Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-12-04

htc committee on fDIrtEn iksiaAoH1
for amendment 10 protect the interests
of American citizens before action Is
taken.
Senator Thomas G. Platt and Gov.
Benjamin B 0deii Of New York have
reached an absolute and entire agree
ment politically. Both will work IN
perfect harmony with each other. and
with President Roosevelt, This. In briei.
h said To be the net result OF a con-
ference held AT the White House re-
Gently. The parties TO the conference
were the president. Senator Plat. Gov
cslor Odsil and Chairman George W,
Dunn oi the Republican State Commit
tee Of New York.
Representative Stevens of Texas has
offered resolution directing the seefe-
tary Of the interior to report TO the
House the result of the Investigation
into the land fraud cases The feso-
luton recites that IL Is currently re-
ported that the United States has been
defrauded of vast tracts OF public lands
by means of fraudulent entries under
the stone. desert. timber and home
stead acts aud that public officials have
entered into unlawful arrangements TO
obtain possession of the public lands.
The resolutions Fecitins the fact that
the existence OF land frauds is ON
einiiy admitted. calls for specific de-
tails. including names. dates and
places.
But one member Of the United States
Senate is more than eighty years OF
age. Mr.. Pettus. the junior senator
from Alabama. who was born in ls:i.
Fourteen are between seventy and
eighty. twenty mine are between sixty
and seventy. and thirty-two between
nifty and sixty. The fifteen who have
crossed the hrcc-scorc-und-tcn limo
include both senators from Alabama
and both from Connecticut. besides
Mcssrs. Teller. Allison. Frye. Hoar.
Gibson. Stewart. Piait OF New York.
Quay. Baie. Proctor and Cuilom. The
Constitution Of the United States spe-
cincs thirty M the age requirement for
the Senate. and Nil the states have
made good this condition by safe
margin OF ten years.
In spite Of aii reports to the con-
trary. the United states Senate seems
10 bc Hrowin. more youthful. Thirteen
years ago q careful computation was
made. from which Il appeared that the
average ngc Of It's members wns sixty
years There were then only eight who
were les shan Atty years old. aud one
who was less than forty-hyc. To-day
the average Is ffty-ninc years and
four months. and In n slightly larger
Senate there are fourteen men. Instead
OF eight. who are less than ffty. and Of
these eight nrc less than forty-nyc.
This difference In doubtless due to the
new states which have come into the
Union since that time. whose political
vvtAn
The Delaware ovcrturn has also given
the Senate two youthful members. II
is almost rule that the young states
have youn. senators.
President Roosevelt entertained at
luncheon on November eith representa-
tivcs Of the labor organizations Of
Butte. Montana. The special guests
were Malcolm GILES. president OF the
Stationary Engineers union: Edward
Long. president Of the Miners Union:
n. II. Dempsey. former president Of
the Miners Union: +. NJ. Cronin. presi-
dent OF the Hotel and Restaurant
Helpers Union: william Robinson.
former secretary Of the Miners Union;
J. W. Gilbert. president OF the Miners
Union; J. ". Gilbert, president OF the
Workingmcn's Union. and Frank
Doyle. president Of the Trades and La
Dor Assembly. Invited to meet the
labor representatives were Secretary
Cortelyou of the Department OF Com
merce and Labor. Carol ID. Wright.
commissioner OF labor; Representa-
tive Dixon Of Montana and Wayne
Macveagh. former attorney general
and one OF the counsel OF the Pennsyl-
vania coal operators.
The Bureau Of Statistics has issued
the preliminary figures for the i'm
ports and exports for 1908. corrected
to November 18th. The imports OF
merchandise for twelve months ending
October. 1903. amounts in value to ST.,
O2O.474 .037. and for ten months OF the
present year. $40. .730,sS0. The ex-
ports for twelve months were $1,422,-
SS7.954. and for ten months 81, ,149.-
G94.933. OF the imports for the ten
months this year free of duty amounted
to $366. .429 1888. and the dutiable $474,-
30O.S97. this being s32.993,S90 increase
in free and $1S,163,277 increase in du
table imports. The exports for the
ten months were. domestic $1,126. 1885,
1856. and foreign $23,529.147, an in
crease in domestic over the preceding
year of $61.994.731. and foreign of
S207 .290. Gold imports for ten months
were $3G,651 1928. an increase OF $63l.-
800. and the exports were S41. .SS9, ,62a.
an increase of $9.431 $50. Silver i'm
ports for ten months were $19.334.92i.
a decrease of 81. .167 $50, and the exports
were s2S.O53,967, decrease of SILL
9O9,13S.
Representative Mondel has intro
duced bill prohibiting the selection
of timber land in lieu of lands within
forest reserves and which follows out
the recommendations made by the COM
missioner of the General Land Office
In his last annual report. The text
of the bill follows: No public lands
Of the United States, chiefly valuable
for the timber they contain. shall be
subject to location or application I'M
der the provisions of the law provid-
ing for the location, selection and pat
enting of lands In lieu of tracts COW
cred by an unprotected bona fide claim
or patent within forest reserve, and
any location or selection made or
sought to be made of lands chiefly val
uablc for the timber they contain, in
lieu of lands within n forest reserve.
shall be void and of no effect"
1t is understood that Mai. Gen.
George w. Davis, retired. who has Just
relinquished command of the forces in
the Philippines and returned to the
limited States is likely to he annojntod