The Springfield herald., 1904-02-19
The Senate passed the diplomatic and
appropriation bill without de-

The Senate passed the diplomatic and
consular appropriation bill without de-
bate.
A bill was introduced by Representa-
tive Emerich of Illinois appropriating
$l000.000 for the relief of sufferers
from the Baltimore fire.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved the setting aside OF $2,25O,OOO
of the reclamation fund for the lrrl-
cation project on the north side OF the
Shoshone river, in the Big Horn basin
OF Wyoming, provided that satisfac-
tory rights to land and water can be
secured. This project provides for the
construction of the storage reservoir
in Shoshone river and a canal head
ing in the canon above Cody. 1t will
provide water for approximately 30
900 acres on the north side Of the river
in Big Horn county. The entire dis
tance from Garland to Cody station
will be under the canal system adjacent
to the Big Horn basin extension of the
Burlington & Missouri River railroad.
The Senate committee on agriculture
on the 9Th inst. gave hearing to
Senator Teller's bill appropriating
$3.50 900 to conduct experiments to nom
corn-growing states and territories in
the breeding and feeding of the various
classes of live stock for market and in
growing crops and forage plants adapt
ed to these purposes. W. l.. Carlyle.
professor of agriculture in the college
at Fort Collins, Colorado; l.. II. Grubb,
a member of the board of regents of the
same college, and Secretary of Agricul-
ture Wilson all spoke in favor of such
q bill. The committee favors the meas
ure, but it Is agreed that the amount
asked for is far greater than will be
appropriated as a preliminary move
ment.
Complete investigation of the pro-
tests against Senator Reed Smoot re-
tanning his seat in the United States
Senate will begin March list before the
committee on privileges and elections.
The committee agreed to this date at
a meeting held February 9th and
Chairman Burrows was given unlim
tied power to summon witnesses II
such a course shall be found to be
necessary A list of twenty witnesses
was submitted by the protestants and
most of these will be present soon af-
ter March 1st. 1t was determined that
the hearing of the case shall be public
The protestants who are now organic
ing to make the fight against Senator
Smoot have declared that 1t is not
their intention to enter into what are
known as the Leilich charges. For
mer Representative r. w. Taylor has
announced that 1t is the intention of
his clients to try the case as respects
the relations of the Mormon Church
to the United States government and
the intrusion of a great hierarchy into
the political affairs of the nation. The
witnesses to be summoned are for the
most part members of the Mormon
Church Among them are children al
legged to be the offspring of polygamous
marriages contracted since the mani
festo of 1890. 1t is not determined
whether such witnesses will be per-
mitted by the committee to give tes-
timony, as each question of the ad-
INSTABILITY of testimony will be de-
cided as it is reached in the hearings.
Senator Teller recently received let
ters from Colorado and Wyoming citi-
rers residing near the Colorado-Wy.
oming boundary line requesting him
to ascertain the accuracy of the state
line. The commissioner of the gen
eral land office. in response to Senator
Teller inquiry. replied that thera was
no doubt of the correct position of the
line; that 1t had been determined as
Economically in 1873 by expert survey
ors and had been verified many times
since by land office surveyors. The
line Is at pres sent marked by stone and
wooden boundary posts.