The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-03-31
PUBLIC LANDS RESTORED.
Sundry Civil Bill as Reported Revokes
Order of Last Year

Order of Last Year.
| Washington, March 31-The sl1ndrv
| civil appropriation bill has been report
! ed to the senate from the committee on
! appropriations. The committee made a
| large number of amendments the total
! net increase in the amount carried by
! the senate amendments being 81, 93S 87S
/ The increases are as follows:
! On public buildings, 81, 050,14S.
! On light houses, beacons and fog sig
| nails, 1865, $50.
! Light house establishments, $135, 900.
| Revenue cutter service, 1918, 600.
| ArInories and arsenals, $114, $50.
Pay of the army, $491, 163.
| Military posts, $500, 600.
Rivers and harbors, $225000.
| Paris exposition, 100000
Public printing and binding, $400, 900.
The remainder includes many miscel-
| laneous items.
One of the most important of the
amendments is one appropriating $491,-
| 1913 for the payment of the services of
| the two additional regiments of artillery
| provided for by recent legislation. The
| general appropriation for the enlarge
ment of military posts is increased from
| S420, 900 to 1920 0G0.
Forty thousand dollars is appropriate
| ed for the purchase of Point Park, on
| Lookout mountain, as part of Chicka-
| manga park, and $50, 600 is provided to-
wards the erection of sanitarium for
! disabled volunteer soldiers at Hot
! Springs, S. D., the total cost to be linn
! tied to 500, 900.
Provision is made for the representa-
ton of the United States at the Paris
exposition of 1900, the expenses of such
representation being limited to $3.50, 900.
An immediate appropriation of $500, 600
is made. The United States exhibition
is to be under the supervision of a COM
missioner general, an assistant commits
Sioner general and twelve experts.
The commissioner general is to be
paid SIS, 900 a year, the assistant commits
sioner general, $4,000, and the experts
81, 500 each.
The secretary of the interior is au-
thorized to investigate the burning in
December last of two Seminole Indians
in Oklahoma, and IF it shall appear
that Outrages and injuries have been so
perpetrated, to adjudicate and pay the
Indian or Indians, or their legal heirs,
or representatives, as guaranteed by
the Seminole treaty, such sum or sums
as he may deem just and reasonable
Twenty thousand dollars is made i'm
mediateIy available for this purpose.
The following additions are made to the
fund for continuing river and harbOr
improvements:
Yaquina Bay, Ore, $1,000 900 of the ST.
983, 1888 for the Mississippi river commits
sion, and it is provided that 500, 900
shall be expended at Greenville, Miss;
$4,000 at Helena, Ark; $4,000 at Mem
phis, Tenn, and $4,000 at New Madrid,
Mo.
Provision is made for contract
whereby California shall be allowed to
pay half the expenses of the improve
ment of the Sacramento and Feather
rivers in that state.
Among the additions made for public
building are the following:
Ten thousand dollars for the compile
ton of a one-stOry annex to the tenn
pOrary pOstoffice at Chicago; for i'm
provements at the Marine hospital at
Chicago $37, $50 is appropriated, and for
the Marine hospital at San Francisco
SIS 625.
Quarantine stations are added at San
Francisco ($S,620) and Astoria, Ore.'
Light and fog signal stations are au
thorized as follows:
Red Fish bar, Texas, light $4,000;
Grand Traverse, Mich, fog signal So
500; at the north government pier, South
Milwaukee, Wis, light station $500; at
Tail Point, Wis, moving station $T,oOO;
additions to the light house district
station, Mich, SIS, 600; at Toledo, O.,
harbor, light and fog signal $31 800; to-
tai cost SIS, 900; on Lake St. Clair, Mich,
light and fog signal stations $4,000; ad-
dition to the eleventh light house dis
trict station, Michigan, $15,O 900; at Quar-
ry point, San Francisco Bay, Cal, fog
signal $4,000; at Point No Point, Wash
ington, fog signal $4,000; at Brown and
Battery Points, Wash, $4,000 each for
a fog bell and dwelling.
Light house vessels are authorized as
follows:
For the fourth and fifth districts, $95,-
900; for the twelfth and thirteenth dis
tricts (Pacihc coast), $4,000; for Cape
Lookout shoal, S. c., $95Oe9, tender for
the Bird light house district, $4,000;
tender for the great lakes, $S5, 900.
The appropriation for supplies for
light houses is increased from 100000 to
S45O, 900, and that for repairs Of light
houses from $50, 900 to $3.50, 900.
Revenue steamers are authorized as
follows:
one in the Gulf of Mexico $3.50, 900; at
the mouth of the Columbia river, $780,
900.
A new fish culture station is provid-
ed for the state of Washington at
site to be designated by the commits
sioner, $4,000.
Among the general provisions is one
giving states and territories the right to
select other lands in lieu of school lands
included in forest reservations, or gran
included in forest reservations, or
granted to railroads.
Another amendment suspends the eN-
ecutive order of February p, 1897, with
drawing large tracts of land in the
states of Wyoming, Utah, Montana,
Washington, Idaho and South Dakota
and restores the land to settlement.
The North Pacific Railroad company
is authorized to take lands in lieu of
sections of it's grant which have been
settled.
The provision also protects the rights
of settlers who locate upon railroad
grant lands, giving them right to re-lo-
cations.
Ice Plant for Mcpherson.
The Mcpherson Ice Manufacturing
company of Mcpherson, KanS., filed its