The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-02-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK SVMNARIIRD.
Tho Land Grant Forfe,furas.

UNUN vi HE VvEEA NtWMAblkbU,
The Land Grant Forfeitures.
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Feb 2O-l
There has been great deal of surprise ex-
pressed to-day at the prordpthess of the sem
ate in voting on the Texas Pacific forfeiture
The expectation was that no vote would be
reached this session. It IL said Senator
Beck's fierce attack on Morgan Of Alabama
and other Democratic senators for delaying
action had its effect 60 bring on an immedi-
ate vote Forfeiture men are jubilant at the
RESULT, and feel sure that other triumphs will
follow. The house has already passed bills
forfeiting over fifty million acres of land,
with an average value at the lowest esti- |
mate, of $40 to SIS per acre, but owing
to the tardinoss Of the senate, only one of
these bills-the Oregon Central-has become
h law. The house started In at the beginning
of the Forty-eighth congress with determi-
nation to forfeit all the unearned lands held
by the railroad corporations The public
man, worked hard and reported bills to The
house for forfeitlng over 100, 900, 900 acres
Their consideration was pressed upon the
house by MIR. Cobb and Mr. Payson. and bills
were passed last session declaring forfeited
seven small Southern grants, amounting in
all to about 100000 acres, the
Texas Pacific 100000. the Ore
gon Central 100000 tho California
Il Oregon 5000, 900, and tho Atlantic l.
Pacific 80, 100000 acres The other for
fe,ture bills, which forfeit ssout 50, 000. 900
acres, are on the Louise calehflae: The SEN
ate has eSc;1ed very sroWi;y upon these bills
!aey passed the Oregon Central with an
amendment giving the railroad the lands CO.
terminous with their work at the end of the
time the entire work should have been COM
pleted This the house agreed to do after
some protesuation, and the forfeiture, no.
duced to 1000, 900 acres, became q law,
The only others the senate has passed are the
that 1t took from the bill its whole character,
referring the matter to the court of claims
for settlement, which amendment the house
would not agree to, and tne bill cannot
become law unless the senate recedes from
IT'S posltlQa On tho Texas Pacific bill yester-
mouse public lands committee, but not yet
acted upon by the house, is the Northern Pa
citic, amounting to 30, cog, OOt Rcfea All
the bills not receiving final action will die
on tea 4th Of March. but they will be intro
duced into the next house, and being in such
complete form they can then be- acted
upon without much delay, the committee
considering them IN merely formal way.
The Texas land forfeiture bill, as passed by
;the senate Yesterday, meets with the sp-
as the bill comes over to the house Mr.. Rea-
gan Will move to concur in the senate
amendments and the bill will be sent to the
president for his signature.
Discussed the Tariff.
NEW York, Special Telegram, Feb. 90
Prof. W. G. Sumner, of Yale college, and
Gen. Stewart L. Woodford Of Brooklyn dis
cussed the tariff question for two hours this
evening III the American Art association
rooms Brooklyn. The debate was held
under the auspices of the Revenue Reform
club Of that city, and attracted to the hall a.
most twice as many people as Could be ac-
commodated. Tvs Thirds of the audience
h tsei. to ;ot etsn9 throughout the debate, but
was, SHOULD the tariff laws of the
United States he Tor revenue onlyYn
Prof. Summer argued in the affirmative. and
Gen Woodford took the opposite view. The
1aIe theorlst consumed the first half hour of
on the iniqu!:r Of the tariff system and the
necessity ct an lpre''i:ste return to
tfee trade ,hasls. Throughout his discourse
he followed the same line of argument
Which he had used in all his public
speeches and pamphlets Gen. Woodford
ward to the reading desk. Fora time he
confined himself to answering what Prof
Sumner had called @the fundamental falla=
cies of protection" but atterwnrd made
general statement OF the benefits of protec-
ton. He said in part
believe in the tariff because am an Amer.
lean. and have the good of the country at heart,
don't care to give our market over to the i'm.
porters, and the nations wealth is great enough
ana ITS industries strong enough to give
us q falr chance ia strike the markets ahrO3d IA
return, When the iron Industries OF Pennsyl-
Vania and the cotton mills of New England are
Sufficiently developed to allow c5inpete with
European countries on thsir own ground, then
we shall be willing to let them compete with us
mere; Until then we must have protection if we
m wcnd a nave peace comfort and content
second law that was passed by con.
gress in 1877 was to Introduce a proper
and ss
we started, and, sftef almost cen.
t:1ry,, we are independents Of the whole
r wSrs N are cSeapeT W Wa hhs
are satd richer ne Why? BECAUSE Tie stion has fol-
1o"eu IN lrae n'arkrt. out by that resolution
40 - as the present business depression is con-
cerns'.. believe that it is due to the con-
htant threat OF free traders and the constant
fear of the manufacturer and the importer of
radical changes in the tariff system Stop agita-
could have anything positively stable and settled
IN lts nnaneiat and commercial legislation
IL We would have ono system tontinubusly-
within twenty-five years America would control
Inc manufactures and business of the world. |
we arc nearer to it to-day than we ever were
and the advance has only begun.
In concluding, Gen. Woodford said:
TIE free traders have never dared to ask vote
to. Every time .'at It has been introduced they
nave been repadl"ted by the voice Of the people
SENSATIONAL ASSAULT.