The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1910-01-28
STATES MAY GET
ALL POWER SITES.
TURN OVER WHOLE MATTER
OF DEVELOPMENT.
ADVANTAGES TO BE GAINED
Senator Carter Introduces Bill Which
Would Regulate Use of Lands
and Streams.

ter, of Montana introduced a bill
Monday carrying out the recommen-
dations of the governors of the coun-
try at their recent meeting in this
city with reference to the DISPOSE
ton of waterpower sites on the pub
lie domain.
The bill provides that all public
lands Immediately adjoining streams
and forming a part of power sites
shall be coded to the various states
III which they are located; the states
to retain perpetual ownership of such
lands, with authority to lease them
for power development in such a
way as to prevent monopoly.
This bill also provides that "any
state may enter any unappropriated
public lands located within its Dor
ders which is chiefly valuable for use
in the development of water-power
upon making proof to the satisfac-
ton of the secretary of the interior
that the lands ought to be entered
chiefly for such purpose. If, upon
submission of such proof, the secre-
tary of the interior is satisfied that
the land is as described, the bill d.
reefs that official to issue a patent
to the state for all of the land or
such portion thereof as he may deem
necessary"
To Test Validity of Payne Act.
The first direct steps to have the
supreme court of the United States
decide the constitutionality of the
corporation tax imposed by the
Payne. tariff act were taken when
the case of Stella P. Flint, as gem
eral guardian of the property of
Samuel Stone, Jr., minor, against
the Stone-Tracy Company, of Wind
sor, VT, was filed in the office of
the clerk of the court.
The property of the minor con-
sists of shares in the Stone Tracy
Company, retail mercantile corpor-
alton. Suit was brought to pre-
vent the corporation from filing a
statement of its indebtedness and
giving other information in regard
to its business, as required of such
corporation before March as a basis
for applying the tax.
1t is said the corporation tax pro-
visions of the act are unconstitu-
tional and that the filing of the in
formation will give an unincorpor-
ated competitor an UNDUE advantage
over it.
In the event of the failure of the
attempt to obtain decision from
the supreme court of the United
States as to the constitutionality of
the corporation tax provisions of the
Payne tariff act before March 1, the
date by which the return of income
of corporations must be filed, con-
gress may be asked to extend the
date for the law becoming operative.
Raps immigration Commission.
By cutting off deficiency appro-
priation of $l25,000 for the national
immigration commission, the house
Monday lent its support to several
members, led by Representative Ma
con of Arkansas, who denounced the
commission and its work and threat
ened it with immediate extinction.
Mr.. Macon made scathing attack
on the body. He charged that the
commission had gone on a junket-
ing expedition abroad, had spent
$o57 1913 and had accomplished alb
solutely nothing.
Meat Inspection Is Issue.
The state department and the Ger
man embassy here have declined to
make public details of negotiations
that have been in progress for three
months regarding the maximum and
minimum features of the Payne
Aldrich act as il applies to German
products. 1t is known, however, that
| they have proceeded to point
where one issue remain-that of the
removal of restrictions on American
cattle and meat imported to Ger
many.
Cruisers Go to Argentine Fair.
Under orders issued by the navy
department the Washington and
Tennessee, the two cruisers that did
social duty for the country two
years ago through the Mediterranean
on the way to their Pacific station,
are to represent the nation with the
Montana, North Carolina and Ches-
ter at Buenos Ayres St the centen-
NAL celebration of the Argentine re-
public.
Pinchot Chosen President.