The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-27
The Warhorse and Cayuse Interrupt
the Business Before Duly
Elected Senator's. !,
Sanders Evidently Not Vel
Posted on Details Of Lead
Ore Matters.
Looking for . Location for Dry Docks
and Ordnance Department ON the
Coast

Powell in the appropriation bill respecting
arid lands. The provision resetving all
designated reservoir sites from settlement
seems to have been worked in with q great
deal of care, and it quite seriously affects
some states, including Montana. The Mon
tana men growled very loud. Col. Sanders
was sarcastic. He read statement show
ing that under this provision 1,762 square
miles had been segregated; that only twen-
ty-nine sites were included in this reserva-
tion; one contained 1886 square miles, and
another 344, and another 2S8, and another
1854; and there were others of less amount
yet containing territory enough to furnish
reservoir systems sufficient to irrigate the
whole arid region. Mr.. Power also showed
the fallacy of tho Powell system of with
drawing lands for reservoir sites. These
sites, he says, have been selected by the
fishing and excursion parties sent out by
the geological surveys.
It was Montana's day in the senate.
Both pseudo senators from that state spok Q
on irrigation and Sanders made long
speech on the lead ore amendment. San
ders was in favor of the duty fixed in the
bill and talked for an hour in behalf of the
miners. He was entertaining and epigram-
matte. While not having such a thorough
technical knowledge of the matter as was
necessary, he was strong on the general
proposition. His remarks at the close of
the speech indicated that he was ready to
hy the track in the interest of lead tariff
and there was an implication that he would
retaliate upon the schedules in the bill it
lead was admitted free.
The commission to locate site for q dry
dock on the Pacific coast will be appointed
in fsw days. The site will be selected
with some care, as the dry dock means the
location of navy yard site at the same
place. It is generally believed Puget Sound
will be selected. Another commission is in
course of formation, in the war depart
ment-a commission to select a site on the
Pacific coast for an ordnance manufactory.
It is necessary to get an inland site at some
point where deep water and rail transporta-
tion are available, also where the manufac-
ture of steel can be located. These condi-
tions make it necessary to secure q site at
some point IN Oregon or Washington, either
upon the Columbia or some of the inlets
from Puget Sound. Naval officers general
ly believe that the dry dock will be located
on Puget Sound, and army officers seem to
favor the Columbia river, near Portland,
for the ordnance manufactory. Senator
Dolph to-day severely criticised the parsi-
mony of the government in the matter of
expenditures for public land surveys. He
claimed that before the Sparks regime there
was disposition to appropriate all money
necessary for surveying public lands and
there was no apparent attempt to stop
the development of the great northwest.
The admission of the four new states had
given that country more power in
congress and the influence of these addi-
tional states had been fe.t
in the senate when the increase to
$6OOOJO for surveys was proposed. Th Q
conferees had seen fit to cut the amount
down, so that now it was no more than
usual. After Sparks had come into power
every settler in the northwest was treated
as rascal-as a man attempting to steal
government land. He protested against
this method, and. in behalf of the states
where there were many acres of unsurveyed
land, much of it occupied by settlers. He
protested against the picayune system of
cutting down necessary appropriations.
The land Office had refused to allow surveys
by the deposit system, a system which in
real agricultural countries had been of
great benefit to the people, and allowed
them to secure titles to their lands. Sena-
tor Allen says the amount which was cut off
from the land appropriation could have
been proftably expended in the state of
Washington alone.
A post Office has been established at
Buffalo, Fergus county, Montana, E. w.
Philbrook. postmaster.
To His Old C0mmand.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-Captain Allen
Reed, who was recently investigated by q
naval court ON charges preferred by Ad-
miral Gillis, mas been restored to his old
command Of the United States steamship
Rio hmond.
Capital Notes.
The total count of population of the state
of Idaho, as made by w. G. Hunt, of the
population division, and announced by the
census bureau to-day, is 84,229. In 1880 the
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