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This portion of the Congressional Record reports proceedings of the United States Senate in which Senator Benjamin R. Tillman calls attention to a circular going around that is using his name to spread a land grant scheme. Tillman wants to publicize this fraud so that people are not drawn in by it.
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1908-02-19
Senator Charles William Fulton, of Oregon, proposes an amendment authorizing and instructing Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to begin suits in Oregon relating to the present land grant cases. While Bonaparte may have already had the authority to do this without such a resolution, passing such a resolution assuages some of the worries of the Justice Department regarding its ability to prosecute such suits. Debate on this resolution centered around whether such a resolution was necessary, and around some of the facts of the land grant cases.
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1908-02-18
The Congressional Record reports a portion of a conversation between several senators regarding railroad grant lands owned by the Northern Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads. Congress granted the railroads lands with the condition that they would sell them to settlers, but the companies have not been holding up their end of the bargain. The Department of Justice is taking the matter under investigation.
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1908-01-31
This report notes actions taken by Senator Benjamin R. Tillman regarding western land grants. Tillman introduced a resolution calling on President Roosevelt to communicate with the Senate, but failed to specify particular areas of land he was concerned with. Senator Charles William Fulton later reported a substitute resolution, which specifies the areas in question. Relevant pages of the Congressional Record containing remarks by Tillman and Fulton are noted for reference purposes.
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1909-01-04
Senator Gallinger is taking up the “Crum case” during an executive session, with the hope of settling the matter. Gallinger asks President Roosevelt to notify certain senators of the importance of the matter.
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1904-04-22
John H. Mitchell asks President Roosevelt to encourage newspaper editor Harvey W. Scott to do what he can to prevent former Oregon U.S. Senator Joseph Simon from gaining control of the Oregon delegation at the Republican National Convention.
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1904-01-12
Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock telephoned that Oregon Senator Charles William Fulton and Asa B. Thompson, recently suspended as Receiver in Oregon due to bribery charges, will try to meet with President Roosevelt to discuss reinstating Thompson since the bribery charges have been dismissed.
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1903-12-24