The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-15
Sum Is Allowed By House For
Contest Expenses.
INTRODUCED BY lands
KING MAKES A SPEECH ATTACK
ING REPUBLICAN POLICIES.
Senator Rawlins and Representative
Rooms Introduce Forest Legisla-
tion-Heitfeld Deprecates Populist
Vice Presidential Nomination, But
Says He Will Work For Towne.

Washington, May 1.-THE deficiency
bill as passed by the house this after
noon carried among its appropriations
an item of $1,000 for Brigham H Rob
erts. This appropriation is in the ma
ture Of an allowance as a contestee in
the house, and is the amount generally
granted to both parties to election con-
tests. There is no doubt that the SEN
ate viii concur in this appropriation,
and that Roberts viii thus receive a
sum considerably IN excess of the
amount due him for mileage and sal
Grv
Representative King was very active
in support of this amendment, and had
carefully canVasSed the special com
mittee which had charge of the Rob-
erts case before the amendment was
submitted 1t was proposed by Con-
gresham Lands Of Indiana, a mem
Der of the Roberts special committee,
who made one of the strongest
speeches against his being seated.
The unanimous passage of this
amendment is an illustration of the
sober second thought of the house at
the time of Roberts exclusion. A
proposition to give Roberts his just
dues at that time would not have re-
Today it passed without an adverse
vote even from the bitteTest of the men
who opposed him.
King Attacks the Republicans.
Congressman King made a spirited
speech on the deficiency bill this after
noon. He arraigned the Republican
party for its, policy in Porto Rico and
the Philippines, and its financial legis-
In ha FcI 40
repeated assertions of Republican
speakers, to the effect that the Demo-
cratic party was one of negatiOn. He
said that when the Democratic party
came into power it would be vigorous
~ progressive, fOTceful and sturdiIy
honest.
Mrs. King arrived from Salt Lake
today.
Legislation On Forests.
Senator Rawlins this afternoon pre-
sented an amendment to the sundry
civil bill giving settlers in the vicinity
of forest reservations the right to take
therefrOm fallen and dead timber; also
allowing the issuance of permits for
the erection of saWmiIisa on reserva-
tons to supply settlers with lumber
who have no other possible source from
which to secure ii.
The commissioner Of the land Office
today suspended the order providing
for the removal of all sawmills on the
Uintah reservation within thirty days.
This was done in response to an earn
est appeal from Representative King.
Representative KOOnSlo of Washington
has presented a bill providing that no
forest reserves shall hereafter be es-
tablished and no additions to existing
forest reserves shall be made except
by act of congress.
Heitfeld Will Help Towne.
Senator Heitfeld returned today from
the Sioux Falls convention. He said
that he earnestly opposed the making
OF any nomination for vice-preSident in
that convention. He still thought it
was bad policy for the convention to
seem to seek control Of the Democrat
ic nomination at Kansas City.
I feel that the POpulist party had
sufficient honor in the first presenta-
ton of Mr.. Bryan for president" he
said. However. Towne is a man for
whom l have the warmest admiration.
1 regard him as one of the ablest men
in the country, and 1 shall go to Kan
saS City and do all / can to aid and
secure his nomination as the Joint can
didate of all the silver parties"
Senator ShOuD this afternoon Sc
cured a favorable report on his bill for
a branch soldiers home at Fort Sher-
man, Idaho.
The supreme court this afternoon
dismissed the appeal of Boyle from the
decision of the lower court in his suit
against Auditor Bartlett Sinclair of
Idaho The suit arose from the bull
pen troubles, and is dismissed because
Boyle has already been released.