Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1894, Page 12

FOR THE SALE OF ARID SOIL One Way of Solving the Question that is Now Being Agitated. OPPORTUNITY GIVEN FOR IRRIGATION y's il Granting Public T iscassed by € x—States that Interested, Senator Ca to be Sold to Settlers Lam ro WASHINGTON, March 23.—The senate commiitee on public lands will probably soon § take up Senator Carey’s bill granting to of the arld land states and territories 1,000,- 000 acres each of the public lands to be sold to settlers In lots of 160 acres each. The secretary of the interior endorses tho bill and the commissioner of the general 1and office has written a letter, In which he takes advanced ground in favor of the fm- provement of arid lands by placing the work under the coiitrol of the various states. He ¢ #ays: “The bill is clear and guarded in its a terms. It s in the interest of small so'- tlers. The United States holds the title until the lands are actually reclaimed and settled.” He continues: “The prosecution of irri- gatfon work has been found to be very ex- pensive, costing from $5 to $30 an ¢ Consequently the most successful settle- ments, notably in California and Colorado, under Irrigation canals have been where the land could be procured in bodies, generally within Spanish and railroad grants. that the lands along the water courses, rule, have been taken, the question arises how can the Jan: difiicult and expensive to irrigate be made available for sett ent ? The people of the states in which the arid lands are located would like 1 United States undertake the r This is certainly impracticable now ) 18 doubtful whether it will ever be othe wise. the r That additjor mation and s al legislation to induce tlement of arid lands i8 necessary cannot be denied, and 1 the entire acreage to be reserved under the bill, if all the states to which it is ap- plicable’ should av visions, would n the several states swamp acts. Cong 1 themselves of its pro- be as great as each of auived under the s may well try the 4 experiment here proposed, retaining the title in the United States as the bill proposes 80 that if the results are satisfactory, which I have no doubt will be the case, like comprehensive legislation may hereafter be enacted to recover other large bodies of land, The states are } reclamation of the \ly Interested in the il lands in their bor- ders and the settlement and cultivation thereof by individual citizens. The work 18 too to be undertaken by the general government. Local and community inter est under state control will stimulate sults with far greater zeal and success. Tho principal proposition involved—recla- mation and settiement by individuals in small holdings—meets my strong approval, and this bill seems to me to present full opportunity for practical under proper safeguards. retains title until plished and the land occupled by settlers. This, If successful, is the object to be attained.” The states and territories to which the bill would apply if it should become a law are: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montan: New Me North Dakota, Ore- gon, South Dakota, 1, Washington and Wyoming. LOO; and ates accom- actual great experiment The United reclamation is Ut HODS EMPLO Reports of Agents Who Have Been Investi- gating t Appriisers Oflice at Boston, WASHINGTON, March 23.—Special agents who have been investigating charges pre- ferged by David E. Lonergan, a former em- ploye, against A. L. Dodge, appraiser of the port of Boston, have reported to the secre- tary of the treasury, who today submit ed their report to the senate, In compliance with a resolution adopted by that body F ruary 19. The allegation that complainant and one other employe were detailed to police work while drawing pay from the govern- ment 18 not tully established, although it has some color of truth. His further allegation that cerlain firms were improperly favored in the matter of importations is wholly discred- ited by the special agents. The report, ho ever, states that there was much direct (es- bl tmony showing great looseness in the con- v duct of affairs of the appraiser's office in some respects and utter disregard of the customs regulations. This is found o be par- ticularly true as to the liberties allowed brokers and Importers to examine goods other than thelr own. “The features of Mr. Dodge’s administration,” says the report, “apparen ly shows a lack of comprehension of the pre- scribed system of conducting such a depart- ME D. NO GOOD, Chairman Cummiogs Explaing Why the Smaller Weapons Fill the Bill, WASHINGTON, Mai Chairman Cummings of the house committeo on naval affairs is not a