Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-04-02
WASHINGTON BUDGET.
Bright Prospects of the Arid Land
Rill-VOOrhees Opens Tariff De-
bate-ROswell Promoted.

Washington, April 2.-Sec. Smith ha!
transmitted to congress an adverse repor
on the house bill recently introduced
providing for the restoration of 1861
square miles of land in the Yellowstone
national park to the public domain. The
secretary says the segregation of the land
would result in obstructng the enforce
ment of the regulations for the govern.
ment of the park owing to squatting
The boundaries of the park, as now fixed
by law, are satisfactory to the department
and no good reason for the proposed
change is known.
ROSWELL A PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.
The following fourth-class postoffices
have been raised to the presidential class
Roswell, New Mexico, $l,1OO salary; AL
win, Texas, $1,000 salary.
FAVORABLE PROSPECTS OF ARID LAND BILL
Senator Carey is much encouraged over
the prospects of the bill for the cession
of million acres of land to each of the
arid land states and territories to be i'm
proved by means of irrigation. Senator
Carey is led to believe the bill will receive
the unanimous endorsement of the com
'mittee. Senators lph and Villas both
of whom favor the bill, say it provides
for experiment in the right direction,
which, if undertaken, may lead to the So
luton OF the question, what shall be done
to reclaim the arid lands?
To-DAY's HOUSE.
The struggle over the O'Neil-Joy
contested election case was resumed to-
day in the house. Mr. Reed intimated on
Friday that the speaker overlooked a
flagrant violation of the rule governing
votes under roll call. The Democrats
lacked twenty of quorum to-day.
JUD1oIoUs CUT.
A cut of $4,500,O0O in the item for armor
plate and armament in the naval appro-
priation bill has been agreed to by the
house committee on naval affairs.
UTEs WILL REMAIN IN COLORADO.
The house committee on Indian affairs
has finally decided not to move the Utes
from the reservation in Colorado.
NOMINATIONS.
The president to-day sent the following
W uIlo studbts uOuldS L..
Benedict, of New York, to be public
printer.
Consuls of U. S., Jas. H. Dinsmore, of
Texas, at Cienfuegos, Cuba; William G.
Foster, of Arizona, at Trinidad.
j. 7. Henier, register, and Louis Groos-
much, receiver of the U. s. land office at
Gunnison.
James d. Youmans, of Iowa, interstate
commerce commission.
To-DAy's SENATE.
Senator Morgan has reported to the
senate the Behung sea bill to carry into
effect the Paris arbitration and asked its
immediate consideration. Senator Nor
gan said the British parliament was act
ing on similar bill to-day.
Senator Cullom, Of Illinois, raised the
question if it was not unusual to author
ize foreign powers to direct American
citizens, and Senator Morgan pointed out
that an arrangement had been entered
into between Great Britain and the United
States to suppress the slave trade.
Senator Morgan asked unanimous con-
! sent that the bill be considered after Sen
ator Voorhees, speech on the tariff bill
which was agreed to. Mr.. Voorhees, made
an eloquent presentation of the tariff re-
forms proposed in the senate bill. He
said he would be glad to see the whisky
tax even higher than it had been fixed
He warmly defended the income tax. He
said that if he believed wool on the free
list would help the farmer he would not
vote for the bill.