The Lamar register., 1910-03-02
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The Senate passed Senator Guggen-
helms bill authorizing the sale to the
town OF Fruita OF 1850 acres of public
land at s1.25 an acre for water storage
purposes.
The United States Supreme Court
has declared unconstitutional the Ala
bama statute levying an annual fran
chlse tax on foreign corporations.
Railroads brought up the case.
The validity OF the ordinance OF San
Francisco prohibiting future burial of
part under the jurisdiction OF the
United States. has been upheld by the
United States Supreme Court.
Senator Guggenheim has secured an
increase of 1880 In the amount car
ried in the agricultural appropriation
bill TO enable the director OF the wealth
er bureau to increase the weather ser
vice facilities at Canon City.
Capt. Salmon +. Dutton. commits
sary. is ordered to Denver for duty as
purchasing commissary. relieving Capt.
Jacob +. Bloom, commissary, who goes
to New York for duty. Capt. button
will be chief commissary. Department
of Colorado.
With the strict injunction that he
was not to be represented as favoring
votes for women, President Taft ac-
cepted an invitation to address the
opening session of the National Amer
lean Suffrage Association to be held in
Washington April IA.
The Wyoming delegation in Con-
gress will make an effort to secure
legislation by which the provisions OF
the Carey act will be extended to the
lands included in the coded portion of
the Wind River Indian reservation,
opened to entry and settlement in
1905.
Senator Warren secured the passage
in the Senate of his bill permitting
the state of Wyoming to relinquish 49,
900 acres of school and state lands par
TALLY occupied by government recla-
nation reservoirs and works and to
select in lieu of the lands to be re-
linquished an equal area in other parts
of the state.
Delegate Andrews has introduced n
bill authorizing the city of Gallup to
issue $4,000 in five per cent bonds to
provide funds for constructing water
works. Also bills authorizing New
Mexico to sell one township of school
lands for city park purposes to each
of the towns of Tucumcari. Roswell Ar
tesla and Melrose.
| Tho Gopato hoa noscad Ganafor War.
ren's bill authorizing the secretary OF
the interior to sell Rawlins, Wyo.. 160
acres for water purposes. The House
passed Mondell's bill granting similar
authority to sell 800 acres to Buffalo,
Wyo., for poor farm purposes.
| A favorable report was made in the
Senate upon a resolution which has
passed the House providing that 20
| per cent. of the annual appropriations
for surveys and re-surveys of public
land may be devoted to re-surveys and
retracements instead Of per cent as
at present.
Moses Haas Of New York, indicted
in the District of Columbia in connec.
ton with the cotton leak scandal
of the Department of Agriculture in
1905. must come to Washington for
trial. Such is the decision of the Su-
preme Court of the United States.
Representative Rucker of Colorado
has introduced In the house a joint
resolution proposing an amendment to
the Federal Constitution to provide
that the rights Of citizens OF the
United States to vote shall not be de
MED or abridged by the United Slater
1or by any state on account Of sex.