Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-10

amendment. The bill provides that this
institution may be established ana
maintained separately or in conjunction
with the asylum for the care and malnte-
nance Of the deaf and dumb.
Another important meaSur which SEN
ator Carter introduced, which he has
pressed out of his COMMITTEES. and when
will obtain the favorable action OF con-
gress. is the bill for the relief of certain
citizens of Montana claiming the benefit
of the homestead law. This measure pro-
! vides that no purchaser of land under the
terms of an act entitled IAN act to pro-
vide for the sale of lands patented to GER
tain members of the Flathead band OF In
dians in Montana shall be held to have
exhausted his right to enter land unde
the homestead laws. but every such per-
son shall. if otherwise qualified. be, not
withstanding such purchase. entitled to
the benefits of the homestead laws
Favorable action through Senator Car
ter has also been taken on the bill regulat-
ing proofs and filings in land cases. This
bill provides that hereafter all necessary
affidavits and proofs required by law un-
der the homestead. timber culture. pre-
emption desert land. and timber land
laws may be made before any officer
qualified to take such proof at my place
in the land district in which the land APP
piled for is situated. whether in the same
county where the lands are located or
not. The present law works great hard
ships upon applicants, who are required
to take proofs in the county where the
land is situated. The commissioner of the
general land office has recommended the
passage of the bill reported by Senator
Carter.
Senator Carter has also secured the pas
sage through the senate of a bill appro-
priating S200, 900 for the erection of a mag
,GaD, -l,l.a l,tll;~~ -, tho nifNy IF
Great Falls, Montana. and in this connec-
ton it should be mentioned that he has a
bill pending increasing the limit of cost
for the purchase of a site and the erection
of a building thereon for the
ton of the postofice and United States
land offices at Helena by $4,000. This sum
added to the amount heretofore fixed as the
limit of cost for this site and building
will make the aggregate $4,000. which
the senator says, will be appropriated.
His bill to pay for the county of Gus
ter. Montana, the sum of 1880, an
amount due the county in half payment
for the construction of a bridge across the
Tongue river for the accommodation of
the Fort keogh military reservation, has
already passed into an act.
Among the other important bills of in
terest to Montana it may be mentioned
that Senator Carter has pending and is
! pressing the measures he has introduced
appropriating $4,000 for the Improvement
of Kootenai river between Jennings, Mon
tana, and the boundary line, and to ratify
the treaty agreement made with the Crow
Indians. In the India appropriation bill
the senator has also inserted a section to
purchase the land and Improvements OF
the settlers on the Northern Cheyenne
reservation. This item is 1920. 020.44.
Among the recent beneficiaries of Sem
ator Carriers work in congress Is Charles
~ ~ e r--A DIV
the bill which has passed for his relief
Mr.. RAIDERS claim will be settled by en-
towering him to select by legal subdivis-
ions at such places as he may desire in
! Montana 4S9 acres of unoccupied and I'M
| appropriated non-mineral lands. subject
to entry under the desert lam laws.
A great deal Of legislation for the bene-
fit of the soldier has passed through SEN
: ator Carriers hands in the committee on
military affairs. While much of this has
been pension legislation in the nature of
private bills, Senator Carter has report
ed several national bills for soldiers. One
of these is a bill for the establishment of
a branch of the national soldiers home
for the use of the disabled officers and en-
listed men of the volunteer army and
navy on the site of the old fort, Castle
Pincyney." in Charleston Harbor. S. c.
The senator through perseverance has
put through the senate the following pri-
vate pension bills for Montanians: Nellie
L. Groshen, widow OF soldier, of Helena,
SIS per month: Susan Buck, soldiers
widow of Helena. 500 per month, and
Eliza A. Ball, widow of the late Major
Edward Ball, of the Seventh Z. S. Cavalry,
$40 per month.
In concluding this brief resume of Sen
ator Carter's present Legislative work, in
which the people of Montana are more
deeply interested. reference need only be
made to the vast amount of general legfs-
lation for the country at large in which he
is constantly engaged. Suffice to say
there is no one in congress who performs
more conscientious public service al
Washington, and it would be superfiuous
to attempt to detail the movements of a
mar like Senator Carter among the exc
cutive departments of the government
during the hours when congress or his
committees are not in session.
GEO. E. BOOS.