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Show WILL REFUND MONEY Senator Kearns Cut Through Department Red Tape. RESULT, .UTAHNS BENEFITED Attorney.aeneral Decides That Secretary Sec-retary of Interior Has Bight to Tny Claims of Utahns In Certain Land Matters Without Itecourse to CongressWelcome Con-gressWelcome Mows to a Large Number of Pooplo Who Had Paid in Twenty-Five Cents Per Acre on Lands in Railroad Limits. i TRIBUNE BUREAU, V lbOO K Street, I Washington, D. C , April 7. ) Senator Kearns has Bucceeded in efforts ef-forts to havo tho becretary of tho Interior In-terior refund tho moneys paid by Utah citizens for land which It was uftci-ward uftci-ward dl.covcicd was not subject to entry. 'Iho cuso In question Is far-reaching, far-reaching, as It Involves u gieat many thousands of dollars. It wus called to tho attention of tho Senator by somo of his constituents ut Brlgham City. It seems u numbci of persons paid Into the Silt Like Lund office 25 cents an acre for certain land under tho desert land act und took tho receipt of tho land ollkcs, who stnlcd thut when-the) when-the) had compiled with tho act nnd paid tl moro per acre they would be entitled en-titled to a patent. Before tho time came around for final settlement tho beeretury ot the Interior discovered that tho halt Lako Land office hud made a mistake In all cises whero the location was made within tho lallruad limits, because the Government price lor such land is $?50 per ncto. In most of theso cases tho entr)man had made Improvements which, according ac-cording to tho ruling of the Interior department, vieia declared null and void, nnd the citizens refused tho laud for which they hid paid not onl) this, but they could not lecover the money they had paid In Moreover, they had exceeded their light to mako another entry. Many of the clalnnnts had .mall holdings nnd a great many wero being unnecessarily punished by the led-tupe of tho department. When Senator Kearns. attention was called to the mater ho Immediately Immedi-ately set about an Investigation, and It bore fruit today In au order fliun the Atlorne)-Ocneial to the crtcct that tho herniary of tho lnteiloi had a right to pay these clilms without recourse to an uct nt Congicss. 'I Ills will he wel como news lo a largo number of peo pie who nro Interested In the subject. bCRIP TO HOMESTEADERS. Regudlng tho muter of the Issuance of scrip to homesteaders jour correspondent corre-spondent called on the Commissioner of the General Ltnd office, and received re-ceived the Infmmitlon that nny ofllcei. soldlci, seiman or marine who seived for' not less than ntnetj da. In the army oi nav) of the United States during the Rebellion who ha 1 piloi to June .'.' 1S7I, tho date of tho nppiovul of the lovlsed stntutes mudc i ho steiid entry nf less thun 100 acre ccji 1 cntei nu uddltioi quantity ot land Bdjiccnt to hi. furmer entry oi else-wheie else-wheie .uniclcnt to m ike with tho pic-vious pic-vious entry 1C0 ntrcs s-crlp Is not Issued Is-sued to tersons not soldiers or sailors except b) speclil ait of t'ongie,., und In not Issued to soldiers under tho above act unless cntr) was mnde prior to Juno 2J lfc"4 A pen on who has lettled on Iind which la afterw ird taken ta-ken b) the Ooiemnient for public pui-pose pui-pose Is allowed to select othei lands In lieu thereof, but no scrip Is Issued lo him. |