| Show TRIFLING WITH THE PUBLIC DOMAIN wo IVO find in ill the eastern pre press the iho ale witult news that column SPARKS lias has been sat eat dona doin upon by secretary ekit on ono one of 0 ilia his bad and li is about to lie he on oil another the one overruled is ib that dealing to no an eu tryman nho alto had once used ilia his pre right tile privilege of taking a and the con erting of lit his 31 homestead to a preemption pre emption nuy entry or in fit other words paying cash fallen in lieu u at unfulfilled length of resilience residence tito secretary of 0 tho the interior holds that llo ilia motley la Is the equivalent of till tile tini time suit anil tile old interpretation Is restored but if i far ar moro maro importance than this la is tile overruling de dc failed in a of tho the ath to tile the chicago Yori bune chich rayj the cammi order final filial action on all but cash entries enar les throughout the tha entire west la is about to be overruled that str mr SPARKS will mill bo be glion given tho ilia option of n remaking taking re it himself or of 0 having it set eel hla his head tho the continuance of 0 that order tor for a year compelling coni com polling thou bunda of honest settlers to llo lie under the imputation of 0 rand fraud in order that agents from ilia department might haic a chance to ex parti cases of perjury to bear out ot of tho the commissioner was a giroti wrong it gave a tor rifle blow to tho the Imp implement of tho ilia country anti and wantonly deprived settlers ot of ilia poster to nAl adanjo vanco their iv nork ark ity by loans on the security cecur ity ot of their coming patents for or nobody would lend tile the security mas ia indr indea kitely withheld of 0 churbe courbe coi irso the that ment ent tip against the order were counted by tile toni teni of ilia rea ana silly it 1 ha ba revoked mero unanswerable jilt hut tile pleading far lur delay in to allow little to search out the frandi has icil the frauds lie i or havo have not boon bean ill discovered 8 cavo lit in a mere ra clion of a per cent of ilia alio ent entries and these could just juil ju il as uell have been got nt fit millia hillnat lat un durIng to abour tuat franc ilia whole nobody donlea till the frauds nor that they should begot at anti and ilia lio perpetrators perpetrator a punished but it la is not nat good ernic nor good administration block the iho laws false against millions 0 of lionet honest mm men in order to reach a hund rett rogil pA further much of it the frand s tsurou h aa in tho ilia cache volley valley church farm arm la is 01 0 tile past and I 1 chilo hilo it undoubtedly lie be ferreted out unit nuil lite old entries canceled no ike good purpose is ilia is not helped toy by stop slopping nil fill issues of patents ants now tito the relocation of alio order still and joy till ilia vaioli wea abil nut interior Int prior and no ito rascal need profit by it tito action accio a of lit tile on public laabs la Is curio reported on the they cepro seated as reporting a bill abich rc it pealed for or ilia future the preemption pro law the bhuber culture it law ov toil aad ilia desert entry law but on oa sunday in tuning we iva had a rather uncertain dispatch ludi cating that the ilia committee adhered adli cred to their action fal oring tile repeal n acal ot of alm ilm preemption pre emption liw law I 1 and perhaps that they would report a bill for that purpose alone tint lint that they would not recommend the repeal oatho timber culture or desert laud land lavis lans nl at present that thoy they wanted ilia opinion ot of I 1 mr on ilia alio subject before they took look unal final fiction ftc tion it il is coo ILIA idea of 0 lit linao committeemen that the onset tied country now remaining in tile the public domain Is laud a aliey know of in ilia fertile regions ri giona rant cast ot of ilia they have lint but little conception ot of alio treeless Iriel caa arid and moun it guht to be tiro tile law that every ei cry congro ional committee on public leads bo be gh gian ell a three ment months lis vacation at least during which they should bo be required to i bit and get a general idea of tile leading features of tile different re glona hero tho ilia remaining public lands lie ili it that mere dour done wo we alight reasonably rea viably expect sonio some earn com nion mon sense practical legislation tor for the regions chero vilier tio small firms can not bo be opened up no as they were ill tile east a aholo alloy or a i cry large it it mul bo be opened up and tile conveying of 0 the needed irrigate irrigating log water is tho ilia chief problem anil and the main ex cx genbe tho the conditions are arc not ampre by congressmen and so EO thero is no pros hsiou tor for such co operative work wark the land laws need but not la ili tho the direction ot of decour aging the lie growth of 0 tr trees ee D or r stopping the reclamation ot of desert debert I 1 tracts we shall probably liao baise to ta unit alt for tile subject to bo be understand before tile proper can call bo be hall but I 1 kilo so hailing ailing there I 1 is adan danger gerth that at some foolish passed chich vill mill either cither stop elop all settlements tle flo ments or turn vast tracts ov oer or to speculators without proper restrictions it is hard to bay which would be moret |
