Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-09-19
The House Anti-LOttery Bill Passed
by the Senate Without a Word
of Discussion.
The Bill to Repeal the Timber Gull
ture Law Was Taken Up and
% Considered.
The House Bill Creating Another
Land Office in North Dakota
..-t
Passed the Senate.
The Land Forfeiture Bill,


WASHINGTON, Sept. 16-Vice-P President
Morton presided in the senate to-day. The
following were among the bills passed:
House bill to authorize the secretary of the
j interior to sell certain lands and to grant
the proceeds of such sale to the town OF
Pelican, Oneida county, Wis, for school
i purposes. Senate bill to grant right of
4 way through public lands for irrigation
3 purposes.
III The conference report on the railroad
land forfeiture bill was resumed and Sen
3 ator Morgan continued his argument
against it. IIe spoke of the first section of
the bill as unconstitutional and that said
E bill was mere sham and pretense as a
Il forfeiture bill. 1t was nothing out mere
8 political performance, invented to get up
Il the idea that congress was forfeiting the
railroad land grants. while the whole pro-
1 visions OF the bill were to confirm the title
K of great railway companies to their lands.
h Mr.. Morgan related an incident connected
! with a railroad grant in Alabama wherein
x a land Office official in that state
came to Washington and finding that
n patents for the grant had been signed at
the land office went to the railroad COM
B pany and offered to get their lands patented
for commission of 10 per cent. The Of
! fer had been accepted, and this man had
4 received 10000 acres. The pending bill
q why he opposed it.. Any senator who
wanted to sustain that flaud might vote
a for the bill. That was all that he wanted
4 to say, and with that he closed his speech.
e Bate also opposed the conference report
and asked to be informed where, under the
i&bill, the forfeiture came in. Plumb Tin
charge Of the billy said that it forfeited all
lands which. under the decision OF the su-
a preme court, could be forfeited. 1t for
#feited somewhere between seven and ten
million OF acres of land. 1t con-
frmed not single acre to
the status OF any acre granted to any rail-
y road company except by terminating the
right of companies to build any more of
4 their roads, and forfeiting. grants opposite
I to the uncompleted portions. Bate said
8 that he was not at all satisfied, with Mr..
much land was to be forfeited under the
q bill and how much was to be confirmed.
Although he desired to see these railroad
\ lands forfeited, he was compelled to vote
against the conference report. A vote was
then taken and the conference report was
Z nays 1S.
The house anti-lottery bill was then on
y motion Of Sawyer taken from the calendar
Ii and passed without word of discussion.
On motion Of Plumb the senate pro-
. sceeded to the consideration of the house
II bill to repeal the timber culture laws.
Plumb. who reported the bill back from
3 the committee on public lands, moved an
amendment in the nature OF a substitute
] that no more than $40, instead of l60, acres
shall be embraced in one townsite entry.
Agreed to. Plumb also moved to add to
the substitute new section limiting ex-
+ listing reservoir sites to so much land only
as is actually necessary to the cOnstruc.
G stiOn and maintenance of reservoirs.
Agreed to.
INDIAN RESERVATION IN ALASKA.
Mr.. Manderson moved to add new Sec
hOn, setting apart the Anne tie islands in
lAlexander Archipelago, in southeastern
Alaska, as q reservation for the use Of the
lMetlakaptla Indians, who have recently
lemigrated from British Columbia to Alas
Ika and of such other Alaskan natives as
lmay join them. He made statement as
A to the remarkable civilization of these In
4 dams within the last 80 years from the
land under the influence of an Englishman
named Duncan. The amendment was
agreed to. "A substitute was then agreed
Ito and the bill passed. A conference was
asked on the dlsagreeing votes and Plumb,
lPettigrew and Walthal were appointed
cOnferees on the part of the senate. The
senate, then, on motion of Mr.. Edmunds,
took up from the calendar the senate bill
I 10 establish a United States land court and
4 tO provide for a settlement OF private land
ElaimS in certain states and territories.
The bill having been read, was laid aside
until TO morrow and the senate adjourned.
CoLoRADos POPULATION.
The population of the, state of Colorado,
Recording to the count of the census bu-
feau, Is 41O,975. This is an increase during
fIhe decade Of ZIG 64s, or 11l.49 per cent.
lEhe population of the city Of Pueblo is 4
styen as 26,l2S, which Is an increase of