The Holly chieftain., 1903-03-06

civil appropriation bill for 500 900 to
1 carry into effect the Presidents rec
| ommendation for an International con-
| ference of SILVER and gold-using ma
| tions
The Supreme Court has decided that
lands allotted to Indians and held in
severalty by them cannot be taxed for
| state purposes. The opinion was held
that neither the lands held by the al
lottees, the permanent improvements,
nor the personal property used for the
cultivation of the lands is subject to
taxation He said that as the lands
are held by the United States in exc
cution of its plans relating to the In
dians, without any right in the Indians
to make contracts in reference to
them, or to do more than to occupy
and cultivate them, there is no power
in the state to assess and tax the lands
for state or municipal purposes. This
right could not. he said accrue until
the lands are patented.
Senator Fairbanks introduced cu
omnibus public building bill which has
been agreed upon by the Senate com
mittee on public buildings and
.
various buildings are Increased to the
following: Colorado Springs, $l75,-
900; Evanston, Wyoming, s179 900;
municipal building. Washington, ST.
900. 900. new building is authorized
at Pierre. South Dakota, to cost s170,-
900. The sale of the old custom house
at Kansas City, Missouri, is author
lied. the proceeds to be applied to
the new building, the enlargement of
which is to cost not more than $780,
600 A change is made in regard to
Lincoln. Nebraska, the total CO be-
ing $3.50, 200, the old building to be
sold
The conference agreement on the
Alaskan homestead bill strikes out the
Senate provision prohibiting the use of
soldiers and additional homestead
rights in Alaska, leaving the law as it
now exists. 1t limits the use of scrip
to tracts not exceeding 100 acres and
reserves from such location along nayi-
gable or other waters tracts of not less
than eighty rods In width between such
entries. The amendment of the Senate
as to Communication of homesteads is so
modified that while homesteads $50
acres may be taken only 100 acres may
be commuted. The senate amendment
relative to surveys is substantially ac-
cepted.
Senator Burrows, chairman of the
Senate committee on privileges and
elections, presented to the Senate a
protest signed by the Rev. ]. l.. Leil-
itch. in the case of Senator-Elect Reed
Smoot of Utah. urging that Mr. Smoot
shall not be permitted to take his seat
in the Senate. Mr.. Lelitch is in charge
of Methodist missions in Utah and re-
sides in Salt Lake. He is in Washing
ton as the representative of the Min
isters' Association of Salt Lake. His
statement is sworn to. Mr.. Leilitch
declares that Smoot is a polygamist,
and now has plural wife, although he
deems it ineXpedient to give the maid
en- name of the lady at this time. He
wants the Senate to compel the First
Presidency and the Quorum of Twelve
Apostles to produce the record of this
plural marriage. Mr.. Leilitch also as
serts that President Joseph F. Smith.
the president of the Mormon church,
is living in open polygamy, and has a
child born to him by his plural wife "a
late as 189S," and also that president
Lorenzo Snow lived and died in the
practice of polygamy and polygamous
cohabitation. and that his plural wife,
Minnie Jensen Snow, bore him a child
as late as the winter of 1861"
A scheme for the organization of the
new Department of Commerce and La
Dor has been laid before Congress by
Secretary Cortelyou, In the estimates
transmitted to that body through the
secretary of .Ae treasury. In addition
TO the twelve branches OF the public
service transferred to the new depart
ment from other departments, which
have been appointed for. Secretary
Cortelyou asks for appropriations for
salaries aggregating $669,G90 The sal
| aries cover the secretary's office, the
bureaus of corporations and manufac-
lures and subordinate divisions. Sec
retary Cortelyou says in his letter that
provision should be made for the pay
ment of salaries for the remainder OF
the current fiscal year of such onicers
and employees as qualify before July
| /, 1903. but he says that the bureaus of
corporations and manufactures proba-
bly, will not be perfected until some
| time during the next fiscal year, SO he
concludes that $669.690 will be sufi-
cient for the remainder of this and the
next year. In addition to the salaries
are estimates OF v75.0O0 for rent; $780,
600 for contingent expenses; $3.50, 900
| for travelling expenses of examiners; !;
$500. 900 for printing and binding Tin
cluding $3.50, 900 for the census office).