Sir. I only ask for the people in the West fair play. I only ask. as the Senator from California said yesterday. that the same rule be meted out to them that was meted out to the people of the Atlantic coast as they swept their lines of emigration westward and settled up Ilassachisetts in the way we are asking to settle tip that country. using so much of the public timber on the public lands as shall be essential and necessary to the proper settlement of the country. but no more. And when Congress shall have made laws by which we can make title to the timber lands. if we do not make i4. then brand us as thieves. Strange as it may seem the two honorable Senators froni Massachusetts. who have led off and borne the brunt of these accusations against us. have been members. lo these many years. of Congress and were sworn to do justice to us ont there when we had no voting representative in the other House and no representative at all on this floor. and there are hundreds of thousands of American citizens yet in that country who have no person accredited by them on this floor. nobody to speak for themi here and nobody that can vote for them in the other House.
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