The Springfield herald., 1910-01-21
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Representative Mondell has intro
duced 4 bill authorizing the secretary
OF the interior to sell 800 acres of land
to johnson county, Wyoming. for poor
farm purposes.
Representative Rucker OF Colorado
has introduced bill to promote Cap
tain James Moynahan Of Fairplay to
the rank OF major on the retired list
Of the army.
The passing of the historic fourth
OF March as a presidential Inaugural
tion date and the fixing OF the fourth
Thursday OF April in it's place is pro-
vded for in resolution ordered IA
vorably reported by the House COM
mittee on the judiciary.
Senator Francis E. Warren left for
Washington without completing ar
rangements for the erection of mod
ern hotel, the business which brought
him to Cheyenne during the holiday
recess OF Congress. Senator Warren
seeks to enlist the aid of other Chey-
enne capitalists in a project to erect a
hotel which will be larger and better
than possessed by many towns of the
same population.
Nathan d. Williams. lawyer OF
Fayetteville, Ark, has issued com
plant against the Wells-Fargo COM
pany, in which he asserts that the
carrying of packages of four pounds
or less by express companies between
interstate points is unlawful, because
Congress has committed the carriage
of such packages to the mails and has
made it unlawful for any private ex-
press to carry them.
President Taft has appointed Henry
s. Graves. director of the Yale Forest
school, as forester of the United States
to succeed Clifford Pinchot He also
appointed Alfred F. Potter, at present
acting forester. as associate forester.
The new forester and his associate are
both known as Pinchot men. Both
have served under Mr.. Pinchot and
both are in sympathy with his policy
of administration.
Whether the thirteenth census on
which the government intends to
spend at least Sl3, 100000. will give a
correct picture of the nation, depends
as much on the people themselves as
$4,000 Director Durand makes this
declaration in his annual report. The
director says that any person or cor
poraton may make returns and know
that when the results are published 1t
will be impossible to identify them
with any individual, or set of men.
The returns are not disclosed to any
one not employed in the census bu
reau.
A statement issued by the postoffice
department of the gross receipts OF
fifty of the largest postoffices for De-
cember. 1909, as compared with De-
cember. 1908. shows the Denver re-
ceIpts for December. 1909. to be $122.-
53919. and for December, 1908. $10S.-
O7577, an increase of thirteen per
cent.
1t is announced that the census
enumerators in the sparsely settled
sections of the West and Southwest
will be compensated on per diem
basis instead OF per capita, the rate
of pay ranging from SIS to Sc per day.
Senator Gamble of South Dakota
has introduced bill which provides
that the secretary of the interior may
sell at public auction after thirty days
notice isolated tracts of the public do
main at not to exceed $3.50 per acre.
This bill is intended to shut out land
sharks" who are going about the
Western country quietly acquiring title
to these isolated tracts with a view
of subsequently selling them to the
nearest homesteader. 1t gives the
homesteader an equal chance to in
crease his holdings without working
through an agent.