Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-04-19
NATIONAL CAPITAL NEWS.

year was $l35, 400.
The Committee on Indian Affairs has
decided not to move the Utes from the
Colorado reservation. A substitute bill,
winch is a compromise, will be reported
to the House. 1t will not become law
until the Utes agree to its provisions. 1t
Will provide for keeping them on the
western end of the reservation, giving
them one township in New Mexico.
They will be given quarter OF the pres
ent reservation.
Secretary Smith has transmitted to
Congress an adverse report on the House
bill providing for the restoration of | 1851
square miles of land in Yellowstone Ma
tional Park to the public domain. The
Secretary says the segregation OF the
land is the result OF obstructing the en-
forcement OF regulations OF the govern
ment in the park, owing to squatting by
poachers, trappers and other undesirable
characters. The boundaries now fixed
are satisfactory to the department. No
good reason for the proposed change is
known.
Senator Carey is encouraged over the
prospects Of the bill for cession OF ,000,-
| WV dNitb W vi Jllt dIlu-ldIll OldItS
and Territories to be improved by irri-
CATION. The general expression OF opin-
ion by members favors the bill. There
is little doubt that it will be favorably
reported soon by the Committee on Pub
lie Lands. Mr.. Carey believes the bill
will receive the unanimous Endorsement
OF the committee. Senators Dolph all
| Villas favor the bill, and say it provides
for an experiment in the right direction
and may lead to solution OF the ques-
tion of what is to be done to reclaim the
arid lands.
The Senate Committee on Public
Lands has agreed to report favorably
Senator Kyle's amendment to the sun
dry civil appropriation bill, providing
that any honorably discharged soldier OF
the late civil war and not now the owner
OF 100 acres of land, and who has not
availed himself of the privileges under
the land laws OF the United States, may
acquire title to 100 acres of land by MAX
ing application therefor in person at any
government land Office ard paying the
minimum price OF $l25 per acre. The
law now requires residence OF six
months on the part OF the ex-soldier.
The Notifications bill, as it came back
to the Senate Committee, had added to
it increased appropriations to the amount
Of 1929, ,450, but not a cent for Puget
Sound. While the British government,
10000 miles away, sees the necessity of
strongly fortfying the entrance to the
Straits of Fuca, the Congress OF the
United States seems scarcely to know
that there is such place as Esquimalt,
| nr hat lallar ,nnIa1 thn.n 20,
menace to the cities on Washington's
inland sea. The total amount OF the
bill as now prepared is SO, ,054 ,l04, which
is over 100000 more than was appro-
priated in the same bill last wear. The
principal amounts added to the House
bill are 1926, 900 for equipment and work
at the Watervliet factory and S275, 900
for the purchase or manufacture of eight,
ten and twelve-inch guns.
Mr.. Grosvenor OF Ohio has introduced
in the House resolution calling for
special investigation of Governor Till
mans action in seizing railroad property
and telegraph lines engaged in interstate
commerce and with armed force and vio-
lence establishing censorship OF the
daily and weekly press OF the country
and prohibiting the transmission OF news
dispatches to the newspapers. The res
olution directs the Committee on Inter-
state and Foreign Commerce TO inquire
by what law such acts had been commit
ted and whether the laws of the United
States had been violated In his remarks
on the resolution Grosvenor said this
was the first time in the history of the
government such II censorship OF press
dispatches had been established. The
resolution was referred to the House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce, OF which Wise of Virginia is
Chairman.
A bill introduced in the House by
Wolverton of PENNSYLVANIA abolishes
the Office of United States Circuit Court
Commissioners, and repeals the laws
authorizing appointments thereto. The
Acknowledgement is authorized to divide
the States and Territories into as many
Commissioner districts as he may deem
necessary and change the boundaries of
such districts or create new districts
when required. The President is au-
thorized to appoint on the nomination
OF the Attorney-General sufficient
number OF Commissioners in the dis
tricts, to hold Office for four years. The
Commissioners are to have the same iu-
risdiction now conferred on United States
Circuit Court Commissioners, and will
be authorized to try with Il Jury of six
all otfenses punishable with fine or i'm
prisonment and sentence the defendant
with the same effect as il the defendant
had been convicted in the United States
District Court.
Three bills are now being considered
looking to the collection of 800, ,000, 900
Indebtedness of the Central and Union
Pacific Railroad Companies to the gov
ernment. Two of them are now before
the House Committee ON Pacific Rail
ways. One was introduced by Geary,
another by Brown and third by Boat
ner. The Geary bill provides for the
foreclosure OF the governments mort
gage on the two roads and the appoint
ment of u committee on the part of the
government to manage the roads. Geary
says his desire is TO make the men who
have grown rich out of the railroads pay
the government what they honestly owe.
From what can be learned the Brown
bill is not likely to be agreed upon, but
after IL and Geary's bill have been thor
oughly discussed new measure will be
reported embodying the features of one
or the other. The Boatner bill also pro-
vides for judicial procedure to compel
the companies to make restitution to the
government.
Caminetti has introduced Joint res
olution authorizing the President to in
vite all the nations of the Western Hem
isphere to n conference on the financial
question. The preamble of the resolu-
ton recites the fact of the community
interests existing in the Western Hemi-
sphere; the continued depreciation of