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and organized this association, which is to brand every faker we can 

 get hold of. We are going to expose them. I hope the Congress will 

 adopt that resolution because it is on the square. That is how we want 

 to be, is on the square, and I think this Congress is on the square." 



C. E. WANTLAND, of Denver, Colo.: "I am in favor of this reso- 

 lution. I realize that probably something else must be done besides a 

 general denunciation of the men who are doing most of this kind of 

 work. The men who are doing the legitimate business in the West are 

 in favor of State Immigration Bureaus. They are in favor of giving 

 official information over the seal of the state. They are in favor of 

 having Uncle Sam knowing what they have to offer, and are not in 

 favor of letting men make a filing on 160 acres on which they cannot 

 make a living. They are in favor of not allowing them to go upon 

 such land unless they know what they are doing. It is all very well to 

 condemn the land broker, but in selling the Union Pacific Land Grant, 

 we never allowed our men to locate men on government land, because 

 we don't think he could make a living on 160 acres. Six hundred and 

 forty acres was the amount we attempted to work for in selling Union 

 Pacific land. A great many men have represented the conditions dis- 

 honestly and a great many men have misrepresented conditions without 

 sufficient information and they have no way of getting information. The 

 state has no Immigration Bureau and no officer in charge of immigra- 

 tion. The Government of the United States allows the homestead law 

 to remain in operation where it never should have been allowed. I 

 think in the resolution should be put something about classifying the 

 land by the Government in order that Uncle Sam should not offer the 

 temptation to beat people all over the United States; that is fair to 

 every one." 



MR. JEFFRIES, of South Dakota: "I would like to be heard just 

 a short time because I am opposed to this resolution being adopted by 

 this Congress. I would like to state my reasons, and the gentleman 

 who has just preceded me stated the proposition In regard to a State 

 Immigration Bureau. I believe we should have something affirmative 

 and not incumber the resolutions we adopt here with something just 

 merely denunctiatory. I don't think it would do what it is expected to 

 do. In the State of South Dakota for the past year we have had a state 

 federation of commercial clubs and the main object of that state federa- 

 tion has been to work up a sentiment to bring about the passing of a 

 law by our State Legislature creating the office of Immigration Commis- 

 sioner for the very purpose of which I speak, so that we can get some- 

 thing official, and I believe that unless we can incorporate some such 

 resolution we will be merely incumbering the record with the resolution 

 as offered in its present state." 



A DELEGATE: "I move it be referred back to the Committee for 

 further report." 



MR. HASTINGS, Laramie: "I am opposed to this resolution for the 

 reason that it is a very dangerous resolution. You are putting into the 



