The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-30
.DAIRYING IN no. OAK.
Farmers There Buying SeparatorsS
by the Hundred.
STATUS OF INDIAN TREATIES.
II. T.. Byrnes Wants Change OF
Practice Regarding swamp
Lands.
From Tho journal Btgreuu, Room Is, Pea
Building, Washington.

building, Washington.
Washington April 30.-Senator Hans
brough has received letter from prom.
inent dairyman in North Dakota in which
he says that the farmers Of the state are
just waking up to the fact that there iss
money in dairying and are buying cream
separators by the hundred. One manu-
featuring company, he says, has already
shipped six car loads of hand machines
into Fargo, and there will be thirty eight
creaperies in operation in the state ON
July /, an increase of sixteen over last
year.
Mr.. Fletcher's Duties.
Representative Fletcher will not be
able to attend the banquet of the Fourth
Ward Republican club this week because
of the many things that require his at
tention in Washington The omnibus
public building bill, carrying a $250,0e0
appropriation for an addition to the Min.
neapolis federal building, is being consid-
cred to-day and will be voted on soon
probably to-day. There is likely to be
call of committees at any time and he
wants to be here to get up the London
clause bill. In addition the house COM
mittee on Interstate and foreign COM
merce is holding daily hearings on inn
portant bills.
The Pipestone Treaty.
Senator Gamble called up the Pipestons
treaty bill in the committee on Indian
affairs Saturday, but it went over because
Senator Quarles was not present. Mr.
Quarles is opposed to some Of the terms
of the treaty.
The Lower BruIe Sioux.
Senator Gamble has presented to the
senate petition from mem bers of the
Lower Brule band of Sioux who occupy
land on the Rosebud reservation within
the limits of that portion which is soon
to be opened to settlement They ask
to be allowed to take their holdings as al
lotments The petition was referred to
the committee on Indian affairs and or
dered printed as document.
Byrnes and swamp Lands.
T. E. Byrnes, representing State Au-
dtor Dunn. has filed with the secretary
OF the interior a brief, asking for
change of practice in the method of deter
| mining what lands should go to the
| state under the swamp land grant. Many
years ago the department had a rule that
/ the field notes of the surveyors should
| be taken on that question, and that when
any lands were designated as swamp in
those notes they should be awarded to
4 the state without further investigation.
Later this rule was changed so as to re-
1 quire the states entitled to lands under
/ the swamp grant to submit proof that
| they were swamp at the date of the grant,
and it is in force now.
What the state is trying to do is to
have the swamp land grant of Minnesota
/ adjusted on the basis of the field notes.
Last summer Land Commissioner Her
mann sent number of special agents
| into the state to examine and report on
the lands due the state under the swamp
1 grant. Their reports we're filed late in
the fall and the commissioner notified
1 Auditor Dunn of their findings and di-
ERECTED him to state his objections to the
report, If there were any. Mr.. Dunn
asked for delay until spring, if the rule
| requiring the state to file proof of swampy
/ character of the lands was to be fol-
flowed. and at the same time asked per-
mission to file a brief urging that the
old rule of accepting the filed notes be
restored. The brief was filed some weeks
ago, but no decision has been rendered
| by the secretary. If he decides that the
state must prove the swampy character
of all the lands it claims under the swamp
grant, Auditor Dunn will send his agents
into the field this summer to make ex-
aminations and prepare the required evil
dence. If the secretary decides to accept
/ the field notes the grant will be adjusted
| in the next few months.
w. W. Jermane.