Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1888 — LAND FORFEITURES. [ARTICLE]

LAND FORFEITURES.

Over 54,000,000 Acres Restored to the Public Domain bj the Holman Bill. The passage of the Holman land forfeiture bill is a direct challenge upon the democratic part of the house. The republicans had made m their platform a fallacious statement that the democrats had never restored an acre of the public lands to the national domain. The democrats had denied that statement, and had worked to show that it was not founded in fact. They succeeded. The bill as it passed the house on the sth inst. involves a forfeiture of 54,323,996 acres of land. In opposition to that is the senate bill, which involves a forfeiture of only 6,627,436 acres. The railroads affected by the action of the house bill are the following, the single reservation being made that there is no chance of the bill becoming a law: Gulf and Ship Island; Coosa & Tennessee; Coosa & Chattanooga; M°bile & Girard; Selma, Rome & Dalton; Atlantic, Gulf & West India transit; Pensacola & Georgia; Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas; Jackson, Lansing & Saginaw; Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon; Ontonagon & Brule river; Lacrosse & Milwaukee; Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha; Wisconsin Central; St. Yincint extension of the St. Paul & Pacific, now the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba; Western railroad; Southern Minnesota railway extension; Hastings & Dakota; Northern Pacific; California & Oregon;,Oregon & California; Southern Pacific.