Chairman. in many instances. to compel them to sell their homes to those who have means to improve them. or who have money to invest for purposes of speculation. Almost every month of the year witnesses in my State the organization of some new county. Immigrants have been going there by the thousand. ay. by the hundred thousand. within the last eighteen months. and communities have grown with wonderful rapidity. All that great area lying west of the ninetysixth degree has been settled by honest seekers for homes upon the public domain. and we ask for them some protection. They have. as a rule. taken it. under the preemption law. and so far as I know not a single entry. after investigation. has been found fraudulent or canceled by this Commissioner of the General Land Office in my own Congressional district. and what is true of my district is true generally of the State I have the honor in part to represent upon the floor of this House.
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