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en u v 11 w -flu. i ii if I ii'sa& riBi I Mi 11 hi n VOL. XX, IVO. J 80. ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1S84. PRICE, FIVE CENTS. THE ASTOKIA LAUD GRANT. Mr. George's Plea for the Corporations as Against the People 15 THH0CSE .OF fiEXfEESEMATITES. The following is the speech of Mr. George as delivered by him in the house of representatives on April 5th, 1884, on the bill to declare forfeited certain lands granted to aid in the construction of a road from Portland to Astoria and Mc- MinnTJlle: Mr. Speaeeb: While I was anxious that this bill should receive consideration, in the belief that this house would amend .ite.defects, I must say that as it stands reported, by the committee it cannot re "oeive my support. In order that this house may fully understand its defects and may amend and perfect the bill, I shall endeavor to explain the situation. Congress, by act passed fourteen years ago, gave the Oregon Central Railroad company six years in which to build, and ."-required that twenty miles or more should be constructed within two years, and that as often as twenty miles or more were completed patents for coterminous lands should be made to the company. Twenty miles or more were built within the fir3t two years. These lands thus earned the bill proposes to forfeit in addition to the unearned part from Forest Grove to As toria. .Now, Mr. Speaker, I have prepared here a rough map which will show in a general way to the house the situation and geographical location. It will be sean from this map tihich 1 hoi J up in view of the house the location of this road and the relative iosition of the points named. This bill proposes to forfeit every t-cro of the grant earned from Poitlaud to McMinnTille. Now, if this house is wil ling to do that, then let it pass the bill now under consideration. But if you agree with me that jn justice and in equity and in law this companr earned :this .grant from Portland to Mc&Xinn ville, then vote with me to amend the bill by striking out that pait which for feits the earned portion, leaving that part which forfeits the unearned portion. Several members. That is right. George. Now I wish to call your at tention again to the situation. The whole of the upper and lower val ley is interested in the extension to Asto ria of this road. Many of the reasons exist to-day that prompted congress to extent this aid in the first instance. Glascock. What is the distance from Forest Grove to Astoria? Georce. Tho distance from Forest Grove to Astoria is ninety-seven miles. I Tho road between those points has never been built, and the land is unearned Taylor. way was not tnat bum c George. It is a road difficult of con struction, and although it runs through valuable timber lands, with excellent prospects for ooal development and soil of great richness, yet the country is much broken and with lands largely covered with underbrush and not generally set tled; and assuming .Portland and Astoria as terminal points, the road traffic would be in direct competition with river craft and deer) sea pome? shins. I belieTe that this road needs the aid of a laud grant to 1 insure its completion in tho near future, The present company after careful sur vey announce that the uncompleted portion will oost from $30,000 to $50,000 per mile. I care not who builds it so that it be built. In- the last congress I intro duced a hill relating to this matter, which, had it become a law, would harts resulted either in the building of tho road or th forfeiture of the land "grant by the close of the present year. In this congress, recognizing that one section of the state immediately inter ested was restless on aoconnt of the non completion of the road, the fact that a large section was tied up from settlement and development; the fact that the cham bar of commerce of Astoria, an enter "prising and progressive city, directly in terested, xcemorialized congress for a ferfeiture: the fact that petitions for a forfeiture were pouring in from citizens of my state along the line and elsewhere; tho fact that tho president of tho com pany conoerned had addressed a public letter to the Astoria chamber of com merce soying that bis company "must abandon the i reject;" the fact that tho legislature of my state at its last session memorialized congress to foifeifthe grant ior reasons stated in the memorial; the fact that no one whom I have the honor to represent has ever expressed to me a wish to the contrary, I concluded to favor a forfeiture of the unearned pnrt. It was with reluotance, however, that I felt that such must be the case that aid to oar development should be withdrawn. I