Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-07-14
DOES GOOD WORK.
SENATOR M'CUMBER TELLS OF
THE HARMONY PREVAILING IN
THE NORTH DAKOTA DELEGA-
TION

OEuNAlUR CUMBER TELLS OF
THE HARMONY PREVAILING IN
THE NORTH DAKOTA DELEGA-
TON.
Wahpeton Globe: Senator and Mrs.
McCumber returned from Washington
Saturday morning and will be with us
most of the summer. The senator and
wife are in excellent health, and have
enjoyed the year at the national CAPT.
tai. They have a comfortable home in
Washington, and have a nice circle of
friends. There are always North Da-
kotans in Washington, and they have
frequent visits from home people.
Senator McCumber has spent a busy
year officially. and is glad of a few
months for rest and change of work.
He has a good deal of law business to
clean up, and will take part in the en-
suing campaign. He is we'll prepared
to discuss the questions before the
country, and will make the fellows who
have been attempting to discredit the
American soldier go some when he
gets after them. The senator is thor
oughly familiar with the Philippine
question, and took a very active part
in securing recent legislation for those
Islands. He also is familiar with ques-
tons affecting Cuba. the canal. and
other matters The democrats are howl
ing about.
The senator was chairman Of the
committee on manufactures, which
considered all questions relating to
pure foods, authorizations. The senator
introduced several bills on the subject,
and they are in good position to be-
come laws at the winter session.
The Turtle Mountain Indian treaty
bill has been favorably reported by a
full committee and will pass at the
winter season. This bill has been be-
fore congress for ten years, but it will
doubtless be approved this time.
The Grand Forks public building
bill appropriating $165, 900 for a build
ing in that city, became a law. Sen
ator McCumber, as a member of the
committee on public buildings and
grounds, had charge of the bill. and he
also had charge of like bills for South
Dakota. which he worked through.
The Indian Agricultural school for
Wahpeton is practically assured. The
bill passed the senate with scarcely a
dissenting vote, and has been favora-
bly, reported by the house committee.
Representative Marshall put in a lot. of
good work in the house committee for
this bill, and says it will surely be-
come a law. 1t is the only school of
the kind, and meets with general favor
Senator McCumber has come in for
considerable notoriety as the author
and originator of a practical measure
for the education and training of In
dian boys.
The senator's bill for a permanent
exposition building at Shanghai, China,
strikes a popular chord, and will doubt
less become a law in time.
An appropriation of 100000 for
new buildings at Fort Lincoln was
made, and the secretary of war has
authorized the manner of it's expendi-
ture.
An appropriation of $25.OOO for sur
veys for reservoirs in northwestern
Minnesota was made. This is the first
step looking toward the building of
great reservoirs for the storage of wa
ter. and the turning of the fow OF
the Bots des Sioux river from north to
south into Lake Traverse.
Numerous pension bills for relief of
North Dakotans were passed.
The senator feels that the delegation
from North Dakota was very success
full in securing legislation, and that
the state is gaining influence in con-
gress. The delegation works as a unit
on all questions, and that is one rea-
o it. succeeds. The senator paid
high tributes to Senator Ha~nsbrougll
and Representative Marshall for their
energy and devotion to the states in
terests. ~.r us ".