Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-01-21
PUNISH THE LAND SW|NDLERS,
SAYS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT.



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-. rJAsHINGTON, Jam ls.-Men
N// who have committed frauds
N/ against the land laws of the
w government and have en-.
,..yored TO cheat the United States
osts public domain VIII be prosescul-
odto the limit Of the law. 1t has been
made easy to obtain land In the Unit
al states Settlers who want land have
Ind no dimculty in making their en-
,ries and obtaining title. The law has
not been hard to comply with. No bur-
der was put upon the settler more than
tbat which falls to the lot Of the aver
oee pioneer. The persons who have
been engaged in the frauds are those
,,ho desire to obtain valuable lands
,yIthout conforming to the law. They
are being found out, ana they are be-
Inc prosecuted There VIII be no let
nm i'm these prosecutions as long az
Theodore Roosevelt Is president. lie
IL determined that the men who have
been cheating the government must
suffer
HITCHCOCK WILL STAY,
one result Of unenrthing the land
frauds is that ScCN Hitchcock will
remain I'm the cabinet. 1t was general
IL believed that Hitchcock would close
His public career on March 4, but
Roosevelt win insist that ne remain
and continue his work against the land
thieves. For years western members
OF Congress have expressed their dis
. IA Nt,tar . Lon, 9
the interior department, Criticisms of
The secretary have appeared in the pa
uers, and western men have expressed
their disapprOval to the president II
has never developed just what the OBJ
iectlons TO Hitchcock are except that
the western men We're always having
trouble with him, Now however,
with an the various fraud eases pend
ng. any one VINO talks about the re-
moyal of Hitchcock will be an object of
suspicion Some one might suggest
that he wanted to get lands patented to
which there was Il questionable title
or that he desired to save some friends
who had been I'm crooked land business
ARIZONA Is HERE.
You can run against man from
Arizona almost anywhere about the
Capitol these days. They are here for
the purpose Of defeating the Joint state
hood bill These Arizona people do not
relish the idea of being tied up to New
Mexico. or course they will get It's
name, but New Mexico viii get every
thing else save one member OF Con-
grcss The men from Arizona declare
that their people would prefer to re-
main out of the Union rather than
come 10 doubled up with New Mexico.
lta 4 pff
NJ. r. Murphy miner and railroad
man. ~ q. Murphy. former delegate
and former governor and Mark Smith,
ex-delegate aud delegate elect They
have been making u close canvass OF
The senate and they believe that things
are so well fixed that the bill will new
en- so through,
TERRITORIAL DIVISION.
Two years ago when the statehood
h under Quays management was
pending in the senates the three terri |
torial delegates, Flynn OF Oklahoma, |
Rodey Of New Mexico ana Smith OF |
Arizona, were an working together |
Now there is n different division. Me-
CURE Of Oklahoma and Rodey are on |
the Republican side, working with |
Beveridge and Nelson, Wilson Of Ar- |
IONA and Mark Smith are on the DEM |
ocratic side, working with Dubois |
Bailey and Bate, who have made their |
arrangements with "A view OF holding |
up the bill until the session dies. The |
activity Of these territorial representa- |
tyes is one of the Interesting features |
Of the debate.
BACK TO THE ELEVENTH CAV
AIRY.
II Senator SCOTS bin abollshng five
regiments Of cavalry should pass that |
noted regiment of fiction, the Eleventh |
cavalry, could again be the pet of novel |
writer's, For years there were but ten
regiments of cavalry so the novelist,
with "A license TO which he was en-
tiucd, always wrote about a troop OF
the Eleventh cavalry, I'm that way he
could either protect real officers and
men or he could create an entirely new
scene in which the gallant Eleventh
could become heroes. Now that there
IS % real sure enough Eleventh cavalry
fine noyelsts have had to write about
The sixteenth or Seventeenth.
AN UNPOPULAR SUGGESTION,
The proposition made by James II.
Garfield, chief of the bureau of corpo-
rations. 20 require a license from all
corporations doing interstate commerce
business Is meeting with all kinds OF
opposition. Some people assert that the
scheme Is unconstitutional, but the
main objection to Il Isl that II is imprac-
toabIc The impression is that MrGar-
Held viii have 10 try again, II is not
believed that even an attempt win be
made to carry out his ideas with lcgs-
hliuu.
BATE AND FATHER TIME,
When Dakota came here for state
hood some six or eight years ago said
Senator Bate Whir discussing the
statehood BILL "uo one on this side
objected to the division Of the terrt-
tory as requested because he thought
70 WAS too large" Time no doubt slips
away quickly with the venerable Ten
hcssce senator for II was Just iG
years ago this winter That the bill was
passed admitting the Dakotas. Mon
lana and Washington as states of the
Union
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