had hoped that the road would be built, and I was loath, as the only representa tive of the three hundred and twenty-five members on this floor directly interested, to raise my voice and vote for for feiture; for I could not but fel that if we could not secure a road with the aid of a land grant, wo could not readily expect one without it. However, some of our best citizens directly interested think other wise. It is claimed by them, and also by the committee on public lands, that if this grant is out of the way some other company will build the road. I hope so; that is all I can say. I tell you tho man who gets up here on the floor and says that th road is to bo built without any aid knows a great deal more about the situation than I do, who have lived thpro for thirty years. I hopo, however, that hemay bo right. Payson. Will the gentleman allow me a question? George. Yes, air. Payson. Does tho gentleman not kowJrom the names of citizens I have given him while this matter was pending thaipro.nainent qjtizens of Astoria whom he endorses as truthful men make the statement lo me which I have made in the house? .Geare.-rlhave.alrcady stated in my remarks that estimable and enterprising citizens of my own state believe that if this grant was out of the way the road would be built, and I have said that I only hoped that they were correct in their iaita; that is all. I know they aro worthy and -well-meaning, and goncrally know what they are about. Bay, otlfow York. I doaire to ask the gentleman from Oregon a question, in otd6r if possible to remove a doubt that exists in' my' own mind. Is it not to be .presumed that when the gov ernment made" ihia grant it did bo for the soraose o&enoouraging the building of this-entire-line of road in order to open up all this .country?' George. I think it is presumable that eajgygjf meant exactly what It said in Jife''grant and in every other similar piax?1 t.proposel-taat; the lanoLsbould jtdjtaflAp the completion of the en- fejgoviaea zor cutting the road up into continuous and contigu ous sections, and that ns fast as sections of twentv miles bad been built the rond hould be considered to have earned and should receive the land conterminous with such sections so built . Bay. One other question, if the gen ' tieman will permit me? I George. Certainly. I Bay. If you allow the grant to be cut np into sections in that way Ueorge. That is wnat thestatnra says. Kay. If it is an entire contract and an entire grant, I would ask the gentle-. man it caning it up mio sections in mai way and giving the benefit of the grant to the company for the several sections of the road so constructed would not re sult in the end in a fraud upon tho gov ernment by allowing the company ,to build such sections of the road as it pleased throngh the rich portions of the grant, perhaps, and takina therefor the rich and valuable lands and leaving un earned the poor and the worthless lands? George. I do not know that I caught the exact purport of the question, but if there is anything in the suggestion cf tho gtntleman'it is against the passage of the original act, a matter which at the pres ent time has passed out of our control. As to the value of the lands earned I shall explain further on. Nichols. Will tho gentleman permit me to ask him a question? George. Ccrtainlv. Nichols. I only desire to know who are the attorneys here of this railroad company. George. So far ns that i- concerned I have no special information. It is well known by the committee that a gentle man distinguished in my state Appeared before that committee in behalf of n nomber of these roads, including this one. I need not give naine on this floor, Nichols. Tho gentleman from Oregon does not himself represent this road? George. I disolaim any idea or inten tion of representing this or any other company. I have never in my life been employe'd by a railroad cempauy. I would'suffer my right arm to be cut off bofore I would, as a representative of the people, accept & fee or a promise of a fee, directly or indirectly, from a corporation or anybody else concerning a matter that wa3 to coH33 before me in ray representa tive capacity as n member of this house. I was going on to eay when interrupted that I wis anxious in opening this land to settlement to retain some of tho hub stantial benefits of the congressional aid toward the development of our fair young state, and en receiving a bill piepared by the Astoria Chamber of Commeice, pro viding for the forfeiture of the unearnod part of the grant, as several other bills to like effect had aheadv been intro duced by others, I introduced it with an amendment takenf rom mybill inthe f orty soventh congress, providing