The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1911-08-10
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BRYAN IS ATTACKf : n THE HOUSE
Chairman Underwood of the Ways and
Means Committee Replies to the
Charges Of Nebraskan.

A way of affording relief to the
homesteaders OF he Rosebud and
other Indian reservations in South and
North Dakota, has been found by the
South Dakota delegation in Congress,
and the result is that Representative
Burke secured favorable action in the
House upon a measure extending the
time of payment to homesteaders,
the Senate says a dispatch to the
Register from Washington. The leg
islatiOn provides that IAN extension
Of time within which to make payment
of any amount that is about to be-
come due by filing an affidavit duly
corrohorated by two other persons,
setting forth that, by reason of
drought, loss of crop, sickness, or
other unavoidable cause, he can not
make such payments, and if the reg
lister and receiver are satisfied that
the facts are sufficient to Justify the
granting of an extension, and that
such person can not make such pay
ment and that he is acting in good
faith and is complying with all the
provisions Of the homestead laws,
may grant an extension of such pay
ment for a period of one year by the
payment of interest for one year in
advance at five per centum upon the
amount due, and any payment so
extended may annually thereafter be
extended for a period of one year
upon the same terms: provided, That
the last payment and all other pay
ments must be made within a period
not exceeding one year after the last
payment is due. That all moneys paid
for interest as herein provided shall
be deposited in the Treasury to the
credit of the Indians as a part Of the
proceeds received for the land" The
second section to the bill provides
further that failure to make any pay
ment that may be due unless the same
be extended, will forfeit the entry,
which will result in the same being
Cancelled.
Senator Warren's bill affording re-
lief TO certain homesteaders, and
which passed the Senate late in July,
has excited such widespread atten-
+iOn tho+ ~, nrOpicinnc will NO dnIht
prove of general interest to newspaper
readers in the regions affected. The
bill provides as follows: THAT all
persons who have heretofore made
homestead entries in Lennon, Timber
Lake, Rapid City, Chamberlain, Belle
Fourche, Gregory and Pierre land dis
tricts in the State of South Dakota;
in the Valentine, O'Neill and Alliance
land districts in the State of North
Dakota; and in the Cheyenne, Evans
ton, Sundance, and Douglas land dis
tricts in the State of Wyoming; in
the former Spokane Indian reservation
in the State of Washington, are here
by relieved from the necessity of
residence upon their lands from the
date of approval Of this act to April
fifteenth, nineteen hundred and
twelve: Provided, That the time of
actual absence during the period
named shall not be deducted from the
full time of residence required by
law"
The National Capital has learned
with perfect ~equanimity that the
Standard Oil reorganization is being
effected and that the decision of the
Supreme Court is being strictly adj
hered to. Abuse of the Standard Oil
has been going out of style and other
great trusts" are being compelled to
pear the burden of political ~onslaughts.
The explanation may all be traced
to the fact that for several years the
Standard Oil Company has been TAX
ing the public into its confidence,
with the result that when the reor-
ganization decreed by the Supreme
Court has been announced from the
general offices in New York, there
is no one who questions the absolute
honesty and truthfulness of the new
plans outlined by the officials Of the
Standard OIL.
One of the most dramatic scenes OF
the present session of Congress was
the reply by Chairman Underwood of
the Ways and Means Committee to
the attacks made upon him by William
Jennings Bryan. Amid cenes OF in