believer in huge guns for naval purposes such as were recently tested at Indlan Head. } “In my judgment,” said he, “a ten-inch Bun is the largest we should make, as it ! combines the greatest efficlency with the least disadvantug At Annapolis 1 saw one of the thirteen-inch guns, similar to the one tested at Indian Head, mounted on an Italian war ship. It was on a raised tur- ret, with delicate machinery for swinging the gun on an eccentric. But the delicacy of the machinery was better sulted to a watch than to a heavy gun. A six-pound shot dropped Into it would have destroyed this delicate mechanism and crippled the gun. ‘These disadvantages of mounting and handling huge guns quite outweigh any ad- vantage they have in effectivoness. It was established at the Indian Head trials that a ten-inch gun is sufficiently effective to de- molish any plate made. That being so there is no need of getting any more effec- tivene All beyond the ten-inch gun is waste.” MORE ACTIVE OFFIC Views of Secretary Carlislo on Se som's Revenue Cuttor 1 WASHINGTON, March enator Ran- som, the chairman of the senate committes on commerce, today received from Secretary Carlisle a letter containing his views of the pending bill “To Promote the Efficlency of the Revenue Cuter it The sec tary quotes from the annual reports of sey 1 of his predecessors to show the neces- sity for a provision of law creating tired list of officers of the revenue marine . service. The statutes provide that each revenue vessel shall have one captain and a s.ated number of other officers, but no pro- vision is made for the filling of places made vacant by reason of old age or other physi- cal infirmitles. That is, no appointment can be made until there is an actual vacancy, caused either by resignation or death. The secretary shows that the “waiting orders' list con nearly one-third of all the cap- tains In the service, their ages ranging from 1 to 90 ye secretary says that the eed of more gflicers on the active list is an urgent one, and he recommends that a tired 1fst be authorized and that the places left vacaut be filled by promotion, as now. Ser rs. NEW MONEY ORDE. OFFICES. One Hu hirty-Eight to Be Es- ext Mont ch 23.—There will be order offices and thirteen postal established throughou e coun- try on April 2. The former will be distrib- uted by states as follows Ala two; Arkan thre do, one ida ia, thr nols, . four throe; two; Maine, elght; Maryland, four; Michigan, sippi, three Nevada, WASHINC 135 m; oftices ney note ama, Color 18, one; Californ pnnectieut, one Idaho, o lowa, six Loulsiana, one; Massac six; Miunesota, five Missouri, four; two elght; usetts, Missis braska, four; one; New Jersey, one; New Mexico, oue; New York, five; North Carolina, two; North Dakota, four; Ohfo, one; Oklahoma, five; Oregon, three; Pennsylvania, two; South Carolina, six; South Dakota, one; Tennesses, two; Texas, fourteen; Utah, one; Vermont, five; Virginia, two; Washington, three; Wi consin, one. The postal note offices are distributed as follows: California, two; Washington, three Arkansas, Indian Territory, Louisiana, Mis- slssippl, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee each one. ANTI-OPTIC It Has Been Amel dy to Be Reported to the Hous WASHINGTON, rch 23.—The house committee on agriculture has completed its consideration of the anti-option bill and to- day authorized it to be reported to the house in the amended form agreed upon. As agreed upon, the bill provides that “option’’ contracts and every “future ntract shall have affixed thereto internal revenue stamps, representing taxes, as follows: For ev 10,000 pounds of cotton, hops, pork, lar bacon, drled, salted and plekied m i 1,000 bushels of wh other grains, 1 cent. Every canc clearance cquittance, contango, bac action, privilege waiver, or other agrecment, by which the options or futures are termi nated, otherwise t by actual sale and de- t, and every livery, or such termination is delayed or obviated, shall have affixed thereto internal revenue stamps represonting taxes as fol- lows: For every pound of raw or unmanu- factured cotton, hops, pork, lard and bacon, L cent a pound; for every bushel of wheat, nts; for every bushel of corn, oats, rye and barley s Another amendment was adopted by which a person cngaged in the business may move from any state to another one on notice to the collector of the distriet in which his business is carried on. The notice to the collector must ¢ the principal placa where the business will be carried on This amendment was adopted to meet the objections of the southern mem who resent constituents dealing in cotton who have frequently to move from place to