Show LA LAND Q REVIEW abo bill by mr hol hoi leanon au august entitled entitle d 1 A I bill to suspend all laws touch touching inc the disposal of public lands except the homestead law and for other purposes to which has twice been deell anade by me came up lip for action in the house of representatives on the iho 21 dinst tied was most thoroughly ou bly pruned the entire first section of I 1 the bill bil as originally presented pre by lr it holman was stricken out thih removed nearly all of the provision against 0 abich lire acted leaving n only that portion relative lorail road grants rants tio the public land laws will ivill continue nuo to bo be executed as heretofore persons who have made pre pro preemption emption filings clings fili cli i aud and timber cul culture t ur 0 e entries n tries in may ay legally perfect title I 1 hose chose who made homestead entries with the inq ferstanding der standing that iha they could commute the same to cash at anytime any time after the expiration of six months from fro in date dale of entry will be permitted to complete the saraa sama in accordance with atle terms of their contracts cont aad persons who accepted t pledges ledges 01 ol the government redeemable lodeema bla in public land fur for waivers of valid and valuable claims may continue to locate their the people of the great 0 northwest are to be conrat con congratulated 0 rat u upon the escape they have hav 0 experienced as no thing could have more injured the growth of their than the passage 0 tf if the me lill as intro deuced the bill was so go claa changed 0 that tho tite wasl found inapplicable aid A bill relating to rai railroad road land grants was substituted it simply provides that during the pending of the measures now before congress in to the 16 forfeit forfeiture ule uie of bertain c erlain M lands ands heretofore granted by Co congress ogress to railroad i iii road corporations and t thereafter no act done or 1 er formed by an any such ahall in en large lar getho the right or oe claim of any sue buch b colp corporation oration to any lands by any such giant or diminish any light ii bt now existing in the united states to declare tho the forfeiture thereof this provision ab he construed to tg in ill anywise aft affect ecta or 01 waive waive any I 1 light it gh now existing existing 0 in ia bo be haf 11 daf of the united states slates to declare 10 lo forfeiture of any of this tha landi embraced in any such giant 11 airy N COPP WHAT IT keally MEA MEANS is did you ever think i what it really means to be a traill tramp p no ko home ro friends no no nobody in the wide world to care whether you live or die in the gutters like a dog 0 no heaven for such bags to inherit icher it no decent grave to lido bide them out of sight no opportunity to he be anything and no hand stretched out to give tho the grec erecting tim 0 or the goodby good by hy of lovo love nobody to feel an interest in you whether ther your bones ache erqin cold or your S skin kin cracks with fever no s spot p ot in all tire the world to call your own not even the mud your wandering footsteps leave their hoeting mark tio no r ole alicade and no unbroken link to hind bind you to the past A name like a curse to bl blight i every hope of manhood and a reputation uta tion like a ball and chain on your leg hinder the way to any good accomplishment I 1 tell you when wo sit right down to it and egure dipre 0 out what it really means to lie bo a tramp I 1 guess wo we will not find it t so easy to withhold a picco of brea accad I 1 arid and a cup af coffee n next ext tithe time one calls at our door |