Homes for Soldiers: Hearings Before the Committee on the Public Lands of the House of Representatives, Sixty-sixth Congress, First Session on H. R. 487...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 |
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Termeni și expresii frecvente
acres agricultural amount ATKESON BARBOUR believe benefit BENHAM boys cent CHAIRMAN colony committee community settlement Congress cooperation cost course cut-over land DAVIS desire DRUMMOND ELSTON Elwood Mead farm farmers favor Federal FERRIS gentlemen give Government governor Grange HANSEN HARRIS hearings HERSMAN homestead idea improvements Indiana interest Interior Interior Department interposing irrigation JEFFRIES kind labor legislation loan LUND MARSH matter ment Mondell bill National National Grange NICHOLS opportunity organization proposition public lands purchase purpose question RAKER reclamation projects Reclamation Service represent returning soldiers ROSENTHAL scheme Secretary BAKER Secretary LANE sell settlement settler Single Tax League SMITH of Idaho SNELL South Dakota Spanish-American War STARR statement suggestion swamp lands TAYLOR thing tion TITUS to-day tracts United VAILE West WHITE WOOD
Pasaje populare
Pagina 591 - Germany, the war with Spain, or in the suppression of the insurrection in the Philippines, and who have been honorably separated or discharged therefrom or placed in the Regular Army or...
Pagina 378 - ... present condition of power and prosperity. They have been guided in their progress by the fixed principle of protecting the equal rights of all, whether they be rich or poor. No agrarian sentiment has ever prevailed among them. The honest poor man, by frugality and industry, can in any part of our country acquire a competence for himself and his family, and in doing this he feels that he eats the bread of independence. He desires no charity, either from the Government or from his neighbors. This...
Pagina 755 - Whenever the amount of the loan applied for exceeds the amount that may be loaned under the appraisal as herein limited, such loan may be granted to the amount permitted under the terms of this paragraph without requiring a new application or appraisal.
Pagina 377 - That land of promise presents in itself sufficient allurements to our young and enterprising citizens without any adventitious aid. The offer of free farms would probably have a powerful effect in encouraging emigration, especially from States like Illinois, Tennessee, and Kentucky, to the west of the Mississippi, and could not fail to reduce the price of property within their limits.
Pagina 332 - Wherever under any provision or provisions of the Act regulations are directed or authorized to be made, such regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, shall or may be made by the director, subject to the general direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Pagina 378 - ... man, by frugality and industry, can in any part of our country acquire a competence for himself and his family, and in doing this he feels that he eats the bread of independence. He desires no charity, either from the Government or from his neighbors. This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the people and repress this noble spirit of independence. It may introduce among us those pernicious social theories...
Pagina 755 - A reappraisal may be permitted at any time in the discretion of the Federal land bank, and such additional loan may be granted as such reappraisal will warrant under the provisions of this paragraph.
Pagina 3 - Reserve shall have a preferred right of entry under the homestead or desert land laws, if qualified thereunder, except as against prior existing valid settlement rights and as against preference rights conferred by existing laws or equitable claims subject to allowance and confirmation : Provided...
Pagina 221 - What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands and whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow?
Pagina 754 - An act to provide capital for agricultural development, to create standard forms of investment based upon farm mortgages, to equalize rates of interest upon farm loans, to furnish a market for United States bonds, to create government depositories and financial agents for the United States, and for other purposes.