Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 21, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1882 — Page 1

VOLUME XXVI.

The Democrat. Official Paper of the County. A* H 11.1., Editor and Bovine** Manager. TERMS : ONE DOLLAR AND FIFTY CENTS IN ADVANCE : TWO DOLLARS PER IRAK IF NOT PAID IN ADVANCE. A. G. HOLLOWAY, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DBCATUn, INDIANA. Office over Adams Co. Bank 2nd door. Wil attend to all professional calls promptly, night or day. Charges reasonable. Residence on north side of Monroe street, 4th house east of Hart’s Mill. 25jj79if W. H~ M YERS? Brick ts Slone .Bason < ontrac’r OICZTUB, INDIANA. ' Bolic.lt* work of all kinds in his line. Person* oontemplaiii g building might make a point by consulting him. Estimates on application, *25n46m3. IN WICKS, J, T. MKKKTMAN. TVICKS <t MERRYMAN, •Attorney* al Lair AND Beal Estate •Agents. Deeds, Mortgages, Contracts and all Idgal Instruments drawn with neatness sad dlg£*toh. PaXitfon, settlement of decedent’s estates, and collections a specialty. Office up stairs in Stone s building—4th door. vol, 26, no. 24, yl, DR. KITCHMILLER will be at the BURT HOUSE, DECATUR, INDIANA, Bvery second Tuesday and Wednesday of ••ch month to treat all Chronic Diseases. Consultation free. Call and see him. AH letters of inquiry received at the home office at Piqua, Ohio, will receive prompt attention. Write to him and make a statement of your case.—v2sn3bly. D. BIXLER, BERNE, INDIANA. Retail Dealer in WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, Spec taeles, ebo Repairing done at lowest prices to guar an tee good and sound work R B. Aixisow, Prrat. W. H. NiM.!CX,Oa«hter. B. Stvdasakbb, Vice Pree’t. THE ADAMSCOUNTY BANK, DECATUR, INDIANA, This Bank is now open for the transaction of a general banking business. We buy and sell Town, Township and Cwunty Order*. 25jy79tf PETERSON 4 HUFFMAN,* ATTORNEYS AT LAW, DS;ATUB, INDIANA. Will practice in Adams and adjoining roanties. Especial attention given to collections and titles to real estate. Are Notaries Public and draw deeds and mortgages Real estate bought, sold and rented on reasonable terms. Office, rooms 1 and 2, I. C O. F. building 25jy79tf FRANCE & KING. ’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BKCATUR.INDIANA. E. N. WICKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, niCATtia, isdiama. All legal business promptly attended to. Office up stairs in Stone s building dihdoor. »20n24 year 1.

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John T. Bailey, attorney at Law and Real Estate Agent Decatur, Indiana. Special attention given to collections.—nos2.tf. R. B. FREEMAN, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, DECATUR, INDIANA. Office over Dorwin & Holthouie’a Drug Store Residence on Third Street, between Jackton and Monroe. Professions! calls promptly attended. V 01.25 No. 22. if. DfiD fV of graves Tlliflj*** gjnre annually robbed of their victims, lives prolonged, happiness and health restored by the use of the great GERMAN INVIGORATOR which positively and permanently cures ImpotPllcy (caused by excesses of any kina.) Seminal Weaknm and all diseases that follow as a sequence of SelfAbuse, as loss of energy, luss of memory, universal lassitude, pain m the b<*ck, d.mness of vision, premature old age, and many other diseases that lead to insanity or consumption and a premature grave. Send for circulars wiih testlmonals free by mail. The Invigorator is sold at fl per box, or six boxes for $5, by all druggists, or, will be sent free by mail, securely sealed, on receipt of price, by addressing, F J. (HEYEY. Druggist, 187 Summit St., Toledo, Ohio. Sole Agent for the United States. R. A. Pierce A Co., Sole Agents at Deoatu, The Methodists in ths United StatesThe total number of Methodists in the United States is about 3.599,000. They are divided into tifteen branches, all of which agree in doctrine, aud in most respects in practice. The largest branch is the Methodist Episcopal Church. This was organized at a conference of Methodist ministers called by Thomas Coke, and held in Baltimore, December 24, 1784. This branch lias now 95 conferences, 12 Bishops. 12,096 traveling preachers and 1,742,922 members, and church property valued at about $73,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal Chnrch South, the second in size, was organized by seceders from the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Louisville, May 1, 1845. The occasion of the secession was the action of the General Conference of 1844, requesting Bishop Andrew to “withdraw from the eternise of his office until certain slaves owned by his wife were emancipated.” At the time of the secession this church had about 450,000 members. It now Ims 39 conferences. 7 Bishops, 3,860 ministers and 822,000 members. The Methodist Protestant Church was organized in B iltimore in 1830 by certain seceders who favored lay representation in the conferences, an I the abolition of the presiding elders. This branch has no Bishops. It has 1,314 members. The United Brethren Church was founded by Philip W. Otterhein. It has five Bishops, forty-seven conferences, 2,196 ministers, and 157,835 members. The Evangelical Association was founded in 1800 by Jacob Albright, and is composed mainly of Germans. It has three Bishops, twenty-one conferences, 893 ministers and 112.197 members. The Free Methodist Church was organized at Pekin, N. Y. It is especially devoted to the preaching and practice of the doctrine of sanctification, and is opposed to the putting on of gold and jewels, and the wearing of costly apparel and the secret societies. It has n ither Bishops nor presiding elders. It has thirteen conferences, 271 preachers and 12,642 members. The American Wesleyan Church was organized at Utica, N. Y.. in 1843. and grew out of the anti-slavery agitation. It has no Bishops or presiding elders, and admits no one belonging to secret jocieties to membership. It has 250 ministers and 25.000 members. The Congregational Methodist Church was organized in 1852. Its adherents are mainly to be found in Georgia and adjoining Slates. It has about 150 ministers 10,000 members. There are four colored Methodist Churches in the United States, ad having had their origin in the social difference between the whites and blacks being in former years made too apparent The African Methodist Church was organized in 1860. It has nine Bishops, 1,418 ministers and 214.808 members. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1819. This body is parlicul rly strong in theSoutli. It has seven Bishops about 1,500 ministers and 190.000 members. The Union Methodist Episcopal Church was founded at Wilmington, Del., in 18i3, and was originally known as the “African Union.” It has five conferences, 121 preachers and 2.000 members. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in 1870. under th* direction of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, but is entirely distinct fror. that shurch in its jurisdiction. It his four Bishops. 638 ministers and 112,300 member*. There ate also a large number of colored members in the Metholist Episcopal Church. Besides these organized bodies there ire independent Methodist churches, the total membership of which is about 15.000. Absolute Faith. Th* first wife of Emile de Girardin had the most absolute faith in his powers. A few days after the revolution of 1843 a lady who was greatly distressed about political events and troubled as to th* future went to see Mme. de Girardin, whose parlor was exactly underneath her husband's study and workroom. “Oitl my dear friend.” said the visitor, “what tenable times we live in! What awful events! Who can extricate us from them?” "There is only one. He who is above (lahaut) can do it!” responded gravely Mme. de Girardin. "Yes, that’s so—the good God. you are right F’ “No I I am speaking of Emils Linen*. English table-cloths tor dinners of eefemonv are of very fine heavy white linen damask, made transparent in longitudinal lines bv Kensington drawn work laid over tine red cloth covers, while a third cloth of small size, of red velvet, ov 1 sh.tped, and embroidered in gold and cashmere effects. is spread over the central psit of the table, under the e t ergne, which again i* placed on an <»val minor butind with-iher. Oh his mirror are sw an-and aqua. i< plants in porcelain or bist|o* r«n*e.*d on it* bosom.

