Gilpin observer., 1905-02-09

entries for at least three years.
The Senate adopted a resolution call
ing on the secretary of the interior for
reasons for postponing the opening of
the Uintah Indian reservation in Idaho.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion in which he holds that
drawbacks may be allowed on exported
flour made in part from imported
wheat.
The Senate passed the House joint
resolution authorizing the director OF
the census to publish additional sta
tistics relating to cotton. 1t also pro-
vidNs sor gathering statistics relating
to marriage and divorce.
By order of the President, the for
estry division of the general land cffice
was abolished January 31st. and its
work will be continued by the bureau
of forestry of the department of agri-
culture under Chief Forester Clifford
Pinchot.
A bill has passed both the House
and Senate prohibiting express COM
panies engaged in interstate and for
eign commerce from carrying obscene
literature. 1t extends to other car
riers, the provisions regulating the
transmission of such matter through
the mails.
Emperor Nicholas received at Tsars-
koe-Selo a deputation of five workmen
from the various printing works. He
questioned each man closely regarding
the character OF work and the hours of
employment, expressed satisfaction
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performed their duty and said he
hoped to visit the establis hment in
person.
Complaint has been filed with the
Interstate Commerce Commission by
the Menasha Woodenware Company Of
Menasha, Wisconsin, alleging that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and a
number of other railroads are impos-
ing freight rates on woodenware ship
ments that are unreasonable and dis
criminative in favor of competitors To-
Gated in the vicin,Gy of North Pacific
terminals.
Senator Long made a speech IN COM
mittee of the whole in favor of the
statehood bill as it stands. He devoted
attention especially to Oklahoma's S
claims to statehood. saying that by ev-
cry test and standard 1t is entitled to
admission to the Union. MIR. Long de-
scribed the conditions in Indian terri
tory as most unwholesome, saying
there were no fewer than 60, 600 white
children in that territory who had no
school facilities. Mr.. Long also I'D
vised the consolidation of Arizona and
New Mexico into one state.
Representative Mondell, chairman of
the committee on irrigation in the
House, Is arranging for a visit OF men,
bers of the House and Senate irriga-
tion committee to irrigated districts Of
the West during the coming recess of
Congress. II is the intention Of mem
bers of the committee u visit vari-
GUS irrigation projects in course of
construction by the reclamation serv-
ice under the national irrigation act.
The visitors will assemble ut Omaha
early in June, proceed to FL paso,
Texas, and from there visit the Hondo
and Engle projects in New Mexico,
then go to Roosevelt, Arizona. and
visit the Tonto project, thence the La
guna, California, and thence by way of
San Francisco to Hazen, Nevada.
where. June 18th. they will witness the
turning OF water on $4,000 acres OF
arid land. The visitors will then go
to Salt Lake to examine the proposed
Utah Lake and other enterprises in
the Salt Lake valley, and possibly may
run down to Gunnison, Colorado. to
visit the Gunnison tunnel project Re
turning to Salt Lake. they will then 20
to Idaho, where they will examine the
Minidoka project on Snake river, and
the proposed Boise-Payette project,
Projects in Washington and Oregon
will then be visited and the commit
tees will return East by way Of Bill.
ings. Montana. and Cody, WyomlnS.
where the Shoshone reservoir project
will be examined.