Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-01-24
OrpsouiaH Editorial on JOS. Ne
DOlph.
HIS RECORD Is SHOWN IN 1856.
He Vas Throwing Tubs TO the
Reform Whale.
Following appeared as an Oregonian
editorial June Is, 1885:

CORPORATION SENATORS"
Senator Edmunds is conspicuous Dy
his efforts to save the Northern Pacihc
railroad from the forfeiture Of lands
granted to it on the condition that the
road should be completed years ego
The government has been very lenient
to this and all other land grant roads.
To forfeit lands not earned at this late
day cannot be fairly deemed an iujus-
tice; but Senator Edmunds is go vio-
lent partisan of the Northern Pacific
corporation that he declared with ye-
hemance that the bill for forfeiture OF
these lands had been bedeviled. when
at the time the only change made in
the bill wss al amendment offered by
Mr.. Beck, declaring that the bill
should not he construed Hs preventing
congress from fprf-i,iDg other Northern
Pacific lands. The bill which Senators
Dolph and Eumunds are trying to
pass through the senate provides for
along which that company has never
b lit TOad aLn does not intend to, and
is described by the Washington cores
p 'ndent ,1 tie y. Y. Herald as cum
ningly tiu 10y the railroad lobby las
sort Of cheap tub to the reform
wIsir." Ine house public lands CON-
mitite hes :. r.pnr'td bill torfeiting all
u learned lands of the Northern Pacific
grant. The house has passed some
other forfeiture bills this season by 80
almost unanimous vote that 1t Is
likely to pass this bill also. If Dolph's
little bill should become a.
law as originally introduced,
"it would, as several senators pointed
out, by implication declare that all the
large remainder Of the same company's
unearned land grant was thereby con-
firmed to it. On the other hand, If it
should be rejected, in that case Mr..
DOlph may hope that be has consumed
80 much time with 1t that the chances
of the house bill passing the senate Ee
greatly lessened."
Mr.. Berry Of Arkansas, in behAlf Of
the public lands committee, Of which
he and Doiph are both members, spoke
as follows concerning the iii:
/ wish 10 state that this bin does not
include ali the unsArned lands tina.
were granted 10 the Northern Pacific
railroad A portion Of the committee
tried 10 put on 40 amendment inelud
ing the lands which were gfaBtsd 70
the Northern Pacific railroad on the
llne Of what Is known As the Cascade
branch, which is not yet finished-it Il
not finished tOday--but the senator
from Oregon refused every effort 10 ia
elsae al The lands which are unearned.
Ihsfeiofe the senator from Nebraska
haa q perfect Flght 10 offer this amend
nsnl' because the bill seeks 10 perfect ;
portion which would have the effect Of
''nhfmlng the lllls 10 the other an
'sIned lands Oh the Cascade branch. /
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