Show LAND FKATJD3 Coinmlnsioner Sprks ol tho Genera and Office in reply to tho Senate rcso tilion calling for tho number of special gentM employed in his office nnd their dulles naH Hint if the increased forco commended In his annual report bo ranted tho entries nuspendcd by MB order of April 3d 1883 will bo invest gated and disposed of in about a year and a half A largo percentage of these entries en-tries ho thinks aro fraudulent and the proportion of now canoe that will require nvpstigation will be much less since the order 01 April 1885 was made than before be-fore that llmo as the order of suspeiifloi md thu effect materially checking the taking or completion of fraudulent entries en-tries It was the case with which frauds could bo perpetrated and tho itnmun it ty offered by the hasty issuo of patents ho Bays that encouraged tho makin 01 t fictitious unit fraudulent entries und ho certainly of thorough invesliga ion would restrain such practices lie renews his recommendation that the pro mptlon homestead timber culture and lesert land laws bo repealed and 8a8 ho questions broadly stalcdarewhelhe ho public lands shall bo protected und nn honest acquisition of tithe thcrelo bo allotted With tho present heedless rmh of speculation and monopoly thin pub lint domain will bo absorbed in a period of limo no brief that oven prevet Ive measures against fraud and mi appropriation will soon bo too late to sao any considerable POrtion of the Tmb lie lands for homes for the people Ho closes his communication with II statement that his information leads to ho conclusion that no large amount of public land remains in tlio Western States and Territories cant of the callio belt which an actual settler can take up without first huving off n speculith claim or voiding Home Invalid entry by context in the Land Office while within ho cattle belt it is a notorious fact that actual hcttlemcntB are generally pro vented by Iho unlawful control of the country by corporations Tho domain for thee lands for tho homes of American citizens which is daily increasing in in i tensity can no longer bo met unless the unpatenlcd lands now unlawfully held or claimed can bo recovered to the pu i lie domain and future illegal and fraud lent appropriations decisively Mopjicd |