Accordingly the Commissioner of the General Land Office nd the honorable Secretary of the Interior have approved the bill. and the Committee on the Public Lands have unanimously recommended its passage by the House. While it thus appears that there are no objections to the measure so far as the general interests of the Government are concerned. it is certainly apparent that the people who now reside and those who soon will find homes in this valley will be largely benefited by the enactment of this law. The immigrant. after examining a particular "4 quarter." must then travel a hundred or one hundred and fifty miles to the land office. when he may find that some one has already filed upon the quarter selected by him. when the same process is again to be gone over. In other words. he must travel a distance equal to that from Washington to Philadelphia. requiring both time and money which he can illy afford to spare. and which there is no possible reason why he should be required to expend. And I submit that while in one sense. and a just sense. this measure is local in its effects. yet in another sense it appeals directly to the general interests and sympathies of the National Government. because the tens of thousands of settlers who are occupying this valley are a part of "the people" forwhosebenefit this Government was created and is maintained.
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