The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-06
WORK OF LAST CONGRESS
IN RELATION To WEST
Members From the Rockies and the Pacific Coast
Made Good Records.
irrigation laws Promise Statehood For Territories Within View
Opening Of Indian Reservations in Idaho and Utah.

eyer differences may have existed in the
i Ctdh uelegation I'M congress over uojifics
/ OF patronage. nothing of this kind can he
/ ensarsed IN the action of the delegation,
Mhlch secured legislation opening the
| reservation. Owing TO peculiar Condition.
] relating to rhe leases and permits held
DS mitlng companies there was much OPP
/ portunity for the Democratic member 81
| the delegation, Senator Ra wIit1s to MAKE
political capital in dealing with the
I'm. lntan reservation question. Mr. Raw
hns,,., WIN WIPE interest of his state at
opportunity and eo-operated heartily with
senator kearns and Representative
ce n.neriand N CARRYING through to sue
open the Uintah reservation for settle
Senator Rawlins, as member of the
! senate public buildings and grounds COM
mlttee, was enabled to render effective
aid in securing an Increased appropriate
TOT the pubic building for. Ogden. Utah.
ne mouse Dill appropriated sl25.000 Sem
dlor Kawlins secured an increase TO
S19Oe00 Bills introduced by him nrovid-
ing Tor fish cultural station in Utah
and for a branch assay office at Provo
calendar.
In Idaho. in addition TO indirect west
ern legislation, the present congress has
ceded to the state certain lands contain-
ing valuable mineral springs, and has e,-
5 SSnded the time for constructing the
Nez Perces Indian lands
Fort Hall Opening.
The Idaho delegation in congress was
successful early in the session in having
tne interior department put into opera
ton plans for opening the Fort Hall
reservation under the law passed by the
F1fty-sixth congress. Had it not been for
the personal activity of Senators HeitfeId
and DUBOIS and Representative Glenn the
opening of this reservation would have
gone over until next year. In all Idaho
matters the delegation has worked har-
Q I'D Ia
the delegation from Montana and of the
Utah delegation where state interests
have been concerned.
wyoming also received considerable di-
rect beneficial legislation at this session
OF congress An act was passed granting
homesteaders on the abandoned Fort
Brldger, Fort Sanders and Fort Laramie
military reservations. and the Fort Lara
mic wood reservation the right to pur-
chase additional land for grazing pur-
poses. The town of Basin, Wyo has
been granted patents by legislative en-
actment for lands contained within its
townsite limits. Congress has voted an
appropriation for the erection of a monu-
ment IN wyoming to mark the site of the
Fort Phil Kearny massacre. 1t has been
liberal TO Wyoming in the matter of pub
lie buildings. Laramie and Evanston
each was given 100000 for a federal build
ing. The military posts in Wyoming were
also well taken care of. Fort Mckenzie
and will be enlarged by the erection of
barracks for several additional troops of
cavalry. Appropriations also were made
for charging and improving Fort ID. a.
Russell at Cheyenne. The state was re-
imhursed in the sum of 5000 for money
exp1nded nearly twenty years ago. when
wyoming, as a territory, protected and
cared for the Yellowstone national park
after il had been set aside as d public
reservation. and before the United States
government put into effect plans for po-
Icing and caring for It.
The Wyoming delegation in congress is
a unit in its action whenever the interests
Of the state or appointments OF wyoming
citizens are concerned.