for the rights of settlera on forfe ted lunds. and with an amendment providing for the reten tion in tho tieasury of the United States of all moneys collected by the Cnitcd States during the next trnj ears for lands within the granted limits, to bo paid over during that time to tho hrst company completing tho road. It did not provide that the lands should be sold at any pre scribed price, but left them open to tho land laws, and therefore the proceeds would have been such monoys as initjht have b&eu paid in on pre-emption claims, timber claims, and coal lands, but much of tho land would go jh homesteads, thus probably not insuring mucu of a fund, yet I believe it to bo just ud richt, in juring no one, while promoting the pub lic welfare. But our committee having charge of such matters have ignored thie provision, and in fact ignored our bill and havo made tho forfeiture absolute. They not only forfeit the part uneaniGd, as contemplated by tuc bill of the Asto ria chamber of oommcrc., hut laoy eiv tirelv forfeiL ever, tho earned uortion. This parr of the bill I can net indorse, and I will not vos for it. The lands along tho line of tho compieu t. were, I believe, fairly and legally earned. I do not propewa to argue the It i?"l pro position involved, bur I have, LowoTor, my decided convictions on tiu points ap plicable, and I feel it would bo wrong to attempt to divest the company of its oamed lands. Tho committeo repoi ting this bill con tend that this grant is uu entirety, and every mile must bo built befor any land could be earned. I differ entirely from this view, and while I shall not argue the lawouo point, I will briefly call attention to the provis ions of the bill. Every one admits that this was a grant in jircsettti on condition subsequent. It was a grant liable to be defeated in case tho conditions wero not rrformed. What were the conditions? quote from the grant The foregoing grant is upon the condition that sard comuauy hall complete a section of twenty juiler, or morn ivilhiu two yeais, Again That whenever and as often aa the said company sh.i!l coinjilt'ti ami equip twenty or moiecousecutivo miles, ilir ,ecrctary of tin Interior shall cause th same o he ox amlued at the fj.e:se if the cuni-ci'iy, and if sucn section is properly equipped and read for use, he shall -ause p.iteats to be issued to the comji.ni for .so much of the said granted la ds as shall la adjacent to and conterminous aUIi the said completed sections. Now, under that grant, on building forty-seven and one-half miles within the six years and nearly all within the two years, what legal right have we to forfeit tho lands along conterminous to the forty-seven and one-half miles of completed road? Byan. Why was not that done? Why were patents not issued? George. I do not know whether the company has applied for patents or has received them, I do not understand that thev havo ever been refused. Tho legal minds on the committee claim that congress has a right to forfeit these earned landJ, and the question then arises whether we ,'iould. I know that tho It lmau resolutions, n mixture of grains wi.U much chaff con cealed and apparent which passed this houso almost unanimously, aside from objectional features which meant a re- Iieal instead of amendment of tho dtvsert and act, timber-cnlturo act, timber act for Oregon, Washington, California, and Nevada, as well as the pre-emption act, in complianco with pubho clamor in the east, said that every acre of- land subject to forfeiture in every land grant over made ought to be forfeitod without any examination or investigation and irre spective of all equities, yet I thought then as I now think that they wero has tily considered, entirely loo sweeping as well as useless; for the resolu tions forfeited nothing, being mere ly a bombastic declaration; for every case must necessarily be considered on its merits when it arises. I belioved then aal now believe that it would be un just to take advantago of more techni calities, in entiro disregard of nil equi ties. I thouaht thon as I now think that the deliberations of fifty other committees wore and are entitled to some considera tion as well as tho committee on public lands, especially when it made such work as it has with this bill. I thought then it was inexpedient to bind tho houso to consider bills such as this committee might formulato, repealing our land laws of the west, in preference to bills in tho interost of tho revival of American ship ping, commerop, judiciary, banking, cur rency, agriculture, loruigu unmrs, mm tary ana navai nnairs, lnoian, i and .pension, affairs, Mexican bills, and every other bill of interest lo anv section. 1 sawr.orer.