Lewiston evening teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1900, 1900-09-19
pIpIJBLIcAN AND DEMOCRATIC
pecords on the Free H0mesteads
Since 1852.

SluSS 1909.
In view of the plank in the democratic
platform adopted by the county conven'
ION denouncing the fact that the repub.
loans were seeking to make capital out
If the passage of the Free Homestead
hill, the following, taken from the con-
oressioual record might be good stuff for
,be democrats to study before posing as
friends to the homesteader:
REPUBLICAN RECORD.
caIusha A. Grow, a republican, first
advocated the Free Homestead bill law
in 1852.
owen Lovejoy, a republican, strongly
advocated the Grow Free Homestead bill
in 1860. 81
Allrich, republican, introduced the
bill in 1861.
Loveioy, republican, reported favorably
on the bill.
The bill passed a republican house by a
vote of ro7 to I6.
Harlan, republican senator, reported
the bill favorably in the senate, which
passed by vote of 50 TOT.
Abraham Lincoln, republican presi-
dent, signed the bill May II, 1862.
The present homestead bill, making
lands free to settlers on Indian reserva.
tons as we'll as on other public lands.
and reserving all public lands for settle
ment under the homestead law, was in
troduced Dec. S, 1899, by F. M. Eddy, a
republican member of congress from
Minnesota.
TWAS passed by a republican house. 1t
was called up in the senate by Knute Mel
son, republican senator from Minnesota
and passed by republican senate. 1t
was signed by William Mckinley, a re-
publican president on the 18th day of
May, 1900.
DEMOCRATIC RECORD.
The homestead bill was opposed by
John Slidell, democrat, in the United
States senate in 1859.
John w. Breckenridge, democratic
vice president, voted against it on a tie
vote of 2S to 20.
Andrew Johnson, democrat, opposed
the Grow Homestead bill in 1860 and Of
fered substitute bill making price of
rs cents per acre on lands, which bill
passed congress. but was vetoed by James
Buchanan, democratic president.
William S. HOLMAN, democrat, in 1890
advocated adding the cost of lands pur-
chased of Indians to be taxed up to set
tiers on reservation lands, and succeeded
in securing the enactment of a law to
that effect.
The present Homestead law making
lands free for settlers on reservations as
well as on all public lands was opposed
incongress by Mr.. Maddox, democratic
member from Georgia, who led the OPP
position to the bill
The rs petitions of Idaho to our con-
gresham asking for free homes for set
tiers were all drawn up by a republican
and sent out for signatures, and returned
to him and forwarded to congress, con-
tanning in all over one thousand names,
and no other petition was forwarded ex-
cept through republican channels from
the state of Idaho to congress.
The democratic champions of this
measure do not appear very often in the
record of aiding the measure except in
Their national platforms, and if the bill
Just passed had not become a law its
failure would have been charged to the
republican party, therefore. it is fair to
credit the law to the republican party.
Tens of thousands of settlers from Okla
mona to the Pacific ocean have been
Denehtted by the enactment of this law,
Du' perhaps none have received greater
cement according to the population than
Nez ferce county. It is but fair that
settlers on homesteads, who have by this
law had their homes made secure to them
without the payment of 500, remember
,h's TACT when they come to vote Novem-
Der next
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