Show LAND ASSAILED IN SENATE Teller Comes to Rescue of Railroads Railroads Rail Rail- roads Under Severe Criticism Washington Feb IS Senator Senator Teller tod today Loday Y blocked t temporarily pora efforts to tode force de t. t Southern o P. P Racine C Northern l l r Parent Pa- Pa ol O Short Ll tu i. i y t j rr ment rent lands lands lands' obtained ed d under congressional onal grants which they have havo failed lc Lo soil Bell according according- to tho the terms of ot the contract Senator Fulton reported a substitute for Dr the resolution introduced a a. week ug LIllI by Senator Tillman Ir directing the tho department of or Justice to bring g suit t to compel these companies to return several soy sev era eral hundred thousand acres of or land to the tho government t. t Senators Fulton and Tillman Tiliman urged immediate n action on the resolution Senator He Heyburn burn of or Idaho spoke at nt length on the question Ho He declared that he know knew personally of or instances where the railroad companies had dis- dis r t ed of land and had waited until settlers built houses and barns and fenced the section and had then taken the land from the settler and forced him Mm to pay nay an advanced price for tor the land and for tor the Iho improvements which he had ma made e on his his property at his own expense Contract Contracts Violated Senator Heyburn declared that the railroads now own owned d lands worth millions roil mil lions of or dollars and were refusing absolutely absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab to sell at any price although they entered into a contract not to ask more than jO an acre for any of or it Senator Heyburn continued his at attack at- at tack charging tho the Southern Pacific and Northern Pacific both with Ignoring with contracts every ery clause of 01 their the government and cited the action of tho the Northern Pacific in mortgaging Its public land for tor without the consent of congress and then than allowing al allowing at- at lowing the mortgage to be tore foreclosed closed bo so that the land would be controlled b by a n company not subject to the terms of ot the contract He continued his at attack attack at- at tack an and was enter entering ng upon the most mOt Important feature of or the case when Senator Teller raised an nn objection As the question was before the senate b by unanimous consent this put It oer over Senator Teller declared that he Intended Intended In Intended In- In tended to object to any plan to dispose dispose dis dis- pose of or this important question without c careful reful consideration |