Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 3.djvu/13

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 * || Session of the Legislature—The New Code—James Wilson in the Cabinet—Conventions and Elections of 1897—Leslie M. Shaw chosen Governor—The Twenty-seventh General Assembly—A State Board of Control—War with Spain—Legislature Appropriates $500,000 for War Purposes—Three Iowa Regiments Called For—One Regiment Sent to the Philippine Islands—Progress of the War—Conventions and Elections of 1898—Cold Winter of 1898-99—Great Destruction of Fruit Trees, Vines and Forests—Conventions and Elections of 1899—Twenty-eighth General Assembly—Political Conventions and Election of 1900—Dedication of the Floyd Monument—Political Conventions and Election of 1901—Albert B. Cummins Chosen Governor—Twenty-ninth General Assembly—Jonathan P. Dolliver United States Senator
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 * valign="top"|XIII||Des Moines River Land Grant of 1846—Decisions as to its Extent—Opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury in 1849—Opinion of Secretary Ewing in 1850—Opinion of the Attorney-General in 1851—Lands Conveyed to the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company—Opinion of the Attorney-General in 1856—Failure of the Navigation Company to Prosecute the Work—Unearned Land Granted to the Keokuk, Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad Company—Another Opinion from an Attorney-General in 1859—First Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1859—Settlement on the River Lands—Valid Titles Promised to Settlers—Act of Congress of 1861—Decision of the Secretary of the Interior in 1862—Another Decision of the Supreme Court Reversing its Former Opinion
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 * valign="top"|XIV||The Walcott Decision as Understood by the Secretary of the Interior—The Herbert Battin Case—Settlers Authorized to Take Pre-emptions and Homesteads on River Lands—The Welles-Riley Case Before the Courts—United States Patent Set Aside—Settlers Driven from Their Homes by United States Marshals—The “Settlers Union” Organized—Action of Congress in the Premises—A State Commission Appointed
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 * valign="top"|XIV||The Walcott Decision as Understood by the Secretary of the Interior—The Herbert Battin Case—Settlers Authorized to Take Pre-emptions and Homesteads on River Lands—The Welles-Riley Case Before the Courts—United States Patent Set Aside—Settlers Driven from Their Homes by United States Marshals—The “Settlers Union” Organized—Action of Congress in the Premises—A State Commission Appointed
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