The state-line herald. (North Lemmon, Adams County, N.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-08-19

washington, and the lndica.
tons are that the Extreme
Position of the Government
anent the Land Withdrawal
has been Modified along the
entire line of the Public's de-
mands.
Wednesday afternoon Presid-
'ent Dousman of the Lennon
commercial club received from
Logan Berry the following lacon-
ic telegram Mission SUGGEST
tul. Department has wired Lem
mon land Office - The full force
and scope of the few words has
as yet not been ascertained, but
1T is safe to say that the deleg2-
ton composed of the two dele
gates OF commercial clubs, and
Gov. Vessey, has succeeded in
making their arguments for the
embattled honyak to stick.
On Friday of last week there
was held in the interests of the
settlers a notable meeting at
Huron, attended as it was by
Governors Vessey and Burke,
Senators Crawford and Gamble,
Congressman Burke and Martin
and the representatives of the
united commercial clubs of the
Lennon land district, Messrs.
Logan Berry and z. p. Norton.
After the subject had been care
fully gone over, the following
resolutions were adopted, to be
placed before the president and
department.:
I'VE have today been IN conference
in the city of Huron, upon the urgent
request of seventeen commercial and
homestead clubs of the Lennon land
district, in North Dakota and South
Dakota, to consider the serious nature
OF the situation, in which the home
steaders are placed IN that district. in
part. as the result OF the recent order
OF the department of date July p,
1910, and the executive order of July
:. Withdrawing from entry. sale and
disposal. certain lands in said district
and other districts similarly situated.
The situation from the standpoint
OF the homesteaders Is really critical.
Droughts have prevailed during the
present season. resulting in wide
spread crop failures, causing many
more settlers than otherwise would
have done so, to oiler communication
proc. in order to obtain proof title to
their lands.
"Action upon several hundred of
such proofs had been delayed there
tofore, in the department and now
since the PRONUNCIATION of the eXecu-
tive order referred to, the local land
officers haze adopted the practice OF
suspending all homestead filings and
proofs until definite instructions
should be issued hy the interior de-
partment as to the scope and effect of
the orders referred to.
OBJECTIONS FILED
''We have considered the various
acts of congress and the said order
with great care and as a result make
the following suggestions and recon-
mepdations:
First. That neither the order of
withdrawal nor the law under which it
is made. impairs the rights of bona
fide homestead settlers. Such settlers
lave full right to make commutatio n
proofs and entry and to receive pat
ent promptly, unless their lands are
elassed as coal lands or are protected
as containing coal in which case they
can accept a patent, reservlng the
coal to the United States. or can have
opportunity to disprove the allega-
tions Of the coal character OF their
lands and insist upon patent with
| out reservation.
Second. That lands embraced in
| Lawful, homesteads, initiated prior to
the date OF the order OF withdrawal,
are expires sfully excepted from the
force and effect of the withdrawal or
der by the terms Of the conservation
act of Jure %, 1910, and are In no
way affected thereby: that there Is no
authority or Justification for the sus-
pension OF action on communication
proofs upon homesteads, but they
| should pass promptly to approYai
and certificate OF final entry unless
tainted by fraud or other irregularify.
| ..Tbird. That it is manifestls I'M
iust to bona fide homestead settlers TO
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