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Show The Mantilla tiruut, Washington, S. Kelly's bid for reopening the Santilia grant with the view of involving government in a' $ oi.i,Lkj.0u0 claim for damages looked j promising a few days ago, bntycster-l day Representative Piper knocked the sputa out of it by his argument , before the private land claims com-: miuee, with a formidable inay of facts, such as must kill the bciieuic in . the houpf, even if tiie committer rc-j port favorably. Piper declared the I tille should be "a bill to encourage subornation of perjury." He said it' was drawn by a Philadelphia lawyer, j aided by a San Francisco lobbyist, and is a fraud also: il proposed a retrial ' of the case in order lo let in nowiy manufactured evidence. He recited its histfirv and denounced the per j sistenl audacity of lln- gang ol laud ; speculators engaged in its prosecution. Even if the pretended newly discov-1 ered book ol records of the proceed-1 ings before the Santa Barbara alcade. from 1S40 Lo ISIS should be admitted ! as genuine, Piper still pointed out' that certain entries therein were sus- picious in appearance and could not be accepted as having been made al the time of their respective dales. The handwriting and ink also (filtered (fil-tered from all others in die book. The i memorandums relied upon are themselves inserted ju.it after the latest admitted by genuine records : and are followed by blank pagts. , He criticised tho affidavits of California Califor-nia uxperls, to show that though sub-: mitted in proof of the genuineness of the records on which the Sanlillanis 1 rely, they only go to show the genu-1 ineness of the volume aud not of the , S inrillfin ontrifM therrtin. Of the latter ' they were weak supports- At best, these entries are only secondary or cumulative evidence, and cannot be received as such evidence as the' au-. premc court holds to be essential. Tiie j book contained only the memoranda of a municipal officer, and no reconi, of any act of the Mexican govern- nient of California. None ol its entries were even signed by the alcade himself, uor docs the book contain one other entry rein' ing 1 to the transfer or sale of re.d property. In conclusion, Piper denounces all the measures for re-, opening laud titles, charging tiut the ; attempted general disturauco wan hi ' the interest of the Central Pacific R. R. Co. He thought the original pro jectors of the Sanlillan case should be. satisfied with escaping tho peoi'.en-tiary. peoi'.en-tiary. The California congressional delegation dele-gation are unanimous against the Sanlillan San-lillan bill, aud will doubtless defeat it, |