The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-17

MAIDEN two year olds, five furlOngs =
Vlctress filley won, John M. second Ben
lamln third. Time :C51S.
Three year-olds and upward mile and
acknowledgement won, Glenwood
second, Hockey third. No time was taken.
In The Senate.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 16.-vlce-P President
Morton presided in the Senate to-uay.
The following bills passed. The Senate
bill authorizing the librarian of Congress
to purchase, at not exceeding S1O, 900. Town
sends library, the national, state and indi-
vidual records concerning the origin, pro-
gress and consequences of the late civil
war.
The Senate bill to grant the right of way
through public lands for irrigation pur-
poses.
The conference report on the. railway
land forfeiture bill was resumed and Nor
gan continued his argument against it, He
spoke of the first section of the bill as un-
Just and said the bill was a mere sham and
pretense. AS for the feature of the bill, it
was nothing but mere political perform
ance.
Bate also opposed the conference report
and asked where under the bill forfeiture
came in
Plumb said it forfeited all lands which
under the decision of the supreme court
could be forfeited 1t forfeited somewhere
between seven and ten million acres; it
confirmed not a single aereito any railroad
company and did not disturb the status of
any acre granted to railroad companies ex-
cept by terminating the right of the com
pany to build any more of their roads, and
by FORGETTING grants opposite to unimproved
portions. A vote was then taken and the
conference report agreed to-. Yeas, 30;
nays, ID; strict party vote.
The House anti lottery bill was then, on
motion OF Sawyer, taken from the calendar
and passed, without a word of discussion.
On motion OF Plumb the Senate proceed
ed to the consideration of the House bill to
repeal the timber culture laws. Plumb
moved an amendment in the nature of a
substitute.
Henderson moved an amendment provid-
ing that not more than 6ge (instead of 1907
acres shall be embraced in one town site.
Agreed to.
Plumb also moved to add to the substitute
new section restricting reservoir sites TO
so much land only as is actually necessary
for the construction and maintainence Of
reservoirs. Agreed to.
Teller also offered an amendment (which
was agreed toy giving the right of way
through public lands to canal or ditch com
panies, formed for the purpose of irriga-
ton.
Sanders offered an amendment, providing
that in the gold and silver mining regions
of the state of Nevada and those states and
territories in which there are public lands
containing timber and, where there is no
United States law authorizing the sale of
such timber lands, the residents of such
states or territories if prosecuted for cut
ting timber may plead in defense that it was
cut for agricultural or mining purposes.
After some modification it was agreed to.
Henderson moved, to add new section
setting apart the Annette islands in Alex
ander archipelago in southeastern Alaska
as reservation for tbs use of the Mella-
kahtla Indians, recently emlgrated from
British Columbia to Alaska, and such other
Alaskan natives as may join them. Agreed
to. The substitute was then agreed to and
the bill passed
The Senate bill to establish a United
States land court was laid aside until to-
morrow and the Senate adjourned.