Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1884 — THE TEXAS-PACIFIC GRANT. [ARTICLE]

THE TEXAS-PACIFIC GRANT.

A Bill for Its Forfeiture to Be Reported. A Washington special says: The House Public Lands Committee has made good it 8 promise to report an early forfeiture of the Texas Pacific and other land-grants. To-day the committee considered the arguments which have been made and unanimously voted to forfeit the grant of the Texas Pacific. The bill will be prepared at once. The determination of the Public Lands Committee to proceed with these land-grant roads as rapidly as possible was illustrated by the fact that it has been decided in all the important hearings hereafter to give to each oase but one hour on each side to the lawyers for argument. This will be considered a great hardship. The railroad men say that it is in fact an announcement that the committee is organized to convict.