Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1892-02-26
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
An Attempt to Compromise the Cues
ton of Mineral Lands Along
the Northern Pacific.

,nakino ARRANGEMENTS to move to the
Cherokee Strip March %, unless Con
yress takes action toward opening 1t he
fore then.
The House Committee on Naval Al
fairs has ordered bill to provide for the
construction OF a dry dock at Algiers,
La, favorably reported, with an amend
ment limiting the total cost to SS4o,ooo'
Representative Johnson of North Da-
kota has written letter to the President
urging the appoint ment of John NJ.
Langston Of Virginia as Judge oil the
Court of Claims. Mr.. Langston is col
ored man, and won seat in the last
Congress by contest.
The annual estimates OF farm animals
considered from the local returns OF Jan
uary to tie Department OF Agriculture
indicate an increase OF each kind oil from
3 to per cent. Of sheep, swine and
horses; about 2 per cent. in cattle, and
scarcely per cent. in mules.
The President has sent to the Senate
the following nominations: Walter IL.
Sanborn of Minnesota, United States
Circuit Judge for the Eighth Judicial
District; John II. Burford, Associate
Justice Of the Supreme Court OF Okla
homa; Will am A. Kelly of Oregon, to
be Commissioner in and for the district
of Alaska, to reside at Wrangel.
The Secretary of the Interior has APP
pointed A. G. Conner, appointment
clerk of the department, and George
Evans, disbursing officer, to examine
into the condition of the work OF the
xU,. 40 fot 10 Et1tt re
needs. The Secretary states he has no
suspicion of wrong doing, and he takes
this course to satisfy himself as to the
exact condition of the office.
Secretary Noble has telegraphed the
special land inspector at Ell Reno, Okla
homa, where lot of jumping is going
on, that notice for review of the Fore
man case had been filed in the depart.
ment, and until the question was decided
Foreman's rights must hold good. The
Secretary says bill will soon be favor
ably reported to Congress confirming the
rights of innocent purchasers. All the
lot jumpers on the Foreman tract, it is
understood, will be compelled to vacate
at once.
The House Committee on the Election
Representatives further discussed the
resolution in regard to the election Of
the Senator's by direct vote OF the peo-
pie. The committee is in favor of the
resolution, and is proceeding slowly in
preparing its report, as it is its desire
that it shall meet the general approval
of the House. The committee seems to
favor the change in the time OF COM
mencing the term of Congress, but does
not agree as to the day. Some favor
January and others March for the
converting OF Congress.
At hearing before the House Com
mittee on Coinage, WEIGHTS and Meas
ures Leonard R. Hone, representing the
Legislative Committee OF the National
Grange, said the American farmer was
asking that silver be restored to the DO.
sition it occupied prior to 1878. An in
creased volume OF money, he said, meant
an enhancement OF prices. He wanted
Congress to protect the legal qualifica-
ton of money issued by the government
so he could not be compelled to make
his payments in one form of money.
Hone said the free coinage of silver
would go a great way toward bringing it
TO parity with gold. Even if all that
is said against free-silver coinage were
true, the farmer would not lose hing.
because there was no time when the
farmer Jared so well as in 1865, when
there was deprecated currency. He ia
vored the free coinage OF both gold and
silver.
In the matter of government proceed
ings against the alleged fraudulent tim
Der land entries in Washington, Oregon
or California the Commissioner General
OF the land office, with the approval If
the Secretary of the Interior, has insti-
tuted change of procedure, bv which
parties claiming title to these lands will
hereafter be required to produce the
original entrymen and their witnesses
at the local land offices for further exam
nation with reference to any contracts
or arrangements which NAV have been
made prior to the entry for the convey
ance OF land to corporations or syndi-
Gates. 1t appears from the records OF
the general land office that large tracts
oil valuable timber land in different To-
calitlt s have been entered on the same
day by large number of persons and
Immediately thereafter all the parties
transferred to syndicates. 1t is now con-
fidently asserted by these svndicates
That the government cannot prove the
entries We're originally made in their in
terests. This new order is made with a
view OF simplifying the procedure in
such cases.
1t is decided by the Navy Department
10 IN IKE another line of soundings before
definitely deciding upon route for the
proposed submarine cable between San
Francisco and the Hawaiian Islands
This conclusion was reached after an ex-
animation of the full report inst pub
lished of the two lines recently com
pleted by the fish commission steamer
Albatross. Many irregularities, ranging
from normal to submarine mountains
two and half miles in height were
Iound in these two lines. Orders were
Lelegraphed to Lieutenant-C Commander
tanner OF the Albatross at San Fran
CISCO to get his vessel ready at once for
making new survey. A new line will
be run on great circle, starting at or
near Point Conception in California In
he Island of Hawaii. Experts in the
lyorographic office, who have kept a
ioN'iu VI All sOundlngs made,
'Xpret more level line on the gre It
\, which II is now proposed to run.
The work already done, they say, indi-
'ates the possibility of a line compara.
lively uniform and at an average depth
VI about three miles.
There is evidently an attempt to com
promise the question of mineral lands
long the Northern Pacific road pror~
heht ofhcers of that company say that
ne company has no desire for the lands
ma Is perfectly willing to take other
ands IN lieu of those which are found IN
'e mineral. This indicates that the