Show i PIIIVILICGKS TO THE FEW I Iho dispatches state that tho Senate jCstcnlay passed n hill to authorize tho Kansas City Fort Scott Gulf Railroad to build a railroad through Indian Tern tory The company is to build dlago nally from Fort Smith to Arkansas City Kan is to havo anil hold 200 feet cithc silo of tho track und to have ten acres every ten miles for depot and other pur po ° es For this privilege tho poworfu corporation is to pay ter n milo of projected pro-jected roads into tho Treasury for the benefit of tho Indians While tho Senate I I virtu illy gives away u franchise worth millions to a chosen few tile popular branch of Congress is trying to throw open the Indian Territory or tho unoc cupcd portions of it to homestead ant other Hettlemcnt Hut nothing can bo done All tho bills till tho plans all propositions looking to tho settlement and occupation of f that magnificcn country will bo antagonized by tho corporation corpor-ation attorneys and lobbyists until they have Hccnrcd tho pick of the lands and tho right of way Tho Senate lends itself i it-self to this selfish form of procedure and tile lower branch of Congress does not resent it Now that the railroads ho secured tho Senates permission to go in I in advance tho House ought to laos no limo in indorsing the consent The them may bo hope for homestcadem and settlers |