Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-11-27

soldiers and sailors home.
| Representative Model has INTRODUCED
a bill appropriating 100000 Tor puf-
chase OF site and erection OF pubic
building at Sheridan. Wyoming.
President d. O. Aylesworth Of Fort
Collins and State Engineer L. q. car
peuter. who have been attending
meeting Of state agricultural college OIL
ficers in Washington are urging the
agricultural department to inciuae III
the estimates for Its annual appropria-
| ton bill an item to carry on expert
ments in Colorado in fattenins cattle
on sugnr beet pulp. The Colorado
delegation will aid in these Efforts ana
endeavor to secure the desired appro-
priation.
| The general stan now has under con-
siderniion the establishment ofremount
depots. where all horses and mules
for use In the army may be received
and trained before being sent toyarious
posts. The necessity for such depots
has been urged by ofiiceFs for some
lime and Quartermaster General Hum
phrey and other officers who are famil-
| lar with the worl: OF equippirs troops
believe Il 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 laad laws nj this time. as such
repeal would be Of great detriment to
the West. lie said there are no frauds
| OF any consequence In the ndministra-
ton of the land laws In Colorado.
Where lands have gone into the hands
Il 40 l,l harnnRe the
| government did not do right In selling
them originally to individuals for more
than they were worth.
| Senator McCumbcr has introduced n
bill to amend the national irrigation
| act OF June. 1909. 10 that moneys col
.ectcd from sales Of lands shall be cx-
pended on irrigation projects In the
respective states In witch lands arc
roid. The amendment proposes that no
| part Of the funds collected In state
or territory shall be expended outside
OF that state or territory. unless II be
determined by the ,scrctary OF the
Interior that such funds cannot be
fcasibiy used In the STATE where col
icctcd.
A revolution In Colombia Is no, I'm
possible. accortiin. TO q opinion cx-
pressed In n dispatch received Mt the
i Ht1tr urIHaEtulVut Iuiu Nuitcu othtcN
Minister Bcauprc nj Bogofn. II was
dated Thursday. November i3. and nj
that time Mr.. Bcaupre described the
feeling In the capital city ax 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 tho government Mt Panama and
commencing to the governments Of
both Colombia and Panama 'thc peace
| full md equitable settlement Of all
questions Mt issue between them"
Secretary Hitchcock has sent to Con-
grcss n draft of bill TO control graz
Ing on forest reserves. II provides for
| punishment by hnc OF not to exceed
| 81 900. or Imprisonment for not longer
Than one ycir. or both. The bill pro-
vidcs that any pcrfon who knowingly
pastures or causes to be pnsturcd any
| live stock on public lands within forest
reserves without nrst having obtained
| permission to do so under the rules
| and regulations presented by the secrc-
iary OF the interior shall be guilty. In
yicw OF It's extreme Importance ms an
aid In the protection Of forest reserves
ard their dependent interests. Sccrc-
tary Hitchcock strongly urges Cngrcss
to enact his bill ut the earliest possible
| moment.
| Democratic members CT the Senate
committee on committees have agreed
upon assignments OF Democrats to COM
mittcc places for the Fifty-cighth Con-
grcss. Western minority members will
be assigned as follows: Patterson.
public lands. territories. Philippines
and interstate commerce. Ncwlands.
irrigation. public buildings and terri
tories: Teller will leave the finance
and 20 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 n place in the foreign
relations. Senator Dubois. who is n
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. Tho Quarles bill re-
ceived favorable rapport by the Senate
public lands committee at the last sas.
sion of Congress by a majority Of ona
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
Tee. 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.. Shnfroth:
"unrcpublican, because 1t builds up n
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 s6.00O.0O invest
ed in six beet sugar factories in Colo
rado," he continued, "and we would
have had ten more factories and as
many millions OF dollars invested there
in the industry by this time, were 1t
not for the uncertainty aroused by the
measure" MIR. Shafroth asserted that
q twenty per cent. reduction in the duty
| nm raw supar alCne means n loss to the