The Grit-advocate., 1903-11-27

soldiers and sailors home.
Representative Model has intrduced
a bill appropriating $l6o,000 for pur-
chase of a site and erection of public
building at Sheridan, Wyoming,
Representative Mondel has intro
duced bill donating 10000 acres OF
land to aid in supporting the Wyoming
State Soldiers Home Also a bill ap-
propriating 100000 for public build
ing at Rawlins
Representative Richardson of Tenn
essee has introduced bill to place all
trust made articles on the free list and
to reduce the rate Of duty on all arti-
cles manufactured in the United States
and sold more cheapiy abroad than in
this country.
Senator Lodge has introduced bin
providing for the removal of all duties
from all articles imported from tho
Philippines into the United States, ex-
cept sugar and tobacco and fixing the
duty on those two articles at 50 per
cent of the rate on sugar and tobacco
shipped from foreign countries.
Hon. Robert w. BonynGe, who is
contesting Representative ShafrOthX
seat in Congress. is in Washington ar
!
his case before the committee on cleo
tions The committee has not been
organized and may not take up any
contests prior to the holidays.
When Judge W. II. Taft assumes the
War Department portfolio. he will sit
at the same desk which his father AL
phonso Taft. occupied while holding
the same Office under President Grant.
The elder Taft occupied the post only
a few months, when he became attor-
ney general. being afterward sent to
Russia as minister.
A petition was presented in the San
ate from the DANES of 1916" for an
increase to $50 per month of all pen
sions granted on account of the Mex
lean War. Mr.. Gallagher said tho
pension committee would give due con-
sideration to the petition, but called at
tentiOn to the fact that all survivors
of the MEXICAN War now receive pen
sions of $12
President B. 0. Aylesworth OF Fort
Collins and State Engineer L. g. Car
penter, who have been attending
meeting of state agricultural college Of
ticers in Washington are urging the
| agricultural department to include in
the estimates for its annual appropria-
tion bill an item to carry on expert
ments in Colorado in fattening cattle
on sugar beet pulp. The Colorado
delegation will aid in these efforts and
endeavor to secure the desired appro-
priation.
Senator McCumber has introduced a
bill to amend the national irrigation
act of June 1902. so that moneys col
!ected from sales of lands shall be ex-
pended on irrigation projects in the
respective states in which lands are
sold. The amendment proposes that no
part of the funds collected in state
or territory shall be expended outside
of that state or territory, unless it be
determined by the secretary of tho
interior that such funds cannot be
feasibly used in the state where col
lected.
Secretary Wilson has presented to
the President and Cabinet specimens OF
| fine dates grown in Arizona Four
years ago one of the scientists Of the
Department of Agriculture was sent
several hundred miles into the interior
of Africa He discovered date palms
growing luxuriantly. A year ago the
department had several hundred OF the
trees brought out to the coast through
the desert OF Sahara and shipped to
this country. They were transplanted
in specially cultivated land in Arizona.
Secretary Wilson pronounces the fruit
| from the transplanted trees the finest
of its kind ever grown.
Secretary Hitchcock has sent TO Con-
| gress a draft of bill to control graz
| ing on forest reserves. 1t provides for
| punishment by fine of not to exceed
81 900, or imprisonment for not longer
than one year, or both. The bill pro-
vides that any person who knowingly
pastures or causes to be paStured any
| live stock on public lands within forest
reserves without first having obtained
| permission to do so under the rules
and regulations presented by the secre-
tary of the interior shall be guilty. In
| view of its extreme Importance as an
aid in the protection of forest reserves
and their dependent interests, Secre-
tary Hitchcock strongly urges Cngress
to enact his bill at the earliest possible
moment.
During the consideration OF the
| Cuban bill in the House on the 18th
| inst. Hon. George b. Mcclellan newly
| elected mayor of New York delivered
his valedictory to the House making
an argument in favor of the bill, during
the course of which he criticised the
administration Of General Wood in
Cuba and charged the Republicans
| with responsibility for what is lacking
in the fulfillment of the duty of the
United States to Cuba In 1902 said
Mr.. Mcclellan, the spectacular and ex-
travagant rule of General Wood
having saddled upon Havana for ten
years the infamous gambling monopoly
of the Sociedal Anonima Jai Alai gave
place to the conservative, economical.
sensible and business-like administra-
ton of President Palma. who has
proved himself an executive of the very.
highest order" After quoting figures,
Mr.. Mcclellan said: 'ln other words.
under President Palma the cost of
;, l,yr ~,