Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-18
TEXAS MEN
ARE WAITING
They Want to Talk to Pres
ident About Elephant
Butte Project
WILL GET RID OF HALE
Very Likely That Judge Powers
VIII Be Elected
Senator.
snacia, to the New Mexican.

Special to the New Mexican.
Washington, April 1S-Representa-
tive Burleson and Smith of Texas are
waiting on the secretary of the interl-
or to fix the date for consultation
with the President on the Engle irri-
cation project. Editor Dingley, broth
er of Chairman Dingley, of the Lewis
ton Journal, says Senator Hale will be
defeated by Judge Powers of the state
supreme court Without spending as
much as a postage stamn, he only
lacked 60 votes of defeating Hale in
the latter's own county
Death of Veteran Editor.
Washington, April 1S.-A. J. Hal
ford, formerly newspaper man OF
considerable prominence and in re-
cent years editor of the congressional
directory, died yesterday after several
weeks illness. Mr.. Halford was a
brother of Major Elijah W. Halford,
private secretary to President Harri-
son.
Several years ago he was connected
with various metropolitan papers as
a political writer in Washington. He
had also been connected in important
capacities with the Associated Press
and New York Sun Mr.. Halford was
a native of Hamilton, O., and was 50
years old. He was the father OF
Lieutenant Doane Halford, Twenty
second infantry, U. S. A., and Captain
Frank Halford of the Marine corps.
1t Wasn't an Easy Job.
Washington, April 1S.-Having SER
we'd seventeen days as private secre-
tary to Mrs. Taft, Miss Mary Dan
bridge Spiers, has resigned and be-
ginning tomorrow will resume her
duties in the war department. Her
successor has not been chosen.
All that Miss Spiers would say last
night in regard to the matter was:
You can simply say that l thought
it best to resume my duties at the
war department"
Report of the Committee.
The committee on the public lands
having had under consideration the
bill (H. R. 24416) to amend an act en-
titled can act to authorize entry OF
the public lands by incorporated cities
and towns for cemetery and park pur
poses," approved September 30 1890
(26 Stat, p. 5O2) report the same
back with the following amendments
In line 1, page 2, after the word "of'
add the word ''non-mineral"
In line 5, page 2, after the word 'of'
add the word such
In line 8, page 2, strike out thu
word ten and insert in lieu there
of the word twelve"
In line II, page 2, after the wore
''shall," add the following: Not oc
cupy or use the same for such pu1
pose or SHALL
Change the colon in line IA page
to a period, and strike out the word
all of lines Is to 81, inclusive, O.
page 2.
AS thus amended the committee rec
commended that said bill do pass.
The present statute which is sough
to be amended by this bill is as fo
lows:
That incorporated cities and town
shall have the right, under rules an
regulations prescribed by the seer
tary of the interior, to purchase fc
cemetery and park purposes not e,
ceeding one quarter section of publ
lands not reserved for public use, sue
lands to be within three miles of sue
clties Or towns: Provided, That whe
such city or town is situated with
a mining district, the land propose
to be taken under this act shall be CO
sidered as mineral lands, and patel
to such land shall not authorize SUE
city or town to extract mineral ther
from, but all such mineral shall
reserved to the United States, al
such reservation shall be entered
such patent.
1t will be observed that the prese
law does not apply to sewers, and it
deemed important that cities be Civ,
the right to take public lands whe
they are available for sewerage pl
poses for the health and welfare
the inhabitants. Sites of that XII
adjoining cities or towns are usual
OF little or no value or they wou
have been settled upon and patent
long ago.
The present law does not permit t
location of either cemetery or pa
upon forest reserves, and in many c;
es the forest reserves are within
mile or two of the limits of a to,
and prevent the operation of the
isting law. The objects of this /
is to allow the selection by cities a
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