Show SUITS AGAINST HARRIMAN ROAD ROADHouse House Committee Will Report Favorably the Tillman Tiliman 1 Resolution MORE MORELAND LAND FOR SETTLERS CONDITIONS IMPOSED BY CON CONGRESS CONyl fr GRESS GR S NOT CARRIED OUT t Washington March 21 Two million acres of land In California and Oregon vested In the California and Oregon rail rall railroad railroad road lOad company owned by the Central Pa Pacific Pacific and controlled by E H Harriman will be subjected to suits for tor recovery of ot title by the United States If It action taken today by the committee on public lands Is sustained by the house The commit committee committee tee agreed to report favorably without a resolution which already has passed the senate empowering and directing the attorney general to bring suits for the tho recovery by the United States of the title to the public lands granted I to certain western railroad companies In Incases Incases cases where the conditions ns lii In Inthe n the grants gran ts have not been complied with such conditions for tor example as gov governed go governed the grant of ot lands to the Oregon and California C railway companies in the tho sixties It Is said that under the grant nant the lands were to be thrown open by the company to sale to bona ride fide settlers of ot the United States at not more than an acre and in parcels not exceeding acres each cacho It Is charged that immense areas of these thes lands were sold by the Oregon and California company In violation of oC the conditions named The refusal reCusal of ot Mr Harriman announced by him hUn at the Irrigation I or gation congress at Sacramento last year to sell Bell any portion of ot the remaining two million acres led to the introduction by b Senator Tillman Tiliman of the resolution which the th public lands committee acted on fa Ca favorably a today Statement by Mondell Chairman Mondell was authorized to draw the report of ot the committe commutes which lie he will do next week In discussing the action of oC the committee Mr Mondell to 0 day said It Is the Intention of ot the committee to draft a resolution separate from this one and present It to the public should L th t present one be adopted which will clearly learly C Indicate that no right to enter or attach any claim to any an of ot these lands shall hail sh ll be acquired by any person until at least east a year after the final judgment of ofa ofa a court shall have hae been rendered This would not tie up these lands for fora jI a year Jear however The expectation would be e that that period congress would take ake t action touching the rights of pur purchasers purchasers chasers C from the railroad companies regard r to the future disposition of 0 he the lands now held by the company should a forfeiture be declared The second res resolution resolution will be due notice to everybody i that hat t there shall be no authority to enter and nd that no rights shall attach I |