The Holly chieftain., 1902-03-28
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS

Senator CLARK OF Montana. from tlie
committee on mines and mining. Ia
vorably reported the bill already
passed by the House amending the act
for the protection of lives of miners in
the territories The bill provides that
owners or managers of every coal mine
at depth of 100 feet or more shall
provide an adequate amount of yenti-
lation of not less than s., Is cubic feet
of pure air per second for every fifty
men at work in the mine. and in like
proportion for greater number.
Mr. Hill. from the committee on coin
age. weights and measures. fav0raply
reported his bill authorizing the Sec
retary of the Treasury to coin the sil-,
Yer bullion in the treasury. purchased
under the act of July IA. 1880, into
such denominations of subsidiary sill
yer coin as he may deem necessary to
meet public requirements. and there
after, rs public necessities may de-
mand. to recoin outstanding silver dol
lars into subsidiary silver coin, and
directing that the provision for coin
age Of any portion of the bullion under
above act be repeated. ;. Mr.. Shafroth
states that this bill is very objection
able to members. because it is the sub
stitution of limited for full legal tender
money, and is process of eliminating
the silver dollar as money. :.
Representative Sutherland has intro
duced bill providing that where oil
lands are located as placer mining
not be essential to tile validity of the
location, but the existence of such in
dications as will Justify the locator in
developing the claim with reasonable
expectation of producing oil shall be
sufficient. Also that the annual assess
mient of labor. upon such claims may be
done upon any one of a group of claims
lying contiguous, and owned by the
same persons or corporation. providing
that the United States District and Cir
cult and territorial courts shall have
original jurisdiction of all suits of n
civil nature arising between members
of the various Indian tribes occupying
n reservation. and between members
of such tribes and other persons,
whether residing ON an Indian reserya-
ton or otherwise, or residing in some
other state or territory than that on
which the reservation is located.
The House irrigation committee gave
hearing ON Representative Martins
cattle shall only be watered once in
twentyfour hours at reservoir, and
shall not be allowed to Craze for over
three hours on territory within radius
of four miles of such reservoir, built
under the reservoir act of 1897. Repre-
sentative Mondell opposed the bill,
holding that it would give parties who
built reservoirs control Of all lands for
a radius of four miles around them and
that the original act did not contem-
plate that persons building reservoirs
should control any territory except the
reservoir site. He said the reservoir
act was Ill advised and one of its re-
suits had been to withdraw from set
tlement large tracts of land by parties
who, operating under the loosely drawn
provisions of the bill, had located alleg-
ed reservoir sites to such an extent
that entire ranges were being occupied
to the exclusion of bona fide home
! steaders.
The attorneys representing the state
of Colorado in the Kansas Colorado dis
pute over the waters of the Arkansas
river have fled with the clerk of the
Supreme Court n copy of the oral argu-
ment made by them OH the 9th and
25th of February. The report gives in
full the arguments of Judge Goddard,
Judge Rogers and Governor Thomas on
that occasion and also gives the inter-
ruptiOns and Questionings of various
members of the court. There has been
no case before the Supreme Court in
years that has evoked SO much inter
est as this important water case and
several of the justices gave evidence
! by their earnest investigations of
| strong desire to get at the facts of the
case. In the report just filed, there
I, fore, the justices will have opportunity
to review not only the arguments Of
| fered by the counsel for Colorado. but
| also their own questions and remarks.
1t required special permission from the
court to allow the Colorado lawyers to
present this matter in pamphlet form,
as the court usually satisfies itself
with the oral arguments and the briefs
| that are submitted.
| President Roosevelt is being besieged
daily by cattle companies In the West
who seek delay OF the order Of the
secretary of the interior to remove
, fences from public lands Some time
ago the fat went forth that fences sur
rounding public grazing lands must
come down on the 1st Of April. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been imp0rtuned
by large cattle owners who have had
these lands in their possession to ex-
tend the time. and has acceded to
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