolution because
it might do Injustice to some road
earnestly striving to earn its lands.
Dunn and Cobb supported the reso-
luton bri, fly, though the latter
claimed there was no necessity for it,
as the committee on public lands were
already working hard in the mat er.
The resolution WAS adopted by yeas
Isl, nays Is. The following was the
negative vote: Barksdale, Bingham,
B,spee, George, Horr, Kean, Lubbock,
Lyman, Morse, Muldrow, Poland,
kanpy, Reed, Rice, Russell, Stone,
Van Eting and Whitney.
Calkins moved to suspend the rules
ana pass the bill, providing that in any
suit against an innocent purchaser of
any article manufactured in violation
Of the patent law, if the plaintiff shall
not recover SO or over he shall recover
no SITS. Agreed to.
Cox of New York moved to suspend
the rules and pass the bill repeating
the laws prescribing the irOn-clad
oath.
Mr.. Boutelle opposed the bill. If a re-
peal of the test oath would have ten
dency in fastening the era Of good
feeling, he would favor it, but he be-
iieved an interpr.ta ion would be put
upon it that would be harmful to the
country. Whenever con cessiUn of this
kind was interpreted in the South
as IA retrOgression from the standpoint
of loyalty and the sanction or condo-
nations of attempts to destroy the
governments, he must enter protest.
Cox explained that the bill only AZ
fected Jurors and men who take he
iron-clau oath. Men who have been
secessionists do not take this oath,
therefore it did no. affect South IN
men. The irDn-clad oath was but u
rotten reminder of the clumsy inven-
ton of arbitrary power which was
necessary during the war as test, but
since the men VINO fought against the
Union were re habilitated, the same
privileges should be extended to Union
men which the dIsunlOnists enjoyed
Why keep up these old bitter hates Of
the past? Why not pour oil on old
wounds? He appealed in support of
the bill from politics, from sectional
hate, from old Observation-Disclosures tn the
better era of good feeling which has
been ushered in.
The motion was agreed to and the
bill passed 10y lS5 to III.