| Show LANDS fOR a SETTLERS Free Homes Bill is Passed by bythe bythe bythe the House R use usei 6 i TO PAY P AY INDIAN n TRIBES I DEFICIENCIES OF OP All AL COLLEGES PROVIDED POR FOR Measure Neasure That Has Been Ben Before Con Coa gross grass For a 8 Number of Years Yrs at Last Goes Through the House Feature of tile tRe Day D y Wa WU Mr Grows Crows Speech 4 t Special to The TI Herald Washington May ly 5 aThe The free tree home homestead homestead homestead stead bill pawed the house this after atter afternoon afternoon noon Representative Wilson made an am earnest erne t speech for the bill This meas mets measure m mure ure urn will release the on the ceded Nex Nez N ElK Percee Parees and Coeur dAlene Alene d In lan ian reservations on the payment of LiO per acre in the former case and 75 in the latter It will save ve the home Homestead tead settlers already on these thae lands I more than and when alt all the lands are entered more than thano o The mil bill extends to the settlers on en the same seme me privileges which home homestead tead settlers have always ways en enjoyed enjoyed enjoyed joyed in the states of the Mississippi Wi valley vaney More than 1000 homesteaders from Idaho petitioned for fm this legis legislation lation Washington May Mav 3 The house ilou e to today today today day without division lon paa ed the free homes bill which has ban been pending before congress for fora a number DUmber of years The rite bill provides that th the government shall shell issue ue patents to actual bona fide settlers ou on agricultural lands of Indian reservations opened to settlement These lands were taken up by settlers who contracted to pay for them L to per acre By the tha terms of the bill the govern government government ment meat assumes the payment of the pur purchase purchase purchase chase price to the Indians and changes the existing law relative to agricultural tural colleges so as H to insure the pay payment payment ment meet of the endowments which heretofore hereto heretofore heretofore fore have come out of the sale Bale of ot pub public public lic lie lands in case ease of deficiency These payments involve annually Of or the acres In ln Indian res roe reservations opened ened oJ to settlement for which the government is 16 to pay or has hag paid about S acres lave have een taken and about are supposed opposed to be still aWl available for agri agni agricultural agricultural cultural purpose A remarkable thing in 1111 connection with the passage nanee t of the bill today was I 1 a a speech in its Us favor by Galusha A AGrow AGrow AGrow Grow of Pennsylvania the venerable of the house hOUR who forty eight years ago fathered and passed the original 1 homestead tead bill He was WM then the youngest and is now the old oldest olde est eat e member of the house The TIle remainder of the day was devot devoted devoted devoted ed to the sundry civil appropriation bill bUI tie the last but one of at 0 the great supply bills Mr air Eddy Edy Minn in charge chare of the free homes bill made ude the opening argo argument argument ment in favor of the bill Mr Eddy said sUd all party platforms had bait declared in favor of this 4 Will Pay For Tor Their Homes Mr Flynn Okla in advocating the bill said it was a mistake to suppose e that it gave the tho settlers their homes h s free They would have to t reside upon their lands and cultivate them for five years before securing title Mr Maddox Ga opposed the bill bUt bUtHe He said it tt would cost cosi the government In reply to a question Mr Eddy said that the proviso o relative to the agricultural agricultural agricultural tural colleges colleg would be to their advantage advant are age a Mr Grow Pa PL the venerable ex cx speaker of the house and author of t he the the bill supported the measure The scene before him he said reminds reminded him lim of or the occasion i io In the old hall hail of representatives f years ago when he be made his speech on Mans Right to the Soil SoU Mr Grow was given an alu ovation By unanimous un consent it was ordered that his original h homestead speech h be printed in ift the record II I I was the youngest member of the house hoime said maid he lie I am now the old I est Mr Wilson Ida vigorously alvo advocated advocated the bill Favor the Bill Metters Metts th of Colorado Meyers Mey Meyers ers of Indiana Lacey cey of Iowa Bell Be of Colorado Jones of Washington Burke of South Dakota Snodgrass of Ten Tennessee Tennessee Underwood of Alabama Bart Bartlett Bartlett Bartlett lett of Georgia and Gamble of South Dakota also spoke in favor of the bill The committee amendments ameIl to the bill were agreed to toAn toAn toAn An amendment offered by Mr Canim Can Cannon Cannon non im was adopted to admit the opera operation operation operation tion of the act to agricultural lands which have been recently opened to settlement The bill was then passed pained p d amid enthusiasm in the galleries The house then theft took up the sundry suny civil appropriation bill Mr Cannon Carmen said he was very anxious to the bill bin this week for personal reasons and ani ant andI I suggested that general debate be lim tim limited limited to ten minutes Mr De Armond Mo thought that ten minutes debate d bete on a great greet appropriation appropriation I was farcical i After a warm T TtA A n ft iu uc J c i HUU au a D O Mr Livingston Ga debate was lim urn limited limited to thirty minutes minute Mr Kitchen N C consumed practically practically practically all aU hit his time in a 8 discussion of or orthe the North Carolina election law in reply to some recent remarks of Mr N C CAfter CAfter CAfter After disposing dt of ol pages of the bill the house at 5 i p m in ad adjourned adjourned adjourned A Crying Necessity i cD t J Even the tho children sill m object to poor food And to insure a good healthy die the purest of materials materi Js should be used So when Three Crown Baking Powder Extracts and Spices are used no are re taken 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