The Springfield herald. (Springfield, Baca County, Colo.) 1887-1919, 1903-11-27

| chase OF site and erection OF pubic
building at Sheridan Wyoming.
President B. o. Aylesworth of Fort
| Collins and State Engineer l.. G. Car
| penter, who have been attending
| meeting of state agricultural college Of
| fcers in Washington are urging the
agricultural department to include in
| the estimates for its annual appropria-
| ton 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
| endeayor to secure the desired appro-
prlation.
The general staff now has under con-
sideration the establishment ofremount
| depots, where all horses and mules
for use in the army may be received
| and trained before being sent tovarious
posts. The necessity for such depots
has been urged by officers for some
time and Quartermaster General Hum
phrey and other officers who are famil-
lar with the work of equipping troops
believe it Is time for the government
to cease sending green and untried
| horses.
Representative Shafroth recently
called upon the president and talked
| with him about the land laws Shafroth
| said he was opposed to the repeal OF
any land laws at this time, as such
repeal would be of great detriment to
the West. He said there are no frauds
of any consequence in the administra-
| ton of the land laws in Colorado.
| Where lands have gone into the hands
of big corporations 1t was because the
government did not do right in selling
them originally to individuals for more
| than they were worth.
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 the
interior that such funds cannot be
feasibly used in the state where col
| lected.
! A revolution in Colombia is not i'm
possible. according to a opinion ex-
| pressed in dispatch received at the
state department from United States
Minister Beaupre at Bogota. 1t was
| dated Thursday. November -. and at
| that time Mr.. Beaupre described the
| feeling in the capital city as panicky.
| The minister has delivered to the
| Colombian government his instructions
| sent to him by the state department on
| the 9th inst. advising him that the
| United States has entered into relations
| with the government at Panama and
commencing to the governments of
| both Colombia and Panama the peace
| full and equitable settlement of all
| questions at issue between them"
Secretary Hitchcock has sent to Con-
gress draft of bill to control graz
ing on forest reserves. 1t provides for
punishment by fine of not to exceed
$1,000 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.
Democratic members of the Senate
committee on committees have agreed
| upon assignments of Democrats to COM
mittee places for the Fifty eighth Con-
gress. Western minority members will
be assigned as follows: Patterson,
public lands, territories, Philippines
and interstate commerce; Newlands,
irrigation, public buildings and terri
tories; Teller will leave the finance
and go to the judiciary; Dubois. Indian
affairs privileges and elections. ter
ritories and finance; Clark. Montana.
will give up the District of Columbia
and take up place in the foreign
relations. Senator Dubois, who is
member of the committee on commit
tees. will give up his place on mines
and mining in order that his colleague
may have place on the committee.
Senator Quarles of Wisconsin has re-
introduced his bill providing for repeal
of the desert land act, the timber
and stone and the homestead COM
mutation acts. The Quarles bill re-
ceived a favorable report by the Senate
public lands committee at the last ses-
sion of Congress by a majority of one
vote. At that time there had been but
little discussion of the proposed law
repeal and the action was taken with
out extended debate or investigation.
1t is believed that the general public
discussion which has followed, especi-
ally at the Ogden irrigation Congress,
will have the effect of reversing the
action of the public land committee and
that the repeal bill will not be regarded
at this session by the Senate commit
lee. On the House side the public
lands committee is known to be almost
unanimously opposed to repeal.
Representative Shafroth took an act
i've part in the Cuban reciprocity de-
bate This bill is both unrepublican
and undemocratic," said Mr.. Shafroth;
"unrepubican, because it builds up a
foreign industry at the expense OF a
home industry, and undemocratic, be
cause the results of the protection it
will afford will not go to the Ameri-
can people. We have $4,000 900 invest
ed in six beet sugar factories in Colo
RADIO" he continued, "and we would
have Rad ten more factories and as
many millions of dollars invested there
in tire industry by this time, were it
not for the uncertainty aroused by the
measure" Mr.. Shafroth asserted that
twenty per cent reduction in the duty
on raw sugar alone means loss to the
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