place who would not be able to con- veniently furnish a penalty bond for the ob servance of the law in each city in which they may be doing business. Every bill of sale executed at mination of contract is to have affixed thereto a 2 cent internal revenue stamp. The speclal tax on dealers in options and futures is $12 instead of $24, as originally p and the penal bond re- quired to be furnished is fixed at $2,000 in- stead of $10,000. In the first s the bill has be ‘any person the ter- ction, which defines options, n amended so as to apply to as vendee for whom or in *h contract is made,” as well as to the party acquiring the right to sell to deliver to another at a future time or within a designated month or other period. The same modification as to the de with regard to “‘future” time limit was m racts Dry salted meats are added to the list of the bill I8 to apply and and pickled articles to flour is which dropped therefrom. All option and future contracts and trans- fers and asslgnments thereof are to be in writing and signed in duplicate by the tles thereto, and every option contract is to state in explicit ‘terms . the time or privilege of delivering or the right of de- livering the articles therein named shall ex- pire, and every futures contract is to state in explicit terms the quantity and the day upon which, or the last day of the period within which, the articles contracted to be sold shall be delivered. In each contract the party contracting, or the party for whom he acts as agent, etc., shall state explicitly whether he is or is not the owner of the arti- cle or articles contracted to be sold or de- livered, or has or has not theretofore ac- quired it or them by purchase or is or Is not then entitled to the right of the future pos- jon of such articles. Any such ntract, not including such statements and not so made and signed, shall be unlawful, Dealers are required to keep a book for recording on the day of its execution the date of the optipn and future contracts— these may be transterred or assigned by such dealers—and all other information incident thereto, which book is to be subject to in- spection by the revenue officers. Monthly ro- turns are to be made to the revenue coll tors, who, in return, at stated periods, are to make reports to the commissioner of in- ternal revenue. Provision is made for the preparation of suilable stamps denoting the taxes required by the act to be paid there- with, and for punishing counterfeiters thereof. Persons violating the provisions of the act are to be llable to a fine or imprisonment in addition to the taxes prescribed in the act. There were twelve members of the com- mittee present and Chalrman Hatch said there were but two negative votes against the bill, those of the members from New Hampshire and Massachusetts. All the ab- sent members, he said, were in favor of the bill. WESTERN P! SIONS. Veterans of the Late War Recently Remem- bered by the General Government. WASHINGTON, March 23.—(Special to Tho Bee.)—Pensions granted, issue of March 10, were: Nebraska: - Original—Joshua _Porter, Lit- tle, Holt. Increase—Abraham Spade, Sparta, Knox. Relssue—Rdwin Randolph, Lincoln, caster. Original widows, ete.—Kebecca Indianola, Red Willow. Original—De Forest A. Ingersoll, Fort Dodge, Webster; Proctor E. Maynard, Hawarden, Sioux; Morris L. Davis, Agency, ‘Wapello; Peter Crohan, Clinton, Clinton. In- crease—Christian Henning, Clayton, Clay- ton. Relssue—Duane E. Simons, Churdan, Greene; Truman W. Hazleton, F Win- neshlek. Reissue and increase—Thomas C. Bond, Central City, Linn; Allen Hamrick, Knoxville, Marion. Original widows, ete.— Eva Nienstedt, Clinton, Clinton. South Dakota: Renewal and increase— William H. H. Jones, Huron, Beadle. Montana: Original—Thomas B, Joliff, Armington, Cascade. Colorado: Original—Willard A. Newcomb, Colorado City, El Paso. Increase—Henry Hatch, Sterling, Logan. North Dakota: Additional—James Wat- Barnes. ILLMAN'S TRADE MARK. son, Valley ClI GOVERNOR His Action ot Pate WASHINGT —Governor Tillman's action against Commissioner of Patents Seymour to vompel the registry of the trade mark ‘“Palmetto” on South Caroling’s dispensary liquors, will be given a hearing in the United States supreme court on April 9, unless an agreement is made by the counsel to fix the 2nd of the month as the date. The commissioner's counsel will file a motion to dismiss the appeal from the court of appeals for want of jurisdiction. In their arguments on the motion they will allege that the matter In dispute, exclusive of costs, does not exceed $6,000, as required. It will also be argued in support of the motion that no question was presented in the cause involving the validity of a patent, copyright, treaty, statute or authority exer- cised under the United States as required by law. e Prince and Poor Man Alike find pleasure and comfort in Old Do- minion Clgarettes. Photo in every package. T Indiannpolis Mu Fostival. INDIANAPOLIS, March 23.