Omaha daily bee., 1907-02-17
HOUSE PASSES ROSEBUD BILL
Measure Gets Through with Little Debate
in Record Time
REPORTED BY COMMITTEE THURSDAY
Consressmnn Ixinkaid Secures Amead-
ments 60 HIS section Homestead
Law-JudiciaI District Bill
Put over. 1855.

1 WASHINGTON, Feb. l5.-(special 'rele-
| gram. Representative Burke today Sc
| cured the passage Of the Rosebud reserva-
ton bill which was on Thursday reported
! from the committee on Indian affairs. In
certain respects this is record legislation,
friendships which MIR. Burke has made dur
Ing his years in congress standing him in
! good stead when he called UP the bill today
| for final passage
Mr.. Burke introduced his original Rose
bud bill on the day congress convened in
short session. Subsequently he introduced
another bill for the purpose OF giving a
better description of the land than was
contained in the original bill and also to
incorporate the provisional agreement made
with the Indians by Inspector Mclaughlin
providing for the creation Of a fund of
81. OOO, go to be paid after ten years.
Although the bill which was passed to-
day contains rather unusual clauses, so far
as school sections are concerned, there
was little or no debate on Its provisions
When the speaker consented to recognize
Mr.. Burke for the consideration of the
Rosebud bill the passage of the measure
was practically accomplished, and subse-
quent developments showed the congress
man from South Dakota had oiled the ma
chinery preparatory to putting the bill on
its passage.
kfnkaid Law Amended.
Congressman Kinkaid today secured the
passage of the bill amending the kinkaid
act to provide that all qualified entrymen
who, during the period between April rs
and June %. 1904 made homestead entry
within the year affected by the Kinkaid
act shall be entitled TO all benefits Of the
act as If their entries had been made prior
or subsequent to the dates mentioned. The
bill further provides that the benefits Of
military service in army or navy granted
under other homestead laws shall apply to
entries made under the Kinkaid act.
Norris bill Monday.
Judge Norris, Just as the house was
about to adjourn today, attempted to call
up his bill giving Nebraska an additional
federal judge. but Congressman Williams,
leader of the minority. objected on the
ground that the house should adjourn, IT
then being $780, and rather than jeopardize
the bill, Judge Norris made no further eff
fort to secure its passage. He will, how
ever, call it up on Monday under suspen-
sion of the rules, and as there is no known
objection to the measure 1t VIII undoubt-
eddy pass
River Appropriations Increased.
I
cluded its consideration Of the rivers and
harbors appropriation bill. In the matter
of the further Improvement of the Mis-
| souri, river from its mouth to Fort Benton
! the senate Increased the appropriation
made by the house for the maintenance of
past improvements from 100000 to 100000
of which amount $4,000 may be expended
between the mouth and Kansas City; $780,
COO between Kansas City and Sioux City
10000 between Sioux City and Fort Ben
ton. one-haIf of which last amount shall
! be expended north of the forty-sixth par
allel in North Dakota. These amounts
shall be expended in the first instance for
| the purpose OF clearing the river of, snags
| with view to navigation, and no part OF
these appropriations shall be applied for
revetment or protection OF the banks OF
the stream unless such revetment or pro-
lection is directly and necessarily required
| for the purpose of navigation.
Senator Kittredgc induced the senate
committee on commerce to incorporate his
amendment in the bill. This amendment Is
as follows: For building dams and con-
structing reservoirs at Lake Karnpeska,
Lake Poinsett and on the Sioux river in
South Dakota, to control the flow of said
stream end impound the flood Of waters
to secure a permanent stage of the water
in the Missouri river, $4,000.
OMAHA the Direct Route.
| Senator Willard today laid before the
postmaster general the memorial from the
| Omaha Commercial club, presenting
strong argu nent for routing through, mail
/ BY way of Omaha, instead of by way OF
Missouri Valley. 1t Is contended that reg
istered mail from the west destined for
Omaha is sometimes delayed twenty-four
/ hours by being sent by way of, Blair Mis-
souri, Valley and Council Bluffs into
| Omaha.
Westerners In Washington.
Representative Kennedy today forwarded
to the first assistant postmaster general
the resignation OF +. r. Upjohn, postmas-
| ter at Fort Crook. and recommended as
his successor George f. Rushart. Upjohn
resigns to engage in other business.
! Representative Pollard introduced DIR.
| Lynch of Nehawka, Neb., to the president
today and later, acted as his escort through
the Treasury department and bureau of
printing and engraving.
Charles Fantle and wife of Sioux Falls,
/ g. D., and Moses Fantle Of Yankton are
in washington today, enroute to New York
Postofice Matters.
The postmaster at Fremont, Neb.. has
been allowed one additional carrier from
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