sentences:  Amendments passed in 1875 sought to remedy some of the abuses perpetrated under the original selection legislation.However discontent was rife and a political shift in the early 1880s saw the setting up of a commission to inquire into the effects of the land legislation.The Morris and Ranken committee of inquiry, which reported in 1883, found that the number of homesteads established was a small percentage of the applications for selections under the Act, especially in areas of low rainfall such as the Riverina and the lower Darling River.