The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-06

6ios'SilS lat1IL struggle, Which has largely
diverted public attention from matters
which would, under other conditions, have
been considered of great consequence.
One Of the most important acts of the
session which passed both houses by &
strict party vote being m fulfllment of
plank OF the Democritic platform was the
act repeating all laws crea ting fed eral
Supervisors of elections and defining their
Fewer.
AZ other important act was shat to en-
able the people of Utah to form a con-
s9lutlon and state government and to be
aolIllted into the Union on full footine
Win the original states, and providing,
ne machinery by which the territory viii
DC ADMITTED. probably in December 1875
The act making the first Monday in
9epteInper legal holiday 10 be called
Three hills were passed to give effect
20 ne award of the tribunal arbitration
az IaIis, which adjudicued the seal fish
eI1eS disputes.
several measures were enacted in ac-
GGSr1ance With the recommendations of the
DocheIy commission (so-called) for i'm
d6oSiV5Eg ana simplifying. the methods of
Most important were those Changing the
II,SeiiS 9 OF auoltlng accounts in the treas
o ofy oepartmIenr improving The Methods
VI accounting n the postoffice depart
ment and changing the money order sys-
tenn, and that regulating the making of
p[operty returns by the officials of the
The naval bill, empowering the president
&c III vacancies In the grade of ensgns
ihe graduating class of the naval academy
Wtefe the vacancies exec I'd the number. of
e2cets III the line division or engineer
olNlslon. Also that a vacancy in the naval
school from district which the secretary
OF the aNy Is called upon to fill must be
nice NJ by the appointment of a resident
OF mat district of two years standing
Three of the appropriation bills have
not yet gone TO the president-the river
ana harbor and the general deficiency
ana sundry civil. Incidental TO the sun
cry civil is provision granting 100000
acres OF the surveyed arid public lands TO
each OF the states to which the desert
ana the territories of Arizona, New
Mexico, Oklahoma and Utah, to be Sc
Iected within ten years.
rive deficiency bills have been neces-
sary this season. The princlpal items in
the first one was Sl27, 500 of the pay of as
slstant Janitors and custodians under the
treasury department and $500, 600 for mile
age tcr members, the regular mileage
appropriation for the first session having
been used during the special session
The second bill included S745 600 for the
treasury department $500 GOO OF il for
the customs service S200.OO0 for the pen-
sion. service, 100000 for the census and
deficiency carried si00.5jO for the
treasury department, half of it for en-
forcement Of the Chinese exclusion act
with $4,000 for treasury printing and
$4,000 for Improvements to the gun boats
Castine and Machias The fourth car
ried about $2l5,00O for the treasury. most
OF IL Tor the bureau of printing and en-
craving, and for United States courts
Sl,436,0 600. The fifth bill approved June Is,
carried $4,000 for the public printing Of
fee and $lS5, 600 for the custom service
Two resolutions appropriating $4,000
and $4,000 for enforcing the Chinese ex-
cluslon act were approved December Z,
appropriation bills had not passed at the
beginning Of the fiscal year, July l. it
was necessary to extend, by resolution
all appropriations for the necessary ap-
propria tons of the government for pen
SiOns and for the District of Columbia
They were twice extended for thirty DAYS
from June 30, and fifteen days from July
Two special appropriation bills for sal
aries of employees of Congress was
necessary, and one for the expenses of
investigation ordered by the Senate
Among the laws of benefit to merchant
marine interests enacted was one to pre-
vent collisions at sea, prescribing a sys-
TEN of signals and one to facilitate the
entry of steamships.
Among the acts pertaining to the
judiciary of the United States were
those to authorize the fourth assistant
acknowledgement to approve the
pOstmasters' bonds; to regulate the in
spection of iron and steel boiler plates
and their stamping by the United
States inspectors, and fixing penalties
for unauthorized use of stamps.
Among the territorial acts was one
fixing The limit Of Indebtedness which
may be incurred by Salt Lake city at
6 per cent Of the value of the taxable
county of Coconino, Arizona, to issue
$4,000 in bonds to build county
building.
BY a joint resolution, officers and
enlisted men of both branches Of the
service were authorized to wear the
1,,-
on all occasions Of ceremony.
Much legislation relating to public
lands was accomplished. One act eX-
tends to January 1897. the time within
which persons may purchase railroad
grant lands forfeited to the govern |
rnent by the act of September %, 1880, !
under the conditions Of purchase in
that act.
An act was signed providing for the
allotment of certain lands on the res
ervation of the confederated Otoes |
and Missourians Of Nebraska and Kan |
sas; amending the act of March 3, 1891. |
The commissioner of the land office !
was authorized to issue patents as evil
dence of title for all valid locations
made with land scrip issued pursuant
to DEGREES of the supreme court, which |
valid locations were made prior to the |
approval Of the aforesaid act in the |
same manner that patents are now is |
EueU uQQST l0e pIONlSlOliS VI SetllOH
of the act of June 25 1879.
AS a measure of relief of the west
during the business depression, the re-
duirement that on each mining claim |
located not less than 800 worth of Ia
Dor or improvements to be made each |
year under penalty of forfeiture was
suspended for the year 1894.
The time for making final proof and |
r1ayment for all lands located under |
the desert land laws was extended for |
one year and the time for final pay
ments under the preemption act, when |
entry men are not prevented from |
making payment from causes beyond |
their control. The law was amended so
snat persons who had made proof of set |
Element in oregon, Washington and Ida
10. but failed to file proof of their con- |
tinued residence and cultivation. are
given until January l. 1896, to make
final proof. Other land acts were:
Reservation from sale land on the |
abandoned Fort Cummings, New Mex |
ico) military reservation; to secure to |
public use and the use of the Rio |
Grande, Mexico and Pacific Railroad |
company, a spring thereon; granting /
2,115 acres at the junction of the ella
and Colorado rivers to Arizona; grant |
ing to the county of Laramie Wyom- |
ing, bridges on the abandoned Fort |
Laramie Indian reservation; granting
road rights TO the citizens of Sauselito |
California, over Time Point military |
reservation; granting sixty acres to the |
unsveTS ity of Utah for a site; defining |
the northern boundary line of the
Warm Springs Indian reservation in |
Oregon: increasing the homesteads of |
settlers in the Iowa reservation, Oma-
ha, to 100 acres; to protect the birds