The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1902-03-29
LATE WASHINGTON NEWS AND
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS


the sympathy of the American people
for the struggling Boer republics and
pledging themselves to use their ut
mos endeavors to force" the commit
tees to report resolutions expressive OF
such sympathy. II only that Congress
may have an opportunity to act.
Senator Clark of Montana, from the
committee on mines and mining, In
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
mt a depth of 100 feet or more shall
provide an adequate amount of venti.
latlon of not less than 80 10 cubic feet
of pure air per second for every fifty
men Mt work In the mine. and In like
proportion for greater number.
Mr.. Hill, from the committee on coin
age, weights and measures, favornbly
reported his bill authorizing the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to coin the sill
yer bullion In the treasury, purchased
under the act of July IA, 1880, into
such denominations of subsidiary SILL
yer coin as lie may deem necessary to
meet public requirements. and there
after. as public necessities may de-
mand, to recon outstanding silver dol
lars Into subsidiary silver coin. aud
directing that the provision for coin
age Of any portion Of the bullion under
above act be repealed. Mr.. Shafroth
states that this bill is very objection
able to members. because 1t Is the sub
stltution Of limited for full legal tender
money, and is a profess Of eliminating
the silver dollar as money.
Representative Sutherland has intro
duced a bill providing that where oil
lands are located as placer mining
claims. an actual discovery of oil shall
not be essential to the validity Of the
location. but the existence of such In
dications MS Will justify the locator In
developing the claim with a reasonable
expectation of producing oil shall be
sufficient. Also that the annual ASSESS
ment OF labor upon such claims may Ike
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 a
civil nature arising between members
of the various Indian tribes occapying
| a reservation, and between members
Of such tribes and other persons,
whether residing on an Indian reserva-
ton or otherwise, or residing In some
other state or territory than that on
| which the reservation Is located.
| The House irrigation committee give
hearing on Representative Martins
bill providing that the same herd of
cattle shall only be watered once In
| twenty-four hours Mt n 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-
tentative Mondell opposed the bill,
holding TINT 1t 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
Element large tracts of ,and 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 fde home
steaders
The attorneys representing the state
of Colorado in the Kansas Colorado dis
pute over the waters of the Arkansas
river have filed with the clerk of the
Supreme Court a copy Of the oral argu-
ment made by them on the oath and
18th 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 80 much inter
est MS this important water case and
several Of the justices gave evidence
by their earnest investigations of
strong desire to get ut the facts OF the
case. In the report Just filed, there
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.
us 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 n delay of the order of the
secretary Of the Interior to remove
fences from public lands. Some time
ago the fiat went forth that fences sur
rounding public grazing lands must
come down OH the LIST of April. Presi-
dent Roosevelt has been importuned
by large cattle owners who have had
theSe lands in their possession to ex-
tend the time, and has acceded to
their requests to the extent of delay
Ing action two months. Delegate Ro-
dey of New Mexico saw the President
and secured from him the promise that
the time should be extended this long.
President Roosevelt intimated that he
might decide to extent 1t one year. He
has been strongly urged to do this, and
at presellt llas the matter under consid-