The Lamar register., 1909-02-17
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

II Is stated that President Roosevelt
has no intention of sending to Con
gress a message recommending an in
come tax.
An amendment to establish a quar-
ter-master's depot at Denver. has been
introduced TO the army appropriation
bill by Senator Teller.
The President sent a message of
congratulation to Governor Gillett of
California on the defeat of the Japan
ese school segregation bill.
Senator Guggenheim has offered an
amendment to the postoffice appropri-
alton bill to increase the wages of la
borers in the Postoffice Department.
The house has passed the Mondell
bill granting the Montana. Wyoming
& Southern railway right of way
across the Fort Keogh military reser-
walton.
Forester Pinchot will make visit to
Denver some time during March to
personally hear complaints which Col
orado citizens may wish to make con-
corning the administration of the for
est service.
Hc pdSStu Tue
extending from three to five years the
time in which mineral locators on
coded lands of the Shoshone reserva-
ton. Wyoming. may make proof and
payment.
Senator Guggenheim offered amend
ments to the sundry civil and agricul-
tural appropriation bills. appropriating
$4,000 for prOfessorship, and $4,000
for experiments in forestry at the Col
orado State Agricultural College.
African hunts and magazine writing
will not be necessary as the occupation
OF ex-Presidents OF the United States
if'a bill introduced by Representative
Volstead of Minnesota be enacted.
This measure provides a pension of
$4,000 annually for every President
after he leaves the White House.
To prevent the loss Of life by catas-
trophe at sea such as SO nearly hap
pened when the liner Republic went
down recently, the president sent to
Congress a message urging the pas
sage of bill similar to that intro
duced by Representative Burke of
Pennsylvania, requiring the equip
ment of ocean going vessels with wire
less telegraph apparatus.
During a discussion of the Kittridge
bill to raise the limit of cost for the
Panama canal to $500,000.000, Sena-
tors Kittridge. Teller and Foraker de-
clared their belief that a great mis-
take has been made in adopting the
lock plan. Senator Kittridge, in an
swer to inquiries, said that it is not
Iatz
canal.
Senator Teller has presented in the
Senate a memorial of the Colorado
Legislature favoring legislation to Gre
ate Civil War officers annuity roll
and pay surviving officers of the volun-
teer army half the pay of the highest
rank held by them during the Civil
War.
3. The secretary of the interior has
approved regulations providing for
the sale at public auction for cash at
not less than 81 per acre and in tracts
not:exceeding $40 acres to any one pur
chaser. of approximately $4,000 acres
of land in Gregory county. South Da-
kota. The sale will be held at Gre
CORY March 25th. The lands to be sold
are a portion of the Rosebud Indian
reservation, opened to settlement in
1904, remaining undisposed of after
having been subject to homestead en-
try for the last four years at $3.50 per
acre. They are suitable principally
for grazing.
Senator Guggsnheim proposed an
amendment to thai Indian bill to ap-
propriate 10000 to continue the Fort
Lewis Indian school fheF year. He
will endeavor to have his Sbffi to trans
Ter this school to the sfate of Colo
fado passed by the House. bill hav-
ing, already passed the Senate. 1t
would take year to have the transfer
made. should 1t be authorized, and
Senator Guggenheim hopes to secure
an appropriation to keep the school
open meantime.