The Ordway new era., 1910-01-21
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

Representative laylOr or COLORADO
has introduced bills to appropriate
100000 each for federal buildings at
Montrose and Delta.
Representative Mondell has intro
duced 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 a bill to promote Cap
tain James Moynahan OF Fairplay to
the rank of major on the retired list
of the army.
Employees OF express and sleeping
car companies are to be accorded the
same exemption from the anti.pass
provisions OF the interstate commerce
act as are now accorded to railroad
employees and their families. according
to bill introduced by Senator Elkins.
The United States Supreme Court
has handed down a decision sustain.
Ing the power Of the Interstate Com.
merce Commission to regulate the dis.
tribution OF railroad cars among coal
companies. The decision Is regarded
and 1t Is expected to have bearing ON
the rate cases still to be heard by the
court.
Representative Mondell. chairman
OF the house public lands committee.
has announced that he intends oppos-
ing the provisions OF the measures
which have been framed by Secretary
Ballinger to carry out the views Of
President Taft in regard to conserva-
tion. as he considers them entirely too
radical and certain to bring about
hardships in the West.
Drastic action looking toward the
suppression of the white slave" traf-
fic in the United States has been taken
by the House. A bill was passed. un-
der which. II adopted by the Senate.
1t will be unlawful for any person to
provide transportation from one state
to another for any person who engage
in prostitution or other immoral
practice. The penalty Is ten years
Imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
Senator Francis f. Warren left for
Washington without completing ar
rangements for the erection Of a mod
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
hotel which will be larger and better
than possessed by many towns of the
same population.
Nathan b. Williams. a 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 MIR. Pinchot and
both are in sympathy with his policy
of administration.
Whether the thirteenth census on
which the government intends to
spend at least $13,O00.0 will give
correct picture of the nation, depends
as much on the people themselves as
upon the enumerators, who number
$4,000. Director Durand makes this
declaration in his annual report. The
director says that any person or cor
poration 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
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.-
539.19. and for December, 1908. S1OS,-
075.77. 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 IS to Sc per day.