LAND-GRANT RAILROADS Speech of Hon. William S. Holman, of Indiana, In the House of Representatives, Friday, July 7, 1882 ’* Orect eptalft# (Isstroy th©-plrit of patriotiwil in th •«« who have ever,thing and those who have nothing.”—St Pierre. The House, in committee of the whole, having under consideration the Sundry Civil Appropriation hill, Mr, Holman eaid : Mr. Cha rman, this bill of “ odds and ends,” which can find uo appropriate place in any of the regular bills providing for the departments of Government, appropriates the unprecedented rum of 423,680,865.06, which might be reduced to 47,000,000 without impairing the efficiency of any department. But there ia a single item in the bill involving a compara-tively-small expenditure to which I wish to invite attention. That item reads as follows : “For surveying the public lands, 8400,000." The sum heretofore appropriated annually for that purpose has been 1300,000. This increase might excite attention, but upon examination I find that a system has recently grown up under cover of law enormously increasing the fund for the survey of the public land under this system. Persons desiring the survey of a township of public land deposit the money to cover the cost of the survey in any Government depository aud receive* a certificate for the same, and these certificates are assignable and are received in the land offices as cash in payment for public lands, and the funds deposited are applied to the survey of public lands. I learn from the last report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that during the fiscal year 1881 the enormous sum of $1,804,166.47 was deposited under this system, which, added to the $300,000 regularly appropriated, made the sum es s2,l< '4,166,47 available for the survey of the public lands Thus a double fraud is perpetrated on the Government; the one in opening up facilities for the excessive profits incident to the Government surveys, and the other furnishing opportunities for capitalists to monopolize at a nominal price large bodies of the most valuable of the public lands. Now, sir, the Commissioner has called attention to this subject, and in bis last report sets forth an order issued by him set king to restrict this evil, the first paragraph of which is in these words : “To Suhveyob General : Ju order to prevent, as far as possible, the perpetration of frauds and fraudulent surveys, which have already assumed alarming proportions under the system of deposits by individuals, it is hereby ordered.” And the Commissioner proceeds to set forth rules seeking to counteract as far “ as possible” these frauds, and the Commissioner recommends the repeal of the law under whic h these frauds are sheltered. These facts are known, I presume, by all the members of the House, and are especially within the knowledge of the Committee on Appropriations. After being thus informed of the existing evil by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the Committee on Appropriations, after appropriating $400,000 by this bill for the survey of the public lands, instead of repealing the law which authorises these frauds, add the following provision: “ That no certificate issued for a deposit of money for the survey of lands under section 2,403 of the Revi.-ed Statutes and fl e act approved March 3, 1879, amendatory th r o , "hall tie received m payment for lands except at the land office in which the lands surveyed for which the deposit was made are subject to entry, and not elsewhere ; but this section shall not be held to impair or affect in any manner deposits and contracts made under the provisions of said act prior to the passage of this act” I concede that last clause is right. If by the provisions •icorporat-d in secti ,a 2.403 of the Revised Statutes, and the amendatory act, making these certificates assignable, parties have become the holders of these certificates, rendering it still more convenient to reacii your public domain, why, of course, the Government is bound by it and must submit to that extent to the wrong done. But I protest against the other proposition, aud still more I protest against what is omitted—a repeal of the law authorizing the fraud. What, then, is the effect of the provision? It is simply this, that the certificates of deposit shall only be received in payment for land in the land district in which the survey was made for which the money was dep-xited. Does that reach the evil? Does that put an end to or even limit those frauds? Not in the least. Some of these land districts exceed the territory of a great State, embracing millions of acres, aud all that the provision of the committee does is to limit the operations of these gentlemen who are surveying and monopolizing the most choice of your public lands to the district in which the deposit is made. I hardly tbiuk they would wish a larger field. I would now be very glad lo hear an explanation from my friend from New York [Mr. Hiscock] why this extraordinary state of things is permitted; why this legislation which authorizes the issue of these certificates is not repealed by this lull in conformity with the recommendations of the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Mr. Hiscock--It is not claim d that there has been any al se in this deposit system until the certificates were made assignable and receivable for the amount carried upon their face in payment for public lands at any point or at any place. I do not understand Uiat there is anything in the communication to which the gentleman refers that claims that there has been any fraud or irregularity in this matter, or that the system has worked otherwise than well up to the point when these certificates were made assignable, so that the men making the deposits of money were not compelled to take the land when it was once surveyed, but were given the option of selling the certificates and assigning them to other people to be located where they pleased. These certificates were made assignable in 1881, I think. Mr. Holman—lt was in 1879. Mr. Hiscock—They were made assignable in 1879. It is claimed that since then the abuse has grown up of depositing money for which certificates were issued, for the sole purpose of furnishing business to the surveyors, and that therein consists the abuse. After full consultation with the I*and Office we have repealed the assignability of these certificates. Mr. Holman—Whereabouts is that ? Mr. Hiscock—To the extent that they must be located by whoever holds them in the district of the Land Office in which the deposit was made. Mr. Atkins-And not m the township, as heretofore. Mr. Hiscock—They were originally required o be located in the township. Mr. Holman—l think I understand the gentleman’s position, aud he will excuse me it 1 do not permit him to consume any more of my time. This explanation is entirely unsatisfaotory, and will be found so by any gentleman who will examine the facts before the committee aud the provisions of this bill; the clause I have read is the entire provision. The use es these certificates is not limited to the persons to whom they were issued; they are not limited at all, except that they shall lie usedin the land district where the deposit is made. It leaves he evil just exactly as it was. The statement of the Commissioner, in which he refers to the assignability of these certificates, is this: “Applications for surveys are fraudulently prepared by or through the instigation and management of deputy surveyors, wno, for the purpose of securing the contract for making the survev, either themselves or through friends advance the money for the deposit, thereafter sell and assign the certificates, and thus reimburse themselves and secure their profit from the surveying contracts. ” And yet gentlemen must see that even if these certificates were not assignable the same evil, only slightly modified, would continue. What is most marked is that the Committee on Appropriations, and apparently with the concurrence of the Committee on Public Linds, permit this monstrous wrong to go on of the survey of these lands beyond the public wants for the purpose of speculation, for that is what it raeaus, just that, nothing less. I concede that theComnn s*bner of the Land Office complains of tnese frauds on account of the profitable surveying contracts thus obtained. That is not the main evil of which I complain. Wha! lam eou<luinuing is — Mr. Atkins Will the gvotiemsn allow >ue : one word?

