People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1895 — FRAUD IS CHARGED. [ARTICLE]

FRAUD IS CHARGED.

PERALTA CLAIM TO 12,750,000 ACRrS IN ARIZONA. Menace to Every Enterprise —InvalMates Titles in the titles anti Tonne and Retards the Development of Mine* and Farm*. Washington, Feb. 7. —The story of a claim for land that has been hanging over the best part of the territory of Arizona for over a century is told in a communication sent to the house by the attorney’-general, who asks for an additional appropriation of $25,000 for fees and expenses arising thereunder. The case is that of James Addison PeraltaReavis and wife vs. the United States, pending in the court of private land claims for the conformation of 12,750,000 acres of land in Arizona. An accompanying letter from M. G. Reynolds, United States attorney for the court ol private claims, says a large amount ol testimony has already been taken on behalf of the government as to the forgeby of the records from the certiforgery of the records from which certified copies of the muniments of title were taken, showing conclusively that the grossest frauds are being perpetrated against tiie government to secure a confirmation of the claim. The ramifications extend through the archives of the City of Mexico and Guadalajara, Madrid and Seville, Spain, and to California and Arizona. “We have taken sufficient testimony,' said Mr. Reynolds, “and made sufficient investigations to Justify the promise that the right of these claimants to the grant, as well as the issuance of the original grant itself to one Baron Peralta, can be successfully defeated and many of the guilty parties exposed. Forgery, perjury ana subordination of perjury have been committed in almost every form." The letter sets forth that the claim is enormously large, the land is withdrawn from sale and settlement ano initiated titles unden the public lan<. laws have been suspended. The largest and best mints and the Irrigation enterprises in tue Glia and bait river valleys are cut ered by it. The capital of Arizona and its most flourishing towns and most thickly settled portions of the territory have been held back auu to-day stand back waiting for the government to speeuiiy and successtuiiy detent nut only the claimant, if possiuie, but the claim itself. Tne grant car- . »es ail minerals and is absolute and uuconditiuiial. "H,' cuue.udes Mr. Reynolds, "the 4aLn is nut luiiy uud completely eeuated, it will subject the government iuii its citizens, who are irjing to tie- ■ eiup uie country, to continual uaraos<q» u.iu will staua us u," menace to ev.ry tmcrprise iiiauguruteu tup tne tic swiiluem of 1.. e mniUig anu agricm.mm interests, xue case ci.n tie Wuu future trial by its careful preparation.’ JU ORE IWSD IAI.K, Proceeding* in the House uu the Non Financial M.ll. Washington, ceu. 7. —The house me: ft 11 u cioca. borne rbtitine uds.iuesk was transacted .before-.fiie debate on ,ne buna uni > choi \x*up., viiio) asited unanimous .uuuent tor me consideration of a Joint uuuuittee to investigate tne validity •i tne election in Tenutessee last ftu- . emuer. ■ ■f object to the consideration of that übOsULiuxA;' Snvuleu xvir. Cux sCUdi.;. me bioxe of xenne&jee c<x.n .dAe cure ui iLSeii.” xue nuuae Uxon went ffiJEo committee jf me wi.uie unii resuided foe consilfgrat»ou vt me aaimnisiraiibfi bill to au--i.urise tne issue us of gold uUUUij, •'* x.-e penaiag question was on the appal drum toe ueeision of the chair ruling U»e ol mr. Bianu (l>em., u.o.> but ux uiuer. i..e cnair was susmnied, rou tv i>_. , ~ air. utoosius (Rep.’, Pa.) offered ar uiueuoiueu. v ru\ idmg mat such uoiiut of me duuiiiirnttiuiis •of $2U,' JoO am. as cuuiu ue uiaposeq- of should, ue deposited fur t-aie with national banks, selected by me secretary* of me ireasquent appeal for the' passage of the ury. . . . ‘ j»xr. Biciues-(Dem. v N. Y.Jjmade an elo/. peri-aiiig uiii. tie believed, he said, ti.ai me uuuueiauuns or tne House on uiis quesnuii u.uiked an important epoch in me uistury.or this country. - He was not a nnaucier, .he framtiy admitted, but he desired to express ms. deep sense of the importance us this measure and his soie’nni belief that tne: welfare and honor of nis country were involved In to-day-s action upon it. He had had occasion to uiuer in the past with the executive, the choice of his own party, but he forgot those ditierenceS when he witnessed the bravo, manly action of the President in the present financial crisis. •: