The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-27
ROAR IS HEARD
IN WASHINGTON
Salt Lake Restaurant Men
Complaint of Recruiting
Officers.
JAPS GET ALL THEIR TRADE
WAR DEPARTMENT TO LOOK
INTO THE MATTER.
JAPS GET ALL THEIR TRADE
Especial to The Herald.)


have been sent to Senator Sutherland
by Salt Lake City restaurant men
against United States army recruiting
officers feeding recruits in their charge
at Japanese restaurants are provoking
an incipient war scare.
On receipt of the protests, Senator
Sutherland promptly referred them to
the war department, and has received
notice from Adjutant General Aims
worth that the complaints would be
given consideration and inquiry made of
recruiting officers for their reasons for
favoring Japanese in preference to
American restaurants.
BaIIinger Frames a Bill.
Land Commissioner Ballinger has
tried his hand at framing a bill for
leasing public grazing lands. He has
submitted it to Secretary Garfield, who,
if the measure meets his approval,
probab bly, will send it to congress with a
recommendation for its passage. The
bill provides that all vacant non-min-
eral, non-irrigable public lands not
classified as coal or timber lands unfit
for cultivation and do not usually pro-
duce wild hay in understandable quanti-
~ are classified as pasture lands and,
when adjacent to entered or patented
lands under actual cultivation may be
divided into grazing blocks of not ex-
ceeding 1880 acres in compact form as
possible, and sold to entTymen or owners
of such cultivated lands at $1.25 per
acre.
All pasture lands not subject TO sale
shall be leased for grazing purposes to
any citizen of the United States at an
annual rental in manner, quantities and
periods and under such regulations,
terms and conditions as the secretary
of the interior may prescribe and the
net proceeds shall be paid to the re-
spective states or territories in which
the lands leased are situated for sup
port of the public schools thereof.
White House Visitors.
Senator Warren today introduced DR..
j. NJ. Wilson of the National Wool
Growers association to President
Roosevelt, and an informal discussion
followed Of the movement which is in
progress for government control and
leasing of vacant grazing lands. The
president took the opportunity to con-
vey to DR.. Wilson, who represents the
sheep growers interests of wyoming.
that he is not an enemy to the sheen
industry, although he had lived among
cattlemen in the earlier days of the live
stock business in the west who were
prejudiced against sheep and sheepmen.
Later the president received a delega-
ton of Idaho stOckmen who were intro
duced by Senator BOrah, and assured
them he was in accord with them in
their efforts to secure a definite speed
limit for livestock shipments over rail-
roads.
Must Get Together.
Western representatives and senators
interested in legislation to enlarge the
acreage of homestead entries are ar
ranging to hold a melting this week for
the purpose of getting together on the
form of bill which will have the united
support of ALI western members of con-
gress.
In the senate the public lands com,
mittee has reported favorably upon the
Smoot and Dixon enlargement bills. and
the house committee has reported the
Mondell bill. These bills are unlike in
many essential features and unless they
can be harmonized and measure
agreed upon which will receive the sup
port OF all interests the defeat of the
entire subject may be expected.
The house today passed Representa-
tive Bonynge's bill providing that anv
desert land entrymen who may have
lost, forfeited or abandoned their en-
try shall be entitled to make a second
desert entry as though the former en-
try had not been made, unless it was
assigned in whole or in part, or relin-
quished for valuable consideration. or
Cancelled for fraud.
Senator Warren was authorized todav
by the senate public buildings commit
tee TO report favorably his bill to pur-
chase a site and erect a public building
at Rock Springs, WyO., the proposed
building to cost sS5, 200.