The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-04-30
DELEGATION
HAS BEEN BUSY
SOME OF THE BILLS GOT THRU
CONGRESS BY NORTH DAKoTANs.

States Representatives at Wash.
ington have been Successful
j this Winter In Getting Good
Things for North Dakota.
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North .Dakota's Congressional
Delegation has been conspicuouslyy
successful in getting legislation of
local interest through both houses
this winter, and by reason of their
committee assignments, the various
members had considerable to do
with matters of national import.
Senator Hansbrough is chairman
of. the Senate Public Lands Com.
mites and also a member of the
Finance and District of Columbia
committees, three of. the most i'm.
portant in that body. ~
Senator McCumber is chairman
of the Pensions Committee. which
handles more bills than any other
committee of the Senate and is also
a member Of the Committee ON In
dian Affairs and Manufactures.
In. the House, Representative
Spaulding is on the Committee on
Territories, Banking and Currency
and Labor, all of which have had a
busy winter, particularly the Terri
tories Committee, which framed the
joint statehood bill, and passed on
some Alaskan legislation.
Mr.. Marshall, on the Indian Af-
fairs and Irrigation Committees
has been on matters affecting the
entire west.
Of the bills passed at the in
stance of the delegation, the most
important, probably, is that for op-
ening the Devils Lake Reservation.
Legislation has been secured
which will add to the convenience
of settlers in the western part of
the state by dividing the Bismarck
Land District and establishing a
new land Office at Dickinson.
The state will get a park of $50
acres on the cite of Whitestone
Hills Battle through the enactment
of another bill, and settlers on the
Ft, Lincoln abandoned military:re-
serve will get their land under the
provisions of the free homes act by
the passage of another bill. -
=. Two hundred thousand dollars
will be expendadH On construction
work at Fl. Lincoln, near Bismarck
from lump appropriations made. in
the: military and sunary civil ap-
pfop1iiation1bit ills. A. bill authoriz-
ing the construction Of a bridge at
Fargo also became a law. =.
An old sore. in North Dakota's
side will be healed when the Turtle
Mountain Indians accept an appr,o-
priation of $l,OOO,00O included in
the Indian Appropriation Bill, to
pay their claim for land taken by
whites. An appropriation of $780,
600 is also made in this bill for an
Indian Agricultural School atWah-
peton.. These two appropriations
are in addition to funds supplied
for the maintenance and improve
ment of Indian schools in North
Dakota.
Two bills of interest to the state
and the Northwest generally have
passed the Senate, but will not be
acted upon in the House until next
session. They are the bills repeal
ing the stone and timber act, and
granting che state 10000 acres Of
land for a school of forestry.
Senator McCumber introduced
and made a speech on his bill for
Federal Grain Inspection, and his
Pure Food Bill has been reported
to the Senate. from the Committee
on Neutrality-suspicious..
A Republican Judicial Convention.
A Republican Judicial Convention for the
Sixth judicial District Of North Dakota will be
held as 4Hndan,. N. T., IT p. m. ON Saturday,
May 81. 1904. ct tee court house In said city, TOR
the purpose Of placing in nomination. csndi-:
date for the ONCE Of Distrsct Judge for said dis