The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-12-07
Members Of the Delegation to
Congress From This State
Are at Their Desks on the
Opening Day Of the Session.
FORT DOUGLAS TO BE
GIVEN APPROPRIATION
Senator Sutherland Busy at
Work COdifying Laws Which
Relate to the Judiciary and
to Federal Court Procedure,
PUBLIC LANDS RESTORED

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= Especial to The HeTald-RepubliCan) y
= Washington, Dec. 7-Utah's dele =
= cation were all present in their seats =
= at the assembling of congress at =
= noon today. Senator Reed SmoOt =
= and his family are now occupying y
= an apartment at the Highlands, but =
! Thursday they expect to be in their =
= new home OF Connecticut avenue. =
= Senator George Sutherland and his y
! family have taken their former =
y apartments at the Highlands for this =
! winter Representative Joseph How =
= ell and family have leased a suite =
= in the Champlain, one of the most :
= desirable apartment houses in the =
= city.
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As chairman Of the Joint committee on
printing, Senator Smoot viii at once take
up the work of codifying the printing
laws. and will present a bill covering the
whole subject. He already has mapped
ont the changes that are desirable, hay
ing found many tables that the old laws
do not cover. A meeting Of the Joint
committees has been called for tomor-
row.
Senator SmOot will turn his attention
to the subject Of new buildings for Fort
Douglas He will ask the secretary of
war to make an appropriation from funds
now at the disposal Of the the department
sufficient to improve Fort Douglas. The
plans for these changes have all been
prepared and the cost viii amount 70
aboHt $4,000.
Senator Sutherland at Work.
Senator Sutherland has been devoting
his time for some weeks to the work OF
the committee on revision Of the laws,
which has under consideration the codi-
ficatiOn of the laws relating to the Ju-
dietary. This is very important work, in
VOlVing as it does the whole subject of
Jurisdiction. organization and procedure
Of the federal courts. The senator hopes
to see il completed and a bill passed by
congress at this session
AS a result Of information secured
through field examination Of areas en-
braced within the present Withdrawals OF
lands thought to contain valuable depOs-
its of phosphate, the secretary of the in
terror has restored TO the public domain
approximately l.yl6,560 acres OF land IN
the states Of Wyoming, Idaho and Utah
which does not contain phosphate depos-
it's within such a reasonable deph as to
make them worth working. This exam
nation resulted in the securing of infOr-
nation showing that an area of approx
mately 391 ,438 acres of land in the states
Of Wyoming and Idaho, not heretofore
withdrawn, contained valuable deposits OF
phosphate.
me lands embraced within this area
have therefore been withdrawn from all
forms of disposition in aid of proposed
legislation affecting the disposal Of phOs-
Dhate lands. The effect of the above
restoration and withdrawal viii be to re-
duce the total area covered by phosphate
Withdrawals to POSI-, 1893 acres, of which
I .273.254 acres are In Wyoming, 1,139,569
acres in Idaho and 1856 acres in Utah.