After this billshall become alaw. exceptinafewexceptional cases. no one can acquire a title to public land except under the homestead feature. He must become an actual settleion the land. and must be qualified to take a homestead under the law. Those qualifications as they exist at present are very strong invitations to immigration from foreign countries to come and take up the lands of.the United States. I do not object to that. because it increases our population. and of course all population that is worth anything at all increases the ptlblic wealth and the strength of the country. But when we are confining our own citizens to this as the only means of gettinghomestead entries. it seems to nie well enough that we should put some limitation on the period of residence. so that those who come from abroad can not commute their homestead settlemerits into absolute titles within a very brief period of time and enter into a speculative sort of dealing with the public domain.
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