, 1900-03-29

| representative chiiloNh i"Ht 'N'
presented the petition of the wool grow
ers' association and the cattle growers
association of Lincoln county against
the leasing or ceding the public lands.
| While n number of similar petitions
have been received by OF
Congress from associations and mol
viduals living in the arid states, the
great bulk of the petitions with when
Congress has been flooded have come
from persons not directly concerned IN
public land problems, and from parts
OF the country where accurate knowl-
edge of public land conditions is not
likely to De in possession OF thoke
sending the petition. The form Of sn
these petitions is indentical and they
are mainly sent by labor and trndeo Of
ganlzntions located in the eastern and
southern cities. That they are not
spontaneous but are the work OF a Sc
Great bureau. Is shown by the fact of
the opposition to the Shafroth bill,
which provides for absolute reclama-
ton of the land to be coded and for its
distribution among actual settlers in
small tracts.
Representative Hay IF Virginia filed
the report of the House committee on
military affairs on the bill establishing
a national battlefield memorial park of
5000 acres on the sites of the battles of
fredericksburg. Charlottesville. The
Wilderness and Spottsylvania Court
House. The representative states that
more men were here engaged than in
any battle in the worlds history, NUM-
bering at least 100000, with losses in
killed and wounded on both sides
amounting to 129.S3S. The intrench-
ments all over the field are said to be
in n remarkable state of preservation.
AT Fredericksburg also is the home of
Washington still intact, n monument
erected by the Daughters of the Amer
lean ~HeYolution. Here, too, Captain
john Smith anchored his little bark
and fought the Indians in zoos, and
within sight of the city were born
Washington, Monroe, Jefferson and
Madison, the Lees of both the Revolu-
ton and Civil War. and Zachary Tay-
Tor. The report ndds that in virginia
the great wal began ana ended, ard not
an acre OF tins soil, where more men
fell mar on all the other DattleneldS OF
the war, has yet been Dedicated as a
national park.
The correspondent of the Chicago
Record, n Republican paper, says:
Representative Page Morris of Mime
sofa and six other Republican members
of Congress have found 1t necessary to
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Il think the Cubans are getting to I'M
derstand thai steady progress is being
made toward the establishment of their
government. | do not think they wish
the present condition of affairs to con.
tinue, but they are not impatient about
taking over the government" Sec
tary Root made this statement after no
had reported TO the President on his re-
turn from Cuba. 1t was evident from
not +hinL thc Guhnms = -. ~ uoes
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no. non+,rnnn ..,onii.n .h e ~ o9ph,
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