The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-02
UTAH BATTERIES
TO Be INCREASED
States Quota Under the Sec
Ond Call.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
FOR TWO REGIMENTS
Engineer and Cavalry Recruits Will
Be Accepted.
Utah Will Be Permitted to Fill Out
Her Full Quota Under the First
and Second Calls-Senator Rawlins
Saves the Uintah Reservation Bill
Secretary Bliss Will Recommend
Its Approval-Land Selections
Cannon's Land Bill
Washington Office of The Herald, \
1415 G Street, N. ". I

Utah is not included among the
states listed by Adjutant General Cor
bni as having exceeded her quota of
troops, and which will not be repre-
sented in the new call. She will be al
lowed to fill up her batteries to the
maximum strength, and will furnish as
many more troops as may be necessary
to complete her quotas under the first
and second calls for volunteers. There
nSy, also, be further troops recruited
in Utah for Colonel Willard Young's
engineers and Nantes cavalry. Idaho
has exceeded her quota and no troops
will be called from that state, and her
only chance for extension of enlistments
is in these two regiments.
Senator Cannon says Utah has been
well treated, in view of the fact that the
state started out with no certainty of
opportunity to furnish even a single
company. The adjutant generals Office
restored the equilibrium in Utah, as he
is now trying to do in other states.
MORE INDEPENDENT CAVALRY.
The bill calling for two more indie
pendent cavalry regiments has already
been informally and favorably consid-
cred by the senate military affairs com
tial approval. Senator Mantle will GER
tainly be named colonel of one of these
regiments, and Senator Clark of Wv
oming will try to get the other colonel
cy. His chances are not as good as
those of Mantle, because wyoming al
ready has Colonel Torrey.
Senator Clark borrowed this enlist
ment idea from Mantle, and it is a sec
ond fiddle kind of performance Mantle
~,
the matter from the first but the
candidacy of Clark is a political after
thought He will probably fail of nom
nation, by reason of Torrey's success,
and because Wyoming is too far in ex-
cess of her quota to get any further
political consideration.
UINTAH BILL SAVED.
There have been strong efforts on the
part of the New York syndicate to de-
feat the Uintah reservation bill. Rep
resentatives of the syndicate have
steadily urged the secretary of the in
terror to recommend that the Rawlins
bill be vetoed. Senator Rawlins had a
long conference with Secretary Bliss
today on the subject. The Indian office
has already recommended the vetoing
of the bill, and Secretary Bliss position
thus became very important.
Secretary Bliss said he would recon-
mend the signing of the bill He said.
however, that there should be further
legislation on the subject later and he
directed a representative of the Indian
office, VINO was present, to change a
long statement of objections which In
dian Commissioner Jones had, filed to
one of Suggestions for future consid-
Grafton"
MILITARY RESERVATION LANDS.
Senator Rawlins also called on Secre-
tary Bliss and Assistant Attorner- Cen
eral Vandevanter this afternoon, rela-
tive to the state claim to lands within
the abandoned military reservations of
Forts Cameron and Crittenden. The
senator says that the rule which de-
MED the right of the state to take, up
claims within the reservation will be
reversed. 1t should, however, be
brought before the department form
ally by Attorney General Bishop.
CANNON'S LAND BILL.
Senator Cannon this afternoon intro
duced a bill providing that in the Sc
lection of granted lands under the en-
aiding act the state shall be permitted
to take land in legal subdivisions of not
less than one-siXteenth section. The
state selections shall, however. be sub
ject to all other obligations of the,-en-
abling act. The senator says that the
smaller selections can be handled by
the state to much better advantage
than the larger ones, and that the pas
sage Of this bill viii facilitate coop
Grafton between the state land--board
and the general land Office.
A postoffice has been established at
Nez Perces county, Idaho, with
William S. Rice as postmaster Sarah
L. Child was today commissioned post
master at Fairview, Wyo.
An original persion OF Sc per month
is granted Asa NJ. Van Cleave, King
ston, Ida.
FRANK H. HOSFORD.