St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-15
CUT THE CORNERS.
The Present Congress Trim
ming the Appropriations
Too Much.
Only $1O8,O52 in the Bill for
the Survey Of Public
Lands.
This Is Actually Less TIL an Is
Asked for by Montana
Alone.
Northwestern congressman
Expected to Make a Howl
Over It.
Special to the Globe.

WAsHINGToN, May 12,-It is swe ct to
see brethren dwelling together III unity
and concord, but the sight, like the
flavor of roc's eggs, remains for the most
part thing for the Imagination to deal
with. especially in congress. Of course,
a congressman usually, if he is wise,
manages to agree in general sort of
way with his party and its particular
principles. but it is seldom indeed that
he favOrs measure just because it
is just and wise measure and
he knows it. Now and then it hap
pens that party lines are forgotten, and
such a condition of affairs is arrived at
now in the discussion of the sundry
civil bill. In the matter of the survey
of public lands the appropriat ion for
1892 was s4OS.000. The estimates for
1898 are S477,772, but the bill recon-
mends only S10S,052. Northwestern men
are expected to unite i'll one grand pro-
test against this particular item, which
will grant sum of money to the entire
country less than the amount asked by
the surveyor general of Montana alone.
There are things in which the govern
ment can afford to economic. but sur
veying is not one of them. Once done,
it is done for all time. Sooner or later
Unjust BE Done,
and the proposed appropriation won't
do it. There are in North Dakota 81
1l6, 1S7 acres of public land unSurveyed.
In the sister state there are 90 S1S, 139
acres, and in Minnesota 1O,971, 72S. The
actual cost for complete survey of a
quarter section is said to be about S5,
and since there are SquatIerS in thou
sands waiting to make good their
claims On unsurveyeG land, the sum
expended III a survey would not be
by any me ans direct drain on
back in very short time. The especial
grievance of North Dakota on the queS-
tion arises from the fact that the state
is unable to avail itself of sQuatters'
rights, and settlers will ultimately have
possession of some of the lands which
are especially to be desired for educa-
tienall purposes. The land commits
sioner has cut down the estimates of the
various surveyor generals to as low
figure as possible, but even that is con-
Sldered eXtravagant, and, unless the
men of the Northwest do rise In their
might and insist on an appropriation
which will be large enough to do their
states justice, the growth of that great
section of the country will assuredly be
considerably retarded.
Watching for North Dakota.
Judge John d. Bennett, president of
the North Dakota Press association and
editor of the BOttineau Pioneer, is in
Washington to spy out the land. and
carry back word to his friends and sub
scribers of the progress of certain meas
ures i'm which the Dakotas are espe-
cially interested. One of the things Judge
Bennett is inquiring about is the scheme
to provide for national park in the
Turtle mountains. 1t IS to be park
not for show purposes, but for ii mber
reserve to increase the rainfall, and
assist in the work of irrigation. 1t is
an interesting scheme, but, of course,
will be nothing but Scneme under the
pres ent administration.
Removal Of the Chippewas.
The other scheme affects the removal
of the Chippewas from Turtle mount
aims TO White Earth, in Min nesota.
Says Judge Bennett: people in the
East know absolutely nothing about the
matter. The reservation is badly needed
by settlers. but for all that we shouldn't
have any quarrel OH the subject if only
the people on the reservation were In
dians. They are not. There are at
being supported by the United States
government. Many of them took part
in the Riel rebellion across the
border, and are the most undesirable
class of people imaginable. We want a
appointed, and we want 1
men on it. There have |
been commissions before. but they were |
made up of men who knew absolutely |
nothing of the subject, and fancied that |
for few gew-gawS they could buy out |
all the Indian claims. The day has |
gone by when the question could be |
treated so. 1t is of great importance to |
our state. and ought to be attended to |
1t once"
North Dakota is further sighted in |
that on the Sault Ste. Marie railroad
here is an eighty-mile strip without
nail service. There are half-dozen or
more stations on the strip, and while
passenger trains roll shrough them ev-
cry day not once is mail bag thrown
1T. The Inhabitants get their mail by
look and by crook from the nearest post
Il station, just as they did in the days
,efore the railr DAD was built.
DOings Of NorthWesterners.1
Mrs. NJ. n. johnson is entertaining
Miss WickeS. bright young woman
rom Fort Buford. and Mr.. Johnson's
liece, Miss johnson. of WISCONSIN,.
Fl. p. Hall spent today here looking
fter the business of the Washington
flee of the Press News association.
Senator Hansbrough returns from
hort trip to New York today.
Miss Viva Castle, daughter of Repre-
entative Castle, goes to New York in a
ew days. and Will visit there and in
rorrington, Conn.,, for month. s
R.SK.