The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-26

The following detailed account of the fight in congress wherein the ap- pTopriation item for storm drainage on government reservation here met de feat, will no doubt be followed here with the greatest interest, and par tcularly that part of the attack on the item made by Mir. Payne of New York who seems to have been com missioned by Mir Fitzgerald of New York to lead the onslaught on the item.
 Ccngressmen Taylor and Wingo made strong fight against the attack of the New Workers, but it is apparent they did not have either enough detail of the history of the reservation here to deny the charges that were made. @r. Payne went back into old history, and aroused a prejudice against the resort that probably accounted for the large vote against the measure.
 The appropriation item will go back to the Senate eliminated from the civ il sundry bill, and there may be or dered reinstated by Senator Clarke, who may yet be able to save the item, though the chances are all against the appropriation being made by this Dem. ocratic congress.
 From the Congressional Record is taken the following:
 Mir Taylor of Arkansas. MT Speak CT, l move that the House recede from it's disagreement and concur in Senate amendment No. 91.
 The Speaker, The gentlemen from Arkansas is recognized for 10 min utes.
 Mir Tay or of Arkansas. Mir. Speak CT, the Senate amendment upon which l shall insist is No. 9l, page 1l5, House bin 7O4l, and which reads as follows:
 Hot Springs Reservation, Hot Springs Ark: For labor and material required in the installation of drain age system in the city of Hot Springs 10 care for storm waters from the mountains of the Hot Springs Reser- yation. $237 $40, to he expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and in accordance with plans described in House Document No. l29S, Sixty-second Congress. third session."
 The hot springs referred to in the amendment are located on Govern ment reservation embracing between 900 and 1000 acres of land.
 The hot springs were probably vis- tied in 1541 by De Soto, who died the fo blowing spring on the Missis- sippi, about 100 miles away Ac- cording to traditions the curative properties of the springs were known to the Indians long before the advent of the Spaniards. There is a tale that the various tribes battled from time to time for control of the hot waters, ia which they believed the 'Ereat Spirit to be ever present, but that finally truce was declared under which their benefits were ex- tended to the sick of all tribes.
 lt is believed that the earliest white settlement was made about the "" loHu. ifuiibdl anu ituhttit NH' visited the place in December, 1894, found an open log cabin and few hllts built of split boards which had peen erected by persons resorting to me springs il the hope of regainine lheir health. Manuel Prudhomme @lllt cabin there in 1907 and was ieiiiei the same year by John Perci aul and Isaac Gates. who camped in tae neighborhood and engaged in htntlng and trapping. From this ume on history is complete
 In 1892 the hot springs and the iouf sections of land surrounding theme were, by act of Congress, se aslde for the future disposal of tho ohlted States, not to be entered, 10
 a'ed' or appropriated for any othe purpose what ever, thus making thu
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