The Elk Mountain pilot., 1902-05-27

CARRYING the provision for opening the
Uintah reservation and an appropria-
ton for furnishing water for the south
ern Ute Indians of Colorado. is still
in the hands of the President, unsigned.
Objections have been made to the bill
on account of the provisions for open
ing the Uintah reservation and leas-
ing lands on the Spokane reservation.
1t is stated. however. that the Presi-
dent will not refuse to sign the bill on
this account and the delay in signing
is to fully satisfy friends of the In
dians that the Indians rights are prop
erly safeguarded.
According to the terms of the omni-
bus claims bill as passed by the Sen
ate and House after II report by the
conference committee. the state of Wy
oming is to receive ST.TS0. the amount
of its claim on the government for the
care and maintenance of the Yellow
stone park in the years 1884. 1885 and
1856. The claim of the heirs of William
Kiskadden of Denver, amounting to
sd 900. is referred by the bill to the
Court of Claims for judgment Kis-
kadden lost 122 mules and horses, thir-
ty-two wagons and siXty-four sets of
harness in transporting the First Colo
Union. New Mexico, in 1862. Nathan
Tanner of Sedgwick county is to re
ceive S12O for supplies lost during the
Civil War. The Selfridge shipbuilding
claims were thrown out.
The following bills have passed the
House: Granting homesteaders on the
abandoned Fort Bridger, Fort Sanders
and Fort Laramie military reserva-
tions, Wyoming, the right to purchase
one-quarter section of public land on
said reservations. rs pasture or graz
ing land; to authorize the erection of
buildings by the international commit
tee of the Y. NJ. c. \. on military res
ervations of the United States; 30 au-
thorize the sale of Il part of the Fort
Niobrara reservation in Nebraska; to
regulate commutation for good con-
duct for United States prisoners; grant
ing to the G. a. Il. the right to be quar-
tered in the unfinished government
printing office during the coming ma
tional encampment: authorizing the
Santa Fe railroad company 20 sell or
lease its property and franchise.
It now seems probable that consid-.
Grafton of the irrigation bill in the
House may be postponed at least until
the second week in June. as the com
mittee on rules has consented to con-
sderation of three or four measures
that will occupy at least two weeks
time and which must come ahead of
the Hansbrough bill. The unexpected
ly long debate on the naval appropria-
ton bill was one of the principal
causes of the postponement of the ir-
rigation bill. but in spite of this fur
ther delay. its friends are quite conf
dent that there Will be ample time al
lowed to insure its final passage. Sen
ator Teller made the statement that
Congress would not adjourn before
August 1st. because of the long debate
that is ahead in the Senate on the
Nicaragua canal and Cuban reciproc-
ity bills. If this should prove to be
the case, the present postponement of
consideration of the irrigation bill can
not be regarded as detrimental. In
fact there are many indications that
adjournment will be comparatively
late, due to the desire of the minority
party to prolong discussion on the Phil
ippine bill and other measures.
Former Senator Manderson of Ne
braska. who has been attorney for two
beet sugar companies, was before the
Ntudle committee on ItliilbhS WIN
Cuba He related details of the cut in
sugar at Missouri river points and said
the action of the trust was for the pur-
pose of destroying beet sugar growing.
He said that all previous legislation
had been an invitation to grow beet
sugar but the proposed concession to
Cuba had prevented several factories
from being started. He said that farm
ers We're going from the middle west
states to Manitoba but that the beet
sugar growing had arrested this emf
grafton for time. Mr. Henderson con-
tended that every tariff bill and the
governments experiments have invited
them to embark in the beet sugar in
dustry. ITO injure it, he said. "by
direct or indirect methods, is to my
mind as Objectionable. if not to say as
criminal, n blow as this country could
receive" The proposition for "A twen-
ty-per-cent. reduction. he said, had
caused many prospective beet sugar
factories on arid land in the West to
be abandoned temporarily. Answering
question by Senator Plat. Mr.. Man
derson said that if we Americanize
Cuba, either by annexation or any
other means, there would be n rise in
the price of labor there which would
raise the cost of sugar production.
During the discussion OF the naval
appropriation bill in the House Mr..
Mudd of Maryland offered his
amendment to exclude from the ma
val academy and from ships and gov
ernment libraries the history of Edgar
Stanton Maclay. Mr. Dayton made a
point of order against the amendment,
and the chair sustained the point.
Mr. Mudd then offered substitute
amendment providing that no part of
the money appropriated in the para
graph under consideration shall be ex-
pended in the purchase of any history
of the American-Spanish war written
by Edgar Stanton Maclay, for use at
the naval academy. in ships libraries
or in any part OF the naval establish