Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-01

He made statement in regard to these
discharges, justifying and explaining them;
defends the administration of his ofice
and emphatically denies the charge that
the Congressional work OF the Office ID
largely in arrears.
a debate followed in which Mr.. Richard.
son, of Tennessee. defended the Public
Printer.
Mr.. Cutcheon, of Michigan, charged that
old soldiers had been DISCHARGED from the
printers Office in midwinter for no good
reason and said in time he would give tho
names.
Mr.. Henderson, Of Iowa, said the dis
charges had been made to make room for
Democratic workers.
MIR. Cutcheon offered resolution for the
appointment OF a special committee to in
vestigate the preseut administration OF the
printing Office.
Mr.. Springer, OF Illinois, offered as . SUBJ
stitute a resolution instructing the Com
mittee on Printing with the addition OF two
members, one from each side of the House,
to investigate the administration Of the
printing Office during the incumbency Of tho
present Public Printer, aud that OF his
predecessor. Adopted.
Mr.sBTecksnridgs,o of Arkansas, introduced
and had referred tO.the Way and Means
Committee the Herwitt administrative bill.
Adjourned.
A NEW LAND LAW.
The subcommittee of the House Com
mittee ON Public Lands, which has been
considering various propositions to change
Resulting from its deliberations is bill in
lieu of all others on the subject entitled .
bill to secure to actual settlers public lands
adapted to agriculture, to protect forests
on thu public domain, and for other pur.
poses. Tho chief provisions are as follows:
All public lands al q to be classified as asri-
cultural, timber, mineral, desert or reserved.
No timber land to be sold but timber grow.
ing ON it may be dispo ed Of to the highest
bidder after advertisement in 4O-acre
tracts, the timber to be removed within
six years from date of sale. Mineral entries
may be made Of the same lands even after
sale of the timber but cannot
IMPAIR THE RIGHT
of the purchaser of the timber. Timber
land shall not be appraised at less than
SO per acre. The President may set apart
any fruit lands as public reservations. The
desert land law is continued in effect with
an amendment requiring the entrymen TO
file maps exhibiting the mode OF conten.
plated irrigation and the source OF water
supply. All the laws allowing pre-emptic n
OF public lands and the act entitled IAN
act to amend an act to encourage the
growth OF timber on Western prairies, and
all other laws in conflict with the provision
of the present bill are repealed, but all
BONA TIDE CLAIMS
initiated before its passage may be per-
fected. All laws relating to bounty land
college and other land scrip re-
main in force. The homestead law is |
so as to allow heads of families |
and citizens OF legal age, or persons who |
have filed declarations of intention to be. |
come sach. to enter quarter section or
less OF the public lands. but no person |
who, as the proprietor OF the l6O acres,
or who quits and abandons his residence |
on his own land to reside on the public |
lands in the same State or Territory shall !
acquire sny right under the homestead
law. |