NJ X GRAHAM AND THE PUBLIC


LANDS
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1LOOA Al THIS nECORD.


Mr. Graham, the whig candidate for Cover
nor, was member OF the Legislature in 1898.
He supported Rayner's resolutions. Ee was
all ACTOR In the caucus which framed them,
and leader Of the party which passed them.
Among these resolutions wasthe following:


s. Resolved. That we consider the Public
Lands Of the United States, as the common
property Of all the States, and that we there
fore condemn the late act Of Congress, allow
ing settlers on the public lands the right Of
re-emption at the minimum price, as an ac:
of gross injustice to the old States who origi-
pally ceded them, or who contributed to a
common fund for this purchase


Our Senators in Congress at that time,
Drown and Strangely we're accordingly in
formed by Messrs Graham & Co., that they
would represent the wishes of majority Of
the people Of this State, b. voting to carry out
the foregoing resolution. Now


LOOK AT THIS RECORD.


Mr. Graham succeeded in driving Mess,s
Brown and Strange from their seats in the
Senate, where they did NOT vote for pre-cmp-
tons. He succeeded in getting himself elect
ed to one of the vacant places, and as Sem
ator in Congress from North Carolina, he vot-
ed for the Distribution Act, which enacted,
"Chet from aud after the passage Of said
act, every person being the head of family,
or widow, or single man over the age of 81
years, and being a citizen Of the u. States,
and who, since the lst Of june, lS4O, has
made, or shall hereafter make, settllemen, in
person on the public lands, &C., "shouId be
entitled to a pte-emption.-See .Act Of Con-
gress, passed 4th September, lS4l.