The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1911-08-26
Secular News Of the Week.

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Representative Hanna of North
his application for a national forest
north of Dickinson, N. D., will be
granted. Through his suggestion,
made at the request of citizens there,
Township 14S, Ranges IS and So, have
been added to the tract of land under
consideration. There are only nine
settlers in this township. The tract
of land will consist of between 1885,
900 and 100000 acres.
No additional street paving i'm
provement will be made in Red
Wing, Mimi, next year. Before the
work can be commenced all the wires
must be placed in underground con-
Quits, permanent water mains laid
and sanitary sewers constructed and
rebuilt. At the meeting of the city
council, August Is, the street paving
district for 1913 was mapped out, and
steps will be taken at once to hurry
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A plan has been evolved, which, it
is believed, will result in readjust-
ment of the land ownership trouble
at the White Earth Agency, Mime
sofa. 1t was submitted to officials of
the Indian Bureau and meets their
approval. The plan was proposed by
Albert L. Thompson of Mahnomen,
counsel for whites on the reservation.
Mr.. Thompson suggested an appraisal
of the allotments of minor mixed
bloods at White Earth so that such
allotments may be disposed of with
out the danger of loss to the Indians.
He further suggested the issuance of
fee simple patents to those who ap-
pear on the Horton roll as mixed
bloods and about whose blood status
no question has been raised. This
plan will require new legislation in
the form of amendments to the C1app
law. If approved by those concerned
the legislation will be sought at the
December session of Congress.
Before President Taft left Wash
ington last week for a flying trip to
Beverly, Mass, he announced to a
number of his callers his purpose:
To veto the Arizona and New
Mexico statehood bill.
To veto the wool bill
To veto the free list bill
To veto the cotton and other tariff
bills that might be passed.
To appeal to the country to force
the Senate to ratify the general
treaties of arbitration with Great
| Britain and France.
The program of the president is
one fraught with important political
consequences. He realizes, the
strength of the movement for tariff
revision. He desires to give effect to
this sentiment, but in scientific
fashion and in accordance with the
findings of the tariff board. He has
told those with whom he has con-
ferred that he will not stultify the
Republican party by approving tariff
measures which are unscientific in
character and which may be shown
to be grossly inadequate and defec-
tive by the report of the tariff board,
which will be submitted to Congress
at the beginning of the regular session
in December. The presidents objec-
ton to statehood bill lies in the pro-
vision permitting Arizona to hold
another election to determine whether
the recall of the judiciary shall be a
part of her constitution. He said to-
day he would never permit such a
dangerous principle to be written
into the law with his approval.
Territory that is abundant in ma
tural resources and rich in prospects
will be tapped by the new extension
of the Great Northern railroad that
is being constructed from Stanley to
Wild Rose, Williams County, North
Dakota, and which will later be ex.
tended across Williams County and
into Montana. 1t will be placed in
operation this fall, according to
present indications.
} With a rapidity of which the people
of the state are only themselves
half aware, Montana is being rapidly
transformed from sparsely inhabited
land of sage brush, sheep barons and