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Show FOB A COI.OKFI) COLONS. A I'nlqu Mea.u-e Introduced In the Senate Sen-ate llj Teller. Washington, Jan. 8. A unique measure was introduced yesterday in the senate in the shape of a bill by Senator Teller, at the request of a colored col-ored people's association of this city. It directs the secretary of the treasury to pay to certain agents, to be named hereafter, 50,000,000 to secure land in Lower California for permanent settlement settle-ment by colored people of tho United States who wish to establish a colored colony there, the money to be returned to the government, with interest, in forty years. |