Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1874-03-14

Inlet to the town of Olympia; also The
bill donating the tide flats in Elliott,
Bay to the town Of Seattle. The Seat,
tie bill, originally contemplated the
granting of these lands to the Seatt,o
and Walla Walla Railroad and Trans"
portation Company, but as this was oh.
Jecfed to by some of the committee
your Delegate with the consent of thoso
interested, submitted a substitute no
above. 10
TIMBER LANDS.
Page, of California, and and vour
Delegate, were before the same COM
mittee to-day on what is known as the
Sargeant-Page Timber Bill. This bill
has been materially amended, and
strong hopes are entertained of its pass-
age, although the quantity of land
which can be taken under the bill nav
be reduced to leo acres. Should tb;Es
bill pass it will enable the people of
your Territory to become the the own
ers OF small tracts of timber land. n
matter OF importance to the people
east OF the mountains and especially
interesting to the loggers on Puget
Sound.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER
RAILROAD BILLS.
Mr.. Nesmith and your Delegate are
very sanguine that they will get an
appropriation for the survey and esti-
mates for the improvements of the Co.
lumbia river, and for this purpose they
will use every effort. Judge McFadden
hopes soon to have favorable reports
from the committees on the General
Railroad bills which he has intl oduced
for the Territory. Some exciting bus
mess before the committees has pre-.
vented action for the past two weeks.
He is pressing every thing rs fast Ms
possible.
THE INDIAN SUPERINTENDENT.
Gen. Milroy, after some delay and
with some hesitation, has been REIN
stated. There was considerable SYM
pathy for the old man, and the De-
partments thought he had been unwit
tingly manipulated by the sharks who
controlled him, and that this would
teach him a lesson and prevent him
from doing so any more. The impress
sion here is that if the Indian Depart
ment is not turned over to tho military,
that the Office Of Superintendent of
Indian Affairs for the Territory will be-
abolished. Inspectors and Superin-
tendents cannot both expect to he con-
tinued, unless it he on the principle that
one thief is set to watch another thief.
The Indian Department needs, it is
said, good deal of machinery. No
one believes that the present policy
towards the Indians will be continued
for any length of time.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
f. S. Kearney has been reappointed
United States Marshal. Your Delegate
was before the Judiciary Committee of
the Senate today on matters connected
with his confirmation.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY IN REPORT OF NJ
EEAU OF STATISTICS.
Mr.. Edward Young, Chief of the
United States Bureau of Statistics mott
fed McFalden, some ten days since, of
his intention to translate his special
reports on emigration into the Swedish
language, and that he would forward ~
copy of the English edition that he
might add to it anything he might de
sire. This work was and is intended
to have an important influence in d.
rectinS foreign emigrants in the selec
ton of their future homes. 1t has
already been translated into the Ger
man and French, which editions have
been published by order of Congress
for circulation in those countries. An
examination of the English edition
showed great culpability and negligence
somewhere. One solitary page only
relates to Washington Territory, and
that consists of answers to half dozen
questions relating to Walla Walla and
Stevens counties alone. Now here was
an opportunity that may not again oc-
cur for years, to have presented Wash
ington Territory with all her capabili-
ties and latent resources to II class OF
emigration so necessary for the devel-
opment of the resources of the Ter
ritory. I am constrained to ask how
such work could have been prepared,
and it's publication authorized by Con-
gress, without any ono of the many
who are increasingly prating on this
subject having supplied this deficiency.
Your Delegate, at once, collected m
article exhibiting the resources and the
inducements which the Territory holds
out to the sturdy emigrants who may
seek a home within her limits. Inc
head of the bureau has promised to
have the same translated and added tn
the work. CHEHAI4s,