The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-04
OUR WASHINGTON
 LETTER
Newsy Notes of Interest From the Place Where Our Law Makers
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Washington Bureau of United Press.)

Washington Bureau of United Press.)
 Washington, May A.
 That interesting old story about sal mon leaving the streams in which they are matched and disappearing until they return, full grown to spawn in the identical stream in which they came to life was challenged at meet ing of the House Committee on Terri tories the other day. Dr. B. w. Ever man. an expert of the Bureau of Fish cries, said in answer to question by Chairman Hamilton that in his opinion great majority returned to the streams in which they were matched
 ssIs there proof that a single sal mon ever returned to the stream where it was hatched?' challenged Judge Wickersham, the delegate from Alaska.
 Dr. Everman said he thought it had been proved by the experience of the government in restoring a supply of salmon to the Sacramento river but Wickersham was not convinced. The doctor, by request, also enlightened the committee by the statement that a fish is an animal"
 War over the location of the coun- try seat of Sierra County, New Mex ico, being appealed to a Congress. brought to Washington an interest," ing little story of legislative tangle. at Hi1lsboro, county metropolis. pop ulation 800. A Mexican was elected to the legislature and he proceeded forewith, it it alleged, tu introduce useless and foolish bills. One pro- posed tax on bachelors. Another offered bounty on jack rabbits which would have bankrupted every county in New Mexico, according to testi- mony before the Senate committee on territories.
 The Mexican submitted a bill to change the county seat to Cutter, in the dessert, at the edge of the coun- ty Hillsboro, is near the center of the county. Cutter has population of 24, including the employees of a mining county. It is flag station on the railroad in the Jornada del Muerte, (Journey of Death)
 Cutter has two main buildings. One is owned by a mining company and witness told the Beveridge commit tee that perhaps the movement to shift the county seat was partly due to 8 desire to sell this building to the county for a court house. With re- gard to the other structure Edward D. Tittman, of Hillsboro, who appear ed before the Senate Committee said:
 '"That is the saloon building which Governor Curry laid the foundation for and spoke in glowing terms of the future of this great metropolis of Cut ter"
 The bill, in order to make Cutter seem to be further in the interior of the country, provided for the addi- ton of strip of desert land to be taken from Socorro county. The lat ter was to be paid, $25,000 for this s'barren stretch of sand" and an alleg- ed debt of ancient vintage. The bill was we'll along toward passage before the people of HillsborO learned of the impending calamity. A friendly cat tleman who happened to be in Santa Fe heard of it and wired them a tip. A delegation rushed to the capital They could not prevent the passage of the bill by the legislature but it was killed by a vote inflicted by the governor.
 Triumphantly they returned to Hills boro and gleefully pealed the deep toned court house bell. But hold; Little did they reck of the activity of their enemies. Even beeOre the delegation had finished shaking hands with the congratulatory townspeople the result had been reversed. It seems that after they left that town another bill to transfer the county seat had been rushed through and had been signed by the governor. But laws do not count in the territories unless they have the approval of Congress. Hillsboro carried the fight to Wash ington and won it few days ago, when the Senate, at Beveridge's re- quest unanimously sat down on the bill. It is dead, now, as canned mackerel. Hillsboro, with the United States Senate on it's side, standing out there with pride and dignity, will retain forever the prestige and emil hence of being the county seat of the county of Sierra, New Mexico, United States of America.
 When the Senate and House office buildings were built and subterranean tubes bored to connect the two struc- tures with the Capitol itself. a new vista of halls and corridors was open ed.
 Tine Capitol building has a modern appearance from the ground up, but underneath, in the sub-basement, so to speak. everything is mediaeval. In the good old days when the founda- [ tions of the Government were built brick work was en regle. Hence un- | deriving the whole building are be- | wildering stretches of bricked corri- | dors that twist about like a maze. l The subways from the House and 1 Senate tap a series of these subter- | ranean passage ways at either end of | the Capitol Modern architects and | workmen have done their best to 1 straighten out their kinks; electric 1 liohts point the way to elevators out | of the cavelike passages, and dozens 1 of signboards tell the way to wayfar-