DECATUR, ADAMSCOUNTY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, i B B2

Mr. Holman—Let me fin ; sh my sentence. What I am condemning is that you allow the survey of these lands far beyond the demands of settlement; not so much that it enables the contractors who make the surveys to realize unreasonable profits, but for the other reason that is of much greater moment to the people of this country, that it enables men with capital to monopolize your public lauds, and speculate on the natural rights of your laboring people. Mr. Haskell—How can they do that? Mr. Holman—By buying the land at a nominal price. And that applies no less in the States where the pre-emption law must be resorted to than in tbo States where the lauds are subject to public sale and private entry. lam prepared to show that even under the preemption laws men of capital speculate in your public lands. I now yield for a moment to the gentleman from Tenneose. Mr. Atkins—l only wanted to state that I thought the criticism of the gentleman ou the Committee of Appropriations was rather unjust, if he had been a member of Congress fW the last four years preceding this he would have known that efforts were made to cut nown this very appropriation, and it had to be done in the face of the estimates, of the wishes of the adm lustration as expressed through its estimates, and the opposition of the Western members of Congress on this floor. Mr. Holman—Certainly. We saw that in the Forty-fourth Congress. The hill as it parsed the House proposed such a reduction in the compensation for surveying the public lands as to remove all motive for fraud. The amendment of the Senate could not be entirely overcome ; and the sum of $300,000 had to be appropriated. The pressure then was almost as great as it is now to reach the public lauds and exhaust them ; they are now and have been for years a rich field for dishonest speculation. But, Mr. Chairman, die evil of which I complain is only a part of a general system. I wish in a brief way to consider the subject more broadly. The act which passed Congress on the 20th of May, 1862, known as the “ Homestead law,” was not only one of the wisest but one of the most humane laws ever enacted—l had the honor myself to vote for it, and 1 feel an honorable pride in that vote. It was the first important law of civil government enacted by the great party which from that day to this* has controlled this Government. It was the hope of the friends of that great measure that at a very early day all the public lands of the United States adapted to agriculture would be placed under its provisions, thus securing for all time the public domain for the benefit of the actual settler, the nation holding the lauds only as a trustee for its landless jjeople. The Republican party in its early vigor pointed to this law with commendable pride, not only as the fulfillment of a promise made to the people, but as the evidence of the elevated statesmanship of its leaders. Andrew Johnson and other eminent representatives of Democratic principles had made a brave fight for the Homestead law and failed. The Republican party had carried it through as its first measure of civil policv. . . . Tbirtv y—— 111 nrst gathering of its elements, the Republican party at Pittsburgh adopted this resolution : •• Resolved, That the public lands of the United States belong to the people, and should not be sold to individuals, nor granted to corporations, but should l»e held as a sacred trust for the benefit of the people, and should be granted in limited quantities, free of cost, to landless settlers.” It was greatly to the honor of that party and the eminent statesmen who organized its forces that ten years after the adoption of that resolution the party fulfilled its early promise by the enactment of the Homestead law. It was an honorable beginning, but that great party twenty years ago, devoting for the coming ager the grand public domain of that day for home' far the landless and prosperous and happy firesides for all men who would assert the r ghts of labor, and that party of to-day, turning that bountiful gift of nature to mankind ever to the grasping millionaire and the plundering spoilsman and using the power of Government to drive off the laboring man from the fields enriched by his lal»or aud on which, he was invited to enter by that very Homestead law for the benefit of incorporated power, is the most striking and humiliating contrast known to the history of free government. The facts which I shall present will show how tamely I have presented the case. The great parties which had controlled the Government for three-quarters of a century had husbanded the public lands with jealous solicitude ; their policy at times seemed almost miserly. They did not underestimate the value of this great inheritance ; they saw in the fertile and boundless fields of the West the strong bulwark of the Republican institutions they were cherishing ; they saw in those fields the safety of labor against the oppression of capitalized power; they felt and knew that while that refuge remained, while the strong arm and the brave heart of labor was sure of a freehold, a home, aud a fireside against all the accidents of fortune the republic was secure. The monarchies which had held possession in North America, the English, the French and Spaniard, had granted to favorites large estates in land. And why not? Such is the instinct of monarchy. Our fathers boarded the public lands to secure homes for the people. They did not enact a homestead law. for the public treasury during a long period required the price, but little more than nominal, charged for public lands, ft was no hardship, for tnere were no overgrown estates ; and hence poverty was almost unknown. Under this policy the great States stretching westward from the Alleghanies to the Mississippi and still onward were settled ; the general equality in wealth was mi intained ; no primely estates : no cry for lai.or and bread. Up to the time the Republican party came into power not an acre of land had been granted by Congress to a corporation ; but the grants made by Congress to States for internal improvements and applied by the States to making of roada. canals and railroads amounts in the aggregate to 31.6’10,846 acres. This includes all of the grants made by Congress from the adoption of the Federal constitution on the 17th day of September, 1787, to the 4th day of March, 1861, when the party now controlling public affairs came into power, coveiing a period of seventyfour years. And here I present, sir. a table of the grants of public lands made bv Congress since the Republican party came into power on the 4th of March, 1861, covering a period of twenty-one years—not grants made to States for public purples subject to State control and State taxation, but made to corporations for the gain and profit of corporations which are even now almost, if not entirely, above either State or Federal control. [Here Mr. Holman gives a