Salt Lake Herald | 1897-04-16 | Page 2 | Held up by Bliss

i Held Up by Bliss I Chicago April 15The Posts Washington Washing-ton special says Secretary Bliss of the I interior department has held up an order issued by the authorities of his < nredecessor conferring SOOO acres of land c upon the State University of Missouri 1 as an addition t its endpwment fund Many years ago congress granted the University of Missouri 48000 acres of land is an 1llssouri selecting the land university was allowed to take the the aIowed 1ermTte a sections along land grant rail d f f I roads by allowing double price for f Of the lands so chosen 48000 was on a branch road which was never built and Secretary Francis granted other lands in its stead A similar demand previously made by Kansas under exactly similar circumstances ha been refused whereupon where-upon the Kansans entered a protest against deal the consummation of the Missouri t