Now. I want to call the attention of the committee further to some statements contained in the official report of the Commissioner of the Land Office. He uses this language: In many sections of the country. notably throughout regions dominated by cattlenising intereststhe vast area lying west of the ninetyninth meridianexaminations. wherever made. had developed at all points that entries were chiefly fictitious and fraudulent and made in bulk through concerted methods adopted by organizations that had parceled out the country among themselves and were maintaining seized possessions of unenteredlands by boundaries and inclosures defended by armed riders and protected against immigration and settlement by systems of espionage and intimidation. [Here the hammer fell.]
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