table of railroads and the amount of land granted to each, showing (hat between 1862 and 1874 the enormous amount of 192,081,155 acres of the public domain was voted away by Congress to railroad corporations. | Thus while the old parties, Federalist, Democrat and Whig, had carefully guarded the public land through a period of seventy-four years against the countless schemes of proposed and pretended development and improvement, through which the designing and the crafty sought to reach them, and through that long period granted 31,600,846 acres to States for internal improvements, the Republican parts in a period of fourteen yt ars gave to railroad corporations 192,081,155.52 acres. All of these grants, aggregating 192,081,155.52 acres, were made between the 4th day o; March, 1861, and the 4th day of March, 1875, a period of fourteen rears, for on the 4th day of March, 1875, the Democratic party came into the control of this House, and since then no grant has been made, renewed or enlarged. And who can estimate the fatal injury inflicted by this system on the integrity of the public service ? Each grant has its own peculiar history of national humiliation. The exhaustion of the public land is not the only evil of this system of land grants. In the many struggles tu renew, enlarge and extend the grants, spectacles were presented on this floor which cannot be recalled without as< nse of national humiliation aud dishonor, when great stockholders of the corporations holding these grants, members of this House, unblushingly attempted to vote in their own interest, and were arraigned before the bar of the House for the discreditable attempt. When the most fertile regions of the public domain had been reached and appropriated by these grants, and not till then, the minority of this House were able to check this corrupting policy. The time for the completion of these land-grant railroads has expired. The last grant, according to various laws creating the grants, expired on the 2d day of Mav. 1882. The time for the completion of the Northern Pacific railroad, with its enormous grant of 48.215,040 acres, expired on the 4th dav of July, 1879. In ail of these grams, except to the Northern Pacific, it is in substance provided that the corporations should complete a specified portion of their respective roads each year, receiving the lauds accruing upon the completionof each section of twenty miles, and should complete their respective roads within a specified |»eriod, generally ten years, and upon failing to do so the lauds remaining should “ revert to the United Slates.” In some of these acts the language is still more sp ciric and declares that upon such failure the act shall be “null and void." and the r< inuniug lands “ shall revert to the United HtatesThere ia not the least ambiguity in the conditions to these grants, by which the GGrp«r*t»on is entitled to a given number of

sections of land on the completion of each section of twenty miles, and if there is a failure to complete the road within the period specified, the remaining land “shall revert to the United States.” In the grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company the terms are different. The eighth section of the act is specific and unequivocal. It is as follows : “Sec. 8. Aiul be it further enacted. That each and every grant, right and privilege herein are so made and given to, and accepted by, said Northern Pacific Railroad Company, upon and subject to the following conditions, namely : that the said company shall commence the work on said road within two years from the approval of this act by the President, and shall complete not less than fifty miles per year after the second year, and shall construct, equip, furnish and complete the whole road by the 4th day of July, anno Domini, 1876.” There is no ambiguity in this la nguage. Each and every grant, right and privilege herein is “given to, accepted by,” said company on the condition that the work shall be commenced within two years after the approval of the act (July 12, 1864), not less than fifty miles a year shall be completed after the second vear, and the whole road shall be constructed, equipped, furnished and completed by the 4th day of July, 1876. Then follows the most unmeaning jumble of words ever hid in the verbiage of an act of Congress, written as if the crafty lawyer who drew it wished to create an ambiguity on whieff a corporation might set up some pretense of a right not granted by the law. Here is this remarkable section: “ Sec. » And be it further enacted, That the United States make the several conditioned grants and that the said Northern Pacific Railroad Company accept the same, upon the further condition that if the said company make any breach of the conditions hereof, and allow the same to continue for upward of one year, then, in such a case, at any time hereafter, the United States, by its Congress, may do any and all acts and things which may be needful and necessary to insure a speedy completion of the said road.” If this corporation gains anything by this section it will only be when it is sufficiently powerful to order the interpretation of a law against the plainest dictates of common sense. It accepts the grant on the condition that its “ whole road ’’ shall be completed by the 4th lay of July, 1876, and if it breaks its contract then the United States may do what is necessary “to insure a speedy completion of said road.” Well, suppose this corporation forfeited its land grant by failing to complete its road by the 4th day of July, 1879, for the time was extended by the joint resolution of May 7, 1866, to that date, without any other change in the conditions, and Congress declared, as it rightfully might and should, the remaining lauds forfeited to the United States, certainly the Government might complete the road if it thought proper and had the constitutional power, or might regrant the lands for that purb.uLd M I f i 8L h U l n?mWßUt«j Does it mean that Congress cannot declare the forfeiture under the eighth section without providing for the completion of the road? No, sir ; it means simply that the United States might do exactly what it might have done if this ninth section had not been a part of the law. This corporation will have to be stronger than Congress or the Federal judiciary before it will be able to obtain a decision that the United States cannot declare the forfeiture under the eighth section until they assume the obligation to complete the road under the ninth section. Perhaps this corporation will have the effro tery 4,0 claim that under the ninth section if it forfeits the grant, then the United States are compelled to complete the road for its benefit. And yet this extraordinary claim would not be more startling than the claim that if the corporation forfeited its rights then the United States were bound to provide for the completion of the road for the benefit of the United States. But happily the last section of the act leaves the whole subject under the control of Congress. It provides : “Sec. 20. Anti be U further enacted, That the better to accomplish the object of this act, namely, to promote the public interest and welfare by the construction of said railroad and telegraph line and keeping the same m working order, and to secure to the Government at all times (but particularly in time of war) the use and benefits of the same for postal, military phd other purposes, Congress may at anv time, bavins' due regard for the rights of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, add to, alter, amend or repeal this act” The stump speech in favor of this imperial grant embodied in this last section, craftih framed as it is, will deceive no one ; it has