The Colorado statesman., 1906-01-20
CONGRESS BUSY
SENATE COMMITTEE FAVOR NEW
BUILDING FOR DENVER.
OTHER WESTERN MEASURES
Denver Man on Philippine Tariff Bill.
Brooks Bill for Arid Land Ex-
periments.-Heybur Attacks For
est Reserve Policy.

est Reserve Policy.
Washington.-At the first meeting
this session of the Senate committee
on public grounds and buildings Sena-
tor Warren brought before the com
mittee Senator Teller's bill appropri-
ating S2,50O,O00 for a new federal
building at Denver.
He found that all members of the
committee, and particularly Chairman
Scott, were very favorably disposed
towards Denver, and he was author
lied to report the bill fayorably after
amending it to conform to the esti-
mate to be made by the supervising
architect for the amount necessary to
erect the building.
The supervising architect is prepar-
ing this estimate and expects to com
plete it in about a week, wnen Senator
Warren will submit his report and the
bill will 90 on the calendar of the Sen
ate for passage. 1t IS expected that
the bill as amended will carry close
to the amount specified in the bill as
introduced.
Senator Warren was also authorized
to report favorably his bill appropriat-
ing 100000 for a public building at
Sheridan, Wyoming.
Prospects are now said to be favor
able for passage of the omnibus pub
lie buildings at this session and should
the bill pass early the action taken
upon the Denver and Sheridan build
ings to-day makes it certain that they
will be included.
Charles Boettcher of Denver, who
has been in attendance daily in the
House during the progress of the de-
bate on the Philippine tariff bill, says
that if the bill becomes a law, no more
sugar factories will be built in Colo
RADIO and the ones now operating there
will be built in Colorado, and the ones
now operating there will close down in
five or ten days.
THE Philippines contain enough
first class sugar lands to supply the
entire world. The sugar freight from
Iloilo to New York is "a cents per 100
pounds, against So cents from Denver
to Chicago.
Sugar represents mainly labor, and
we will have to contend with 100000
breech-clouted laborers who work for
8 to 10 cents a day, because they need
very little clothing or fuel and live on
rice, wild vegetables and fish. Hence
competition without loss to us is out
of the question. | consider the bill
wholly in the interests of tropical i'm
porters employing peon labor"
Representative Brooks has intro
duced bill authorizing the secretary
of agriculture to make experiments
Investigations in semi-arid portions of
the United States to determine the
best methods of utilizing supplies of
water inadequate for ordinary irriga-
tion and make the same availaDfe for
agricultural purposes, in order to as
certain the best use of the non-irriga-
BILE portion of the public lands. The
bill also authorizes experiments with
machinery and implements adapted to
the cultivation of such lands with a
limited supply of water
Senator Hepburn delivered an i'm
pulsive speech before the Senate pub
lie lands committee, in which he ar
raigned President Roosevelt and in Sc
we're language denounced and con-
demned his forest reserve policy and
the men who are putting that policy
into practice. Hepburn appeared in
behalf of his bill denying the Presi-
| dents right to create forest reserves,
and transferring that power to Con
gress.
transferring that power to Congress.
Hepburn informed the committee
that he would soon make a speech in
the Senate along the lines of his talk
to-day.
1t is expected that the public lands
committee will report adversely upon
Heyburn's bill, as the entire member
| ship favors the Presidents forest re-
serve policy.