The Springfield herald., 1904-04-15

Blppl mas introduced pii pi'N'ui"t,
that tariff duties on any article shall
not amount to more than 500 per cent.
ad valorem.
The Senate committee on finance
authorized Senator Aldrich to report
an amendment to the bill for the gov
ernment Of the Panama canal zone
giving to the canal construction bonds
all the rights and privileges Of the out
standing two per cent. government
bonds. The effect is to allow national
banks to use the bonds as basis for
circulation.
The following witnesses have been
summoned to appear before the COM
mittee on privileges and elections in
the Smoot case April goth: Angus M.
Cannon, Salt Lake: George Teasdale,
Nephi; John w. Taylor, John Henry
Smith. j. Nj. Tanner Salt Lake; l.. b.
Alcott, Pennington; b, II. Roberts,
Salt Lake; Moses Thatcher, Logan;
II. S. Grant, NJ. f. Cowley, Lillian
Hamlin, Salt Lake.
The sundry civil appropriation bill
passed by the House contained an item
of $4,000 for completion of the install
lation of machinery for the Denver
mint While this was recommended by
the secretary of the treasury, the COM
mittee decided not to include this sum
at this session, but Representatives
Brooks and Bonynge convinced them
that this sum should be made available
at once. The mint will now be ready
for coming by July. 1905. II the Senate
concurs in the action of the House ap-
propriating the money.
After waiting with much patience for
many days, Mr.. Hepburn found oppor-
tunity to speak to the Senate on the
subject of pure food. Technically. the
sreech was in support of resolution
calling on the secretary of agriculture
to send to the Senate the results of the
Investigations made by his department
into adulterated foods, but ln'reallty
it was in support of the pure food bill.
Mr. Heyburn contended that very
large proportion of foods, drugs and
liquors We're adulterated. and that
many drugs were absolutely poisonous.
In the Senate the committee amend
ment fixing the salaries of rural free
delivery carriers at $3.50 per annum and
regulating their service for private in
dividuals was accepted. 1t reads as
follows: THAT said carriers may carry
merchandise for hire and receive sub
scriptions for and deliver newspapers.
magazines and other periodicals Tor
and upon the request of patrons resld-
ing upon their respective routes, when-
ever the same shall not interfere with
the proper discharge of their ofnclal
duties and under such regulations as
the postmaster general may prescribe,
and not otherwise; and, provided lur-
ther. that no carrier shall refuse TO de-
liver or take orders or subscriptions
for merchandise, newspapers or period
icals requested by any patron or ms
1. .l,. 1tatt ~ l.
ed States and regulations of the post
master general.
In addressing the House, using as
his text the remarks of Mr.. Hardwick
of Georgia on the negro question in
the South, delivered in January last,
Mr.. Morrel of Pennsylvania said that
the ambitious or aspiring negro was
treated as an outcast in this country
to a certain extent as the Jew was
treated by the degraded peasantry In
Russia Everywhere, he said, the ne
gro was beginning to be treated as
necessarily an inferior, and was dis
criminated against in the different
walks OF life. 1t was not alone In the
Southern states that the negro was
! unfairly treated in the enforcement OF
the law. In the North. he said, courts
and juries often were his enemies. AL
ways ready to exaggerate his faults
and ignore his virtues" The corner
stone upon which the Democratic in
stitutions of this country were found
| ed. the hope of all Americans, whether
native born or naturalized, white or
black, was best eXemplified, he de-
| clared, in the door of hope" policy as
| expressed by President Roosevelt.
The Senate public lands committee
| has favorably reported the Hans
| brough bill providing that settlers re-
| linuuishing lands in forest reserves
NAV be paid for the same at rate per
acre to be determined by the party re-
| linuujshng and the secretary OF the in
terror. The bill also provides that
! lands taken in lieu of forest reserve
lands shall be of the same character
as to soil and timber as the lands re-
| linuuished and that no lands in Idaho
shall be selected in lieu of lands re-
linquished in other states. The sec
ton of the bill relating to railroad
land grants was amended so that 1t
provides that no forest reservation
shall hereafter be created covering any
lien land or any lands within the place
or indemnity limits of any railroad
land grant. or any plated village, town
or city The secretary of the interior
| is authorized to ascertain within such
reservations which are chiefly valuable
| for agriculture and permit these to be
disposed of to actual settlers under the
homestead laws in tracts not eXceed-
ing 160 acres in area,
During the discussion of the Reeder
bill, the provisions of which repeal
the desert land act. in the House all
three members of the Colorado delega-
| tion appeared and Representatives
Brooks and Bonynge addressed the
committee in opposition to the repeal
of the land laws. Mr.. Brooks. in open
ing the discussion, said that in Colo
RADIO the law had only been utilized by
] legitimate settlers, who were not tools
in the hands of corporations. The
best evidence of this. he said, was the
fact that absorption of land under the
act was steady and averaged the same
from year to year. He did not know
what the promoters of the legislation
expected to accomplish, but what they
would accomplish in Colorado would
! be to hinder the settlement, cultiva-
ton and development of land which
otherwise would remain forever bar
I I, I,, thn am.