bn. one meaning, and that is “ that Congress may at any time, having due regard for the rights of said Nori hern Pacific Raiiroad Company, add to. alter, amend or repeal this act” In view of the forfeiture which occurred of this grant on the 4th of July, 1879, what rights have that corporation which the United States are bound either in law or equity to regard ? It might have been fairly presumed that, as th'*se corporations were entitled to patents for the 11nd as each successive section of the road was completed, the land remaining when the period for the final completion of each road expired would at once become a part of the pubic dooia n ; but the Supreme Court holds otherwise, that the law vested in the corporation the right to the land, that the condition of lorfeiture for failing to complete the ruad within the time sp-oified was a “condition subsequent,” and hence an act of Congress was necessary to declare the forfeiture and restore the land to the public domain. I present here a statement of the several grants which have been forfeited. The last of fliese grants, that to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, expired on the 2d day of Mav, 1882. [Mr. Holman here presents a table of land grants which have been forfeited by the failure of the corporations to complete their roads within the time specified by law. This table shows that the total number of acres embraced in these forfeited grants is 128,472,161 acres; length in miles of railroads as definitely located, 12,080 ; number of miles of road completed before expiration of grants, 3,151.] It will be seen that this statement embraces many of the earlier grants and three of the great grants made within the fourteen years, many of the older grants having been extended and greatly enlarged within the last eighteen years. These twenty-three grants embrace *128,472,161.13 acres. The aggregate length of the railroads for which these grants were made is 12,080 miles, and the number of miles completed when the grants expired 3,151 miles, so that a fraction over one-fourth of the roads was completed and the companies were entitled to only tueir proportion of the 128,472,161.13 acres when the forfeitures occurred, and m good faith and common honesty the rest of this enormous body of land reverted to the United States. Not a mile of some of these railroads has been constructed up to this day. The following table shows the number of miles which had been constructed by each of the great corporations above named when their grants expired, and the time of their expiration, including the Southern Pacific of California, which is not embraced in the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office made to the House on the 28th day of March, 1882 (House Executive Document No. 144, first session, Forty-seventh Congress): TABLK OF C: HTAIN LXPIREP GBANIS, AC. I’ll 11'I U sf i’ 113 NAME OF RAILROAD ; g ' I • a • L 2 I 1 Atlantic and Pacific 4, 78 115 Texan Pacific 18 000,000 1,483 May 2/821 181 Northern Pacific.. .1 48,215,040;•?,270 Ju;y 4,’79 531 Southern Pacific of California 5,511,264 i 522 July 4,’78 125 Total, Thus it wfll be seen that four of these corporations, which received grants of the public land? amounting in the aggregate to 113,726,304 acre**, a territory five times as large as the State of Indiana and 10,000,000 acres more, for the construction of 6,701 miles of railroad, had completed onlv 962 miles of railroad when the grants expired, leaving over 96,000,000 acres of the grants now belonging to the public domain. But since the decision of the Supreme Court that these grants vest from the beginning in the and on the forfeiture of the grant an act of Congress is necessary to restore theee lands to the public domain, the departments of the Government have treated those grants as still existing, notwithstanding the forfeiture. [Mr. Holman here exhibits a table condensed from the report of the Secretary of the Interior for 1880-81, showing in detail the condition of large numbers of these grants. We simply give the footings: Number of miles cover’d by grants, 14.351 . estimated eunibir of acres granted, 179,922,528: acres disposed of, 14 310,204 ; receipts from sa!**, MA9’15.473 31 ; estimated quantity of acres of granted Isnd s-e---maming unsold, 164,512,334.] This teble presents matter well worthy of ponsiderxtiou. While the Government with seeming t*agetre*>s H getting rid of whst reui <iua of ti.e pul lu land r nd during the last n’eal veai disposed of 10,89 i,397 acies and rein •;««*!> $8,884,540, yet these coroort

tions witu their immense land grants, the ’arger portion of which in quantity were made in 1862-’64-’6s—and although the Union Pa ciflc aud its great branches were completed more than thirteen years ago and thus became the absolute owner of its grant—ave only sold off 14,310.2’)4 acres aud realized therefrom $68,995,479.31, and according to this table they still hold in reserve 164,512,834 acres of their grants. Yes, sir, those corporations are patiently waiting until the United States shall exhaust all that remains of the public lands adapted to agriculture, for then their monopoly is complete and every laboring and landless man in the United Stetee is at their mercy. But it will be seen that even the larger portion of the lands sold are sold to the members of these corporations at the price of a fracti >n under $5 per acre, still to be held for speculation. It is therefore not at all surprising that an irresistible pressure is brought to bear upon Congress to exhaust the public lands, that 21,788,011 acres should have been surveyed last year (a territory larger than the State of Indiana) aud brought within wie reach of monopolizing speculators. The pressure of these corporations is felt by every department of tne Government, and the extent of their hold upon the public lands cannot bo learned with certainty from the public records. Whoever, sir, shall carefully examine the foregoing tables taken from the official records will be startled by the discrepancies. In table No. 2 the grant to the Atlantic and Pacific is stated at 42,000,000 ; instable No. 4 at 49,244,803. In the report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office before mentioned, of March 28, 1882. the grant to the Southern Pacific of California is estimated at 5,511,261 ; no such grant appears in table No. 2. Id table No. 4, the grant to the Northern Pacific is put down at 42,000,000, and in table No. 2at 47,000,000, and many others equally startling. I suppose that in such enormous grants a few million acres more or less is considered a matter of no moment. Some of these statements seem to come from the Commissioner of the General Land Office and some from the Auditor of Railroad Accounts. The estimates are vague and will be still more so in the future, as will appear, but the uncertainty will not reduce the grants. There is no branch of the public service so poorly understood as those corporate grants ; there is no field in which corruption can not so secure, and no officers of the Government so beset by temptations as those connected with these grants. Contests are constantly arising ’ etween these corporations and the settlers on the public lands, but when in these contests, whether before the courts or the departments, and I may add before Congress, have these corpora tions failed? By disingenuous provisions in the grants and the “art of definition” these corporations are enabled to select their “indemnity land” oyer a vast region of country, the Northern Pacific . n places to the £$ t s re *withdrawn from ■ ii 1 c domain at tin same time the lands n Hie limits ol t e gi a t are withdrawn, and settlers over a vast region of country enter upon their