I had prepared some notes with reference to the land question which has been discussed so thoroughly by the gentlemen who have preceded me. I will not therefore take up the time of the Committee of the Whole with dis. cussing that question. except to say to my friend from Montana that it is because we wish to preserve the public domain for settlement. to give the oportunity for suffering labor to find a home in the unoccupied land. that we have been moved to propose this new legislation. I think it is the judgment of every man who has taken the trouble to get at the facts of the case that the beneficent landparceling system which has sufficed for a hundred years of emigration and western settlement has reached the practical limits of its usefulness. In order that the area which is beyond may be so utilized as to give homes to the poor and employment to the laborer. it is necessary that a wise and comprehensive system of administration should be digested. adopted. and put into operation.
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