The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-03-12
AND BLAINE SECURES AN ORGAN.
Amarion--Ministor Foster to he-
main In spain-aisssrsM Miller
and EairohiId In Luck.
GENERAL WASHINGTON REPORTS
rroeeedInga In the senaLs.

t.uuiuce OF the Investigation or the all
romeo between o1p.ttl aud labor. He.
ssid the Investigation was practically
concluded aud an eXtau wa9 desired
f thu purpose Of masking a report.
M. COCKRELL objected auu consid-
Grafton was postponed uaLil to morrow.
My. Vanwyck's Backbone" res olu-
ton was laid before the senate and
Mr.. EUSTUS made a speech upon it.
Mr.. EUSrIS said a great wrong mad
been done the people Of Louisiana and
he wished to enter his protes; against
its consummatiOn. The title To the
lands was Illegal and fraudulent aud set
up to defraud the settlers OF their rights.
This title had been denounced by the
New Orleans Pacific railroad company
in documents which had boon presented
In congress and in the i'll
terror department. rs utterly base
perfectly agreed that tho Backbone"
company was a nuisance and disgrace.
1t never had lived for any corporate
purpose whatever, but was more skel-
eton OF derelict association, yet in
1881, by one of the most extraordinary
proceedings on record, this deiunct COM
pany made an assignment to the New
Orleans Pacific company, and it was
upon such title that the latter based its
claims. The transfer was radically
vicious and absolutely void. The con
sideration for IL was The enormous sum
of 81. One-tbird of tho stockholders
denounced the act before the interior
department as n shame aGd 4 fraud. He
was glad to know that the secretary OF
the interior was going to investigate the
matter, and he hoped in future
there would be an administration
which would be in tire interest OF the
pacity OF rich railroad corporations.
Mr.. TELLER defended discourse and
said not point had been made by tho
senator from Louisiana (Eustis) which
had not been passed upon by the attor-
Dey general and by tho judiciary com-
mittee of tho house. IL had been an IN
broken rule of the department for IS
years to issue these patonts whenever
parties had complied with the
conditions subsequent, without ref
ereuce to time and that had been
done in nine cases cut OF ten without
any inquiry whatever when no was sec
rotary OF the interior. He had issued
paper in the same Identical manner
which was now called in question, and
that, too, without havi < taken into
consideration the opinions of commit
tees of congress, or the opinions of the
house, wher, by II m..ority of ~, had
declared this grant should not be void.
II the new administration is to COM
mence TO unit. ermine wnat the late adj
minstration bad done, it should be
one in accordance with the forms OF
law, and in u manner COMFORTING with
the dignity of great administration
presiding over the interests of 50000,000
people. Could it be dOue by resolu-
zion of the senate or by speech adj
dressed in public? Nay. IL should be
done by It's courts.
Mr.. VANW YCK, referring to Mr..
Teller's speech last week, said the sena-
tor from Colorado regretted that every
person who had spoken on this subject
was not lawyer, (meauing, probably,
a lawyer of railroad prOclivity) so there
might be full record OF such lawyers,
as during the most OF the last is years
there had been at the head Of the
of justice, and OF the
interior, making presidents which
the eX-sCCrotary b0aStud that ho had fol-
lowed. 1t was usual for corporation at
torneys to stigmatize the settler as an
interloper and a Spectator. The eX-
secretary, he said, had listened so long
to this dialect in the depar. ment that IL
speech and sneering at such men.
Almost in the language of Tweed, he
asked: "What are you going to do
about it?" Referring to Oklahoma, Mr.. |
Van Wyck said federal bayonets were
pointed against the breasts Of hardy |
pioneers who were impatient to enter |
the Indian territory, but there |
o %sro no the Oay estte to synai ases
in Oklahoma or destroy the |
fences illegally enclosing millions of
acres OF pubic laAds. Coming TO the |
subject OF the present discussion, Mr. |
VanWyck asked, why was the late sec
Rotary of the interior in such hot haste |
to, issue the patents? Why was not the |
question left to the deliberations of his |
successor, who could have determined |
what portion did not properly belong 10 |
the railroad? Even on the admissions of
the last administration the department |
had given land to the Backbone COM |
pany as if the entire line had been con-
sJructed after assignment in 1881. The |
late secretary Of the interior in the exu-
berance of his sympathy for Gould and |
Huntington, urged or consented to the
tree gift of land for 100 miles of graded |
road. Faithful public servant. 1t re- |
CURED no corporation lawyer or any |
other lawyer to understand this perior-
There was another remarkable |
feature in the transaction. The eX-sec-
rotary from MANY years practice as an
attorney for the Union Pacific Railway |
company, and long experience in the |
knew that railroads to es-
cape state and local taxation, declined
to make patents excepta as they marketed
their lands. Did not this action suggest
strong suspicion that the motiye must
be the fear of the next congress, or that
The incoming administration might not
be completely subject TO railroad cor
porations?
MIR. TELLER denied that any utter
ance of his justified the statement that
he regarded settlers as interlopers.
Gould and Huntington were great bug
bears, but If they had made anything
out Of the pubic by CONSOLE
1ation, whose duty was it to interfere?
The derelictionl lay at the honorable sena-
.Or's own door. The senator had been
q member of the committee on pubic
ands four years and had never raised
his hand to remedy the wrong of which
ne complained until the Texas Pacific
bill came over from the house. No
hanks to him.
Mr.. VAN WICK defended himself
against the charge OF inaction. When
,he Texas Pacific bill was reported be
lad secured place for il among special
orders, and twice the senate had buried
t in the body OF the calendar.
After executive session, the senate ad-
burned.
The Hnzen court MARTIAL.