-ou why tucy should alt clear the track in order that the committee on public lands, constitut ed as it is, could jeport any scheme i affecting our western lsnd or lanu grants. Bv my vote on these resolutions, as t und'erstood them,lreerved to myself the right and privilege of passing apon sll the forfeiture bills eccording to the dic tates of my own judgment as they arose. I havo alwavs been willing to afford ev ery aid to amend existing defects in land laws that fraud might be prevented or punshed or to forfeit vl "railroad land grjrtsthat should bi torfiated. I have so vt.-d this a-ssoa and shall continue to so vcie. And when I think, as in the present case, that lands aro being for feited that should not, I dial! vote as I believe to be just and right, i care not what the consequences may be. Tho committee claim that having the power to forfeit, while it docs not follow that the power ought to be exercised, set that in their judgment this is a case that would justify a forfeiture. The reason assigned Lj extraordinary. Tha report of the committee falsly assums3 that tho road constructed was not on the lino contemolated bv congress. This surely is news in Oregon. And the J lines," words which do not occur in the act at all. The title of tho act says p "road from that is, a road from Portland to Astoria J and a road from Portland to McMinn- j ville. In the body of the act it aennes the route more definitely, saying, "a road frnm T'nrlliitid to Astorin. Hnd from i suitable point of jnnction near Forest I Grove to tho Yamhill river, near Mc Minnville." To build this road required a common or main line running we3t 4,..i .II-, ..,1 r, t.nn .n,l. nnrtli. 1.. AA.f- MiMnfv aaji .?Ia? In iotnlMfl lUi uuuun iinjcij-njciv miiwj iaj .ijujiiu) and eontn about twonty-sayen miles to-1 McMinu ville. Now, bocause the company , only built tho common lino west from Portland, over twenty miles, and then tho J southern extension from thero to Mc- j juiiuivmu, u woni upuu woiuu iu i-uiu-pany was aotually engaged when Hon. Joseph S. Smith, one of my predecessors in this house, introduced the original bill, and have used the completed portion with an extension farther un the valley from MoMinnville, built without laud grant ) mnmitiM. tl.n mmmnrnhMiM hn nnn- ished by forfeiting all tho land they earned under the act. In other words, . .-ij t -lii i j. jc ., ' we should forfeit the lands earned for the bamo reason mat wo can xorieit tuem, i unaided. A medicine that v, ill effect a re namelv. because the company did not movale: the specific obstr."ie t n wed build all of tho road. This is the plain English of it. No one regrets more than mvqplf that the tvhote of thiq toH wn? not built, but how any one can claim tbia as a justification for tearing up what i was dono I am at a loss to undorbtand. ! Mr. Speaker, I kuow that corporate , power has hitherto been swollen by state and national legislation to question-, able extent, and while 1" woald , favor to any degree legislation looking to limitation:), yet in our hasta to do something lot us not be unjust. Wo must not torgol ihai the . objectionable foatnro of tiiii bill is n question of inteifronco with vested in terests whore corporation property rights aro but tho aggregation of indhiaual proihrrty rights. This great and good government is too great, too giod, too jowerfut to afford t j do wrong. Yr' , latisr not forget that property rights must ha respected ami justice and equity ? accorded. S ill gavo the railroad company a right way through the public lands, with nee-, essary lands for depota, sL:tion.s. side ; tracks, ete. but this bill proposes to for-! feit and rwpcal "all rignts, titles, and ! privileges" granted bj the originr.1 act, and that thew lands shall be subject to sale, 6tc, thus iu effect soiling out tho very road led ns&i iy a road constructed in good faith within the time pru?cri!cd by the net. Can umlKxly claimthnt thih is jnst? If you pr' tins bill as reported it will uiako an old established road, ) built years ago, and within the time of j tho net, a tresspasser upon tho public lands traveled over. This is tho language of tho grant, and tho bill before u for- j foils all rights undor tho original act: j The rljjht o way through the public lands ' of the width of ono hundred feet on each '. sldr of said load, and the light to take from the adjacent public lands ihalemls for I construct:!!.; said ro.id and also the necei- ' sary lands foi depots, stations, sidetracks, o;m oilier necaiui uacs iu oper:t: road, ne: exceeding forty acres at piace, Let me point out another detect has been srated on this floor that the bill " propo3os to protect actual settlers, j. ten yon, Mr. Speaker, it does nothing of the kind. It proposes, on the contrary, to protect every speculator who has pur chased lands from the company, even to tracts of any size. Every speculator has his purchase conGrmed, it mat ters not how many acres he may have attempted to gobblo up; but tho bill does not contain a single word in behalf of actual settlers who do not happen to bo purchasers from the company. It does not even mention settlers. These settlers who in perfect good faith, believing that as the time for earning the lauds had expired and that ( the company's right was roallv forfeitod. 