Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-03-03

Washington, Feb. 6.--In accordance
with recommendations by the senat'
committee on finance, the bill provid
ing for the issuance Of $50, 900, 900 0.
certificates of indebtedness for the ben
eft of the reclamation srevice will bt
amended so as to make the government
directly responsible for the payment ol
the certificates. AS the bill now stands
the certificates are made payable from
the reclamation fund.
The proposed amendment will auth
orize the secretary of the treasury t.
transfer from time to time from the
general fund to the reclamation func
such amounts as may be necessary tC
complete the projects, providing the
aggregate shall not exceed $50, 900, 900.
He is authorized to issue certificates
not to carry more than three per cent
interest to reimburse the treasury foI
advances made. The funds thus OBJ
tanned are to be used for the compile
tion of projects already begun.
Ultimately the government is to be
reimbursed from the reclamation fund
at the rate of so per cent of the re-
ceipts of the fund.
After a conference today with DR..
w. T. Hornaday, director of the New
York ZOO, the senate committee on
conservation of natural resources, of
which Dixon, of Montana, is chairman,
decided to represent to the department
of commerce and labor the undesirable
ity of renewing the present lease for
the slaughter of seals in Alaskan wa
ters, which expires next April.
According to DR.. Hornaday, the
seal herd has been reduced from A.
900, 600 to $4,000 in a comparatively
brief period. He expressed the opin-
ion that renewal of the lease would
amount to the practical determination
of the herd. He recommended a
closed season for ten years.
Washington, Feb. 25.-Representa-
tive Claude Kitchin Of North Carolina,
made a general assault on the tariff
law under license of general debate on
the postoffice appropriation bill in the
house today.
Telling a number of stories of starv-
ing children and Of working men ap-
pealing for work in the large cities,
Kitchin concluded each tale with the
statement:
"And all this under the Aldrich-
Payne bill, which no one on the Repub-
Iican side has the courage to defend"
The administration bill to create a
court of commerce and amend the inter-
state commerce laws was ordered fav-
orably reported today by the senate
committee on interstate commerce,
which will recommend its passage
practically in the form recently revis-
ed by Attorney General Wickersham.
The attitude of the house committee
in regard to the bill is giving the pres
ident concern and today he sent for
some Republican members of the COM
mittee and urged them to do every
thing possible to expedite its passage,
even if it should be necessary to
amend it, so long as the general pur-
poses of the act were carried out.
The senate today passed Represent
stive Ellis bill authorizing the Oregon
Trunk line to build bridge across the
Columbia river and the Cello canal, to
connect with the North Bank road at
a point opposite the mouth of the Des-
chutes river. This bill now lacks only
the signature of the president to make
it law.
The secretary of the interior has
decided to report favorably upon the
Bourne bill amending the enlarged
homestead act SO as to permit patents
to issue in Oregon upon proof of pro-
duction and cultivation instead of re-
1uiring residence.