Show IY TV Jr LrA ENTRIES 11 D C july 25 lane line of the interior department part ment announces thai that there will be oo 00 ore compromising of suite suits brought by tho the government overn ment against private individuals for the fraudulent entry and taking of government lands abe suits III bo be foucht fought oa on their merits ns a matter atar of pie la in a ater to clay tallman tall man com missioner of the geneal land office the secretary wre tary aid id 1 I am opi ceel to this dopa deput ment t a to the in ine 11 0 f faals suits involve a serious breach of tho the law for theo these reasons such compromises necessarily involve 1 a it repudiation in some part of the claim this office la Is required to set et it eit up la in the place of the courts aa as to both law and facts the policy of f compromising cases leads to the bringing of cues which should uever hava been brought brou bt for the officials will be le leee regardful of the regular facca where there in 1 a likelihood that the case will never be fought out va v A it ila merit merits such a policy of compromising leada to t o continued of the law by wealthy and re loat lont lesa leas inda who believe that if their wrong wron 1 I 1 discovered ther will bo be ablo to i with tho govern edmont mont 1 tho the secretary concluded with a declaration in which ho bo admitted tho the do will lose any tilte which could be compromised he ile insisted however that it 11 would develop ros reaped for the law among the people at large and among those whose duty it Is to flo pao that the law la is |