Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-02-21
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
MATTERS OF ESPECIAL INTEREST TIC
SOUTH DAKOTANS.

South Dakota's Representatives Are
Doing at the National Capital-Pushing
the New States Many Interests-How
Senator Pettigrew Camc Near Losing His
Scalp In the Early Days.
The location for the Two land Offices to
be established for the territory recently ac-
CURED from the Sioux Indians has been
decided upon. The Office of the northern
district will be at Pierre and the southern
district at Chamberlain. The lands living
south of the 43d parallel of latitude will
be annexed to tho O'Neill, Neb., land dis
trict.
Gen. Pease, an ex-senator, now Of South
Dakota, and Hon. ID. w. Diggs, of Mill
bank, were at the capital urging the OPEN
lug of the Sisseton Indian reservation. A
commission was appointed last summer to
treat with the Indians. The report has
been made and approved by the Indian
commissioner and the secretary of the in
terror and was sent to the president.
The president will approve aud send to the
senate with a fayoring message. This will
open 100000 acres of rich lands in north
eastern South Dakota to settlement on the
Same terms as those of the Sioux reserva-
ton when the proclamation is issued.
Senator Moody has been congratulated
on every hand since his argument before
the Ways and means committee of the
house on the tariff on tin. He has been
in receipt of several kilograms, one from
England, in which it Is stated that dccu-
ments are on the way from England to
show that the 34O,O 900 tons of sheet tin
imported into this country are the product
of Chinese and slave labor.
Senators Moody and Casey, of the irri-
CATION committee, expect in a few days to
get through with the geological survey,
who have been talking irrigation at them
for the past three weeks and reach the bill
tor q North and South Dakota irrigation
by a system of artesian wells. MIR. Moody
thinks the committee will report a bill
providing for liberal appropriations fol-
surveying and beginning q system of irri-
CATION in the seminar land belts.
q. IL. Ellis, representing the South Da-
kota farmers alliance, was before the house
committee on irrigation, with Maj. Powell,
Chief of the geological survey, making al
earnest plea for an app%ropropriation fol
sinking arteslan wells for irrigation in the
arid sections. Maj. Powell thinks the
ton in this direction.
Mr.. Picker has introduced in the ma.
tional house q bill granting South Dakota
oPeA Scuu' Z VI lue pioGeeuS ol tAe o"is
of public lands.
Senator Davis has introduced o bull,
which is a duplicate of the one introduced
in the house by Representative Comstock,
to provide for payment to the Sisseton ant
Wahpeton Indians of the annuities take1
ftom them at the time Of the Sioux upris.
ing in Minnesota. The bill is similar t.
the one introduced by Senator Pet
tigrew. 1t is not in accord
with some of the recommendation
made last summer by the commission
which negotiated with the Sisseton and
Wahpeton Indians for c%ession of their res
e~ryation to the government, in that thu
%annuities are to be paid to certain scout
who did service for the whites under tn
bill, while the treaty negotiations favore'
payment to all who remained friendly
even if they did no service.