Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-14
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WASHINGTON MATTERS.
A FEDERAL ELErrLON LAW.

I A FEDEHAL EBEtJIpN Law.
! WASHINGTON, FEB. l3.-llon. J. X.
! Chalmers, Of Mississippi, made an argu-
iuent before the house committee Oh the
election OF president and vice president
on the subject OF the necessity for 3 led
eral election law ior the state Of MIssi~-
| sippi He said he would trust his iic
with u southern Democrat, but derlareu
that when they stole or robbed bAllur
boxes they thought they were dong the
! Lord a service. Congress should pass All
act to enforce in the south the fifteenth
amendment. Congress had right, he
said, to provide a federal election law. 1t
was not necessary to apply the remedy
wtere it was not needed, but where it was
needed there it should be applied. he
favored the bill ii troduced by Mr. kelle,
OF Kansas, with some notifications.
LADD CONFIRMED.
The following combinations have been
made:
l.. ". Myers, to be consul at Victoria
British Columbia.
+. Kilbourn, to be surveyor of customs
at San Francisco.
United States Marshas--L. T. BARN,
district f Oregon; Ii. 5. White, district oi
West Virginia; 0. =. Porter. OF Oregon,
district of Alaska; D. NJ. Ransdell, OF In
"iana, district OF Columbia.
! ostmaster-Colorado T. }. Howard,
La aJunta.
supervisors of CONSIDERATIONS, T. S.
Clarke; Washington, }. NJ. Hill, I'd dis
lrict New Mexico, II. O. Ladd Caliiur-
mia, j. f. SheehaD, first; A. b. Lennon,
third; II. Wallace, fourth.
NEW POsTMASTERs.
The following postmasters have been
appointed:
Jas. D. Layman, Walla Walla, Wash. ;
William S. Cannon, San Louis Obispn,
Joseph McKown, Livermore, Jacob L.
Shitson, Selman, Cal.
A COURT OF APPEALS WANTED,
The subcommittee of the senate and
the house committee on judiciary gave Il
hearing to the committee of the Amer
lean Bar association upon bill intended
to give relief to the supreme court ard
facilitate the administration of Justice.
The bar committee agreed in favor Of the
establishment OF an intermediate appea-
late court.
STATEHOOD FOR WYOMING.
The house committee on territories has
voted unanimously to report the bill for
the admission of the territory of Wyoming
into The union. This action vas taken at
the regular meeting held this morning.
Mr.. Baker, OF New York will have charge
of the bill in the house, and will seize the
first opportunity to secure its considera-
ton.
The bill agreed to by the committee is
the measure introduced by Delegate Carey
early in the session. 1t ratlties the con-
which the people OF Wyoming
formed for themselves on the Both of last
September, and adopted at the November
elections. 1t entities the new state to
one representative IN congress. 1t gratis
sections IT. and 36 in every township
for the support Of the common schools,
and provides for the disposition of those
lands aI public saln j. mrr""ts, r. a''''
for the purpose OF erecting public build-
ings at the capital of the state; per
cent of the proceeds Of the sales Of public
lants are to be paid to the state for a
permanent fund, the interest of which
only Is TO be expended Tor the support OF
schuo S. Lands heretofore granted to
the territory are voled to the state, the
penitentiary at Laramie is granted to the
state. Ninety thousand acres OF land are
granted to the state for the use and sup
port OF an agricultural college. !
LAND OFFICE DECISION.
On January Is, the commissioner OF
the general land office denied the petition |
of the Hueriano Valley Ditch x Reservoir !
company asking that tract Of land Ill
the Pueblo land district be reserved from
entry and filing in order that they might
construct thereon reservoir. 10 day
Secretary Noble, to whom the case had
been appealed, sustained that decision.
The petition is based upon sections 1889
and 234U of the revised statutes, which
the secretary quotes and then adds
''Thc language of these enactments
does not expressly authorize the reserva-
ton OF public lands in anticipation Of the
building of a reservoir, and no construc-
ton giving it that effect seems ever to
have been made. The commissioners
decision is accordingly affirmed"