—The Indian- apolis May Music Festival assoclation has engaged the following artists for its sixth testival, May 15, 16 and 17 nma Henrl Marleau, Emma Juch, Clara {ng, Gertrude May Stein, the ikng- lish artists Ben Davies, Walker Mills and Antionette Trebelll, Max Helnrich, Arthur Freidheim and others. Five concerts are to be given, and the principal works to be presented will be the oratorlo of St. Paul and parts of Lohengrin, Tannhauser and Melster Singer. annual -~ Cure Indigestion and biliousness with DeWitt's Little Early Risers - 820 to Salt Lake und San Francisco. That's all it costs you via THE UNION PACIFIC. $35.50 for the round trip. Corresponding low rates to all western pointe Through first and second class sleepers and dining cars, Pacific agent or Hary P. Duel, city ticket agent, Farnam street, Omaba, See your nearest Unlon 1308 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ATURDAY, MARCH 1894~ E PAGE 24 'WELV TRIPS TO THE NORTA POLE Bearches for the End of the World Showing Unusual Activity, SOME EXCURSION PARTIES ORGANIZING oot for Exploration of 3 Several Projects on the Arctic Reglons that Will Sti ndland, ST. JOHNS, N. F., March 23.—Prepara- tions are already being made here for three Arctic explorations this year; one consist ing of three or four persons, probably under the leadership of Prof. Holprin ot Phila- delphia. They will Bowerden Bay in West Greenland in the steamer Falcon, and will bring back Lieutenant Peary and the party that went with him to the Arctic regions. During the winter another under Mr. Stein, consisting of elght sons, proposes going to Smith’s sound. also the northern latitudes to conduct geological investigations. They will remain three years. Three of this party are Norwesians. One ot its objects is to find the Swedish explorers, Bforling and Walstennins, who went north in 1892, on the schooner Rip and were supposed to be lost, as the v go to expedition per- sel's wreck was found last year. The third expedition projected will be the largest in many years. The American consul has signed a treaty for a steamer to take a party of xteen scientists north Franklin bay. The to a place on G expe- dition is under the auspices of the Ameri- can government, and an appropriation by congress Is awaited before completing the arra jents. The purposes of the ex- pedition are geographical, geological and me- teorological invi The party will remain north four years. A steamer is likely to visit them with fresh suppl two years after starting. STEAMERS OVERDU Heavy Fog Outside Now York Delaying the Arrival of Ocoan Vessels. NEW YORK, March ~The bay and rivers are enveloped in a dense fog today which renders forry traffic dangerous and hinders the approach of ocean Several steamers are due today, among them the Cuific and Germanic from Liverpool, and the City of Para from Colon. Some of them are probably at anchor off the bar, waiting for the fog to_lift. The Hamburg-American steamer Rugia is fifteen days out from Naples. The State of Georgia is twenty-two days out from Aberdeen. The Donna Ma March The Grecian from Gla steamers, sailed_from Oporto on out. The Kansas City from Swansea is fifteen days out. The Bohemia is fourteen days out from Hamburg. The North German Lloyd Elbe sailed from Southampton March 14 and was due yester- day. There 18 still no news of the British steamer Apollo, wh'ch left this port Febiuiry 11 for Antwerp. It is now forty days sin she sailed. MADE ENEMIE John nders Shot a Man, a Chil Own Wife—IHe Was Nearly L WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 23.—A bloody tragedy occurred at Midvale this evening. John Sanders, a Polish boarding house keeper, had a quarrel with Mills Bishop. He fired at the latter with a rifle. The shot missed Bishop, but killed a 2-year-old child in its mother’s arms in an adjoining room. The second shot entered Bishop's body near the heart. Sanders then accused his wife of being too intimate with the boarders and shot her twice in the leg and in the neck. The latter wound will probably prove fatal, and it is believed Bishop can- ot live. In less than an hour a mob of 500 persons gathered at Sanders’ house and attempted to tear it down. Sanders fired upon them. His ammunition was soon ex- hausted and he was arrested. An effort to lynch him failed. OUGH. 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