Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-02-17
B0URNE'S NEW
H0METEAD BILL
MUCH OF INTEREST FROM THE
PEN OF CORRESPONDENT
IATHROP.
The Washington Syndicate Writer
Furnishes His Idaho Papers With
Heybmn-Borah News of Value 20
All Readers.

WASHINGTON. Feb. Senator
Bourne has devised an entirely new
principle of hOmesteading public
lands and il is attracting consider
able attention here. He has intro
duced bin TO enable citizens to take
32O-acre homesteads OF lands which
come under the dry farming class,
but to make production of agricul-
ture thereon the test OF getting title.
rather than the old five-year resi-
dence Senator Bourne believes that
! III the government require that $500
be produced I'm the five years. with
one-eighth of the land cultivated the
second year. one-fOurth the third
year. and one-half during the fourth
and fifth years and no provision as to
residence, not only Will there be less
tendency towards illigal representa-
tions as to qualifications for final
proof but the proper basis will be
laid for the taking of the land from
the public domain
1t is regarded as novel proposal,
but one not lightly TO be disregarded,
and may get enacted into law
bill affecting the enlarged home
steads has also been Offered by Sena-
tor Borah, and will apply to Idaho the
dry land law When the law was
passed Idaho was omitted at the in
stance of Senator Hepburn. The two
senators have agreed on the present
BOrah bill. There is little question
that it viii be adopted
The old Oregon trail-famed in
history and indissOlubly connected
with the story of the conquering OF
the west-has a hard time to get
marked. Bills and bills have been
introduced, but not one ever has been
made into law Senator Piles and
Congressman Humphrey have such
bills at this session, and If adopted
there Will be $4,000 available foi
the placing of monuments to indicate
the route which the famous old route
followed.
Both Senator Hepburn and Con.
gresham POindeXter have been try
ing to get into the next census tn,
facts relating to the irrigated re-
gions of the west Mr. Poindextei
made a vigorous fight in the house
but could not induce the insertion in
the census bill Of such a provision
Hepburn has an amendment TO the
bill, which has gone to the senate
having passed the house, and viii try
to have il adopted.
If fame had not already settled up
} on the senatorial person of Weldon
b. Hepburn before the present ses
sion begun, certainly 1t has come e
him I'm unmeasured quantities. The
Idahoan has, first. made his nam'
known through the entire south By
! obiectlng to having the statue o
Robert b. Lee in the hall Of fame o
the national capital building o
b course, IL now is the favOrite pastim
] Of the southern editor 20 pen ana
p themas against Mr. Hepburn.
= Then the Idahoan has been roast
e. ing the postal savings bank bill, ant
has kept Senator Carter of Montana
! busy with about 100000 words o
d explanation a day. Senator Garter
. however. one time talked TO death th
S river and harbor bill, so that it /
e probable that he thought 1t woul
e be an easy task to talk to death th
E senior senator from Idaho
q Carter. however. reckoned withou
r his host. for Hepburn has talked Of
e and on, dav after day, finding some
J. thing like 10000 objections IN d
d measure. so that the Montana mem
r. Der has begun to believe that ther
d are differences between river an
r harbor bills and senior senators fror
y Idaho.
i The application of conservation !
x the most approved manner is pre-
4 posed i'm a bill by Senator Piles al
d fecting the Makah Indian reservatio
y in Washington. providing ITO So
j. aside for allotment and arrange fo
= the cutting and sale of ripened an
n matured timber therefrom etc. Cor
j. servationists regard this as conserv,
o tion pure and simple. lt Is exactl
). what Pinchot recommended as TO th
d handling Of timber lands the countr
y over.