Arizona republican., 1904-04-03
They're All Right Says Mir.
 Warren of Wyoming
FRAUD INFINITESMAL
Practiced Under Them-He Believes in Their Benificence and the Gen. eral Honesty of their Administra- ton.

Washington, April 2-Mr Warren occupied the greater part of the sen ate's time today with a speech attack ing the Gibson bill to repeal most of the existing land laws. He contended that the land laws were beneficent and in the main honestly administered and urged that there was no demand for their repeal.
 He declared that the movement for repeal was due to the large land hold CTS of the west, who hoped thereby to enhance the value of their holdings. He admitted that there had been abuses under the timber and stone act but he said the senate already had taken steps to correct that evil. As for the charges of fraud, it was easy to make them, but not easy to prove them, and in illustration of his con tention, he quoted a letter from the secretary of the interior, showing that only one entry out of 800 under the desert land law and only one out of every 1000 homestead entries was fraudulent.
 MT. Newlands asked if it was not true that there were many instances in which large bodies of lands were now held individually and if it was not true that those lands had been secured through fraudulent entry. He knew, he said, of one California cattle firm which owned a million acres in three or four states.
 MT. Warren replied that he knew of no holdings so large, and that the large holdings with which he was familiar were held in railroad grants. MT. Warren said that there was more fraud committed under the homestead act, than under any other land law, except the timber and stone act, be- cause the land could be secured under that law without paying any money.
 MT. Warren gave the details of the reclamation of the land in which is situated the colony of Wheatland. Wyo., saying that when first entered on there had not been water sufficient for even a drink within twenty miles. After more than $500, 900 had been eX- pended on the enterprise it was held up for years by the government under Cleveland's administration. Finally the difficulty was strengthened out with the result that seventy-nine sec tons had been settled and thoroughly reclaimed. The completion of the un- dertaking had cost more than 1000 GOO and only s50,000 had been taken out. In this connection Mir. Warren read a letter from the president of the com pany controlling the enterprise, defend ing it against MT. Gibson's reflections and giving details of the work done. He said there are now 5000 persons and that not one family could have lived there before the canal under which the colony was located was con- Structed.
 And this,'' explained MT. Warren, when the reading of the letter was completed, 'is the horrible example of froud which the senator from Montana charges against the people of Wyom- ing"
 Mr. Gibson replied that he had no feeling except that of high regard for the people of Wyoming and that he had no desire to make an attack upon them. He had based his remarks on an official report.
 Continuing, MT. Warren said he did not know of single instance in which an irrigation company was making a cent. and he added that he knew of many that had failed.
 MT Mallory concluded his speech on the old age disability pension order of the secretary of the interior.
 The postoffice appropriation bill was sidetracked for the day.