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Middletown Transcript
Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware
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Article details congressional corruption involving frauds in Indian contracts, land sales, monopolies, bribes, and massive land grants to railroads totaling nearly 200 million acres by the last session.
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What with frauds in Indian contracts, surreptitious sales of Indian lands, bills for the protection of monopolies, and bribes and fees to abandon opposition to appropriations and claims for damages, the field of operations has been large and lucrative. But of all the swindles, those relating to land grants have been on a scale the most enormous.
The grants to various railroad companies at the last session of Congress amounted in the aggregate to about eighty millions of acres. In addition, there were previous grants of thirty-five millions of acres to the Union Pacific Railroad Company, and forty-seven millions of acres to the Northern Pacific, besides minor grants to other companies-making in the aggregate nearly two hundred millions of acres thus given away up to the close of the last session of Congress.
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Last Session Of Congress
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grants to various railroad companies at the last session of congress amounted in the aggregate to about eighty millions of acres. in addition, there were previous grants of thirty-five millions of acres to the union pacific railroad company, and forty-seven millions of acres to the northern pacific, besides minor grants to other companies-making in the aggregate nearly two hundred millions of acres thus given away up to the close of the last session of congress
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What with frauds in Indian contracts, surreptitious sales of Indian lands, bills for the protection of monopolies, and bribes and fees to abandon opposition to appropriations and claims for damages, the field of operations has been large and lucrative. But of all the swindles, those relating to land grants have been on a scale the most enormous.