The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-01-28
A VICTORY FOR KING
ASphaltum Leasing Proposition De-
feated In the House.
WAS RULED OUT OF ORDER
LACEY OF IOWA WoRSTED BY
JUDGE KING.
Lands Must Be Placed
On the Same Footing As Other
Lands-Attorneyship Fight Grows
Warmer-Whittemore Says Mark
Hanna Promised Him the Pie.
(special to The Herald.)


! Washington, Dec. 27.-The house
again took up the Indian appropriation
/ bill this afternoon, and at last reached
/ the paragraph affecting the Uncom-
pahgre reservation. This extended the
time for opening the reservation until
April, 1899, and authorized the secretary
of the interior to lease the mineral
lands within the reservation on such
terms as he might determine. This last
provision would have altered the pre-
vious policy of the government in deal
ing with mineral lands, and establish
anew the old system of royalties.
The members from Colorado and
| Utah had been waiting for several days
for this paragraph to be reached, and
when it was read, Representative King
promptly raised a point of order against
it. He contended that the proposed
legislation was not in order on gem
eral appropriation bill, because it
changed existing law, in violation of
the rules of the house.
Judge Lacey of Iowa asserted that
the paragraph was not Objectionable,
and quoted a decision from the chair
in the last congress in support of his
position.
Judge King urged that this quotation
w
to treaty by legislation. He had nu-
merous authorities to sustain his posi-
ton, and the chair promptly held with
him, and ruled the paragraph out of
order
1t is not known what the next effort
of the friends of leasing will be, but
it is probable that. they will introduce
a special bill for the purpose of pro-
crastinating the opening and promoting
the leasing system.
Judge King says he will persist in his
effort to have the Uncompahgre lands
opened and placed on the sane footing
as all other lands. He gained a &c
cisive victory today in defeating the
insertion in the appropriation bill,
where it would have been PR gilesed.
HANNA'S PLEDGE TO WHITE
MORE.
The contest over the attorneyship
wakes warmer Ritchie still imagines
he has chance, but it seems plain
that the prize lies between Rogers and
Whittemore. Their relative chances
play seesaw every day. Rogers posi-
ton as national committeeman and the
fact that he is supported by Utah's Re
publican ex-senator. are his strongest
cards. The fact is being pressed on
the president and attorney general
that unless this place is given TO ROg-
ers the men who stayed by the party
at St. Louis will be wholly without rec
ognition.
kilograms from Salt Lake keep the
wires hot. those for WhittemOre beirg
rather the more numerous. 1t will prob
ably take another personal visit from
the Utah local bosses 10 Washington to
land Whittemore. although the latter
claims that Hanna promised him the
place long ago.
POSTOFFICE APPOINTMENTS
Postmasters appointed today: Utah
Smithville, James L. Rhodes, vice Geo. |
Bishop.
Wyoming-Lovell, Bighorn county. /
William Stanley, vice Josiah Cook, re |
signed
Utah pensions granted today: In
crease-Adam Clark, Stateline, IS to
S12; Mexican war survivor, increase, /
Marcus A. Wheeler, Salt Lake City, IS /
to So.
STAGE PERMIT.
f. ]. Haynes of Minneapolis. has |
been granted a permit by the interior /
department to establish a line of stages /
from Manti. Idaho. into the Yellow |
stone National park. This viii enable /
to enter the park from :. (
railroad line on the south Up to this /
time the only stage routes into the |
park have been from the NOrtha--r, Va