St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-08
The British Contingent.
A Campaign DOCUMENT.
Tom Carter Tells What Great
Men He and Noble Are.


NJ en- He and Noble Are.
WASHINGTON, Aug. THE annua
report to the secretary of the interior of
the operations of the general land Office
for the fiscal year ended June 80. 1892,
was made public today. A careful
reading of this report, says Commits
sioner Carter, will demonstrate that the
liberal and just policy toward the set
tiers upon the public domain adopted
by Secretary Noble at the beginning of
this administration has been productive
of very satisfactory and beneficial re-
suits.
81 felt Justified he continues, .'in
predicting in my annual report of last
year that, with the force then at COM
mand. the business of this bureau
would be brought up abreast with cur
rent work by the end of the fiscal year
just closed. 1t is gratifying to me now
to be able to report to you that literal
fulfillment of that prediction has been
fully contaminated.
sin order that the magnitude of the
work done during the last fiscal year
may readily be comprehended, and the
results accomplished fully appreciated,
feel warranted IN referring to and dis
cussng briefly the policy that governed
and controlled the business of this office
under the last administration from 1885
to 1889.
Shot at Sparks.
commissioner Sparks, in his annual
report for the fiscal year ending June
80, said: AT the outset of my admins
tration | was confronted with the over
whelming evidence that the public do
main was being made prey of unscru-
nnInnc CnQailafinn nd
of land monopoly through systematic
fraud carried on and consummated I'M
der public land laws
"He further stated, in the same re-
port, in discussing the subject of COM
muted homeSteads, that the proportion
of fraudulent entries of this kind could
be more nearly estimated at the whole
number of such entries than in any
other manner; that the average proper
ton of fraudulent presumption
hllngS to the total number of
filings made and relinquished
should be estimated in round num-
bers at exactly 100 per cent, and that 80
per cent of all timber culture entries
were fraudulent. Having become
wrongfully imbued with the idea that
nearly all. or at least very large pro-
portion OF entries made upon the public
domain were fraudulent, and that the
great body of well-disposed settlers
were INSCRIPTIONS spectators. it is not
surprising that Commissioner Sparks
April 3, 1885, issued an order suspend
ing action on all entries Except on Ger
tain scrip locations and on private cash
entries) III the whole of Colorado, except
| the Ute reservation, and in all of Da-
| kota, Idaho, Utah, Washington, New
Mexico, Montana, Wyoming and por-
tons of Kansas, Nebraska and Mime
sofa.
Says 1t Was Demoralizing.
'The detrimental effect of this and
other similar sweeping orders, and of
the mistaken impression and policy
which prompted them, upon the bust
ness Of this Office. was very great, and
as consequence this administration, on
assuming the reins of government in
1889, was confronted by land office
greatly demoraliZed IN all its ramifica-
tons. Injustice, or denial of Justice,
under the machinery of the law, was its
dominant feature. The settler who had
honestly and laboriously and at much
! hazard and heavy expense complied in