5 and from that caupo have settled upon odd sections, erecting homes, clearing and improving the lands, and residing thereon, possibly ever since 187C,tho date of tho expiration of the net, are, I Bub- mit, entitled to full and fair considera tion. At least they are entitled $p as much consideration as tho bill gives to Cuv.cludcd on Srd i,ago ) jgmg&M&kz 5m Absolutely Pure ThU powder nnver varl. A mnrrpl of 1 :el of Mora ccuuciauciu iuin xne ordinary kinds, and annot itesold in compptltiou with tho'raul- orainary kinds, and ,t? rrzrr .i tTT4jtri iiBreefs &J fe? NZ&A Sv t Ti i Bivwcrv IJcjt 1 j The Bet5t Ecar 5 I jS THE GREAT GERMAN REMEDY FOB PUN. RHHULiTK3Ir Neuralgia. Sciatica, Lumbago, SJLCXACXIU. SSBE THROAT, QUIX3T, BWEX.L1SOS. Scrsas Cut?, frcix FROSTBITES. 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ASTORIA IRON WORKS. j Benton Stuex, Xear Pakxkh Hoose, ASTOBIA. - OKKGOX. GENERAL MACHINISTS AND BOILER MAKERS. LAND anfi MAELNE ENGINES Boiler Work, Steamboat Work and Cannery Work a spe cialty. Of all -Descriptions made to Order at Short IfetIo. A. D.TTA39. Prwldent. J. O. HcsTiER. Secretary, X. W. Cabk, Treafuirer. Johx Fox.Superlntendent. For Sale. FITK HUXDEKD COBD8 DRY HEM-loek-Woo-Jlrwhich-rwUl-deUTer at tho hooses ot custesun lati a cord. : Iteaf lag ot'gU -kinds .doneat leasouabt ratcv . -R. B. MARION. STfliyAH OH BUSINESS CARDS. C. f. arccosMAC, Attorney aad Couasellr at law Boom 5, Odd Fellows BUdlng, A3T0BIA, - - Omoa. azo.A.BQ&ms, ascsiKuto NOLAWI at DOBK19, ATT0B2fEY3 AT LAW. Office hi Kinney's Block, opposite City Hall, Astoria, Oregon. Q K. THOMSOA, Attorney and Counselor it Uw, Boom No. 6, over "White House, ASTORIA, OBEGON, c. vr. njirojr. o. o.-roxcjr. FUI.TOrf BROTHERS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Booms 6 and 6, Odd Fellows Boildlag. T Q.ABOWIBY. ATTOBNEr AX LAW. -. Chenamus treet, - - ASTOBIA, 0BEGOK JOSEPH A. GIIiL, ATTOBNEY-AT-LAW. 0Qlce with J. Q A. Bowlby, ASTOBIA, Oregon. Qt J. CUJtTIS, ATTT AT LAW. Notery I'uollc, Commheloner of Deeds for uUlforula, New York and Washington Tar ritory. Booms 3 and 4, Odd Fellows Building, As toria, Oregon. N. It -Claims at Washington. D. C, aad collections specialty. Cj C. UOLDEX, NOTAET PUBLIC, AD0TIONEKB, COMiSlIsaiOK AN13 Df SUBANCB AQBN1. v 0. W. LFJLCK, ABCHITECT AND DRAUGHTSMAN. Scholars received for Course of Draughting "Office over White House Store. Q.EI.O F. PAR&KK. SURVEYOR Of Clatsop County, aad City of Astoria Oiflco : Chenamus street. Y. M, O. A. hall Boom No. 8. q iiExsoa aiAXTiar, x, .. Physician aad ISargeaft. ASTORIA. - - OBEGOS. OiriCE Boom 12, Odd Pellows Bulldi&g,. Uesidknck Hume's building, up stairs TA3T THXSJ.K. H. . PHYSICIAN AND SUBOEON Okhck Booms 1, 2, and 8. Pythian Build, lug. liEsiDKNCE On Cedar Street, back of St. 3Iarys Hospital. F. V. HICKS. A. K. BSAW. mens a shaw. . DBNTISTU Booms In Allen's Building, up stairs, cor ner Cass and Squemoqua streets. Astoria, Oregon. J. RISBERG. Practical Tailor. On Oonevieve street, oppoiltu Cozorth it Johns. JlO-am Bozorth. & Joluis, Real Estate and Insurance Agents, and Brokers. ASTOEIA. - - - Oregon. Buy and sell all kinds of Seal Estate and represent tho following Fire Insurance Conpanlea : Scottish Union and Na tional, asset 533,000,00a Phoenix or Hartford " 4 eooOO Home of New York, ' too.OW Hamburg aud Bremen, " 2,ocOjlXi Wester ii, SoojxX) Phenlx of Brooklyn, " !,C0o.00O Oakland Hume, " zooflEQ Pnltpla U'rittun hf 11a In tlit THiAonlv t4 Home and Scot' iah Union and National at equu&oie rates. BANKING AND INSURANCE! I. W. CASE, Broker, Banker, and Insur ance Agent, ASTOBIA, - OBEGOH. OFFICE HOURS : From 9 o'clock A. M. until 3 o'clock P. M. B. S. Worsley, AUCTIONEER AND COMMISSION MERCHANT SOulce and Ware Eoorns on Squemoqua Street, next door to corner of Olney . Advancements made on Consignments No Clmrsea for Btorajre of Ge4. GE0EGE I0VETT, Tailorins, (Mm Rejairiit NEAT, CHEAP AND QUICK. Main St., opposite S. leeb's. Attarta, . G. A. STINSON & CO., BLAGKSM1THING, At Capt. Eogers old stand, coraer of casa and Court 8treets. Ship and Cannery work, D ivuguiu mauo ana-repaired. Ruaraateed. 4fe