Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-06
IN CONGRESS.
SENATE.


WASHINGTON, July Shortly after
the senate was called to order Mr..
Logan rose and said Mr.. President
deem it due my friends that l call
Mention to certain statements / find
copied in the public press as we'll as in
the Congressional Record of the eth
ult. First, am set down in the list of
what is termed "land grabbers;" as
having in some mysterious way accu-
INFLATED the vast amount of 10000
acres ofland. This statement is utterly
without foundation. The New York
Herald of the Goth adds 30 900 head of
cattle. / wish this were true, but there
IL no foundation for the statement.
would take no notice OF this, however,
were 1t not for the charge that follows.
Second, the person who made the
statement, after finding 1t was untrue,
instead of doing justice to me, against
whom he might by his erroneous state
ments have done AN injury, proceeded
to put another false statement on rec
ord as follows: | might have said to
the deluded soldiers of this land,
y sNhat do you think of u great sena-
tor, in his greed to absorb tue territory
Which belongs To the actual settler In
the land that was made for the i.ide-
+ pondent.free holders and small farmers?
What do you think of man who
passes for "A statesman and patriot, as
the friend par excellence of the
soldier, and who under cover of his
brother-in-law went to New lhexico
and tried to pre-empt the most va'ua.
BILE land lying along her streams, aud
yas only stopped by public officer
1hding 1t belonged to the Indians, q
C)nss which he processes the utmost
luendship for, and who from his man.
1er and appearance, rumor says, has
& heir bloou in his veins-tried 10 steal
1Sbni his own kith and kin hundreds
I'D thousands of acres of land. Great
de. Taking from the unfortunate
(. wage, who was unable toprotect him.
" III until an honest secretary of the
Dterior went there with surveyor
nd took back the land for the Zunis.
Renewed laughter and applause.
Now, Mr.. President, this statement
so far AZ am concerned, or anyone
)se whom i have any knowledge OF
aliciously false. Sir, what are the fact
1lt OF which this attack has been
x ade' Capt. LawtOn, Maj. Tacker anC
KS tout located some claims at Neutri,
prings, and on lands adjacent in New
exico, not however until after ascer
lining ut the general land Office tina
be land was subject to location, being
bside the Indian reservation, being
pme five miles from the Indian line
nd some twenty-five or thirty mile
IA Bom the town Of Iuni. So IL will b,
Zen the hundreds and thousands o
Tres OF land this man says WINS steal
Big from the Indians resolves itsel
& hto three homesteads, or desert nc
{ 4 aims, located ny two officers and on,
tizen on the public land open 70 suci
+. ptry, with which location, however
IA had nothing TO do.
j. In order to prove the statements III
pad made, he read number o
II tiers. The first was u letter from
commissioner Of the general land of
&c, showing the land In question wa
bject to location and entry AS public
ind at the time. II not the Location
ould have been subject To cAucelIa
II pn. The next.letter was from Nal
kioker to Secretary Teller, giving TIN
cts In connection with the location
the lands mentioned BY him and hi