Show The Maxwell Land Grant I Denver Colo Dee 25 Governor I Waite has reolvjed I rom Secretary Hoke Smith of the interior department I a reply to the hatter the governor wrote last month characterizing the Maxwell Max-well land grant a honeycombed with fraud The secretarys reply is dignified I dig-nified and respectful and directs attention at-tention to thb confirmatory account of Congress and decisions of the United States Supreme Court a to the validity of the grant and closes by saying I that if tIe Interior department should dlsreJ such adjudication and legislation legis-lation and restore to the local office the plats of the public surveys of the II grant for filings and entry the only result would be to mislead innocent I parties into making entries of lands I to which the department would be wholly powerless to title I wholy convey tte |