Show A DECISIVE VOTE Icy tho decisive voto of II for to 1 iainst the senate yesterday passed lies Northern Pacific forfeiture bill which Ir foils to the government so much of thin lands granted that company as are coterminous co-terminous with tint part of its main line which extends from Wallula Junction to Portland and lint part of tho Cascu branch which shall not bo completed lit time data of the passage of that bill and makes tho rights of w u in the territories subject to taxation Nothing in the act is to bo construed to waive any right tho United States to forfeit any other lands granted to them for fail uro in tho past or future to comply with the conditions of tho grant fho passage of this bill marks a new era in railroad legislation and Is the starting point from which several similar mca mcs will bo launched on Congress wilhln a year and tho people of tho country through which tho roads pass in particula and this jieoplo of the countr in genera will bo immense bcnclltted thereby What monstrous law it Is that tuxes an actual bottler with the full valuation of his quarter section und tho railroad owning the adjoining ten or twenty see lions goes scott free of taxation YP this law has obtained in several sections of the country and is maintained through the free but corrupt u = e of tho money so bold from tho Government und the passage 01 this bill is the only step over taken by the General Congress to change it That tho forfeiting of lands chen to them by tho Government to aid in the construction of their road and given only upon ccr taut stipulated conditions which conditions con-ditions have been ignored is just rca sonablo businesslike fully deuent tho action and as such It meets with this t hearty approval of every business man and homo seeker In this country Its passage b > this donate assures tho Iresl louts concurrence und tho FortyNlnth Congress will liars the honor of being tho first to wrest ill gotten wealth from iowerfiil 1 corporations by duo j rocipti 01 National legislation |