The Springfield herald., 1909-02-19
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

II is stated that President Roosevelt
has no intention of sending to Con-
gress message recommending an in
come tax.
An amendment to establish quar-
ter-master's depot at Denver. has been
introduced TO the army appropriation
bill by Senator Teller.
The President sent message of
congratulation to Governor Gillett of
California on the defeat of the Japan
ese school segregation bill.
The house has passed the Mondell
bill granting the Montana, Wyoming
& Southern railway right of way
across the Fort Keogh military reser-
walton.
The following rural routes have
been ordered established in Colorado:
Arriba, Lincoln county, route 2, serv
ing ia families; Genoa, Lincoln coun-
ty, route l, serving 112 families.
Forester Pinchot will make visit to
Denver some time during March to
personally hear complaints which Col
orado citizens may wish to make con-
cerning the administration of the for
est service.
The House passed the Mondell bill,
extending from three to five years the
time in which mineral locators on
ceded 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
S2,500 for professorship, and $2,500
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 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 message urging the pas
sage of a bill similar to that intro
duced by Representative Burke OF
Pennsylvania, requiring the equip
ment of ocean going vessels with wire
less telegraph apparatus.
The members of Congress who died
during the first session of the present
Congress were eulogized in a special
session of the House of Representative
Sunday. They were Senator William
Pnkney Whyte of Maryland, who died
March 17tn, and Representative Will
liam II. Parker of South Dakota, whs
died on April 7th last.
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 GAO acres to any one pur-
chaser, of approximately 10000 acres
of land in Gregory county, South Da-
kota. The sale will be held at Gre
CORY March 18th. 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 Guggenheim proposed an
amendment to the Indian bill to ap.
propriate siO,400 to continue the Fort
Lewis Indian school another year He
will endeavor TO have his bill to trans
fer this school to the state of Colo
RADIO passed by the House, bill hav.
ing already passed the Senate. 1t
would take year TO have the transfer
made, should it be authorized, and
Senator Gusgenheim hopes to secure
an appropriation to keep the school
open meantime.