St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-08
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sparks, suspeusion Order Revoked

Special TO the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 7.-Minnesota and
Dakota people are in high glee tonight
Hon. George ). Engle, one of Dakota's
ablest lawyers, had succeeded after three
months efficient work i'm securing a revO-
cation of the celebrated order of Land Com
missioner Sparks, by which the issuance of
all land patents was stopped. Speaking of
the difficulties encountered Mr.. Engle said
this evening that when he first proposed TO
get the president and secretary of the in
terror to revoke Sparks order nearly all the
attorneys in Washington from the terri
tories were emphatic in the opinion it could
not be accomplished. He, however, hav-
ing made special study of the public land
system for the past twelve years.
was confident that as soon as tine
facts which he had presented in his briefs
were laid before the cabinet and president,
and the injustice of the order would be
made apparent and it would surely be re-
voked. Its revocation, he said. would
bring large immigration into Dakota this
season and materially advance the financial
prosperity of the whole West. Assistant
Secretary of the Interior jerks paid Engle
a high compliment when he handed him the
order of revocation. for the ability and
persistency which he had manifested during
the long legal controversy which had been
carried on with the land department in re-
gard to the difficulties of this delicate Ques-
ton.
LAMAR's ORDER.
WASHINGTON, April THE secretary
of the interior has revoked the order of
Commissioner Sparks of the general land
Office of April 8. 1885. suspending final ae-
ton upon entries upon the public lands.
The following is the secretary's letter TO the
commissioner:
On the Sd of April 1885, you issued the fol-
lowing order:
Final action in this Office upon all entries OF
the public lands. except private cash entries
and such scrip locations as are not depend
ant upon acts of settlement and cultivation,
is suspended in the following localities, viz. /:
All west of the first guide meridian west in
Kansas: all west of range II west, in Neb-
raska; the whole Of Colorado. except land in
the late Ute reservations; all of
Dakota, Idaho. Utah, Washington.
New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and Nevada.
and that portion of Minnesota north of the
indemnity limits of the Northern Pacific rail-
road and east of the indemnity limits of the
st. Paul. Minneapolis s. Manitoba railroad.
In addition, final action in this Office will be
suspended upon all timber entries under the
act of June 3, 1873: also upon ell cases of
desert land entries.
W. A. J. SPARES.
LAMAR's REASONS.
Whatever necessity may have existed at
the time of the PRONUNCIATION has ceased TO be
sufficient TO longer continue an order of sus-
pending all actions, and involving in
| common information the innocent
aud 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 con-
summation of wrongful land claims, yet,
when the vigilance OF all the agencies shows
| no substantial evidence of fraud or wrong.
| honest claims should not be delayed or their
consideration refused on general reports or
| rnmors. The above order as issued by you is
therefore revoked, and you will proceed in
| the regular, orderly and lawful consideration
| and disposal of the claims suspended by il.
| Very respectfully, l. O. LAMAR,
Secretary.