Show communicated THE lawson LAW Sop no 56 wt they then ask donations of aubi land to actual settlers settlors sett lors similar to thu the P nation made to the set settlers tiers of brog on by act oi of 1850 this 1 04 re ret if t iva was in 1859 GO 01 61 TWI alfr e passage Pas SIgo the homestead act of congress of 0 iia ma G 1862 and which went into bif january Jani tary s this lequea rl whenever the indian titles are efti evi i AHA V guis bed desiring the establishment establish mont of tho southern South boundary of the territory to gether with a devela development ament of the re K sources of the country in that region 1 they asked askea fora for a geo geodesic detie sarv survey ey thele of under a federal officer the into mai StrauB bury so that a knowledge of the 1 country and a good map t thereof h ereon would be acquired following up thew these memorials t the he writer finds ilia iho earnest request of abo legislature le for un an electric Clec tel fro from rn the missouri river to Cali california forilla itna with it this statement eDt ot of f facts jets which none will ivill deny r they represented their then isolated condition the arid and plains caius arid and desert mountains intervening between them and civil civilization requiring ring 0 thirty days in ill the finest seasons for fo r GO in Illi niMat ions to reach them 2 and then the obstructions arising from storms floila flo ola arid and indians all combined to render their means int alls of inter course limited and precarious they recommended commended tre the route for tile the telegraph which ia I 1 he one now mainly used thus showing their corn complete knowledge of the country at that early day arid and they asserted to fo congress that in their opinion no other movement could bei be butter better calculated to preserve ble our glorious union in ili 1859 they again addressed congress upon this sub eject they have already the daily overland iff mail ail and the telegraph then with an energy worthy of note they are fand urging upon the government tile the propriety of constructing a military road from the mouth L oi of the platte on nebraska river via V ia salt laike to call cali fornia forni 4 and with the recommendation terrible proofs were presented to sustain it six thousand american citizens 4 i abe road within a period of tour gears on azcui ue of fix kanro aud croe stog rivers and mou mountains antal ns they asked for a topographical L engineer to take charge J of the work vork and an appropriation of six hundred thousand dollars ta build tile tho road tile tho large lar ge sum although a za not enough for the proposed work was never gradated ted and private enterprise has in a measure inea accomplished the object of the memorial the right to elect all the territorial officers was waa also asked for during chii year while recognizing C the custom of appointing appoint ing them by federal power as proper r arid and time bo honored nored it was claimed a and n d i regarded egar led as an infringement tipon their right of solf self government ft a relic of despotism and opposed to the genius and policy of republican institutions they claimed that none were better belter qualified to select rulers than the people nabo were to be governed that these people knew their wants better than any stran ger could and that these people desired to place in office men whose interests inton ats wore identified idon titled with thein hm who had proved their devotion and whose dededi of valor and abild enter recommended tham to a bratel grateful til people it was also claimed el that this right so conferee conf ered upon any ady territory by the government wolli tend to promote tho most cordial and amicable feelings feel ings and react re act upon trier ther pow poly er that grant d it with the most patriotic devotion to its ats best interest la 1859 thia subject was r i bs again renewed ed to congress and tile the proposition is always advocated by the community it 19 probably th the only instance on oil rec record ord a territory or of the he united states has bas made a similar request it is hu b ardly adly probable that contress cons Con reps aress will ever grant it |