homesteads at their peril. And so, Mr. Chairman, even at this early day the fruits of this land-grant railroad system begin to ripen in all their bitterness. Citizens, after years* of labor on their homesteads under shelter of your homestead laws, driven out of their once cheerful homes and from fields fertilized by the sweat of their patient labor; soldiers who upheld the banner of the Union on many a field of death, by craft and subtlety d- bi v 1 of their rights in the public domain ; millions of acres of fertile land, by faci'e, adroit decisions secured to these corporations, even in excess of their grants, at the expense of bona fide settlers—millions of acres of land by heart ess monopoly placed forever beyond the reach of landless ana laboring men, the entire public domain permeated in every direction by grants the laws creating which are full of subtle and disingenuous provision! framed for dishonest advantage, while the combined power of these corporations, with more than Kingly wealth, with lands sufficient to form more than eight great States within their grasp, a munificent gift of Congress from the rightful inheritance of labor, is molding the policy which will secure obedience to their commands, while the unshorn fields which once invited the labor of the landless now have written upon them the accursed word monopoly—not free lands for freemen, with the plow in the hands of the owner, but landlords and tenants, great estates and shivering poverty. No man who feels as a man is wont to feel can contemplate the fruits of this system, its disingenuous methods, its corrupting practices, its arrogant and unblushing assertion of dishonest claims as against the just rights of the feeble, and the subserviency of official authority to its demands without blushing for his country. And here, Mr. Chairman, we stand at the close of this prolonged session. Matters of trivial concern have occupied this great body. The greatest question before the American people cannot even obtain a hearing. Has the shadow of these great corporations fallen also upon this Capitol? Does the spirit that rendered these grants possible still stand in the wbv i f abrogating them to the full extent of th' rglit? ®ut what other results could have been hoped for? The great party which organized these corporations and gave them the lands which belonged to the people have learned to lean upon them for support A party whose mam support is corporate power is not likely to speak in the interest of labor. If these forfeited lands are ever brought within the reach of the landless it will not be by the party which made these grants. If the people of this country wish to assert their rights against the domination of corporate power, they must change the administration of their affairs. The continuance of the Republican party in the ascendency means the ascendency of powerful monopolies and that this generation shall see the utter an 4 complete exhaustion of the public lands, and with the public domain, sir, got s the last hope of labor aud the strongest pillar upon which this republic rests. bir, is there any parallel to this record? Thirty years ago, in the first gathering of its elements at Pittsburgh, the party in power resolved that the public lands should not be sold to individuals or granted to corporations, but should be h‘ld as a “sacred trust” to secure homes for “ landless settlers.” Twenty years ago the same party, on its first advent into power, passed the Homestead law aud dedicated these public lands to the landless for free homes for freemen, yet within a period of fourteen years the same party gave to corporations 192,081,155.52 acresof these lands, authorized them to select the most fertile of these lands almost without limit, and have so administered the laws miking these grants that bv artful interpretations these grants are so enlarged that the agricultural lands are almost exhausted, and in a very few years the monopoly of lands by great corporations will be complete. And now, when many of these corporations have, after repeated extension of the time for completing their railroads, finally forfeited a large portion of their grants, and only an act of Congress, the justice of which no man can question, is necessary to restore 96,000,000 of acres of these lamia to the people, a territory larger than the great States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois combined, that act cannot be obtained. Aud. more than that, in this House as organized even the poor privilege of considering the subject cannot be secured. And why were not these railroad-* completed within the time named in the respective grants? The answer is obvious. These corporations have waited until our ever-growing population, pouring in teeming multitudes westward aud •outhwestward into the new States and Territories, have by their labor in countless fields developed the value of these great grants reserved from settlement and made them the foundation for the bonds which are to construct the roads. The time for the completion of the Northern Pacific road was twice extended before it forfeited its grant on the 4th dav of July, 1879. The cost of constructing th s road of 2,270 miles, as reported by the Auditor Railroad Accounts, will be $75,000,000, and this corporation holds its land grant of 48,215,040 acres in the fairest portion of the great West—land enough to complete its imperial railroad estate and leave princely estates to the railroad kings beside ! And yet in due course of time this road would have been built and paid for by the men who would have owned it, and the curse of land monopoly would not have been written on the face of these fair fields. It is said that the gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Knott) and his associates, the minority of the Jndicary Committee, will report in lavor of restoring to the people the unearned and forfeited millions of this grant, but if they do they will get no hearing in this House. And so, sir. the party which passed the Homestead law has not only granted to these corporations this vast body of the public lands, but has Invested these corporations with such imperial powers that they defy yonr Government and hold these forfeited lands in defiance of the public will : and yet these lands, to the extent of more than 96.000.000 acres, in equity, justice, law and common honesty, belong to the people of the United States. In this state of sff drs is it all surprising that the leading public journal of the Pacific coast should indignantly sav that—“Thsrs u nothing in tbs histovy of ary mnl

