Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-12-12
ECONOMY IN LAND OFFlCL
Recommendation that Office Of Receiver Of
Public Moneys Be Abolished
SEVENTEEN MILLION ACRES DISPOSED OF
Thousand Entries suspended and
Fifteen Hundred Cancelled A.
Result of special
Investigations.

to have two officers of coordination juris-
dicton in local land offices. The proposed
action, it is stated would result in an esti-
mated saving of s25OOO0 per annum and an
improvement in the handling of public bust
ness in local land offices.
During the year 17,Oo6,622 acres of the pub
lie lands were disposed Of The receipts
from all sources aggregate $L0l7Sll and ag-
gregate expenditures and estimated liabili-
ties for the public land service St9SS, sS9.
There were issued 10i patents to railroads,
with an area of l,4253 26 acres
In regard to the alleged unlawful en-
closures of public lands, fraudulent entries
and Illegal cutting of timber on the public
domain, the report shows that during the
year nearly 1000 entries were suspended
upon reports of special agents and that
1900 entries were cancelled as a result OF
these and prior proceedings. Reports from
special agents showed unlawful enclosures
of public lands in more than. 100 instances
the area of such enclosures aggregating
1863 81 acres of public lands. Through the
efforts of the land office and special agents
sixty-nine unlawful enclosures have been
removed and proceedings are pending to
compel the removal of fences in the re-
naming cases reported. There were pend
| ing in the courts on July 1, 1905, sixty-six
civil suits for the recovery of $1.555,SO3.
Included in the report and approved by
the commissioner is the second partial re-
port of the Public Lands commission
which recommends the. repeal of the timber
and stone act modification Of the
desert land law by repeating the provisions
permitting the assignment of such entries
limiting the area of each entry to loo
acres and requiring certain period cf
residence on such claims. A plan also was
suggested to make the public grazing lands
available to the public by lease and gov
ernmental control.
Director of Census Reports.
The report of the director of the census
office, made public today. calls attention TO
the great progressive increase in the cost
| of the work. the per capita cost having
risen from cents in 1870 TO q cents in
| 1900. The time seems to have arrived. he
| says. when in planning the next decennial
census the aim must be to reduce rather
| than to extend the minutae of detail pre-
scented.
The director speaks Of the system Of
| determining the size of the annual cotton
crop by counting as 1t comes from the
| gins This SYSTEM" he says. has now
| proved to be the most trustworthy method
Under the head of future and suggested
work, the director recommends the au-
| thorization of a report upon the electrical
| industries of the country at flve-year in
| tervals Nothing" he says, $50 rapid.
! so striking so revolutionary in its effects
| upon private manufacturing and public
utilities as the application Of electricity 20
! power and heating purposes has been wit
messed in industrial history"
| The suggestion is made that decennial
| reports Be authorized upon life, fire and
marine insurance. savings banks. CO.
| operative banks, mortgage, loan and in
| vestment companies and similar institu-
lions, but the director regards as more
| important than any OF those an additional
inquiry into judicial statistics. which, he
| says would open a field of statistical re-
| search heretofore wholly neglected in this
country. Such statistics, he says. would
include the records of homicldes, felonies,
| midemeanors and other punishable Of
lenses. Such an undertaking, he declares,
would tend to produce uniformity Of the
codes of laws relating to crimes and mis-
demeanors in the various states, which
now differ greatly.
! Prison for Rebnters.
Representative Sheppard Of Texas in
troduced a bill today which restores the
Imprisonment penalty for violations of
the Interstate Commerce act Uhdcr the
EIkins amendment the only penalties for
the violation of the act is fine and the
Sheppard bill seeks to impose the penalties
provided for originally by the Interstate
Commerce act
Tax on Immigrants.
Representative Bonynge of Colorado to-
day introduced a bill for the restriction
Of immigration, fixing a head tax of $40 on
immigrants and using TINS money 10 de-
fray the expense of regulating ImmlGra-
ton. He also introduced bill 70 enable
President Roosevelt to call conference
to secure an agreement for an interna-
tional regulation Of immigration.
Two Liquor Bills in House.
| Two liquor bills were introduced today
nv Representative Bowie of Alabama. One
prevents the issuing Of United States liquor
licenses in prohibition districts and the
other requires collectors of internal revenue
20 furnish prosecuting attorneys with in
formation concerning persons TO whom
government liquor stamps have been issued
Decision Against wabash.
The supreme court Of the United States
today affirmed the decision of the court
of appeals of Kansas City in the case OF
the Wabash Railroad company agains
Genevieve Mathew, awarding damage,
amounting to $3.50 on account of injuries
received by heina shaken up in the switch
| ing of cars in which she was a passenger
weston for Chief of stan.
The name of Major General John r
/ Weston Is under consideration In the APP
l proaching vacancy in the chief OF stan o.
! the army, through the retirement OF Gen
, eral Bates though final decision has no
vet been received General Weston hai
: been in command OF the Northern division
/ with headquarters at St Louis.
Free Trade with philippines.
Senator McCreary today introduced
bill providing for unqualified free trad
between the United States and Philippine
islands
2 New Line 10 Yellowstone.
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