Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-24
EPH D. SAVERS
sentative from the Tenth District
answers Mr.. NcMain's Charges.
70 BIS Resolution for the Protection Of Actual
settlers Upon the Maxwell Land Grant
Clear Record shown.
wAsHrSerox, Feb. ls. 1889.
30 fheGazette.


70 theiGazette.
In your issue of the 18th inst. there APP
pears quite lengthy interview with one
10. P. McMains, in which 1 note the fol-
lowing:
Last February the settlers had the Hon. w s.
Holman of Indiana offer house resolution, IN
stracting the private land claims committee to
make Investigation and ascel tain whether the
secretzry's decision Of 1868 had been legally re-
versed either by the int eTior department or by
tie supreme court Of the United States
The subject matter Of the resi- luton was re-
ferred to a ub-committee of four-Mr. Savers OF
Texas, Mr. Weaver of Iowa. Mr.. Wickham OF
OAlo and Mr.. Cochran OF New YORK. II soon
became quite evident n me that Mr. Sayers OF
Texas, the chairman Of The subcommittee, did
not intend that his committee should ever meet
should ever be called TO make a rencrt. No
rerou has yet been nor VIII be made. The Max
wei land grant company's spies, percelYlng that
the committee if allowed TO report would GER
tainly report that Secretary cox's decision had
not been collaterally reversed, but was valid and
shonld be enforced, determined that there
should be no report; that the committee should
be silenced. The silence OF the committee, then,
is quite significant, impressiVely, staTtingly
significant, as congressional silence IN
the interest OF a wealthy corporation always Is
This Interview IS supplemented by an
editorial from which extract as fol-
lows:
He charges Representative Sayers with having
ignored the subject when it was referred to the
committee OF which be was chairman. 1t IS
70 be hoped that the representative OF the Tenth
district win be able to give satisfactory expla-
nation OF his course in the matter.
Recognizing the principle that public
official is always upon trial and, when a
distinct charge is preferred against him +,
that he should answer without reference
TO the character of the accuser or the OPP
poTtunity he has had for ascertaining the
truth of the accusation. l ask the in
diligence of your columns that may give
the -sxplanatig9.. which is desired. A
more unjust al dnfounded accusation
could not have possibly been brought
against me than that which appears in
this interview, as may be readily seen
from the following statement of the sew
eral members to whom / have submitted
the interview, and who very kindly
signed aud handed it to me for publica-
ton:
HOUSE oP REPRESENTATIVES, UNITED STATES,
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1888.
In the matter of the resolution introduced by
Hon. W. s. Holman, respecting the MaZwe /
land grant, and referred to the committee on
private land claims,
Whereas. there appears in TEE GAZETTE, a
newspaper published at Fort Worth, Tex, q
statement that Mr.. Savers of Texas, the chair
man of the Subcommittee, did not intend that
his committee should ever meet-should ever
be called to make a report upon said bill,
which was referred to siad subcommittee by
the chairman of the committee on private land
claims.
Therefore, we, the members of said committee
on private land claims, not wishing that state
ment so untrue in every particular should 60 IN
contradicted, do state the same to be untrue;
that said sub committee. ter consultation with
the department Of justitJie I'D with the general
land Office and after exs lrnation of the record
of the supreme court of the United States,
reached the conclusion aRie SO reported to the
general committee, that N their opinion the
judgment of the supreme court respecting said
land grant was conclusive and could not
be set aside by congress; ana there
upon Mr.. Sayers prepared a resolution
in behalf Z OF the settlers said
grant, which resolution is hereunto appended,
and gave il tol Atr. Joseph, the delegate ON
5r as vs. sl a. daS@TD ITO 70 him, 70 be intro