St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-12-08
H0KE URGES The BILL
Under the Nelson Bill the
Red Lake Pine Must
Stand
UNTIL THREE YEARS HENCE.
When the Entire Three Mil
lion Acres Must Be Sold
at Once.
UNCLE LOREN is CONFIDENT.
President Cleveland Spoils
the Plans OF the Canal
Lobby.
UNTIL THREE YEARS HENCE,
UNCLE LOREN is CONFIDENT
Special to the Globe

WASHINGTON, Dec. Z. - Secretary
Hoke Smith did exactly as he said
he would in the matter of the Bald
win Chippewa bill for the early opening
of the Red Lake Indian reservation. He
urged the passage of the majors bill by
the senate, and in a few words in his
annual report showed the necessity and
Importance of such action. In case
Senator Davis still opposes the passage
OF this bill, the people of Minnesota will
nave right to ask him to state his rea-
sons very clearly and fully.
The Secretary's report shows that
609,000 acres have already been esti-
mated and that more than 100000 acres
are surveyed, estimated and segregated
and ready for market.
1t will take more than three years to
complete the work and prepare the en-
tire reservation for sale, during which
time all the timber is in danger of loss
from fires, depredations and storms.
The secretary also saws that under the
law as It stands, the Nelson bill, all this
timber, the entire 100000 acres, must
be offered at the same time and place.
Is there any one outside the Weyer-
hauser and other lumber syndicates.
who wants all this timber sold at one
time?
Smiths Pointed Statement.
The secretary of the interior thinks
not, and so he makes the following
statement:
A large portion of the pine lands, COM
prlSing considerably more than 100000
acres, have already been surveyed, eX-
amined and segregated. and might be
offered for sale. without delay, If there
were legal authority for so doing. Such
authority is presented in II. r. bill
81. A copy of the bill appears in the
appendix. 1t has passed the house, and
it is earnestly to be desired that it
speedily pass the senate"
The Baldwin bill, to which the secre
tary refers above, passed the house of
representatives on June IS, 1894. and is
now before the senate, where it is hung
up at the request Of Senator Davis, on
the ground that it does not recognize
the right of the state TO sections 16 and
So. AS the bill plainly shows, it leaves
that question exactly as Gov Nelson
left it when he passed the original bill.
But this is not alias the secretary of the
interior has said that the state will be
given the sections named without Obiec-
ton, even though the present governor
of the state, when he drew the bill OPEN
ing the country, was thinking more of
the pine land rings than he was OF the
school lands of the state he in part
represented in congress. The material
portion of the Baldwin bill follows:
The Chippewa Bill.
"Sec. 5. That after the survey, eX-
animation and appraisal of at least 1OO,-
900 acres of said pine lands have been
made, the portion so surveyed. eXam-
ined and appraised shall be proclaimed
as in market and offered for sale in the
following manner: The commissioner
of the general land office, under the
direction Of the secretary Of the in
5terior, shall cause notices to be inserted
once in each week for four consecutive
weeks In one newspaper of general cir
culatlOu published in Minneapolis. st.
Paul, Duluth, Winona, Saltwater, Tay-
lor's Falls, st. Cloud, Brainerd and
Crookston, Mimi; Chicago. ILL.,; Mil
waukee, Wis; Detroit. Mich; PhiIa.
delphia and Williamsport, Pa. and
Boston, Mass, of the sale of said lana
at public auction to the highest bidder
for cash at the local land Office of the
district within which said lands are
located. said notice to state the
time and place and terms Of such
sale. At such sale said lands shall be
offered in forty. acre parcels. except in
case OF fractions containing either more
or less than forty acres, which shall be
sold entire. In no event shall any par
eel be sold for a less sum than its
ap praised value. The residue of such
la nds remaining unsold after such
public offering shall thereafter be sub
ject to private sale for cash at the ap-
praised value of the same, upon appli-
cation at the local land office. And
from time to time, as fast as a quantity
Of 100,0 900 acres of the remaining pine
lands, the disposal Of which is provided
for in this act, or a final residuum of
less quantity, shall have been surveyed,
examined and appraised, the same
course shall be pursued for the disposal
thereof until all shall have beeh dis
posed of as provided for herein"