The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-09-20
The House Anti Lottery Bill Passed
by the Senate Without q Word
Of Discussion.
The Bill to Repeal the Timber Gull
tire Law Was Taken Up and
Considered.
The House Bill Creating Another
Land Office in North Dakota
Passed the Senate.
The Land Forfeiture Bill.

Morton presided in the senate to-day. The
following were among the bills passed:
House bill to authorize the secretary of the
interior to sell certain lands and to grant
the proceeds of such sale to the town Of
Pelican, Oneida county, Wis, for school
purposes. Senate bill to grant a right of
way through public lands for irrigation
purposes.
r. The conference report on the railroad
land forfeiture bill was resumed and Sen
atOr Morgan continued his argument
against it. He spoke of the first section. of
the bill as unconstitutional and that said
bill was a mere sham and pretense as a
forfeiture bill. 1t was nothing but a mere
political performance, invented to get up
the idea that congress was FORGETTING the
railroad land grants, while the whole pro-
visions OF the bill were to confirm the title
of great railway companies to their lands.
Mr.. Morgan related an incident connected
with a railroad grant in Alabama wherein
a land Office official in that state
came to Washington and finding that
patents for the grant had been signed at
the land office went to the railroad COM
pany and offered to get their lands patented
fer had been accepted, and this man had
received 10000 acres. The pending bill
would confirm that fraud, and that was
why he opposed it. Any senator who
wanted to sustain that fraud might vote
for the bill. That was all that he wanted
to say, and with that he closed his speech.
Bate also opposed the conference report
onA ocloN fn ho infnrmosl &ryhnro Tho
bill, the forfeiture came in. Plumb Tin
charge of the billy said that it forfeited all
lands which, under the decision ct the SUI
preme court. could be forfeited. 1t for
feited somewhere between seven and ten
million OF acres of land. 1t con-
firmed not a single acre to
any railroad company, and did not disturb
road company except by terminating the
right of companies to build any more of
their roads, and FORGETTING grants opposite
to the uncOmpleted portions. Bate said
that he was not at all satisfied with Mr..
Plumb's answer. He desired to know how
much land was to be forfeited under the
bill and how much was to be confirmed.
lands forfeited, he was compelled to vote
against the conference report. A vote was
then taken and the conference report was
agreed to by a strict party vOte-yeas, 20;
nays 10.
The house anti lottery bill was then on
motion of Sawyer taken from the calendar
and passed without a word of discussion.
ceeded to the consideration of the house
bill to repeal the timber culture laws.
Plumb. who reported the bill back from
the committee o public lands, moved an
amendment in the nature of a substitute
that no more than $40, instead of 1850, acres
shall be embraced in one t0wnsite entry.
Agreed to. Plumb also moved to add to
the substitute a new section limiting ex-'
listing reservoir sites to so much land only
as is actually necessary to the construc-
ton and maintenance of reservoirs.
Agreed to.
INDIAN RESERVATION IN ALASKA.
MI. Henderson moved 10 add a new sec
ton, setting apart the Anne tie islands in
Alexander Archipelago, in southeastern
Alaska, as a reservation for the use of the
Metlakaptla Indians, who have recently
emigrated from British Columbia to Alas
ka and of such other Alaskan natives as
may join them. He made a statement as.
to the remarkable. civilization of these In
dams within the last 80 years from the.
condition of cannibalism through the efforts.
and under the influence of an Englishman
named Duncan. The amendment was
agreed to. A substitute was then agreed
to and the bill passed. A conference was
asked on the dlsagreeing votes and Plumb,
Pettigrew and Walthal were appointed
conferees on the part Of the senate. The
took up from the calendar the senate bill
to establish a United States land court and
to provide for a settlement Of private land
claims in certain states and territories.
The bill having been read, was laid aside
until tomorrow and the senate adjourned.
.CoLoRADo's POPULATION.
The population of the state Of Colorado,
according to the count of the census bu-
reau. is 4lO,s75. Thisiis an increase during
the decade Of 218.84S, or lilac per cent
The population Of the city Of Pueblo Is
given as 26,128,, which is an increase Of
774.SS5 per cent. The population of Lead
vile Is 11.l59, showing q decrease of 1861,
or M.70 per cent.
The total offers Of ~ per cent. bonds to-
the treasury today for the entire country
100000. The prepayment Of interest on
the IS amounted to about 100000.
a oil carrying an appropriation Of $780,
g0O to defray the cost Of the erection of q
United States mint at Omaha was to-day
introduced inSthe house by Representative
Cornell. He also introduced a bill for the
erection OF 9 statue or monument In the
ely I Washington e, the memory Of John
Ericsson at q cost Of $4,000.
The anti-lOttery bill passed by, the sem
ate to-day is what is known as the -Cald-
we'll bill. which wa reported to the house
by Representative Caldwell Of Ohio and
passed by that body August l6. The sem
aye adopted it in lieu Of all pending meas