ion the report calls attention to the action of
Congress in 1860, and the Interior Department in 1879 in the famous
Maxwell land grant case, which he characterizes as a wanton and
shameful surrender to the rapacity of monopolists of 1,662,764 acres
of the public domain, on which hundreds of poor men had settled in
good faith and made valuable improvements. It has been as calamitous
to New Mexico, says the Surveyor General, as it is humiliating to the
United States. The report says:

"During the last Congress several members of both Houses,
including the delegate from this Territory, reported bills for
the confirmation of the Socorro grant, which is one of the most
shocking of the many attempts yet made to plunder the public
domain. I do not say that the men who introduced these bills
intended to make themselves parties to any scheme of robbery,
but their action shows that the hidden hand of roguery is still
feeling its way in Congress for a friendly go-between."

As a remedy for this condition of affairs, Mr. Julian recommends
resurveys of all grants about which there is any doubt, and the
entering of suits to set aside patents obtained by fraud.

LAND REFORM IN ENGLAND.--One hundred and twenty-four members of the
English Parliament are in favor of the following land scheme
propounded by Charles Bradlaugh:

"Ownership of land should carry with it the duty of cultivation.

"Where land capable of cultivation with profit, and not devoted
to some purpose of public utility or enjoyment, is held in a
waste or uncultivated state, the local authorities ought to have
the power to compulsorily acquire such land.

"The compensation is to be only the 'payment to the owner for a
limited term of an annual sum not exceeding the then average net
annual produce of the said lands.'

"The local authorities are to let the lands thus acquired to
tenant cultivators.

"The conditions of tenure are to be such 'as shall afford
reasonable encouragement, opportunities, facilities, and
security for the due cultivation and development of the said
land.'"

LIFE IN EUROPE.--Senator Frye, of Maine, having returned from Europe,
spoke thus to a reporter, at Lewiston:

"We have taken a tour of the continent and of Great Britain, and
although we have seen many places, we have seen no place like
home--no place in all respects equal to Americ