The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-09
AN OUTSIDE OPINION.
PEfULIaE yfgw OF THE NORTHERN
PAuFics LAND GIANT.
One Man who Held. That Congress
Reserved Several Easfre states aud
Territories reT the Company 10 Sc
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roa1 i definitely txs9~ The
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b. the e0B-fs 30 mean the working
upon the grruad OF ne iiue O.
the Proposed rad IN ssfch manner a. 10
convey Information or an infentien 10
bHstd a EAsir9a5 - the tniuG % "a ordinary
observer ne grant is held b. the eoeTfs
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the engineers % the e0mrany who are
bfaitet ia locating the road To 8 region
boHadeG on the sczsfh b. the Ssh degree
line. on the east by lake Superior and on
the west by Puget Sount They had
power to locate TIE road any where within
those limits: and where the line OF said
road IL definitely axed" the title 20 the
odd sections oa each SIDE passed 10 the
compAny absolutely Afterwards. upon
construction Of the road and the sccept-
ance by the president Of each completed
section, tie company beeofae entitled 20
pafeais, mere evidences 81 title, for the
land.
The famous sixth section Of the Northern
Pacific grant directs the president 10 eaase
the lands u be surveyed when the general
route Of the road IL fixed, and prohibits the
sale. homestead or pre- emPtion of the odd
sections; extends the pre-eI1psion and
homestead laWs over the even sections a.
fast a. surveyed and increases the price Of
them 20 s. % per acre The section does
not authorize the withdrawal Of the lands
from market. did not authorize the IA
nous withdrawal ia lsT0- They were
made by virtue Of the underlined and un-
certain power over the public lands rest
ing in the secretary Of the interior, or
rather in the president acting through the
secretary. The point that those withdraw
ais were mere exercise of executive power
and could not become effective until notice
Of them vas received at the local land Of
fee vas raised by me, as attorney for
pr Baker in his case against
the Northern Pacific in issi involving title
70 over 200 acres IN the walla Naila valley,
bought BY Dr. Baker between the 18th Of
August and the srh Of December, $50, and
which was decided by The secretary of the
interior In favor Of DR.. Baker and patents
were issued TO him for The lands. To hold
that the Northern Pacific is bound ALSO
luteiy ia the final selection Of the route of
is railroad by preliminary line drawn
for IL ON general map of the United States.
church In which he was baptised when an
infant