Gilpin observer., 1905-02-16
DoINGs AT WASHINGTON

IN the Carson City, Nevada, land dis
trict, on account of the Truckee-Car-
son irrigation project.
Senator Crane has introduced bill
appropriating $250,000 for the estab.
ilshment OF a leprosarium for the seq.
regation OF lepers and to prevent the
spread OF disease in the United States.
1t is provided that the institution shall
be situated on some abandoned mill
tary reservation or other suitable site
owned by the United States.
Senator Teller has proposed an
amendment to the Indian appropriation
Dill designed, If it is adopted, to check
the Raven Mining Company and the
Florence Mining Company from absorb
ing more mineral lands on the Uintah
indian reservation than they may be
entitled to under the provisions of the
opening act, giving them certain pref
erential mineral claims.
The following statement was made
public at the White House: "The
members of the Cabinet have all ten
dered their designations, and on the
9th OF March they will all be nomi-
mated for reappointment with the ex-
| ception OF Mr.. Wynne, who is to be
| appointed consul general at London.
| Mr.. Cortelyou will be nominated on
| Marth 9Th for postmaster general"
The members of the house commit
| tee on interstate and foreign commerce
! to-day presented Chairman w. 2. Hep
| burn of Iowa with a three-handled sill
yer, gold-lined cup. The cup is q re-
membrance of the recent Panama trip
| of the committee and expressive of the
] sentiment of the committee as to
| Colonel Hepburn's presiding qualities
| during the recent rate Legislation cam
| paign.
What has been done by the Agricul-
| tural Department in its investigation
| of the irrigation problem has been re-
| ported to the house committee by DR..
| True and Elwood Mead of the bureau
OF irrigation of the department. The
| total irrigated area of the country by
private enterprise is 9,500,000 acres. at
cost of $200,000,000. The committee
! is planning trip for next summer to
all OF the irrigation projects of the
| government. An invitation is to be cx-
tended to the Senate committee en- ir
| rIgation.
Attorney General Moody has APP
| pointed Judson Harmon of Cincinnati,
! who was attorney general during the
I second administration of President
| Cleveland, and Frederick n Judson,
prominent lawyer of st. Louis, to in
vestigate the alleged action of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
| in granting rebates to the Colorado
| Fuel and Iron Company. The employ
| ment is with the view of taking legal
proceedings against the company If.
| after investigation such proceedings
seem justified
AS one of the preliminary steps to-
ward opening the Uintah Indian reser-
| walton to settlement the House passed
the bill OF Representative Howell of
Utah to create a land district and es-
tablish land Office for more conven-
lent transaction of the business which
will be incident to the opening than is
afforded by present land office facili
ties. The bill as passed provides that
all that portion of Utah included within
that part of the Uintah reservation
which lies within the boundaries of
| Wahsatch county shall constitute a
new land district and that land Of
fee shall be located at Vernal. The
bill is similar to that introduced in the
Senate by Senator Smoot and now
pending before the Senate public lands
= committee.
The House Committee on Public
Lands ordered a favorable report on
Representative Brooks 640-acre home
stead bill, making it conform in all
essential features to the bill recently
reported for South Dakota. That fen
ture of the bill permitting settlers who
have made homestead entry under
I present laws to increase their entries
to an aggregate area of $40 acres, was
amended to apply only to settlers in
that part of Colorado affected by the
Brooks bill, and it was stipulated that
any additions to present homesteads
shall be of lands lying adjacent thereto.
AS the bill was originally drawn, this
right to make additional homestead
entries was extended to any settler on
arid lands between the Tooth and 105th
meridians. either in Colorado or ad-
, joining states.
Through his counsel. Judge Swayne
on the Sd inst. made formal respons e
| in the Senate to the articles of i'm
| parchment voted by the House of Rep
resentatives. The answer was for
midable document in point of size.
Each of the twelve articles OF inn
peachment was answered at length.
In every case the fact charged was ad-
mitted, but explained from Judge
Swayne's point of view. and. in addi-
ton. 1t was contended that even If the
conditions were true as charged they
were not Of character to justify pro-
ceedings for impeachment for high
crimes and misdemeanors." The an.
swer was read by former Senator
| 'rhurstnn aud whpn ha cnucluuad thu
Senate issued an order requiring the
House to file its formal reply by the
next Monday and directed that all the
pleadings should be in by February 9th
so that the trial might proceed on Feb
ruary 10th.
Attorney General Moody has issued