Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-02-10

Ing on the secretary OF the interior Tor
reasons for postponinK the opcnin. OF
the U!ntah Indian reservation In Idaho.
The attorney general has rendered
an opinion In which he holds that
drawbacks may be allowed on exported
Hour 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. II also pro.
vides for gathering statistics relating
to marriage and divorce.
BY order Of the President. the for.
cxtry division Of the general land once
Was abolished January 3lst. 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 tpr.
cign commerce from carrying obscene
literature. II extends TO other car.
ricrs. the provisions regulating the
transmission of such matter through
the mails.
koc.Sclo q deputation OF Ave workmcn
from the various printing works. He
qucstioncd each man closely regarding
the character OF work and the hours of
employment. expressed satisfaction
with those who had conscicntiously
performed their duty and said he
hoped to visit the establishment in
person.
l..s I..l ..,l, r..
Interstate Commerce Commission by
the Mcnasha woodenware Company of
Menasha. Wisconsin. alleging that the
A,chison. Topeka & Santa Fc and n
number of other railroads arc impos-
ing freight rates on woodenwarc ship.
ments that are unreasonable and dis.
criminative In favor of competitors To-
Gated in the vicin,ty OF North Pacific
terminals.
Senator Long made speech In com.
mittee OF the whole in favor OF the
statehood bill rs II stands. He devoted
attention especially to Okiahoma's
claims 10 statehood. saying that by cv.
cry tsat and standard It is entitled to
admission to the Union. Mr.. Long de-
scribed the conditions in Indian terri.
tory rs most unwholesome. saying
there were no fewer than 10000 white
children in that territory who had no
school facilities. Mr.. Long also ad.
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 visit OF mem.
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 to visit rari-
ous irrigation projects In course of
construction by the reclamation scrv-
Ice under the national irrigation act.
The visitors will assemble at Omaha
early in June. proceed to El 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 10000 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 go
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, Wyoming,
where the Shoshone reservoir project
will be examined. -.