The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1891-03-07
A New Land Law Bill Will be In
trOduccd in the National Gov
eminent Shortly.
1t Will Entirely Change the General
Land System Of the Gov
eminent.
100000 to be Appropriated for
the Education of Indian
Children.
A New Land Law Bill.

law and amendatOry of the land laws gen.
orally have practically reached al agree
ment on an entirely new bill which will
be brought forward at the first 0pportu-
nifty. The bill agreed upon will change
| the general land system of the government.
The bill first repeats the timber culture
act. but with a reservation in favor of
bona fide claims heretofore initiated. In
computing the period of cultivation on
claims already accruing, it is provided that
| the time shall run from the date Of entry,
if the necessary acts of cultivation are per-
formed within the the proper time. The
preparation of the land and the planting
| of trees are to be construed as acts of Gull
tivatiOn. Persons who have complied
| with the provisions of the timber culture
act for four years may prove up their
| claims by the payment of $1.25 an acre.
! The desert land act is amended by requir.
posed method of reclamation. and no per-
son shall receive patents for land under
the act unless he has expended in the
work of reclamation at least $3 per acre,
81 to be expended within each year.
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the payment OF 81 per acre. Section 2,288,
revised statutes, is amended so that any
oona tide settler nay have the right to
transfer any portion OF mis- claim for a right
Of way for irrigation purposes, as
we'll as for church: cemetery, railroad or
is also repealed, except as to claims here
totOre initiated and except as to pre- emp.
tons bv counties under special law. Sec
ton 2289 is amended so that persons
already holding l60 acres OF land, or who
abandon their residence on their own
land, shall not have a right to make a
homestead entry. Entries may be sus-
pended for correction of clerical errors.
The United States is estopped from the
vacation of any patent on claims hereto
fore initiated. unless suit is brought within
five years and or future claims within six
years. 1t is provided that in Colorado.
Montana, North and South Dakota,
of Nevada and Utah. it shall he a sufficient
trespass to show that timber
culture was for agricultural. mining, manu-
featuring or domestic purposes and was
not transported out OF the state; this pro-
Towns and cities, it is declared, may make
town site entries on mineral lands, but this
right shall not interfere with the working
of underground mineral claims. Provision
is made for grants of right of way for
irrigation purposes; but reservoir sites are
not to contain any more land than IS neceS-
sary for the construction and maintenance.
The maximum noun OF land which any
person may acquire is limited to S2O acres.
The president is given the right to set
apart and reserve in any territory forest
lands as public reservations, not subject
to be entered upon. This will meet the
principal aim of what is known as the
| Yellowstone Park bill.
ANOTHER NOMINATION..
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-The president
to day sent the following nomination to
the senate: Henry w. Blair of New Hamp-
shire, envoy extraordinary land minister
plenipotentiary to hin
NELSON CONFIRMED.
The senate confirmed the following nOm-
f., nations: Senator Blair, minister to China;
w. s. Stanley OF, Wisconsin. consul at Pic
tou, N. S.; Nelson E Nelson, collector of
. customs for the district of North and South
Dakota.
o INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The senate took up the Indian apprOpri-
alton bill. The provision for the purchase
of irrigation machinery in Arizona and
! Nevada for the use of Indian reservations
was amended by the addition of the states
of Idaho and Montana. The appropriation
for the support of Indian schools was in.
creased from 100000 to 100000. On me-
ton of Mr.. Dawes Tin charge of the. billy
all amendments recommended by the CON-
mittee on appropriations reducing the per
capita rate for the support of Indian pu
| pills at various schools throughout the
country from 1857 to $3.50, were disagreed
to-he explaining that the committee had
and had authorized him to recon-
mend disagreement. The only excep.
l,tiOn was as to the Indian school at Fort
TOtten, N. D., where the former rate per
scholar was preserved. Sanders argued
against the prOpriety of making that ex-
ception. Plumb expressed the conyic-
the Indian pupils was much too
high; and also that no permanent advan-
tage was derived flOm the system OF In.
dian training which now cost two millions
a year. He did not believe that 1t had adj
vanced the lndiOn n iOta in the path of
civilization. The Indians who had before
schooling were far better Indians than
those who had had what was supposed to
be advantages Of education. He described
the Indian as being taken by the nape Of
the neck n "yanked" on to the plane OF
civilization, where they We're like seed
sOwn oh unfertile ground, which, when
the sun came out, was parched and
| Withered. There was not a single living
evidence, he said, of the permanent USE
fulness of such a system of education.
The education of the Indian meant nOth-
ing but refined lOaferiSm.
BILLS PASSED.
WASHINGTON. Feb. N.-The senate
passed the following house bills among
others:
An amendment to various acts relative
to immigration and Importation of aliens
under contract or agreement tu p. rfOrIn
labor. s~.
To amend an act of March 2, 1889, for the
relief Of certain volunteer and regular
soldiers of the late war and the war with
Mexico.
For allowance of certain claims for
stores and supplies taken and used by the
United States army. as reported by the
court of claims under the provisions Of the
"BOwm man act" with a~mendments.)
The senate today passed the legislative.
executive and judicial appropriation bill.
NEITHER CONFIRMED OR DENIED.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-lt is reported
here to-day that the president had accepted