The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-04-16
TEXT OF THE ORDER.

TEXT OF THE RIDE
Following is the full text a the order OF
revocation:
Department OF the Interior, Washington,
ID. c., April 6.-To the Commissioners ofthe
General Land Ofice:-Sir: On April .,
1885, you issued the following order:
practices, Suspension OF Entries-Final
action in this office upon all entries of the
public lands, except private cash entries
and such scrip locations as are n~otdepend-
ent upon acts OF settlement and cultiva-
ton, is suspended in the following locali-
ties, viz: All vest OF the FIRST guide merid-
ian west in Kansas; all west OF range IL
west in Nebraska; the whole of Colorado,
except land in the late Ute reservations;
all OF Dakota, Idaho, Utah, Washington,
New Mexico, Montana, Wyo ming and Ne
vada; and that portion OF Minnesota north
of tho indemnity limits of the North
ern Pacific railroad and east OF the
indemnity limits OF the st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis d Manitoba railroad. In addition,
final action in this Office will be suspended
upon all timber entries under the act OF
June 3, 1878, also upon all cases OF desert
land entries.
[Signedl w. A. j. SPARKS,
Commissioner
Whatever necessity may have existed at
the time of it's PRONUNCIATION has ceased to
be sufficient to longer continue an order
s~uspending all actions, and involving in a
common condemnation the innocent and
the guilty, the honest and the dishonest.
While | earnestly urge the exercise OF
the strictest vigilance to prevent by
all the agencies within our power,
the eonsummation of fraudulent or wrong
full land claims, yet, when the vigilance OF
all these agencies shows no substantial evil
dence OF fraud or wrong, honest claims
should not be delayed or their ,considera-
tion refused on general reports or rumors.
The above order as issued by you is there
fore revoked, and you will proceed in the
regular orderly and lawful consideration
and disposal OF the claims suspended by it.
Very respectfully,
[Signed] L. @. LAMAR, Secretary.
ATALK WITH MR. ARK
Mr.. Sparks tonight denied the rumor
that he had rendered his resignation to the
president. He said:
! can only say that / am ready to re.
sign il the president will say to me that |
am not in harmony with his administra-
ton. / am satisfied he believes me to be
honest aud earnestin the fight nave made
on the land sharks, and that there is hard.
ly q man in his administration that he
could not spare sooner han he would me.
/ look upon this action as premature. /
WAS lOTIulnS ID BuDSllIuV6J DT IL, as Il u6N0E
regarded the order Of April 3, 1885, as any
thing else than temporary. / can say an
other thing with emphasis: Notwithstand-
ing tho order, win not certify to a patent
obtained fraudulently, and there are thou
sands that nave been held up in the past
year. / nave modified the April3 order 30 as
to send the patents rapidly as possible,
and all homestead cases, all contests,
and cases that had been examined by
the special agents. | dare say / have
cancelled over a hundred thousand
fraudulent cases the present year.
| shall keep on doing so. If | am
ordered to certify fraudulent cases / will
step down and out. The real trouble in
this matter is that | abolished the practice
OF making cases special. In this way the
frauds we're put through. They may sue
coed in restoring that practice. 1t looks
now rs If the land sharks had over per-
suaded the secretary and succeeded.