Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-03-15
WILL PASS IN
TEN DAYS
Chairman Beveridge Says He
Has Taken a Poll of the
Senate
PENSION WORK BY DELEGATE
Frank B. Kellogg Had His In
ming Today in Standard
Oil Case.
Special to the New Mexican.

special TO the New MeAlCdu.
Washington, March 15.-Chairman
Beveridge of the Senate committee on
territories assured Delegate Cameron
of Arizona today that he had polled
the Senate and that the statehood bill
would pass in the Senate probably in
ten days or by the end of next week
Delegate Andrews introduced a bill
for the relief of Nicolas Apodaca of
Montoya, Quay county, for $3.50, loss
claimed by Apache depreciation. He
secured from the bureau of pensions
$40 month for Roman Blea of San
ia Fe, $12 for Catherine G. Bell of
Mineral Hill, San Miguel county; SIS
a month for Pedro Sandoval of Wat
rous, Mora county.
Delegate Cameron of Arizona, sue
ceeded in passing private pension
bill for Frederick A. Joslyn of Phoe-
nix, who served in the Vermont Ar
tillery, the bill granting him $40 a
month. From the pension bureau he
secured a pension of $40 a month for
Patrick Carroll of Stafford.
Standard Oil Case.
Washington, March 15.-Frank B.
Kellogg today presented the argu-
ment of the government in the suit
flor the dissolution of the Standard Oil
Company before the supreme court of
the United States. Nearly the entire
day was taken up by Mr.. Kellogg.
Amendment to Census Law.
Washington, March 15.-To meet
| the demands of a large number of
citizens of foreign birth the Senate
passed bill amending the census
law so as to include information re-
garding the race of such persons.
AS the law stands it requires men.
tion only of the country of origin, but
objection was made that this phrase
ology was not sufficiently definite
Especial objection was made on the
part of the immigrants from Austria
Hungary, whose population is com
posed of a number of separate races
The amendment adopted provides
that the nationality and mother
tongue shall be shown.
| Discounting Irrigation Paper.
| Washington, March 15.-Repre
sentative Smith (Dem) of Texas tolG
the House ways and means committee
that thousands of dollars in govern
ment Certificates of Indebtedness
issued in connection with various irri
cation projects were being circulated
in the west at fifty cents on the dol
, lar.
He said the paper represented
, ranchers' pay for work done on pro
; jects and which they were to be al
lowed by the government to exchange
for land when the irrigation projects
were completed. AS the projects hav
not been completed, the holders hav
z been forced, he declared, to discoun
the paper in order to pay for the nee
cessities of life.
Sheep Grazing Case.
Washington, March 15.-In the ST
: preme court decision yesterday, ru
: ing that grazing sheep on a forest re
serve without permit is not crime
The question arose in the cases t
Pierre Grimaud and j. p Carajou
who were indicted in 1907 in the fet
! eral courts of California on a charg
L of grazing sheep without permissio
in the Cierra forest reserve within th
: state of California.
The Indictment was brought unde
the act of January 4, 1897, which a,
thorized the secretary of the interit
. and later the secretary of agricultur
: to make provisions for protection I
q the public land in the forest reserv
r against destruction by fire and depr
"a dations. Punishment for violations I
g. the provisions was provided for.
; Not until seven years later did tt
% SECRETARY of agriculture make a reg
g lation forbidding grazing in the r
e. serves without permission.
The United States district court fl
the southern district of California he
that the act was void so far as it 6
0. tached penalties to any violation
regulations thereafter to be made. b
al cause it did not completely define II
acts to be punished and because 1t {
tempted to confer legislative pow
II. upon an executive officer From th
le decision an appeal was taken to II
G. supreme court.
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e. ABE ATTELL AND JEM DRISCOI