The Holly chieftain., 1903-11-27

soldiers and sailors home.
Representative Model has intrducee
a bill appropriating 100000 for pur-
chase of a site and erection OF public
building at Sheridan, Wyoming.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced a bill donating $4,000 acres Of
land to aid in supporting the Wyoming
State Soldiers Home. Also bill ap-
propriating 100000 for a 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 cheaply abroad than in
this country.
Senator Lodge has introduced a bill
providing for the removal of all duties
from all articles imported from the
Philippines into the United States ex-
cept sugar and tobacco. and fixing the
duty on those two articles at so per
cent of the rate on sugar and tobacco
shipped from foreign countries.
Hon. Robert w. Bonynge, who is
contesting Representative Shafroth's
seat in Congress, is in Washington ar
ranging details for the presentation OF
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
few months. when he became attor-
ney general. being afterward sent to
Russia as minister.
| A petition was presented in the Sen
ate from the Danes of 1SiG' for an
increase to $50 per month of all pen
sions granted on account of the Mex
lean War. Mr.. Gallagher said the
| 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
sioIs of SIP.
President b. o. Aylesworth of Fort
| Collins and State Engineer l.. G. Car
penter, who have been attending a
meeting of state agricultural college Of
ficers in Washington are urging the
agricultural department to include in
the estimates for it's 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 @
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 nc
part of the funds collected in a state
or territory shall be expended outside
of that state or territory, unless it be
determined by the secretary of the
interior that such funds cannot be
feasibly used in the state where col
lected
Secretary Wilson has presented tc
the President and Cabinet specimens OF
fine dates grown in Arizona. Foul
years ago one of the scientists of the
Department of Agriculture was sem
several hundred miles into the interior
of Africa He discovered date palms
growing luXuriantly. A year ago thu
department had several hundred of thu
trees brought out to the coast through
the desert of Sahara and shipped tt
this country They were transplantet
in specially cultivated land in Arizona
Secretary Wilson pronounces the frui
from the transplanted trees the fines
of its kind ever grown.
Secretary Hitchcock has sent to Con
! ,,f To vol
ing on forest reserves. 1t provides fo
punishment by fine of not to exceed
$1,000, or imprisonment for not longel
than one year, or both. The bill pro
vides that any person who knowingl,
pastures or causes to be pastured an.
live stock on public lands within fores
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. II
view of its extreme importance as al
aid in the protection of forest reserve.
and their dependent interests. Secre
tary Hitchcock strongly urges Cngres'
to enact his bill at the earliest possible
moment.
During the consideration of tn,
Cuban bill in the House on the 17tl
inst. Hon. George b. Mcclellan newl,
elected mayor of New York delivered
his valedictpry to the House. maxim,
an argument in favor of the bill, durin,
the course of which he criticised th
administration Of General Wood il
Cuba and charged the Republicans
with responsibility for what is lackinl
in the fulfillment of the duty of tn
United States to Cuba. in 1902 SAT-