Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-06
A New Land Law Bill Will be In
tr0duced in the National Gov
eminent Shortly.
1t Will Entirely Change the General
Land System Of the Gov
eminent.
100000 to be Appropriated for
the Education of Indian
Children.
A New Land Law Bill.

III tilc VII W lcDedl tllc GllNueI CULTURE
law and amendatory of the land laws gen
orally have practically reached an agree,
nent on an entirely new bill which will
be brought forward at the first opportu-
nifty. The bill agreed upon will change
the general land system Of the government.
The bill first repeats the timber culture
act. but with a reservation in favor of
bona fide claims heretofore itiated. In
computing the period of cultivation IN
claims already accruing, it is provided that
the time shall run from the date of entry,
if the necessary acts of cultivation are per-
formed within the the proper time. The
preparation of the land and the planting
of trees are to be construed as acts of cul-
tivation. Persons who have complied
with the provisions of the timber culture
act for four years may prove up their
claims by the payment of $1.25 an acre.
The desert land act is amended by requir-
ing the filing of a map showing the pro-
son shall receive patents for land under
the act unless he has expended in the
work of reclamation at least $3 per acre,
81 to be expended within each year.
After four years, title may be secured by
theepayment of 81 per acre. Section 1888,
revised statutes, is amended so that any
transfer any portion of his claim for a right
of way for irrigation purposes, as
we'll as for church. cemetery, railroad or
school purposes. The presumption law
is also repealed, except as to claims here
tofore Initiated and except as to pre-emp-
ton 2289 is amended so that persons
already holding l60 acres of land, or who
abandon their residence on their own
land, shall not have a right to make a
homestead entry. Entries may be sus-
pended for correction of clerical errors.
The United States is estopped from the
vacation of any patent on claims hereto
five years and on future claims within six
years. 1t is provided hat in Colorado,
Montana, North and South Dakota,
Wyoming and the gold and silver regions
of Nevada and Utah, it shall be a sufficient
aefsnss '9 to any SHOW prO thst timber beT
culture was for agricultural. mining, manu-
featuring or domestic purposes n was
not transported out OF the state; this pro-
vision, however, is not to apply to railroads.
Towns and cities, it is declared, may make
town site entries ON mineral lands, but this
llplJ Slldll lOG lntcIlcIc Will GIlt WOTklUS
OF underground mineral claims. Provision
is made for grants of right Of way for
irrigation purposes; but reservoir sites are
not to contain any more land than is neces-
sary for the construction and maintenance.
The maximum amount of land which any
person may acquire is limited to 800 acres.
The president is given the right to set
apart and reserve in any territory forest
lands as public reservations, not subject
to be entered upon. This will meet the
lprincipal aim of what is known as the
Yellowstone Park bill.
ANOTHER NOMINATION..
WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.-The president
to day sent the following nomination to
the senate: Henry w. Blair of New Hamp-
shire, envoy EXTRAORDINARY land minister
plenipOtentiary to China.
NELSON CONFIRMED.
The senate confirmed the following NOM
nations: Senator Blair, minister to China;
W. S. Stanley of, Wisconsin, consul at Pic
tou, N. S.; Nelson E Nelson, collector of
customs for the district of North and South
Dakota.
FOR INDIAN SCHOOLS.
The senate took up the Indian appropri-
alton bill. The provision for the purchase
of irrigation machinery in Arizona and
Nevada for the use Of Indian reservations
was amended by the addition of the states
of Idaho and Montana. The appropriation
for the support of Indian schools was in.
creased from 100000 to S1,OOO,OOO. On mo-
ton OF Mr.. Dawes lin charge of the billy
all amendments recommended by the CON-
mittee Oh appropriations reducing the per
capita rate for the support of Indian pu.
pills at various schools throughout the
country from $167 to $3.50, were disagreed
tO-he explaining that the committee had
changed its views in respect to the matter,
and had authorized him to recon-
mend a disagreement. The only exeep.
Totten, N. D., where the former rate per
scholar was preserved. Sanders argued
against the propriety of making that ex-
ception. Plumb expressed the convic-
ton that an average OF $3.50 per year for
the Indian pupils was much too
tage was derived from the system OF In.
dian training which now cost two millions
a year.. He did not believe that it had 3D.
vanced the 1ndiOn one iOta in the pathGf
civilization. The Indians who had before
been kept on reservations and had had no
schooling were far better Indians than
those who had had what was supposed to
be advantages Of education. He described
the Indian as being taken by the nape of
the neck and "yanked' on to the plane of
civilization, where they were like seed
sown on unfertile ground, which, when
the sun came out, was parched and
withered. There was not a single living
evidence, he said, of the permanent use
fulness of such q system of education.
The education of the Indian meant moth
ing but refined lOaferism.
9 BILLS PASSED.
WASHINGTON. Feb. N.-The senate
passed the following house bills among
others:
An amendment to various acts relative
to immigration and importation of aliens
under contract or agreement to perform
labor. "
To amend an act Of March 2, 1889, for the
relief of certain volunteer and regular
soldiers of the late war and the war With
| Mexico. q.
For allowance of certain claims FOR
stores and supplies taken and used by tile
United States army. as reported by the
court of claims under the provisions OF the
Bowman act" with amendments.)
The senate today passed the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation bill.