ized nation so monstrous, so stupid, so infamous as ths legislation which has turned over these more than imperial gifts of land to tho absolute ownership of a few bloodless, soulless, aspiring and brutal corporations. It is a direct bid for the establishment and perpetuation of a landed aristocracy in the United States as much more powerful than that of Ireland as France is larger than Belgium, and as more able to defy the Government as an American Congress, restricted by a written constitution, is less able to cope with such a combination as the British Parliament, which may make and mend the unwritten constitution of the empire at it* will. If Congress fails to restore this 83.f174.47S acres of clearly forfeited land to the public domain, it will be guilty of a neglect of duty that must plant the seed and at some future day—not so far off, either—bear the fruits of social and political revolution compared with which the late civil war was but a trifl ine episode.— San Francisco Chronicle, May 10. 1882.” The Ran Francisco Chronicle put* the number of acres forfeited lower than I do. but lam confident mv figures are not above the actual amount. This system is not only monopolizing the public land, organizing an intolerable landed aristocracy, robbing the laboring man who settles in good faith on the public lands of the fruits of his labor, fostering corporations which invade all departments of government and decide their own claims, but now. as a natural result, compel a resort to the public treasury to remedy countless wrongs which their insatiable cupidity and extortions create. To illustrate this danger I call attention to Renate bill No. 1,492. which has passed the Senate and now lies on the Speaker’s table readv for action. Thfl Senate report states that on the 23d day of JuTr. 18fifl there were granted lands to the Denver and St Joseph Railroad Company in alternate sections to a width of twenty miles and indemnity lands.* The company remained quiet from 1868 to March 28. 1870, and then filed a map of ftie location of their road. On the 15th of April, 1870. the Secretary of the Interior withdrew the lands from settlement for the twenty miles width, but in the meantime and un to April 15. 1870. the country bad rapidlv filled with settlers, entries had been made and patents issued bv the United States to the settlers. In the language of the report: “The lands were sold and resold ; pro-emp-tors. settlers and owners improved the same, in manv cases with valuable buildings, fences and orchards, and paying taxes thereon, increasing the value in some cases to 820 and $25 pe* acre." And the first notice that these settlers had that the patents issued by the United States were jo protection against a cbim of a railroad companv was the bringing of suits against them in the Federal court, promptly followed by a decisigp AhfporJdon, and the settlers were turned out of the possession of lands improved bv ten years of their labor, and this bill and report propose that there shall be paid out of the public treasury 82.50 per acre to each settler turned out nr possession. If this Government shall attempt to remedy all of the injustice which this infamous system will inflict ; if the Government shall make reparation for every act of robbery by the corporations It has organized and enriched, ean anv man tell how many millions annually will come from the public'treasury? And can anv honorable man read even this brief narrative of one of the countless acts of fraud, dishonesty and extortion constantly occurring under this system without uttering an indignant protest against it? I admit that for the present there seems to be no remedy for the monstrous wrong that has been done, but the evil would be in some degree palliated by the exercise of the power which Congress unquestionably has of declaring the forfeiture of the vast body of land now within its reach. Here are more than 96,000,000 of acres of this land wrongfully withheld from the public domain, granted without consideration to a few corporations; these corporations hold these lands by the same questionable methods which secured them from Congress. The grants are now owned by a few men whose onlv method in affairs is the employment of wealth. There is no quest on of the right of Congress to decl re the forfeiture of these lands to the extent of these 96,000.000. This monstrous outrage on human rights can tie remedied. These men will still hold and monopolize over 100.000,000 acres, but these 96.000,000 can be reclaimed rightfully without even a question as to the justice of this act ; that much at least, wrested from the jaws of monopoly and dishonor, can be secured for free hornet for f;ee men. On the 16th day of January, 1882, I introduced House bill No. 2,878, to declare these grants where the corporations failed within the time specified in the grants to fulfill the conditions forfeited and restoring the lands to the public domain, and on the 9th day of the same month I introduced House bill No. 2,752, to secure the remaining public lands adapted to agriculture to actual settlers under the homestead laws. These bills were referred to the Committee on Public Lands. On the 6th day of February, 1882, my colleague (Mr. Cobb) introduced House bill No. 3.606, to declare the forfeiture of these lands and restore them to the public domain. This bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Other bills have been introduced. More than six months have elapsed and the Committee on Public Lands is as silent as death on these vital measures. The majority of the Judiciary Committee report ambiguously, but apparen'ly in favor of letting the Northern Pacific alone, and by implication reaffirming in part a grant long since dead in the State of Michigan. We are assured that the minority of that committee will assert the just claims of the people in unambiguous terms. I know it is customary to quiet the fears of our people by referring to the large figures of our public lands in the Commissioner's report, but if you deduct the 369,529,600 acres of the ice fields of Alaska, the Roukv mountains, and the Sierras, and the vast arid and sterile plains which skirt those mountains, all of which are embraced in the computation of the public lands, and deduct over 200,000,000 acres in all of land grants yet to be filled—deduct all these and see bow the figures shrivel and bow little is left There are still in this House two members who were in the Congress which passed the Homestead law and voted for its passage- the gentleman from New York, then from Ohio [Mr. Cox], and myself. My friend from New York and myself at least have stood by that law from the beginning. Not an acre has been taken from the laboring men of this country by his vote or mine nor an acre given to a corporation. Every bill giving these vast millions to the favorites of Congress has at least met our earnest resistance. But the grants have been made, the public domain has been largely exhausted and monopolizing corporations have been organized with imperial powers which defy the Government itself; motives and methods of corruption unknown until this policy was inaugurate 1 threaten our free institutions; vast estates have been created by act of Congress, and the free outlet of labor from the power of capital M rapidly closing. The shadow of a De* power rests upon this Capitol and the departments. It may be that for the time the people of this country wih not ful’y appreciate the injury done to ti.eir institutions, but sooner or later anathemas deep and bitter will fall from the lips of poverty and wretchedness on thesa measures, which, under the perfidious mask of progress and development, will enrich the few but deprive multitudes of men and their wives and children of happy and prosperous homes. How Easy it is to Die. ••If I had strength to hold a pen, I would wrile how easy and delightful it is to die,” were the last wonts of the celebrated surgeon. Wm. Hunter; and Louis XIV. is recorded as saying, with his last breath. "I thought dying had been snore difficult.” That the painlessness of death is owing to some benumbing influence acting on the sensory nerves may be inferred from the fact that untoward external surroundings rarely trouble the dying. On the day that Lord Collingwood breathed his last the Mediterranean was tumultuous; those elements which had been the scene of his past glories rose and fell in swelling undulations and seemed as if rocking him to sleep. Capt. Thomas ventured to ask if he was distui 1 id by the tossing of the ship. “No. ' hoinas,” he answered. "I am now ir i s' ite that nothing can disturb me mo lam dying, and lam sure it must b co isolatory to you and all that love m. it <ee how comfortably 1 am coming to my end.” In the Quarterly Review there is related an instance of » criminal who escaped death from breaking of the rope.

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I Henry TV. of France sent his physician [ to examine Idm, who reported that after a moment’s suffering the man saw an appearance like tire, across which appeared a most beautiful avenue of trees. When a pardon was mentioned the prisoner coolly replied that it was not worth asking for. Those who have been near death from drowning, and afterward restored to consciousness, assert that the dying stiffer but little pain. Capt. Marryatt states that his sensuitions at one time when nearly drowned g rather pleasant than otherwise. “The first struggle for life once over, the water closing around me assumed the appearance of waving green fields. It is not a feeling of pain, but seems like sinking down, overpowered by sleep, in the l ing, soft grass of the cool meadow." “Now, this is precisely the condition presented in death from disease. Insensibility comes on, the mind loses consciousness of external objects, and deal li rapidly and placidly ensues from asphyxia. INDIANA. Eight Jefle r son county potatoes fill a peck measure. The Sixty-third tioys will hold their reunion at Waynetown, on the 29th. George Forthover had a hand shapelessly mashed in a planer at Madison on Monday. A noticeable increase in the number of students at Wabash college this fall is expected. Postoffices have been established at Agate, Jasper county, and Vermont, Howard county. A piece of slate fell from a burning building in Madison and winged William Fox's nose. James M. Harrod has been commissioned postmaster at Sellersburg, and George H. Bond, at Oaktown. JLUther Benson is spoken of as the democratic candidate in the sixth district to demolish Tom Browne. Workingmen are busily engaged in remodeling the White house at Lafayette, (to fit it for tiie use of the public library. T. C. Pursel.has sold the Crawfordsville Evening Argus io R. B. Wilson, who has been connected with the papersince its first issue. Byron Turner, aged thirty,, living in the northern part of Lawrence county, shot himself through the heart without knowing cause. While the Milroy excursionists were returning from Fort Wayne Sunday, Add Richey had his pocket picked of a fine watch and chain valued at $45. Henry L. Alling, bookkeeper of the Hakes bottling works, at Fort Wayne, was found dead in bis bed. Deatfi was caused by an internal hemorrhage. Two Madison Alexanders built a skill in a cellar w here it was nice ami cool, and are now working in the broiling sun excavating a hole to enable th* m to get it out. W. A. Krug, of Waynetown, Montgomery county, is looking around for an eligible farm where he can settle down and grow up with the country. His age is ninety-two. At a dance at Koleeu, Greene county, a difficulty arose between James Eaton >nd Nathaniel King, which resulted in the latter oeing fatally shot in the bowels. The Democratic senatorial covention for the counties of Benton, Jasper ami Newton, nominated Hon. Fred. Hoover, of Jasper, formerly a director of the northern prison. Mrs. Thomas Hillman, of Moore’s Hill, who is a very corpulent lady, was badly injured while returning from a country church Sunday night by being thrown from a buggy. Albert Maritzen, twenty-one years old, while bathing in the river at South Bend,on Sunday,was drowued. The body was recovered and will be sent to his home in Coldwater, Midi. The eleven-year-old sou of E. C. Bodwin, of Forest, Howard coun'y, while playing at the elevators of R. 8. Gaskill, fell into a wheat bin, and was smothered to death before help could reacli him. Mr. James B. Holmes, an old pioneer of Shelby county, died at his home, near Fairlaud, Sunday evening, at the advanced age of eightyfour years. Mr. Holmes has resided in the county since 1821. The foundry and machine shop of Joseph Dunkerly, at Covington, was considerably injured by fire on Saturday. Jersey Howell was considerably injured by being struck on the head by an iron kettle thrown from the roof. The shoemokers employed at the Murphy & Comstock and Herriman & Shockey factories al Lafayette, are out on another strike. Their alleged grievance is a proposed reduction on certain kinds of work. Anton Papst entered the stable of the man he is working for at bhelbyville, Sunday evening, in an intoxicated condition. He staggered against a horse and was kicked in the stomach. It is thought lie can not recover. The children of Dr. Charles White, former president of Wabash college, among whom is Professor W. C. White, have presented to the Wabash college library three hundred volumes of the private library ot the deceased president. The supply grocery of Ichabod Jones, on mam land, near the Assembly buildings, at Rome City, burned to the ground Sunday night, with all its contents. Loss, $5,000. Insured in the Western Assurance of Toronto for $2,500. Cause unknown. Mrs. O’Hara, of Richmond, known as "Aunty” O'Hara.one of the oldest and most faithful of the memtiers of the First M. E. church, is dead. She was n her 87th year, had been a member of the church for more than 40 years, and had spent the greater part of her long and useful life in Richmond. J. R. Armour, who lives near Rich Valley, but who lias been working a steam thresher in the neighborhood of Peru, was set u|s»u at 8 o’clock by two footpads, « ho relieved him of his pocket-book and other valuables, and then tried to strip him of his clothes. He resisted and was shot by oue of tiie I ramps, the ball passing through his hand near his head The tramps escaped